Survival: Fountain of Youth Review (Steam)
For our Survival: Fountain of Youth Preview, we check out a challenging single-player open-world survival game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of an ancient civilization and your fate.
Survival: Fountain of Youth Review Pros:
- Decent graphics.
- 22.78GB download size.
- Steam achievements.
- Full controller support.
- Graphics settings – resolution, fullscreen, v-sync, fps cap, graphics preset, anti-aliasing, texture resolution, anisotropic filtering, shadow quality, volumetric lighting, HBAO, and shadow distance slider.
- Controller settings Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, rumble, sprint toggle, crouch toggle, and aim assist.
- Mouse and keyboard settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders rebind controls, and toggles.
- Four save slots.
- Game setup – tutorials and intro, max number of faints (unlimited/limited/one) and difficulty (very easy/easy/normal/hard/very hard) which affects vitals drain, damage from animals, negative effects, and the chance of curing disease.
- Survival gameplay.
- In-game cutscenes.
- You can skip the cutscenes and interactions.
- First-person view.
- Hack and slash combat.
- In the beginning, you can only take four items from a choice of like twelve.
- Unlock blueprints as you pick up items and craft new ones.
- The tutorial is a list of tasks to make the necessities.
- Day/night cycle.
- Different weather effects with each affecting your health and the success rate of things like you can’t build a fire in the rain unless you have a cover.
- Trees and other places can be harvested or cut down for resources.
- Earn EXP and skill points by doing tasks a lot like cooking X amount gives you a perk and exp, but craft particular items and get perk points.
- You get a success rate before attempting an action like cooking or building as it factors in the elements.
- Vitals such as tiredness, water, and food all have meters that have to be monitored and topped up.
- Helpful hints in the menu like when it’s dark it says what you can do to fix this or if you are tired it says what to do.
- Creatures, animals, and resources respawn over time.
- When harvesting from the land you can take and decide on which parts you take so a plant you can take leaves and/or flowers, or you can just cut the whole thing down and have it all if you have the tool.
- Save and load when you want along with a quick save option.
- It’s a living world with everything in it reacting to you and your actions.
- Outlines of resources and animals make it easier to find them but also attack them if necessary.
- Red outlines determine that you are being hunted by that particular animal.
- Crafting can be done from the menu and it allows you to craft a lot of different items and has handy shortcuts to the sections.
- Equipping clothes and weapons is a simple button press.
- Great looking location.
- The map fills in but only if you have the tools to do the mapping and even then it requires you to constantly feed it tools to map.
- Weapons and tools have durability.
- Even on the controller, you have an auto walk button.
- Play how you want.
- Hack and slash combat.
- Full base building implementation and as with other games it has different options like wood, stone, etc.
- Eating foods that aren’t cooked or tainted can make you sick.
- Craft medicines to cure sickness.
- The stamina bar plays a huge part as it goes down when running, jumping, and fighting.
- Handy icons on the Hud to show statuses etc.
Survival: Fountain of Youth Review Cons:
- Cannot rebind controls for the controller or should I say it shows the keyboard buttons and you can change them with the controller but even that gets weird.
- Small text.
- The combat is very mashy and not very fluid.
- No hotbar.
- The narration volume is really low.
- The key bindings only show the keyboard and not the controller.
- Everything is menus and bars. Cut down a tree? It’s a loading bar, build something it’s a loading bar. You don’t see the actual action it’s just a progress/loading bar.
- Nothing immediately jumps out at being unique in this game.
- The aiming and hitting of thrown/projected weapons is terrible and is even worse with aim assist.
- They do lock better aiming away in a perk system but even then it’s still bad.
- The day and night cycle is really long.
- A lot of balancing from the vitals to the general health of your character and it gets very tedious.
- You cannot just turn the vitals part off.
- A lot of slowdown especially when it’s raining.
- Animations especially of animals is really basic and look bad.
- It makes simple Tasks fiddly.
- Combat early on is messy.
- So many mechanics that early doors it makes it daunting but also slow to actually progress.
- No feedback on what the icons on the Hud are without hunting around menus.
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Survival: Fountain of Youth:
Developer: Home | Odinsoft
Publisher: Twin Sails Interactive
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