Recent reviews by phil

Mein Lieblings-Coop Shooter geht aber auch allein super. Sogar mit Randoms fand ichs spielbar.
Anmerkungen

- wenn man kein volles Squad mit freunden zusammen kriegt, spielt man einfach zu zweit oder zu dritt also man kriegt keine KI Begleiter und die Gegner werden einfach runterskalliert, ist für mich ein Plus-Punk für ander veilleicht nicht.

- Level sind Zufallsgeneriert man kann sie also nicht lernen (ausser bei den Deep Dives bleibt die Karte glaub eine Woche wie sie ist) Manchmal sind sachen etwas schräg plaziert ich mags aber so ;)

In short definitely worth a buy for solo players.

In detail
a very slow paced game, and kind of realistic (sure not 100% realistic but more realistic then most games) where it can take you 3 or more attempts just to walking a to b.
I first started this game in survival coop and had to figure everything out and had quiet a blast. Problem is in survival coop if you build a decent base craft armor and weapons (or just take the tribal weapons from killed natives ;) ) there is not much to do. We scouted the first map (I don't even know if it is possible to go to the other maps in coop) but then didn't know what else to do. The building mechanics are sadly not that good and it doesn't feel so necessary even having a big base. The crafted iron item are not even that good (whats okay because they should not be OP) so it does not even make sense to craft them, unless you want to have them because you can.

Then I started the solo story and boy that is great. Not only is the story great the mechanics are just right for this. Your aim is to get out of the jungle so you don't need to set up big bases just enough to have a save point (actually to save the game) where you recover. And then you push on build the next small base and so on. And the most times I died (and I died a lot) where because I was to eager to press on. Scouting the jungle at night didn't watch my step. And one snake bite forces you to got back sleep the fever out get fresh water heal up and try again …..
and yeah the game does not explain very much, and its probably even more fun to figure everything out by yourself. I used the green hell wiki from time to time because I'm stupid and lazy :) but tried not to overdue it and also found some stuff by myself.

Ah and when you die in solo story you don't just respawn in the last place you slept like in survival coop you really have to load your last game... there is also no auto save I didn't know this and had to start the game 3 times over …...

So the singleplayer story is worth the game!

For coop I fear there are better games. Unless the make story coop, this would be really great, I know it would make the game far easier but who cares you can still play solo ;D

If you are into crafting and base building I also would not recommend this (I would recommend Astroneer or Raft for this)

pro

• great story (single player)
  
• great setting
  
• cool survival system with sickness and poisoning and nutrition wheel
  
• does not need much hard disk space ;)

cons

• crafting clunky
  
• some animation bugs
  
• no story coop
  
• lacking “end game”

So devs please make a story coop option