Retreat To Enen on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Base building simulator 1500 years in the future. Journey to the Island of Enen to forage, craft, build, hunt, meditate, and explore across three vast biomes. Discover secrets and create the retreat of your dreams. With over 160 unique items to gather, craft, and build, every home will be unique.

Retreat To Enen is a exploration, survival and relaxing game developed by Head West and published by indie.io.
Released on August 01st 2022 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 384 reviews of which 238 were positive and 146 were negative resulting in a rating of 6 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 22.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 5.99€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Retreat To Enen into these genres:

Exploration Survival Relaxing Sandbox Fishing First-Person Base-Building Open World Simulation Strategy Action Sci-fi Atmospheric Building Crafting Nature Adventure Futuristic Resource Management Singleplayer

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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 64-bit
  • Processor: 3.2 GHZ quad core
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GPU 660ti
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 10 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX compatible

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May 2025
Worth a try, give it a fair chance. If you enjoy playing survival games on creative/peaceful mode, Retreat to Enen might be for you. There is no real tutorial so my first few hours in this game were absolutely frustrating and it was tempting to rage quit. But, instead, I looked around online and found the Discord server which had plenty of new player tips and other players who answered my questions. I started a fresh new game and had a much better experience. You spawn in on an island and are tasked with finding ruins in order to level up, the map is vague and doesn't show you where you so it is all kind of a puzzle while observing your surroundings. The build system is sandbox with plenty of options to build your dream base. Once you get established with a home camp and stockpile some resources, the game is pretty easy. The most important thing in this game is save save SAVE your progress, save multiple points. Death is permanent in this game, you don't respawn, so having save points is the key for all those moments when you need to undo, redo, rethink, re plan.
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Feb. 2025
I love crafting survival games, but this one adding the element of meditation was just a cool little addition. I would love if they gave the option to have a guided meditation with every meditation station use.
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Dec. 2024
As a survival game, it looks easy; however, the start is far from it. Those YouTubers who recorded themselves starting were not wrong. Build one thing, get sick die, build another thing, get bitten die, and consume a pathogen that can not find plants, then die. OMG, my daughter thinks it's hilarious. I died so much. The graphics are stunning. It is annoyingly addictive so I highly recommend
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Oct. 2024
The graphics are really nice and so is the scenery. It is a bit clunky though. The Map doesn't tell you where you are and it does't list any of your trail marker flags. I am a bit of a video game hoarder and the storage in this game is a bit rough. I feel like I need to keep making more storage chests. Also You only have the ability to destroy builds. It doesn't give you back all the mats, and it doesn't give you the option to move built items. I hope in the Future it will give us the ability to move things around (like campfires, rain water catchers, farming pot plots etc.). I like that the Farming planters keep the same plant planted in it once harvested. That was really nice! It will probably be nicer once you have a larger farm going... Death in this game.... I have died way too many times in this game where I am not in active combat... I die mainly to malnutrition. Even though I keep my hunger bar filled, even after getting all the food categories above 90%, I still end up dying with the malnutrition debuff. The one that keeps doing me in is the fat, meat doesn't seem to cover it sadly, you need to cook the fat into meals or just straight up eat rendered fat. For the past 3 nights a snake has bitten me while I slept and I have to make something to cure myself, its pretty annoying. I look around the area and there's no snake to be found. Its gotten to the point where I save at night before sleeping and If my health gets to about 1/2 of the health bar for whatever reason i just exit to the main menu and reload. I see all the cool stuff people have built and I cant even make it out of the first area. I die too much and I am sure that's how the game is intended... but I like games that allow me to play in an easier game mode... something that gives me a little more time to explore without having to mainly focus on making sure i get ALL the food types so I don't keep dying from malnutrition... q_q And subtitles... I miss most of the things that voice keeps trying to tell me... I will probably wait for the game to smooth out a little more before I play it again. Although I didn't like it right now it I am sure others will like the more difficult game play.
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July 2024
So i picked this up after seeing a brief play through on floppyswords channel and I'm so very glad i did! I absolutely love this game! ive only played for a few hours but in that time i was fully immersed! Its visually stunning, the sound design is impeccable, and its so perfect for anyone who suffers from chronic anxiety but enjoys the mechanics of a survival game. Theres no feeling of impending doom, no loud, abrasive crashes or screams, from the rain to the background music all of it is perfectly designed to allow you to enjoy the environment without experiencing any of the stress or frustrations of the usual survival games but still requires you to work to survive. Thoroughly enjoying it.
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Retreat To Enen is currently priced at 22.99€ on Steam.

Retreat To Enen is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 22.99€ on Steam.

Retreat To Enen received 238 positive votes out of a total of 384 achieving a rating of 6.00.
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Retreat To Enen was developed by Head West and published by indie.io.

Retreat To Enen is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Retreat To Enen is not playable on MacOS.

Retreat To Enen is not playable on Linux.

Retreat To Enen is a single-player game.

Retreat To Enen does not currently offer any DLC.

Retreat To Enen does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Retreat To Enen does not support Steam Remote Play.

Retreat To Enen is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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