Vintage Story is made for fans of Minecraft for whom the pixel-style building game is not realistic enough and offers too little survival
Lets take a look at the early access version
What Is Vintage Story?
Vintage Story is an uncompromising wilderness survival sandbox game inspired by lovecraftian horror themes. Find yourself in a ruined world reclaimed by nature and permeated by unnerving temporal disturbances. Relive the advent of human civilization, or take your own path.
The inspiration behind Vintage Story can hardly be denied: it emulates Minecraft. No wonder. It all started as a mod for the pixel construction kit. However, with its greater focus on realism and a proper backstory, it does offer some unique selling points.
Every world you create is populated by a great degree of geological diversity. You will encounter:
- Dozens of unique land forms
- Varying rock strata that are host to specific minerals
- Areas rich, poor, or completely devoid of certain minerals
- Huge veins of quartz that harbor trace amounts of silver, gold and vugs - cracks in which large crystals can form
- Rare, crystallized versions of minerals
- Rare but huge domes of salt, which can be used as an effective food preservative
So There Is A Story?
Survival is the keyword. Vintage Story offers you a sandbox in which you face the natural dangers of the randomly generated world, but also creepy horror monsters, either alone or together with friends. At least in case you are scared of block monsters.
Diverse world: Like the big role model, Vintage Story provides numerous different biomes. Among other things, there are temperate forests and mountains, over the icy tundra and wide steppes to a huge wall in the Arctic.
Mysterious apparitions: There are also more creepy elements such as time storms in which horror characters in the style of H.P. Lovecraft house.
Clarification of the story: Once your survival is ensured, you can set out and discover the background story of the game world. In ruins, for example, you can learn more about the state of the world and find old machines.
Crafting with realism: While you simply build objects yourself in a menu in Minecraft, Vintage Story puts a little more emphasis on realism. To make a flint knife, for example, you place a slice of flint on the floor and cut out your tool, so to speak.
Development through the ages: This system is used to produce better and better tools and equipment over time. While you are at the beginning of the technological level of the Stone Age, you later produce leather and erect imposing buildings.
Current Early Access Status
Vintage Story has been in Early Access for four years now and has been constantly expanded with new content. So there was only a new update on January 3, 2021 that added things like underground lakes.
For the further course of development, the team is planning, among other things, more crafting and farming mechanics, a more sophisticated combat system and more story elements. And features such as VR support are also to come.
You can purchase the game directly on their Website for currently 15€ / 18 USD.
Vintage Story tries to go its own way. It already does a lot better than many other sandbox titles.
Above all, the community close development. The game is not just crammed with new useless content, everything builds on each other. There is a lot of love for detail in it. And anyone looking for a good survival sandbox game is in good hands here.
Still in development, of course, but on the right track.
Also worth mentioning, it is a small developer from Austria.