DO NOT BUY Enshrouded

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Enshrouded, which is a new survival RPG

hack-and-slash kind of game with survival

and base building elements. And as a fan

of games like these, I knew I just had to

give it a try. But unfortunately, it kind

of falls flat as an RPG hack-and-slash

game and also a building and crafting

survival game for the reasons I'm going to

get into, into today's video. So first of

all, you start off your character and he's

almost completely naked for some reason.

You have nothing. You don't have any

weapons or shields or armors. You got

nothing. And it just gives you a waypoint

to go off into this direction where you're

supposed to find someone. But I tried

going into that direction, I could never

find anything, so I just ended up giving

up. The beginning of the game is extremely

boring. There's nothing to do. It doesn't

tell you what to do apart from give you

like this random waypoint. And apart from

that, it just kind of lets you get on with

it, lets you get on with your life and let

you choose what to do. But But then you

end up not really knowing what to do. I

just ended up getting lost and started

punching these zombie things in the face,

which didn't really lead anywhere. It's

kind of like the game's trying to be Elden

Ring, but also trying to be like a game

like Sons of the Forest, where you can

build a base and you chop down trees and

you gather materials to build a home and

also try and improve your character's

chances of survival. But the game just

kind of falls flat. Number one, the

visuals of the game are not very

impressive, as you can see. The game's

graphics are not very good. I think they

look pretty outdated for a game that's

come out in 2024. I also don't really feel

like the running animations— the way you

run is really weird. He runs really

quickly, but his legs don't really move

very fast, and he kind of lunges forwards

whilst he's running. The running animation

just looks really weird and awkward. And

the way the character moves in the world,

it doesn't feel like there's any kind of

gravity. So in a game like Elden Ring or

Dark Souls games, when you ran fast and

came to a stop, he wouldn't just suddenly

come to a stop. It would take a few

seconds for him to come to a stop, which

is realistic because you've got to

consider things like physics and energy

and gravity. But in this game, there's

like no physics. The physics seems really

weird in this game, and the character

moves in a really weird way as well. So

after running around randomly in a bunch

of random directions, I came across this

little camp with a few enemies in it, but

I didn't have any weapons. I don't

understand why the game doesn't start you

off with at least a sword or a club or

something. You don't get anything, and it

doesn't really give you clear directions

or instructions on what to do to be able

to get a weapon. I tried punching a tree

thinking I could mine wood, but nothing

really happened even after, even after I

punched the tree for a few seconds. I

tried looting some crates and boxes seeing

if I could find a weapon. Nothing I looted

had weapons. It just had water,

lockpicks, scraps, maybe some mushrooms.

There was just nothing useful in the game.

And I ended up getting killed by these

stupid mobs because, you know, I don't

have any weapons or armor. And then I

spawned at the base and there were a bunch

of people there building stuff. So as you

can see, this game also incorporates

building elements. It's a pretty basic

building system where you just have tiles

and you lay down things like floors,

walls, stairs, windows, and doors. It's

not really that interesting. If you're

into base building and creating houses and

wooden lodges, this might be interesting

for you. But I think there's other games

out there that does this so much better,

like Sons of the Forest did it really well

with the whole chopping trees down. The

way that you could actually chop the tree

down and it would fall in the direction

that you chopped it in was pretty cool,

and the way you could chop tree logs and

create this little log camp in Sons of the

Forest was really good. In comparison to

that, this game is really bad when it

comes to its crafting system and combat

system. I found it incredibly boring and

didn't really feel motivated to carry on

playing the game because it just didn't

really do a very good job at hooking me in

at the beginning, which is the most

important stage of getting someone

interested in a game. You can't expect the

game to only get fun and hook you in 10

levels into the game or 10 hours into the

game. It's supposed to be fun and hooking

straight from the beginning. If it's not,

then I feel like the developers did a

pretty bad job at designing a good game.

So for those reasons, I can't really

recommend the game as it is. I know it's

not a very expensive game, it's only like

£11, and it is in early access, so you've

got to give them some credit that it's not

a finished game. They're not charging huge

amounts of money for that price. I guess

you could come to the conclusion that it's

only a tenner, it's a bit of fun just to

mess around with some friends on a server

to build stuff and do a bit of

exploration. Then I guess you could have a

point there. But for me personally, I

would have to give this game a 6.2 out of

10. I can't really recommend it. I don't

really see it as a very good game. And for

example, I got stuck, and this is one of

the problems in the game. I jumped off the

edge of a cliff and I got stuck into the

corner of a pillar of a bridge, and it

took me ages to figure out how to get out.

I ended up running back into the corner

and then jumping backwards, and I was able

to slide out of that little hole, which

was kind of annoying. I thought I'd had to

restart the game. But little things like

this just makes you feel like, yeah, this

game is not really finished. It's kind of

janky and it's not really fun. So I would

definitely side on the side of caution

if you're thinking about getting this

game. It's not a super polished game. I

think there's much better games you could

be spending your time with if you're

looking into getting into a good game.

For example, Palworld in comparison is

kind of like this in the sense that You've

got a big open world, there's building and

crafting elements, and you level up your

character and you get items. The only

difference is in Palworld you've got

Pokémon that you capture and enslave and

use to farm resources at your base. That

doesn't seem to have that kind of

component to it, which is not a good

thing. I mean, Palworld does everything

that this game is supposed to be doing,

but also on top of that has forced manual

labor for Pokémon. If you enjoy slavery.

So I would recommend Palworld over this

just because that's a much better game

with much better direction. This game has

more of a medieval RPG feeling and look if

you're more into that than the colorful,

cutesy look of Palworld. But I guess it's,

you know, 2 different strokes of rice for

different types of people. Some might like

this more, some might prefer Palworld. I

don't know, it's up to you.