On My Own

This game was fun at first, I bought the pack and played it for a while. There’s a lot of problems with this game too though. First, survival games are supposed to be about exploration and finding food and water and stuff like that. This game has no point in exploration, you can walk upwards for hours and see nothing but trees and bushes, not even a hill! Secondly, you have no health. The bear can literally attack you and you don’t even die. You just have a negative effect on you for a few days. I mean, c’mon. Thirdly, you can’t craft ammo. You can make wimpy arrows for the bow, but not bullets. So essentially you get a gun but you can only shoot it for a certain number of times. The energy part of this game is stupid. Whenever you walk for a while or chop down a tree or fish or something like that you lose energy. Once you’re completely out, you magically appear back at your cabin and go to sleep. You can also gain energy back by eating energy bars. You get a few of those at your initial spawn, but you can only gain more by watching ads. It’s just dumb. Plus the devs kinda gave up on this game ‘cause the haven’t updated it in a long time. I’m sorry that I spent this whole review criticizing this game, but it seriously needs some work.

Now I enjoy this game as the survival side of it is fun and there is difficulty in surviving, I found myself dying quickly the first time I played and watched videos on how to get food. The thing is, it’s just kinda boring after awhile of playing the game and note I never bought the biomes but just the main place is very repetitive if you’ve played it enough times. And I think that adding a reward system or a achievement system would be cool, like if you make everything you can for one biome you maybe might half unlock the next place, and to fully unlock the next place you might have to survive for 4-6 years or something like that. But you could still leave in the biome money thing and still make money. But that’s just my thoughts and opinions so thank you and have a good day!

Survival is my favorite genre. I’ve been playing games since I was 5 years old. I’m very picky when it comes to dedicating time to a video game. This game is worth it. I’m 30 now and I have to say the pixel art in this game gives me nostalgia. I feel like a little kid again playing on the SNES. I love the attention to detail put into this game. I love that it’s not a story driven game. It’s less of a cinematic experience, more of a isolated relaxing journey. The ambient nature sounds and soundtrack is PERFECT. I really hope On My Own keeps adding new features and updates. The only suggestions I have is adding more layers to the land so it doesn’t feel so flat. Maybe I didn’t explore far enough, but I don’t see any cliffs or hills on the terrain. It’s not a major thing but it could help break things up a bit so it doesn’t look too similar throughout the level. Another suggestion I have is adding natural disasters. Man vs nature doesn’t only mean stay fed and well rested. I have yet to see a survival game include this feature. I think it would really be something that can make it that much more unique and interesting. As much as we know how beautiful nature can be, it can also be terrifyingly ugly. Thanks for reading this. This is the first review I ever posted for a video game. I just want the developers to know that it’s special to me and they deserve to know that the time they put into working on it is worth it. I fully support On My Own and like to see this company grow. Thank you for making such a great game. I hope to see more in the near future.