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3.15 average rating based on 52 ratings
This game has an interesting concept but sadly it fades really quick. As soon as you discover how to play it the right way and manage to get the essentials items, you find yourself without any challenge. Characters don't have any personality at all. you can't really care if some of your people die because they all act the same. They don't interact with each other, and don't bring any lore when they join, so there is no immersion at all.
Sheltered is truly terrible even for an indie survival game. It is incredibly tedious because everything constantly breaks down. Even beds. Like, have the devs ever had an actual bed in their lives? How did it break down after a few days just by being slept on? What is going on here?
So yeah, tons of bullshit little bars to babysit. Nonsensical item damage. Incredibly boring exploration. Bad controls. Shitty character creation with stat presets (just... why?). And in general there just doesn't seem much to it. I played this for an hour and only had one encounter. I offered to trade. They said no. That was it. No option to even attack them or anything.
Sheltered makes Dead In Bermuda look like Deus Ex.
1/10
I have a soft spot for resource management games, but this one was very tedious. Once you've seen the first 10 days or so, you've basically seen it all. It has no ending, which is a big negative for me.
While the building at first seems alright, after a point you realize each upgrade you make just makes meters fill or drain at different rates. There are really only three kinds of encounters - people who want to fight (rarely), people who want to trade their shitty wares, or people who want to join you. You're constantly bombarded with people who want to join your shelter, when it can only support so many people. The story is almost non-existent and the journal updates made throughout the game start repeating after only a few entries and never really give any story.
The whole game-play concept of it is similar This War of Mine, but worse in every way.
Mira que me gusta el género pero es que el juego está carente de mecánicas interesantes y las que tiene se hacen tediosas enseguida. Tiene una base decente, pero le falta emoción y alma por todas partes.
This is free in the Epic Games Store this week: