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Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds is a survival, multiplayer and open world survival craft game
developed by Merge Games
and published by Merge Games and Maximum Entertainment.
Released on February 15th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 10 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 8,294 reviews of which 6,876 were positive and 1,418 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 34.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 8.13€ on Instant Gaming.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 SP1
- Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9400 CPU @ 2.90GHz or equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 20 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Connecting to Epic EOS is required for online multiplayer
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No spoilers here, but I am referring to a game mechanic to try and help new players not get frustrated like some of the negative comments I see. This way you know this info up front so you don't waste time. On a side note... as of the date on this comment, I am in no way connected, affiliated, endorsed or sponsored by the developers. This is my opinion and guidance alone. This is a great game if you are coming from Valheim. The user interface and gameplay are virtually the same. Oh, but if playing with Keyboard/Mouse, switch the "Use" key-binding from 'F' to 'E' so it's the same as Valheim. That was an early OCD frustration I had. Also, Valheim was made with Unity and Smalland was made with the Unreal Engine which is why this game has a nice face-lift over Valheim (not including HD mods). I preface my next comment/paragraph below on being a dedicated server admin who plays with a bunch of my buddies. We had to learn to adjust our play-style once we realized the design choice of the Trees. This is not an error or bug by the developers. And again... this game ain't Valheim, so things are going to be a little different. Now for the comment, I've seen a few negative reviews of people complaining about a multi-player/coop situation about the Trees you can claim and build on, but technically do not share with your coop friends. This is by design so each player can build a place of their own. If you want a team-base that is always present regardless of a players presence in the game, you have to either build something outside of the radius of a claimed tree up in the trees, or find a good spot to build on the ground. We have found a really good location underground in carved out tunnels with open spaces inside. The "situation" is that even once a Tree is claimed, if you do NOT tell the Tree Gnome statue to make the tree "Private", anyone can build on it. The only difference between a 'Private' and 'Public' tree is saying others can either build on it or they can't. You, the claimer of the tree, still own any and everything that is built on your claimed tree. Regardless of who built the stuff. So if you log out for the night, everything on the tree disappears for everyone else. So if you want collected resources, beds, workstations and whatever else available 24/7, you have to build together outside of any claimed tree's radius. The comparison with Valheim here is the Ward. If I build a house in Valheim and put a Ward in it and don't let anyone else add their name to the Ward... they cannot build anything within the radius or even enter the structure. So if you simply tell the Tree Gnome statue in Smalland to make the tree 'Private' from the start when you claim it, you will immediately remove the confusion from the game. Also... if you leave the game and your tree disappears from others... you do NOT lose what you built or stored. Simply claim another tree that is available and everything is restored. Some of the negative comments you see, the player may not have tested this and simply thought they lost everything. That is NOT the case. Your stuff is associated with your profile, so simply claiming another tree brings everything back. You may not be in the same location, but you do no lose your stuff. So do I recommend this game? YES! ... especially if you like Valheim or similar. Being tiny and fighting bugs is awesome. The devs did a great job with the scale and feel of being tiny.
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Got it on sale for $14.00, can't recommend enough to wait for a sale. The game mechanics are good, REAL good. The concepts in the game are awesome and make it addictive. Crafting is decent, building is very good and allows for impressive structures. The story is...not there. It's not that it's a BAD story...it's just not a story at all. There's a Queen that needs rescuing......that you'll never see. There's no voice acting in the game, the cut scenes are R E A L L Y bad, quest progression is borked and you're just guessing most of the time on where to go. You NEED youtube, reddit, and google to figure out how to finish quests in the game and where to go to accomplish your quests. At the end of the game, I realized that this is half-baked and should still be in early access. It's not bad for $14.00 though!
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I wanna preface this by saying that this game is 2 very different experiences, depending on if you are playing the first area, which I refer to as the Main Story, or the postgame area. The Main story is beautifully crafted and a ton of fun to explore, bugs are challenging but fair and taming insects to use them is a ton of fun, especially once you unlock the Hornet which is a blast to fly around It's essentially everything I wanted Grounded to be The Postgame area tho, the desert is one of the worst experiences I've had in a while. The powerspike is ridiculous, where bugs before had like 200 HP on average, desert bugs most often have around 2.000 or more, so about 10x more. The turrets that are plastered absolutely everywhere and just shoot at will make exploring it really unpleasant and you'll find all your main story bugs dead within one or two fights. I also found that the attention to detail has clearly taken a hit, the desert is fairly baren with very little points of interest and the hitboxes of some late game enemies are extremely janky. The fact that these bugs are incredibly hard to tame doesn't help either, as you pretty much need them to stand any chance. Another annoyance is the lack of mounts in this area, the only mountable late game bug (not counting the bird) is the scorpion, which really makes no sense to me since the Tarrantula hawk wasp is basically just a recolored Hornet, which are rideable, yet the Hawk wasp is not, make it make sense Overall I still think it's a good game, just the content after the King Stag Beetle is designed very poorly and carelessly and is best skipped imo
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Finished the game from start to finish. Oh man what a game! Everything about it is captivating, you can play for hours without getting bored. Though I have no friends, this game was just as fun to play solo. I highly encourage anyone looking for a new building survival game, to download this asap!
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Ok, first off is this game better than Grounded? Personally I feel it's an unfair comparison to both games. Grounded is a more RPG focused game that has survival elements, and Smallland is more of a survival game that has RPG elements. So if you go into either game expecting the same experience, you won't get it. That said, Grounded is fully cooked, and Smalland even though it's v1.0 is still baking a bit. Smallland is basically taking place after the fall of humans, and the plot is pretty lite. There is very little hand-holding, though there are owl statues that will explain mechanics if you want. You are playing an explorer of your people, and for some reason the intro was changed in a way that instead of being guided out the door you literally are thrown into the wilds with no equipment, weapons, or clue. Which depends on the person if that works or not. Changes like that are kinda what the devs seem to be doing for more "realism". This is where I talk about the "still baking". Overall the game does feel good and engaging to play. But some things feel like they are still under development. For example there are events where you can drop in and kill random groups of insects for faction rewards and faster XP gains. Faction rewards can be passives like slower hunger drain or more pet health, unique armor, and base decorations. However these events only give you 6 points each and you need 1000 to reach tier 1 with a faction. The community has been very vocal about changing it, so maybe in the next expansion it will be. There are similar issues with fuel/timers to crafting, pet management, how some things can craft from chests but others can't, and so forth. Which is the next thing. The game world is still growing. The next update (as of July 2024) is supposed to be adding a "treetop" biome. The last one added a kind of desert biome. More weapons, creatures you can tame to support you, more areas, and game play changes are supposed to be coming out this year for free. So some of this stuff can change. Taming for example was made more friendly and accessible than how it was at launch, and there are already more options than what we had at launch. Overall I would say the game is worth a buy, especially if it's on a sale, if you like survival games. It does have it's flaws, but it's very easy to get you money's worth out of the game. The game world really feels epic in that small person way, and as you unlock ways to travel more easily around the world either by gliding or by riding pets you really come to appreciate the scale. Even with the flaws, and the game does have them, the experience is something not many games really capture and made the journey fun it itself.
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Smalland: Survive the Wilds is currently priced at 34.99€ on Steam.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 34.99€ on Steam.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds received 6,876 positive votes out of a total of 8,294 achieving a rating of 8.07.
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Smalland: Survive the Wilds was developed by Merge Games and published by Merge Games and Maximum Entertainment.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds is not playable on MacOS.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds is not playable on Linux.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
There is a DLC available for Smalland: Survive the Wilds. Explore additional content available for Smalland: Survive the Wilds on Steam.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds does not support Steam Remote Play.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds 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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Multiplayer
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Online players
357
Developer
Merge Games
Publisher
Merge Games,
Maximum Entertainment
Release
15 Feb 2024
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