Recent reviews by Dearly♡Breloved

I am loving this game, so far. It's a great choice for fans of games like Grounded and Ark. As a lover of all things fantasy and fae, and also being a fan of base building survival games (namely the one's where you get pets!), Smalland is scratching a pretty niche itch that I've had for a very long time.

A couple comments I have atm:

Character Creation. I love that we have the ability to customize our character's appearance! This is a huge aspect of my enjoyment with pretty much any game. The options are somewhat limited, but I feel that that's acceptable for the genre, and imo they are still better than other similar games I've played. I would love to see more options in the future as it would really enhance immersion to be able to personalize my character more. The body options are a substantial improvement from other games. I love being able to play characters with different body shapes from the standard thin/trim models that most games utilize. Also, the fact that we already have the ability to change our appearance in game is huge considering that it is usually a feature I see being thrown in as an afterthought even in games that have a much higher focus on character creation.

Combat. The difficulty of enemies is pretty rough in the beginning, which was pretty frustrating as there is no fast travel and getting around is pretty difficult until you are able to get some wings. However, this only enhances the feeling of satisfaction I get at reaching higher levels and crafting tiers. The fact that I spent a lot of time painstakingly avoiding bees and beetles in the early game just makes it all the sweeter as I now one-shot most bees with my stinger spear after catapulting from my tree base and gliding to my destination with my iridescent hornet wings. The combat animations are also pretty nice. I like playing a melee focused character because the movements in combat are actually enjoyable.

Pets. I was very excited to find out that we could tame creatures in Smalland. I skipped all of the other tames and went straight to taming hornets as soon as I was able to. The pets definitely need work, though. I love them, but they are pretty much just expensive base decorations at this point. They are very squishy. My first hornet got killed by flies before I even realized it wasn't right behind me. I ended up switching to peaceful mode so that I could enjoy riding around on the spicy fly that I had worked so hard to get as a mount. I will probably end up switching back and leaving it at my base again at some point, though. I do like that there are special color variants of pets that you can find hidden around the map. I haven't found any for the hornets, although I did see someone saying they tamed the black hornet, I tried that and it didn't work for me.

All in all, I am thoroughly enjoying this game and I can't wait to see where they go with it.