I have been playing this game since the original launch, so disregard my hours played on Steam. One of the things that hooked me on Xsyon is its setting and theme. I am a fan of post apocalyptic sandbox games. What sets Xsyon apart is the cool way they mix post apoc themes with a hint of native Americanism. The game is based around Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe is rich in native american history.

If you love to terraform
If you love to scavenge huge piles of junk for usefull items
If you love farming and cooking to survive
If you love battling mutated animals or other players on the pvp server

You will love Xsyon

I too have played Xsyon since it's original release. I have enjoyed every moment of it. The player base is a very close community and everyone is willing to help new players.

I do not like to compare games to each other as each game has it's own identity. Xsyon is a true sandbox where the player community truly creates the world and the economy. Fishing, farming, cooking, foraging, hunting, scavenging, and building are all integral parts of Xsyon.

The develper is very engaged with the community and responds to all concerns and requests for additions to the game.

For new players I highly recommend the game but it comes with this warning: This is not a game that you can conquer instantly. There is no pay to win. This game will require dedication, determination and help from your tribe mates or the community at large.

I promise if you stick with the game and ask for help when needed you will be hooked. Come join us!

Well, this is a game still in development, early access so it says, and done by one man. That, in itself, is pretty impressive. The graphics are pretty good for a true sandbox with full terraforming and piecemeal building construction system as well as trees that are actually removed when chopped. All these are rendered obviously which requires a balance between graphics and game performance. It does a good job on that.

The building aspect of the game is very versatile and completely customizable. I have seen rustic cabins, tent villages, stilt village areas over water, tree houses and full on castle like structures as well as mad max looking scrap metal compounds. It allows a great flexibility in customizing your tribe to your liking.

Nice scavenging system where it almost feels like a lotto each scavenge trying to find those rare blueprints folks pay good money for to get the rare architect plans. Robust and fairly complex cooking and farming system recently introduced. Good asset protection with gate permissions, storage bin permissions and cart permissions. We recently saw the first unique use specification for buildings, a commissary, that greatly reduces food decay rates when stored in it. This hints at a lot of great options forthcoming.

The game has some very addictive qualities in certain areas if that is the type of thing you like. The PvE server, the one mostly populated, has a very welcoming and positive community. Helpful to new players and really isn't a lot of griefing or such on their. The PvP server is left alone in that regard allowing your weapons to deal with griefing although I will say that there is not much of a PvP community currently. This Steam release hopefully will breath life back into that.

Is it perfect? No. It functions well, the things it has are decently done, the developer is constantly working to correct bugs and issues brought forth by players and has a lot of very interesting things listed to be upcoming.

With a completely player driven in game economy, no cash shop or credits or other 'currency' to buy and use in game, it really is a player driven economy. No NPCs besides animals and revenants, which are essentially zombies of abandoned tribes that, if they kill you, will take your equipped weapons and armor to fill gaps in what they are currently wearing or wielding. You could come back and be killed by your own weapons. The combat isn't my thing, but a lot of the players have told me the key is to learn the system.

Cooking actually can end up consuming 12 ingredients to make the top end recipes and can buff various attributes, add to healing rates and other things. Pretty complex in that area. Also, you can starve to death of die of thirst, so planning ahead for such is important. Of course, you can drink from any river or the lake. Foraging for food can be done but provides minimal sustenance and making kabobs is a much better way to go.

All and all, a fun and creative game with what could well be a very bright future. I would gladly, and have, recommend this game to folks that are into sandbox games and enjoy building or, like me, hoarding. You can end up with a lot of stuff. Also, when tribes become abandoned and the totems decay away, their goods are open for looting.

With a focus on tribe (community) building and a fully player modified landscape and only player driven economy (with no cash shop) it is a refreshing game that can suck you in for hours on end without you noticing.

Skills are 'grindy' so to speak, leveled up by utilizing those skills. There is no level system. There are experience points that are earned and can be used to level up skills and are often used to level up the more grind intensive skills or just the ones you may not enjoy doing as much.

Currently, I would say the game shows it is in early release and thus I would give it a 75-80 out of 100. Hopefully the changes the developer intends to make can up that a bit.

I received some negative comments about my review and will review further.
First of all I only played for 40minutes so this is just my first impression I’m not reviewing quests, movement or fighting. I am only reviewing what I saw when I was walking around. My general first impression of the game was not good. The whole atmosphere was blinking whenever I moved I could see through walls and underground and sometimes buildings would disappear.
I even got a headache there was so much blinking. You probably shouldn’t play this game if you have epilepsy :P
I thought maybe it was something with the graphics settings in the game, but even after adjusting them it still looked the same. My computer has no graphics issues with other games.
It is early access I get that but the price tag IMO! is not a early access price.
Also (this is not the games fault) so many games today use early access as an excuse to not finish there game and just hurry and sell it because oh it looks good enough. I normally will judge a early access game as a pretty close to finished game.