So, this once appeared on my Steam Discovery queue and it was added to my Wishlist straight away based on my love of Early Access survival games. When launch day came I snapped it up and jumped in with great expectations- I was immediately disappointed. (Ensure you read further to see why I was wrong about that!) Firstly, compared to more modern survival games such as Ark/Stranded Deep to name but two, this is far from beautiful and reminded me graphically like many games I played long ago (something I expected based on the Steam video footage). Visually, it’s almost quaint in a way and not a deal breaker as long as the content & playability was good... I played offline single player for an hour and slowly worked out how the menu systems worked as they were not very intuitive. I had little to show for it except a few sharp stones and a few gathered bits of wood. Hang on I thought- just how long is this going to take me to build the other things I saw in the video? I saved my progr...

I have a few recomendations to improve the game, I understand it is very new and in alpha and would like to assist the game to prosper. The controlls can be a bit confusing to start with (right mouse button to jump e.c.t.) which can be a bit confusing to start with. I understand this reveiw doesn't talk for everyone, but as an old fashioned gamer, I recommend sticking to the basics for simplicity (e.g. space for jumping). I also recommend making the inventory system easier to control, I completed the tutorial and still found it troubling to equipt any weapon. Again I understand that this may not be a shared oppinion but I beleive this game has a lot to offer and I completely reccomend it. Good work devs and keep it up.

This may have taken the dev 10 years to get to this stage but I do not intend spending 10 years trying to progress in this game. It is such a grind, 35 hours in and I can still only carry 1 item in each hand, Someone says they like grinding, this is definitely the game for them.

Truley horrible experience. I see why Steam stopped the Greenlit program. This game was no were near ready for release. Uninstall, refund.

best game ever...if the year was 2003

For an Early Access game it doesn't look half bad. If you purchase this game you will need to have a lot of patience as you will die very frequently as you read through the tutorial. You have no inventory, no starting gear besides an apple & a chunk of wood in each hand with no clear tutorial as how to even eat or use them. In my honest opinion the entire tutorial needs to be completely rewritten in layman's terms (dummy) so even I could understand it. You click on a tree wow a thousand items show up yet you can't pick up a single thing??

So far, I've just gone through the tutorial and wandered around a bit, crafting a few tools. I really enjoy the detail involved in crafting. This isn't a game of quick progression where in a couple hours you're making towering walls and fancy houses. There's other nice games out there for that. What I appreciate about Vantage, is the realistic detail that is just deep enough to make it complex without ruining the fun aspect. Of course, there IS progression but I think it's properly earned. Other aspects of the game are touched on by other reviews, but particular one I very much like is that the dev tells us this is a large world. I hate small play fields. Even if I never see a large part of a world, I like knowing it's there and can go there if I want. Now that I'm talking about it, I think I'll become a nomad and see how big this world really is.... see ya.

[h1] Vantage Review [/h1] (Early Access) [b] Rating 2/5 - Good Idea, But ... Room for Improvement. [/b] Vantage gives you the opportunity to act out the life of as a prehistoric / nomad early human around 250,000 B.C.E. It encourages crafting, learning, hunting and fighting to survive, Gameplay is rewarding and makes you earn all of your progress, but think twice about tackling that Mammoth solo. Gameplay, at the time of this review is limited, and incredibly slow, but has a lot of potential to be improved into a co-operative online multiplayer experience that would encourage players to band together, and war with other tribes. The Good points : [b] 1. Open World. [/b] There is a Good balance between survival and exploration, and the difficulty of survival can be raised and lowered according to your gameplay style, with relative rewards offered when making new Characters. (see Bad point 3 FFI) [b] 2. Lots to do... (soon). [/b] Gameplay is versatile and allows for a player to special...

To be fair, I only played the game for about 7 minutes. That said, 7 minutes is as long as I could convince myself to play. Normally, I like survival games. I especially like primitive or medieval survival games. I might even have liked Vantage... if the controls and interface were streamlined in any way, shape, or form. When you start the game, you are taken to a giant, 90s style windows clusterf*** of textboxes, dropdowns, checkboxes, buttons, etc. It really does look like something from the late 90s, just really awkwardly colored. Want to play single player? First you click the single player button, which starts a dedicated server. Then you have to create an account with yourself, with minimum password requirements and the like. Keep in mind, the steps for all of this (and everything else) take place on the same giant clusterf*** screen I mentioned above. Anyway, then you can play. That's when you get to create/choose your character. I won't get into this system, since...

Multiplayer didn't work. Followed the directions in the Steam discussions/forums, which forces you to run your own dedicated server to play, but no matter what we did we could not could not connect or play together. Couldn't connect via the local option either, and also couldn't connect to the displayed official test server. Bought to play together with my spouse and couldn't.