Nearing the final tech tiers I figure it is good a time as any to weigh in my thoughts on Eden Rising. This will be wordy but I feel game devs and consumers alike deserve a full response for their hard work/investment. I picked this game up on sale before the free to play option was launched; my son loves TD games and I am a big fan of progression games of nearly any kind. So with this one hitting enough checks we both purchased a copy so we could play co-op together. Performance was pretty poor; It didn't seem to matter if i played at high or low setting at 4k or 720p there were lag spikes and frame drops present throughout my entire playthrough so far. I will list my rig at the end of this for reference. This is the single most important aspect that will attract negative attention from the average consumer in my opinion. Performance is a gate that can be welcoming and open or an object that impedes the player base depending on how it's handled. I noticed right away that the ...

While I haven't reviewed many games on Steam, I had to make an exception for Eden Rising: Supremacy. I've bought into plenty of Early Access titles that have made me swear to never believe in the hype again. Thankfully, Eden Rising has bucked the trend and made me believe that developers can produce EA games that are full featured and fun - while still having plenty more in store for those who eagerly await the next patches. Below is the story of the one crucial moment that made me a believer, and even though it's a bit long, I hope it will give people sitting on the fence an idea of what the world has in store for them. Firstly, I've spent a long time looking for an open world game that will let me get in over my head and suffer the consequences. Eden let my friends and I do just that. I'll paint the picture for you - we've played about 10 hours collectively at this point and we can hardly complete the main objective of the game (sieges) because we keep getting sidetracked by the op...

Not solo friendly. There is a solo option but it eventually becomes not viable. Tower defense aspect is weak. Towers are near useless, as things just run right past them. Even if towers did damage, though, they have an "energy bar" for how many attacks they can do at any given time. Don't buy this game if you are interested in the tower defense part of it. Exploration is fun until you run into enemies that are the equivalent of a raid boss with hyper fast attack speed.

I find this game unplayable because it is unoptimized. Regardless of what settings I use, I cannot get the game to play smooth (I use a GTX-1070, and an I6700k at 4.4 GHz) I hope the devs fix this, I would really like to play the game. 18OCT18 EDIT: The devs worked with me for over a month and have solved the issues I was experiencing. Game is very enjoyable, and I would definitely reccomend!

I picked up this game, after loving Sanctum, and Subnautica among others, and seeing elements from both games that really float my goat... The game has lots of small problems that you'd reasonably expect from an EA game (you can easily run into materials/concepts/etc. before there's any hint as to what to do with 'em, the map is split up into various zones with no obvious way to get between 'em, and no way to know you went into a new one, you can't add a map marker outside your current area with no explanation as to why, when attacking trying to form combo's, there's a lack of feedback [or even incentive, does it strike more? do more damage? who knows?!], etc.). Honestly though, the game does a lot of other things right (IE: when you fall off a cliff/somewhere unrecoverable, the body gets placed at the edge so you can pull the items off your carcass for example). The real reason I can't get into this game though? Because right now, it's not really a single player game (and I frankl...

Looking through a lot of the reviews I want to address a few of the argued negative points: "Free to demo": This game has a fair amount of free content and plenty of unlocks. If you enjoy the game and wish to have some additional things to do you can choose to support the developer and buy the expansion DLC. I see a common thread of people whining about this who have under an hour of play time. You can't complete all the free content in that time. So that makes me wonder a bit. -Seems weird to complain about free stuff. Especially these days when all free games have some sort of paywall, usually more invasive than this. Crystal DLC: A nice touch, I did buy them, I've made them and I don't prefer them to the weapons already in the game free. With that said, I'd recommend them only if you want to support the developers a little more. Controls: The controls remind me of a slightly less responsive Tera (action combat). There's a bit of a learning curve, but not much. It's a typical WA...

.NO.FORMATING.SKILLS.WARNING. Let's start this review by saying that I got the game in the free weekend after playing along with 2 of my friends. Those two, plus another one that got envy, got the game. So we have a tribe of 4 people now. The fact that I liked the game came as a surprise to me, mainly because the steam store page have a lot of bad reviews. After experience by myself, I could not simply ignore it. Most, not all, have a very narrow view of what the game is like. I think that happened because the player is expected to find out about the world about itself, and you cannot in any circunstance do that in 30min or one hour. The game has no wiki, or tutorial besides the "click that to do that". All the items are new, monsters have weird shapes and mechanics, the crafting leaves you wandering after items all around the world... I started to actually understand the whole concept of this weird tribal world after 3+hours, and there is still much to learn and to experiment with (8...

Edit: All the negative reviews have sub 1 hour (except 1) and have their comments locked so no one can point out how they're wrong or try to argue why they disagree. Says alot about how useful those reviews are huh? I'd recommend reading the negative reviews and throwing out 99% of the information in them. Only real truth behind them is there are a decent amount of bugs and the animations aren't great in some spots. I played this game about 95% solo. I started with a group but I'm the only one who sunk time into like this (24 hours in like 4 days while playing the co op games my friends wanted to actually play.) I think this game is amazing. It's got vibes from all sorts of stuff going on. Monster Hunter is the one that sticks out to me the most. If you ignore a few dumb downs here and there, it's really similar. - I'd mention how the combat is jank shit compared to MH but the dev's have already said they were looking into making that better. - The armor you get comes from differe...

This game is fun with plenty of gameplay. God forbid the devs launch a "light" version of the game you can play for 100% free. How dare them give away 12h of gameplay for free! Jump in play with a friend or solo and see if you like the game. If you like the game, then buy it or get on write a negative review about how they locked their game behind a "paywall".

Be aware that the optimization is still quite bad - but the game itself is very fun, innovative enough for a survival game to be interesesting and also has very beautiful graphics (again though, the optimization is bad so dont expect to be running the high end settings anytime soon)... I can see the game being a big success if the developers are quick to work on the frame rate and general optimization, focusing on anything else will see the game land in an early grave.