Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2828860/The_Forever_Winter/
The Forever Winter, which has launched in early access today, is a grim dark take on the PvE extraction shooter.
I’m pretty sold on the art style and premise, but will be holding off until a little later to play the game as it looks pretty rough around the edges.
Has anyone played / is planning to play this game?
There is absolutely no way that people with kids will ever play this, that includes me. I get the idea, but this isn’t a question of it being good or bad - it’s physically impossible to ask this from parents. Which I guess probably means we’re not the target audience
Not even just parents though.
It also punishes people who go on vacation for a week, have a power outage, get engrossed by a different game, suffer any kind of longer term medical issue, etc. There are dozens of reasons someone could stop playing for a while.
It’s really a bullying mechanic that forces players to keep playing the game for fear of losing their stuff. People should be coming back because the gameplay is fun, not because of the threat of lost progress.
The mechanic would be much more appropriate if it were tied to actual time signed in to the game. I was looking forward to this game and was already going to wait for more polish anyways, but as long as this mechanic exists in its current state I’m completely turned off of it.
I’m not even a parent and I don’t want this. It’s just an unnecessary mechanic to punish casual players for no reason at all. It doesn’t add anything to the game.