Blossom: The Seed of Life

“A frustrating mess with intentionally tedious mechanics, likely to bolster playtime, since the actual content is very limited.”

“Other issues include the dev copying the backpack inventory system from Astroneer (which is probably the worst inventory system in any game ever), copying the horrible crafting table (printer) mechanic from Valheim, except making it far worse, because not only do you have to have a crafting table in range (too short a range) but you also have to walk all the way to the table and touch it to open the build menu every time you want to build something.”

“Lastly, you need more water, there are multiple points through the gameplay where the water was the biggest bottleneck and the only way I could get around it was by moving to a different pond to make a new outpost just to have a single machine run in it for 30 minutes before scrapping and moving to another pond to repeat, super tedious.”

“The visuals are simple, clunky, and look very outdated; however, the game struggles to maintain 120 fps on my PC at ultra settings.”

“Graphical glitches everywhere, for example, the floor of habitats glitching with the ground and just flickering.”

“The visuals are a strange mismatch of low poly models, high quality textures and models of different visual styles; the planet looks like a Google Maps scan of Mars's surface with tire tracks and steps dynamically reacting to your movements, while your base, its furniture, machines and props look like an actual Lego construction. At the same time, your character seems to be a fully fledged high poly design, and the plants and vegetation later are stylized high quality models (likely paid assets; at least be consistent). This isn't early access, so it's unlikely these are placeholders.”

“To make matters worse, late game becomes both tedious and extremely slow.”

“A frustrating mess with intentionally tedious mechanics, likely to bolster playtime, since the actual content is very limited.”

“Didn't need to play this one long to know where it was going, immensely grindy and slow, exploration isn't as much rewarded as there's just random resources scattered around like you dropped a box of marbles and now you have to retrieve all of them. My only 30 minutes of play time was spent doing essentially fetch quests to build things that just allow me to access the actual game. This feels less like survival and more of a checklist with an annoyingly short battery preventing you from doing literally anything interesting as you will run out of energy after mining 2 deposits and have to abuse the poorly implemented jumping to save battery, as jumping doesn't consume extra battery so you can just jump your way around to save a lot of power on walking.”

“Performance gets pretty bad the longer you play, especially in the endgame.”

“Massive performance issues, especially once you have many plants and animals in play.”

“Optimization is not great; at the end I had to drop to low settings and was still getting less than 30 frames per second.”

“The music is mediocre, had to turn it off after several hours of play.”

“The music was calm and relaxing but after several hours I opted to silence it and put my Spotify on (no fault to the music in game, I just like vibing to my own music).”

“Some games can really have annoying music.”

“Yes, the atmosphere changes as part of the terraforming process — and that part works — but visually and structurally, the world never really evolves beyond that.”

“I've always felt weird even in Planet Crafter one large drill somehow changing an entire planet's atmosphere within a day but I suppose you don't want to drag that out too long.”

“Be aware that you need to continue increasing the atmosphere pressure on the planet even after you finish the pressure phase of terraforming in order to unlock technologies like mobile crafting and printing modules.”

“Game worked great for a few hours, now I'm running into a bunch of weird bugs and glitches that make it pretty annoying to play.”

“There are still many annoying bugs and various glitches, making a smooth gameplay experience impossible.”

“The game can be quite buggy, so I've been trying to maintain separate saves on top of the autosaves to prevent game-breaking progress.”

“I achieved getting grass and flowers on the map, but I then lost interest. To be honest, this game holds no replay value for me, so I seriously doubt I will return.”

“Therefore, the game has zero replayability.”

“There is some replayability in playing random map seeds and organizing a new base, but it does lose its shine after a while.”