Pathless Woods on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
Quick menu
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Pathless Woods is a open world, crafting and sandbox game
developed and published by AniYa Games Studio.
Released on April 02nd 2024 is available only on Windows
in 3 languages: English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 1,052 reviews of which 832 were positive and 220 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Pathless Woods into these genres:
System requirements
These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.
Windows
- OS: Windows 10 （64-bit）
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-4130 or Core™ i5-3470 or AMD FX™-6100
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 1030 (DDR4) or AMD Radeon™ RX 550
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
User reviews & Ratings
Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.
It's reasonable. As do most of the Open World Survival Craft games, the game aims to do many things and gets some of them right. Best enjoyed with a friend or two. The game loop mostly consists of running about, fighting enemies (and occasional bosses), gathering items, and unlocking waypoints on the map. If something seems unusually hard, perhaps you should have crafted some weapons/armor. The game tries some interesting things with combat - weapons and armor can be made from mixed parts to optimize for one or other parameter, including weapon's range or how much it pushes you forward on attack. The combat itself is just alright, however - you have a heavy attack and a few-hit combo. There's a dash/evade move, but you can't cancel an attack, so all of this doesn't feel particularly dynamic. There's farming. You may occasionally have to engage with it to grow medicinal herbs and because of a mechanic where the character's diet (roughly whether you're mostly eating meat or plants) affects some stats and how well the character fares in overly cold/hot biomes. You can only water the plants by hand (unless we've missed something?) so it's best that you don't forget about them for too long (or have someone watch over these). There's cooking. There's an advanced soup system (with different effects based on ingredients), but bowls of soup don't stack in inventory so it's usually easier to carry a stack of grilled eggplants or chicken legs. You can rescue adventurers and have them help you in exchange for food and shelter. When ordered to work with a resource station, sometimes they just wander off and have to be manually re-summoned to the camp building. You can build stuff and terraform (including expanding bodies of water), no complaints here - a pretty robust system. You can also label your chests, and the labels will show over them in 3d, which helps a lot with quickly telling which one's which. And it is one of the few games that has a way to move your structures to a new place, very kind. Other caveats: [*] Building/crafting windows could really use a search bar - there's a lot of things that you can make. [*] The lower-detail version of the eggplant tree model has fruits on it even if there aren't any, which is an annoyance. [*] If you build too close to your initial spawn point, you may hear faraway players swinging their weapons. [*] Some text isn't localized in English - most notably the buttons in the soup interface, some of the buildings that can be unlocked through blueprints, and those little sticks (?) that you occasionally find on the ground. Some text isn't translated particularly well (or is machine-translated), but overall it's tolerable. As is standard for the genre, a game is never truly complete, but might be proclaimed complete once the developers formally add a Big Boss Fight¹ and pronounce the player the hero of the land after emerging victorious out of it. ¹ That said, the last boss in the current EA version is already pretty big
Expand the review
I’m hooked on this game! It’s super addictive and enjoyable, striking the perfect balance between being slightly challenging and highly engaging. I love the freedom to build my own structures and craft a variety of clothing items and weapons, which adds so much depth to the gameplay. I do wish there was more guidance on unlocking certain crafts, though – after 140 hours, I still haven’t figured out how to mine copper and am working with stone tools. But even with that minor frustration, it’s a cozy yet adventurous experience that keeps me coming back. Overall, a fantastic game that I’d definitely recommend!
Expand the review
Fantastic little game, really sad that the studio seems to be lacking funds, so wanting to write a positive review to help bump the game even if a lil bit!
Expand the review
I really love this game is so beautiful , iam impressed about building , crafting , enemy and a lot ,i like the combination of chinese culture with survival game , this game showed its own way of playing , the scenery is vary beautiful , i really enjoy and excited to ending this game , 10/10
Expand the review
Grab it! A fun cozy survival game, indeed. So what is it? I think the store page doesnt put enough emphasis on a few things: A survival game at its core with a more complex system of temperature, satiation, nurishment (...) with cute graphics, but suprisingly complex systems. You build a house- or even a city and recruit a group of up to 32 "partners", followers that will also mine, collect wood and farm for you! They need places to sleep, tools, weapons, armor, food (...) It can have a bit of rimworld here. The game is already very far for an early access and easily provides dozens, if not hundreds of hours of light hearted entertainment. Combat is an essential part but easy enough, yet complex thanks to the vast weapons and armor system. Hundreds of building pieces, water physics, terrain modification, furniture (...), the building system works well and leaves little to desire. Hundreds of equipment pieces as well as an equipment combination system- attach shoulder or breast plates to basic armor, form new weapons from different hilts and heads to get a unique combination that perfectly fits your fighting style and bonus (...) The cooking system alone is breathtaking and will need its own guide. Which... doesnt exist (yet, i may...) Which brings me to the downsides. The systems are surprisingly deep, though its usually on the side of "easy to learn, hard to master". It starts more than simple enough but gets "wide" very quick. Wide, not UNnecessary complex, its content creating complexity. But not all is always explained proper, despite best efforts on part of the developer (there is even an ingame wiki). There also isnt much coverage in the terms of wiki and fanpages yet, and a game with so much content would certainly benefit from it. If you aint a wiki-fan, eprfect, there is a hell lot to discover! However the community is among the best ive seen in such games, very helpful. No matter if in the forums here or on the official discord, so you can get help. It is an early access, there are also a few bugs, some people have performance issues and the balancing (especially the chi/temperature system) will probably need a pass or two. But- a pass or two, its not broken, just there are a few parts that aint as highly polished as most of the game already is . So certainly worth it!
Expand the review
Similar games
View all
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.
Force of Nature
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Kenshi
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Craft Hero
Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero
The Infected
The Infected is a survival crafting game set in an open world sandbox. Build your base defend and protect yourself from wildlife and infected Vambies. (Hybrid Vampire-Zombie)
Scrap Mechanic
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Bellwright
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Longvinter
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Frequently Asked Questions
Pathless Woods is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.
Pathless Woods is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.50€ on Steam.
Pathless Woods received 832 positive votes out of a total of 1,052 achieving a rating of 7.55.
😊
Pathless Woods was developed and published by AniYa Games Studio.
Pathless Woods is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Pathless Woods is not playable on MacOS.
Pathless Woods is not playable on Linux.
Pathless Woods offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Pathless Woods includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
Pathless Woods does not currently offer any DLC.
Pathless Woods does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Pathless Woods does not support Steam Remote Play.
Pathless Woods does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Pathless Woods.
Data sources
The information presented on this page is sourced from reliable APIs to ensure accuracy and relevance. We utilize the Steam API to gather data on game details, including titles, descriptions, prices, and user reviews. This allows us to provide you with the most up-to-date information directly from the Steam platform.
Additionally, we incorporate data from the SteamSpy API, which offers insights into game sales and player statistics. This helps us present a comprehensive view of each game's popularity and performance within the gaming community.
Last Updates| Steam data | 05 June 2025 19:16 |
|---|---|
| SteamSpy data | 06 June 2025 16:23 |
| Steam price | 14 June 2025 20:48 |
| Steam reviews | 14 June 2025 06:03 |
If you'd like to dive deeper into the details about Pathless Woods, we invite you to check out a few dedicated websites that offer extensive information and insights. These platforms provide valuable data, analysis, and user-generated reports to enhance your understanding of the game and its performance.
- SteamDB - A comprehensive database of everything on Steam about Pathless Woods
- SteamCharts - Analysis of Pathless Woods concurrent players on Steam
- ProtonDB - Crowdsourced reports on Linux and Steam Deck Pathless Woods compatibility
Game modes
Multiplayer
Online players
2
Developer
AniYa Games Studio
Publisher
AniYa Games Studio
Release
02 Apr 2024
Platforms