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I am a 45 yo father, probably one of the oldest people playing this game. I am a single farther to my Son, who is 14 now. My son got this game for his Birthday from his uncle, so we installed it on his computer and he started playing. By the end of the week he had 24 hours on this game. This was horrible for me, as it was already hard for me to find ways to spend time with my son, as he is always out with his friends or just, watching YouTube. So i decided to make a Steam account and get this game to see if I could maybe play alongside him. loaded into the game, made my character and started playing but I was stuck on what you where supposed to do. I asked my Son for help and he hosted a game for me to join. loved it as it was the best time had spent with my Son since my wife had died. This game has ever since brought me and my son closer again and now we actually spend time together outside the house together as well. This game reminded me that there's fun to be had in everything, and it has brought both me and my Son many happy memories.

I am a 45 yo father, probably one of the oldest people playing this game. I am a single farther to my Son, who is 14 now. loaded into the game started playing but I was stuck on what you where supposed to do. I asked my Son for help and he loved it as it was the best time had spent with my Son since my wife had died. This game has ever since brought me and my son closer again and now we actually spend time together outside the house together as well. This game reminded me that there's fun to be had in everything, and it has brought both me and my Son many happy memories.

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Nice.

"Feel The Snow" gives off a "Don't Starve" vibe, in a good way that is.
From the Camera angle to the hunger management system and ui, it really sparks that type of feel, but somehow seems more inviting and friendly with the pixel artstyle.

The visuals are smooth sharp and nice, while the game overall seems really charming and soothing because of the lovely soundtrack and the warm feeling that the snow gives off, which covers most of the areas.

In this game you don't just walk on snow, you feel it

Grab this during winter and play with friends for extra cozy feels

Worth yer buck.

I will take this oportunity to discuss some of the problems I find with the community outrage, things like Review Bombing and Protest Reviewing, but also the current steam reviews in general, while giving my opinion on the game itself.
(on a rant-like fashion).

I'll do my best to make this as unbiased as I can, for I am trying to adress some problems.

You are free to disagree with me, and I welcome any responses concerning this subject!

Then here's the gist of it: The game overall can provide you with a decent and fun experience, especially now that it contains much more (free and paid) content than it's launch.
It doesn't go without its flaws, but that can be quicly flushed away by it's current low price.
Please try to avoid listening to some of the negative reviews that disregard the game for just a single flaw, since they many times turn out to not cover the full nature of the game, but rather try to stick with that flaw and blow it out of proportion.


Since the infamous Crimwave update came around, many players have been very vocal about how they didn't like the new "crate-n'-key"-like system being added, and that's all well and good.

But soon enough, after various youtubers made some rather one-sided videos on the subject (when it had started blowing up), the fire and hate that was building up started to be towarded against the devs of the game.
Then surely enough came the big backlash, players started giving negative feedback, devs even started getting death threats, and of course people started leaving negative reviews, changing the "Recent reviews" steam tab to "mixed", and downvoting the whole game from just the updade itself (which didn't break the balance of the game, or any previous aspects of it), rather than taking into consideration in their review the other parts of the game that had intrigued them in the first place.

The problem is, what you can find with this post-launch coverage from players is a great degree of bitterness, something of an element of "buyer's remorse" that can be difficult to distinguish from genuine criticism.

The think about launch coverage for a game is that it's more often than not done in something of a "vacuum."
Reviewers may certainly discuss with each other various aspects of the game, specifically if they're found to be stuck in a particular section, and yet for the most part their opinions exist without any sort of context.

That's because there is no playerbase for the game yet, there is no community for the game yet, there are no trends within that community, because said community doesn't exist.

And yet once the game launches, this sort of thing can become very influential in the opinion of everybody that creates a review post-launch.
Trends can happen within a community (a sort of hive mind, as it were, can form), and problems can be blown out of proportion.

This can cause people to criticize the game unnecessarily harshly.
On the flipside, a new feature may very well excite players for a brief degree of time, resulting in rave reviews, only for that feature to later turn out to be not quite as good. (great example of that being Crimefest, where it was initially received with great praise and then rapidly turning into a source of negative feedback)

While this word of mouth and community driven "post-launch" coverage setup seems to be the most practical way to ensure that you have accurate information about a product post-launch and post major changes, it can still run into some very real problems, because the people that are doing the reviewing (as it were) are not professional reviewers.

Now I'm not saying that you need to be qualified to review a video game, you absolutely do not, but if it's not something you have experience with and you're, let's say perhaps more driven by your own personal feelings, anecdotal experiences, as well as your emotional state at the time that you write it, the caverage can end up being far more biased and far less inclusive of a wider audience.

It's almost like a lot of people write reviews on steam for themselves and for themserves alone, and yet it's published to a wide audience and actually can be influential on whether or not somebody decides to pick up a title.

The thing that actually took place in the Payday review section.
That being the acts of Review Bombing and Protest Reviewing, which I fundamentally
disagree with and find disgusting.

That is of course because there is an undercurrent of dishonesty whenever people do it and many times the reviewers themselves end up discouraging people from the actual product, because rather than pointing out that there is something wrong in an otherwise preety decent game, they go out of their way and leave negative reviews for nip-picking reasons that otherwise could be adressed differently.

And whenever I see someone leave a negative review for something along those lines, I have to ask "why exactly are you doing this?" "because it seems like you are just going out of your way to lie in order to hurt the developer or publisher for some sort of perceieved slight (in this case being the Safe n' Drill update)"
That's not useful consumer critique, that's just being vindictive, and yet of course that's displayed as part of this Overall community coverage.

I may very well be putting far too much stock in what is essentially a review for a video game (especially further down the line when said video games are much much cheaper and far less of a financial risk to purchase), but ultimately this is a subject that I'm pationate about, since I've seen the result of it on people's way of thinking all around the community.

I don't really see an easy solution to the continued coverage of such titles that provides for a relatively unbiased form of critique, but I still want to adress the problems with it, since the fight against the "vicious and bloodthirsty" Payday Devs (and other community outbreaks) has been really one-sided for a long time.

Common thing that I see on the internet is, well, "why would I listen to a professional review or a critic, when I could listen to someone that has 600 hours in a game and has accumulated a lot of experience?"
And to that I can only answer:
"Well yes, I mean, they are very experienced and they probably know all the ins and outs of the title, but simutaneously if they've been playing for 600 hours and commited that much time, then one has to wonder how objective they can really be"
"Can they really put themselves in the shoes of other people? Can they really provide information that's aimed at a person that has never played the game before, or that is of real interest or use to them?"

And well, sometimes they can and sometimes it's... very much not possible, since they end up being incredibly biased, one way or the other.

If you're thinking about making a negative review, please try to think about your incentives for a moment and ask yourself if you're doing this out of spite for someone/some feature that pissed you off, or if you're planning on leaving a genuine criticism on the game itself.

This is coming from a player that has seen and has been irritated by certain moves that the Developers of the game have pulled, but never stepped low enough to contribute in this mess of a mob mentality that's been taking part in the past few months.

Give this game a try, has much to offer, despite its "grindy" nature

It's not minecraft or Call of Dogs. That means it might have a chance for an active-friendly community.