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One of the best RTS games of its time. The ability to have a strategic view was amazing. Add to that you can queue up production at factories and have them auto load into transports that deliver to points. The single player campaign was great, if a bit grindy and script at a few spots. Voice acting was very good. I have hundreds of hours in this game pre-steam release. Just wish it would have held up a bit better with compatibility with modern setups. (Sound bugs/etc) Though it works rather well on Linux/steamplay.

Bought this game back in early 90s when it came out and loved it ever since. But even more amazing after being released as open source. The additions from the community made the game even better and still continues to improve. Well worth your time.

Game is horribly buggy now, it crashed three times in a row on starting new campaign. Devs have added spyware (GameSight) that tries to phone home and crashes on Linux and versions 1.4.x+ During EA, they promised things like auto friendly mining AI that years later they still haven't added. They changed the UI for to make it easier for console version but blinded PC players with horrible large white interface. When players asked for options to either have darker UI or change scale, devs only ignored requests for year+. Overall very poor responses from developers on bugs and issues.
Current state BROKEN on linux or proton/steamplay unplayable without phone-home connection.
Recommend avoiding this one.

Does not work with proton/steamplay.

I tried versions 4.11, 5.9-GE-8-ST, 5.11, 5.11-GE-2-MF, 5.11-GE-3-MF, 6.0, 6.3, 6.5.
Either I get a black screen and short bit of sound effects, or video and no sound at all.
One time I got no video/sound but game loaded to main menu. When I tried to launch a new game it locked up on the loading screen. Tried for about 30 mins to get this working.

Crazy thing is I tried the demo first, and it worked with proton 5.11 flawlessly. Something in full version broke it.

Had to refund.

I get a online DRM check every time I try to play the game. I don't always have a stable internet connection and it's not listed on the store page that it has online DRM checks.

https://i.imgur.com/RqZfuE2.png

Clicking retry doesn't work. When you click next, you get this:

https://i.imgur.com/LLJnBIQ.png

That page is owned by a private domain (support.codefusion.technology)

Will never be buying a WB games again. :rshout:

If you played it back in the 90s, then yeah not bad for a few hours. Still has some bugs, cannot scroll screen to bottom or right. Pathfinding is really bad. If you can get it on sale then worth it.

I’m very sad to have to write this review. I love the concept of stormworks. You need to build search and rescue craft to rescue people and put out force fires/etc. And you need to design microcontrollers and program displays to do it. Awesome!

TLDR; However, the game is riddled with bugs and fault that make it impossible to play. The devs seem more concerned with adding lipstick to the pig by adding flash new features rather than fixing multi-year (in bug tracker) game breaking bugs.

I’ll start by talking about the campaign mode. Before 1.0 launch, you had a tech unlock progression system. This was good and most people liked this. On launch, devs removed it and and made it so only money matters. They did patch it back in, but in a buggy state.

The standard career, with no unlocks, you are given a missions to rescue a boats in distress. The search zone can be 30KM away. Often taking 20-30 real world mins to get there. Then the search radius is 30 square KM. Without a distress beacon it can take you another good 20-30 mins to find them. When you find them it’s often one or two people. Pick them up and evac them to hospital another 40-50KM away. So now you’re over an hour of real world time and when you get there the mission timer (which the game doesn’t show you) expires and you get nothing for your efforts.

They did add a patch at 1.19 or so that gives you an extra 30 mins. But then you’ll note that it pays $2k per head. You’ve now spent well over that on diesel fuel to do the mission. Maybe you use a helo instead... Well Jet fuel is even more expensive. Either way, more often then not you lose money doing rescues... the core of the game.

So I move on to fighting wild fires. Build a custom helo to put them out “before they spread.” Get this done as 3 more zones start to break out. Got them all done only to get another bug in the mission cannot reference nil value and they get stuck always on my map. Check bug tracker, yep another existing bug that has been open months.

Fine you say, the game provides other ways to make money, like selling fuel. Great, you build a tanker and run off to buy low and sell high. Until you make it to the pumps that sell and it takes 3 and half real world hours to fill your tanks. Ugh... you alt-tab out and come back when finished. Sail off to the selling island and find out it starts pumping out at such a slow speed it will take over 11 real world hours to sell all your fuel. Really? Again, you get frustrated and leave it running over night. Come back and the pump stopped buying after 900L out of your 800KL+ tanks.

Uh, maybe they are full? Nope, by reversing the pumps direction and back again it starts going for another 900L. Check bug reports and sure enough, existing fuel transfer bugs dating back Feb 2019. Many are not duplicates of another problem but mislabelled as that and closed by “Beginner” who cannot reproduce.

I then think maybe I need to bleed the system of air. I build a pump/filter system that gets rid of any water and air but lets jet fuel through. Place it right before the selling pylon. Nope, same problem. I then build a 1000L transfer tank that sits level and only 3m from the sale pylon. Nope, still gets stuck and cannot pump out any fuel. Now I’m stuck with $8,000,000 in jet fuel I cannot sell.


All right, so the career mode is riddle with game breaking bugs. I’ll just treat this as a sandbox building game with no objective. Problem is the physics is utterly broken too. Wind resistance is way too high and huge boats will fly out of the water into the air and continue to “fly” from the force from their large props. Water density is off and things float that shouldn’t, others don’t float enough. For aircarft lift means nothing in this game, it’s all about thrust. No point to wings, and again high winds wreck aircraft as well.

The final nail in the coffin is that there is such a lack of information provided to the players for building. How much does a small, medium or large fuel tank hold? How about batteries? No idea, the game doesn’t tell you. Sometimes the wiki has this info, often times it doesn’t. How about small/large pumps? What is the capacity of a single pipe? There is so little information provided it’s more frustration.

As a final note, Linux users beware. I never got it to run in steam due to a mouse bug where the camera spins endlessly. Works in menus fine but not in 3d world. Reported and devs closed bug as dupe of something else that was again from early 2019. Game runs fine outside of steam if you disable steam_api.dll but then you don’t get multi player or workshop. Tried to talk to a dev on discord (Antie) but got a dismissive and condescending one-line response to file a bug which I had already done. Then ignored after that. I'd recommend avoiding their often toxic discord server.

I really loved this game at first. But after a while it has become too painful to play. Maybe they will fix the issues, and at that point I'll be happy to change this review... but I fear they just want to sell more copies then support their existing customers/game with bug fixes.

I had the game crash and when I reloaded my character had been reset to zero. I lost all progress (over 100 hours) and the renaming of the tpp.bak file didn't work either. This problem also happened to me on Alpha18 but I didn't lose as much so was not upset then. I did a quick search and found this isn't so rare a problem:

https://old.reddit.com/r/7daystodie/comments/d15jdn/character_reset_after_game_crashed/
https://steamproxy.net/app/251570/discussions/0/1696045708656805486/
https://steamproxy.net/app/251570/discussions/1/1734343065619166112/
https://steamproxy.net/app/251570/discussions/0/537405286647119806/
https://steamproxy.net/app/251570/discussions/1/135511027320460491/
https://steamproxy.net/app/251570/discussions/0/1457328392107200760/

Beyond the bugs, in Alpha 19 they added spyware, GameSparks, that has way more data mining and collection they claim. Look at the DLLs in the game folder. The DLL is C# managed so you can view all code.

Other issues:

• Lots of bugs, yeah it is alpha but for 7 years now?
  
• Poor frame rates (Ryzen 3900X/32GB/RTX2070/nvme gen4 5GB/s) even on low tanks into 20s
  
• Randomly hit invisible walls travelling over terrain damaging you
  
• Zombie hit boxes are either too small or buggy, you often shoot through their faces
  
• A19 sounds effects are horrible, auger unusable
  
• Linux client has bugs like scroll wheel inverted on hot bar that has not been fixed for years
  
• You cannot take over a building/POI (Point of interest) because zombies always re-spawn in "sleeper" positions
  
• UI is buggy and poorly designed, drag/drop doesn't work often taking many clicks to register in inventory

Another one of those games that makes all kinds of promises but cannot deliver. Maybe I will change review if they ever fix the game, but until then I do not recommend.

Update: Also note bad mods delete posts they don't like. https://i.imgur.com/YYhd0gq.png

Pass on this one, sounds good on concept but just not worth the time.

First negative review was deleted. Shady company, buggy game and full of afk leeches.