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by imiric 110 days ago
The game currently has a Mixed (65%) rating on Steam. Granted, some negative reviews are shallow, but some mention important issues. Regardless, a Minecraft clone is not exactly groundbreaking in terms of gameplay.

This is to say that technical merits are rarely good indicators of a good game. As a gamer, I don't really care about the game engine, and even less about the language it's written in. Good programmers often obsess about these details, but it's easy to miss the forest for the trees, which is what I think happened here. Game design is a separate skill from game development, and not many people excel at both.

Still, it's great seeing this here, as the technical achievements are quite remarkable.
3 comments
Aardappel 110 days ago
It's not intended to be a Minecraft clone.. if you look a bit closer than the initial visual impression, you'll see there are many differences in gameplay.

As for the rating, yes we had a rough initial launch, but we're fixing all these things. Note that it is 65% out of only 63 user reviews, so statistically not set in stone yet.

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sarchertech 110 days ago
65% positive reviews doesn’t tell you much about whether the game is good or not. At most it tells you that the game wasn’t great at communicating what people should expect.
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bingaweek 110 days ago
This is just being intentionally obtuse. Everyone knows that 65% generally means the game doesn't even run on most devices, crashes constantly, or has some other serious flaw. Ridiculous.
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sarchertech 110 days ago
Explain how a game that doesn’t run on most devices or crashes constantly is recommended by 65% of reviewers.

But also if that is true, that just solidifies my point which is that a 65% doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with game design.

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AmbroseBierce 110 days ago
Steam review marked as most helpful states:

> I played this game for 3 hours and i can confirm it is not in a playable state, there were several bugs within the first few maps that deleted needed items causing us to reset the entire world. several times. Don't waste your time...

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sobiolite 109 days ago
That review is a year old. Just maybe it’s improved since then?
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