Indie Venting about Survival Crafting Games don't mind me.

[TheSoulWalker TheSoulWalker]

Realism does not always equal fun. It's so genuinely hard to find a survival crafting game that isn't so overtuned or undertuned on the realism scale.

Minecraft became more cartoony on the game aspect and less about the survival aspect making the game almost too easy. Vintage Story overtunes it and makes it extremely difficult by design where the journey is the destination. Find a wolf and die in two hits. Hytale is too early in to really call it one way or the other but it does do something that Valheim did and give you a bread crumb trail to start on your exploration, closer to Minecraft's Alpha and Beta Phases. Valheim's RPG mechanics brings you to a complete halt with the stats. There's a point where realism sucks the soul out of playing a survival crafting game, however on that same side if there isn't enough to do, the game itself has no meat to the bones either being too easy or like 7 Days to Die where it feels like there's no exploration aspect.

Am I crazy?

 

[Zerohour2k12]

I get stressed-out with these games. I've played Subnautica a little but never beat it. Crashlands I managed to beat once. I get the appeal and the progress in the playthrough is nice but really can be a bummer sometimes though I admit it's a skill issue on my part.

 

[bjork]

It's okay if a genre isn't for you, but it's nice that you tried enough of them to really form an opinion. They're not really something I'm interested in either, but I'm the type that sees a hunger meter and I'm out.

 

[BrawlMan]

I don't care much for survival crafting. So I don't bother with a majority of games that do them. The only time it worked really well for me, is in Evil Within 2. There is crafting, but Tango wasn't obsessed with it, nor tried to make it super realistic. Grounded in its own reality, yes, but does not get in the way of the tension, horror, nor fun especially.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

Im not that into survival games .
The worst point is that its always :
Explore-> Farm -> Build -> Cook -> Repeat

The combat on itsself is in most survival games either bad or mediocre at best .

And dont get me started with Zombie-survival-games . Instead having great ideas that the survival is about with ammo , guns , armor and health supplies only , they come around with hunger and stamina mechanics that i despise already and dont offer interesting places to explore and interact with . ( Except Project Zomboid somehow . That game is awesome . )

I think even the openworlds become after a while extremly boring which begs the question why we should wander minutes on rather empty openworlds to farm something which can be condensed into interesting huge maps ( not open-worlds but limited areas ) that have even set buildings and secret places to be found and explored ? Put some RNG for interactive events that you can avoid or approach and you got already something more on point and cooler than farming grounds and maybe few small huts or buildings inbetween .