Enshrouded First Impressions "Is It Worth Playing?"

enshrouded is an open world survival RPG that can be played Solo or with up to 16 other players in which you play as a Flame born the last flicker of Hope of a world consumed by a deadly corrupting Mist called the Shroud in this game you'll hunt down the souls of other flamor who will become NPC Crafters to help you on your journey you'll take down bosses hunt down shroud routs and chop them down for skill points as well as craft epic bases using the game's voxal based building system and of course hunt down and craft ever more powerful gear of varying Rarities as you make your way through the game's diverse biomes enshrouded is a game that will likely be of interest to you if you enjoyed games such as V Rising valheim palor Frozen Flame windbound or outward in the past it's one of those games that blend survival and RPG together where you go out explore and have an adventure that isn't completely linear and on Rails in this video you'll get my blind first impressions of the game 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or you can join someone else's game let's just make our own game I don't really know what to expect from this game but I hope it's similar to valheim and there it is so my character is a Flame born he's being born out of this oven I guess so females are not necessary in the worlds of enshrouded you can just produce people from ovens W ASD to move you can jump can you dodge you can control is also dodg can you crouch you can controls feel pretty smooth and responsive so far the graphics are looking good the lighting's good movement animations are smooth let's go in the top left I've got some kind of status symbol which says sheltered warmth or comfortable interesting Cinder Vault what's this you've slumbered for too long Flame born the realm of Ember veil has fallen consumed by the Shroud now the enduring flame calls for you so I guess it's my job to light up the world from the Shroud by building bases maybe defeating enemies that that's my assumption we leave our Crypt or Temple whatever you want to call it bit scuffed right off the bat clipping through the staircase Why is the this hot bar blur out looks a bit odd as well well as this is a Survival Game I suppose the first thing to do is to punch a tree nothing is happening perhaps this isn't your typical Survival game what is this is this a torch so we can use this to attack I love games that start this way tiny bit of story just to add a little bit of context to the world and then off you go go explore do what you want and then shrouded apparently there's a fo over here should we give him a whack with a torch sick searches loot so whilst in shrouded what does that mean oh you can only go through the Mist for a certain period of time I I see and now I've left the Mist the Tim has gone away the game looks really beautiful really nice aesthetic to it and from what I can tell it seems like there's a lot of pois in the world to explore it's not a vast empty landscape hopefully there's going to be loads of Dungeons and stuff for me to explore in this game oh we're level two for some reason why are we level two L some dicks smash the tables Norse themed music kicks in I'm just running around exploring hey [ __ ] hell dude I didn't see the rats that [ __ ] scared the [ __ ] out of me I think it was the sound of the rats that scared me just [ __ ] coming out of nowhere and just shrieking in my face holy man there's so much to explore it seems look all of these pois the game's just started and I'm instantly getting distracted by exploration that's a good sign and another shrouded area here if you press f that brings up the map how big is the map it seems substantial when I travel on paths I get a little buff in my top left which says on the road I wonder how that affects things what's this that's a rat creature oh he's too fast okay you live for today location reached so the first thing we're going to do is craft a base I guess crafting V flame alter right about here should do the job so we're going to commune with the flame so I can level up this flame alter and expands my bases building area for that I need a shroud core though you can also strengthen the flame which gives other benefits like time spent in the Shroud by offering a bunch of resources that's cool yeah let's craft an axe and then we should craft a pickaxe chop the tree oh the tree chopping is quite fast grab the logs now one thing that could make this game instantly unfun is if the weight limited inventory is like a pain in the ass I hope it's not going to be I really enjoy survival games where Gathering isn't tedious due to weight limit digging this music definitely getting valheim Vibes early on although maybe it's not that kind of game I'm not sure oh you can make magic weapons a staff and a wand yeah we can be a mage if we want to suppose we should place our campfire here cook in some raw lean meat delicious we've burnt it [ __ ] off okay so you need to release when it's cooked eat I suppose suppose oh that just instantly Regens Health but my health bar has grown in size now so I have no ammo to cast a spell I guess I need runes or something let's craft some string oh that's fast I like the crafting it's pretty much instant doesn't waste your time construction Hammer workbench put the workbench here I suppose craft and repair ah so this is where I can make my base so what does the construction hammer do enter building mode rough wood block time 100 the game's not going to make me [ __ ] grind forever this could be a game that actually respects your time so it's just become night time and the atmosphere is uh quite spooky it's so dark yo wait did I just dig a hole in the floor oh you can terraform in this game that's awesome wow look how ominous that area looks at night time you can place stone blocks very specifically like this I can already tell that the building in this game is really good there's a bloody monster roaming around at night time let's use my club we are under assault it's quite satisfying when you kill things they drop torn cloth M the building in this game is going to be awesome there's like so many options when it comes to the building roofs what suppos we'll put a door here wall here let's finish off my basic house oh wow it becomes daytime so quickly like the transition from night today is a bit jarring it's like instant I feel like that transition could be a bit smoother let's go to the old thatched roof we have built our basic house I like that you can fine-tune the building like this that's so cool God I don't know why I'm getting so autistic about this but needs to be done if we don't build a path I literally can't play the [ __ ] game we need to make a nice path there's nothing else more important than that right now every man has the right to a beautiful path that connects his house to the edge of his land and I literally cannot play the game until this path is built some people may not understand the importance of a nice path that is until you sprain your ankle on uneven terrain and then you would have wished that you took the time to care a little bit more about Landscaping beautiful and now I can safely walk into my house on beautiful flat terrain without stubbing my toe without spraining my ankle safety although I don't like this this is actually annoying me that's better that's what we needed now that's a [ __ ] path we're an hour in now I can finally play the game so we're going to go through the Shroud can we climb this oh we can wait can we climb any wall no right so we've made it across to the other side is this an enemy B damage you can just kind of stagger enemies to death bushes can seal you the game has stealth mechanics as well which [ __ ] hell it doesn't against wasps almost dead I'm literally on one hit cuz of the Wasps you cannot take much damage in this game one or two hits and you're dead it's like Dark Souls attack and Dodge no hit hit run okay there's one just kite got them both so far the main thing that sticks out for me with this game is the early sense of exploration it's really fun to just go out and explore all these areas awaken Survivor Soul discovered got the soul of another Survivor okay so we can craft a summoning staff and that's going to summon the survivors to my base ready summoning staff I wall the blacksmith so we can place the blacksmith in our base that's cool put him by the fire keep him nice and warm place him here hey hello Oswald now we can craft our first gear very nice and a sweet F armor set this is what we need uh equip that's better right why are you shouting at me skills oh I've got two skill points to spend to be fair so there's multiple paths to take Survivor Beast Master Ranger assassin trickster wizard healer battle mage tank Warrior Barbarian athlete interesting I guess once you why did I do that that was stupid certain backpack items are dropped when you perish oh [ __ ] okay don't go up to explosive barrels and blow them up when you're standing on top of them I guess who would have known okay let's take all of our stuff back good job Craig when you need to rest you can fast travel back to your home by pressing I and selecting your home I didn't know you could fast travel good to know let's craft a grappling hook and next we need to craft a glider wood and animal fur wait you can just fast travel to any of these points oh the vaults you can fast travel to I see all right let's go sh these way points ah nice we can use our grapple hook that feels good to use oh you can like properly swing on it with physics go here and then swing over the other side cool oh with angered [ __ ] wasps again I swear wasps are like the biggest threat in the game I'm almost dead heal I can't even Target them Big D damage trying to kill wasps with a [ __ ] club don't [ __ ] with the Wasps I think maybe I need to mine through here that's so cool so the wall was blocked and I have to like break it open with my mining pck wa this game's awesome this chest looks a little bit more Grand Apprentice wand ooh more treasure explosive powder ball so this explosive ball I can throw it like a grenade let's give it a try pull some enemies oh okay there it is throw another one just lob it there we go sit down good fight you tried another chest anything good Hunter's bow we needed that sweet so now we have access to ranged attacks let's finish exploring in here and then I have charted this area I guess let's test out the Bow's hunting capabilities oh that's good can finally just hunt rabbits easily and take their meat okay my backpack's full let's fast travel back home another skill point I'm not spending my skill points just yet cuz I'm not sure which path I want to take any treasure over here Fireball one oh this is ammo for my staff awesome so to use the staff you need to equip spells like ammo interesting there's like a hidden thing under here let's fall down I'm sure there was an easier way down then to fall down and almost break my bloody legs where was the actual path down oh right here I'm going to die to fall damage so many times in this game I can already tell how's my backpack full I was saying in the beginning that this was looking like one of those games where looting and backpack space isn't going to be an issue I take it back so much [ __ ] to loot I hate it when games do this make looting a pain in the ass make inventory space a pain in the ass why it makes games worse it's just annoying oh wait what I was walking in muds and when you leave the mud you've got D all over your feet nice bit of attention to detail okay so in this Vault we should find an alchemist okay so here lies The Alchemist no not protected by a boss or anything these two little noobs GG awaken Survivor Bazar The Alchemist enter The Elixir world to find the roote of evil and eradicate it oh yeah this looks like the uh the roote of the evil oh that's a boss our first boss fight just kill him from range guess this is like an intro boss fight we ain't going to die to the tutorial boss good fight shroud core fell brute head runes and a misfortune mace that's really strong the Shroud rout is the source of the misery destroy it with a felling axe there's a normal axe that seems to work and has that cleared the Shroud yeah we're no longer enshrouded so all of these enshrouded points can may be cleansed by killing bosses summon bazard The Alchemist hey hey how's it going ah so here we can actually Craft Spells good to know we should make a glider got the glider now we're not going to fall to our death building scaffold oh it's actually intended for it to be difficult to build High just from the ground interesting that's kind of immersive eat some food drink some water eat a mushroom pop a potion let's get out there and explore okay ends it here anything good o a legendary melee weapon right should we spend some of these skill points honestly looking at this skill tree it's incredibly confusing like I don't understand why like some of these first talents give you an ability where others don't it's completely all over the place it's just a really ugly skill tree to look at the UI could use some work honestly cuz I definitely want some melee abilities but I also want to be good with the wand battle mage blink replaces Dodge roll with a short range teleport that sounds good my house is so simple but it looks so cozy so now I've got a bunch of runes let's try upgrading a weapon enhance equipment The Wailing blade okay 16 damage 17 damage 19 20 22 back out into the world whilst we're onun this Tower let's look off into the distance you can see for so far over there you've got a desert region a snowy region let's just do a real long Glide the Glide is super cool let's Glide straight to the next flame Shrine speed and efficiency oh what's this a new creature is that a bear oh it's like a very human cool finally something new to fight all right let's take him on big damage it feels good to take on some different creatures cuz I've just been fighting the same things for ages different things to loot as well okay I have reached my destination so here I should find a hunter for the next 8 hours or the gameplay Loop was the following I'd head to an ancient Vault work through some puzzles grab Loot and rescue a trapped NPC this unlocked new furniture crafting tables armor or consumables helping me to get to the next tier of gear or broadening my gameplay options with building and farming I would then go to the in shrouded areas fight my way to the Shroud route chop it down to clear the area and unlock skill points normal shroud routs would give one skill point and elixir well shroud routs would give three skill points so definitely not something you want to ignore as doing so would leave you behind the power curve one thing that started to confuse and frustrate me at this point was how loot Works in this game shroud's loot system feels really weird and very different to other survival RPGs but not in a good way as you progress you're basically fighting higher level versions of the mobs that you fight at level one but the loot they drop doesn't seem to be any different to the level one version of the mob additionally I found out early on on that you can loot a treasure chest go to the menu loot the same chest and receive different loot sometimes legendaries sometimes better armor than what you can craft yourself and of course salvaging this gear gives you an infinite supply of runes which makes this material kind of redundant additionally I was often disappointed with the loot from searching random pois and in the end it felt like unless there was a quest sending me to a specific area then it' be pointless to just go to a POI kill all of the enemies and fully explore the village as the loot would most likely be animal hides bones metal scraps maybe a bandage maybe some arrows not a whole lot to get excited about in most RPGs you're getting better loot at level 10 than what you're getting at level three but in enshrouded it doesn't really feel that way so much all of the exciting loot is found in Gold chests which you can just cheese by building a flame Shrine near them exiting to the menu re-entering the game and Rel looting the chest for another spin of the Wheel by the end of the day I hit level seven and unlocked the hunter the farmer and the carpenter I was having a decent amount of fun with the game at this point and was excited to continue progression the next day scavenger gorer matron I'm getting like a health bar for a boss popup there it is wow we're finally got a boss fight holy [ __ ] I'm almost dead got one tapped those explo exposive barrels they [ __ ] you up let's grab my stuff first big damage kill it from range super effective it's almost dead already run around it a little bit how did I die to this thing it's so easy absolute potato corpse explodes and I think this is the thing that I needed to kill to get the trophy to upgrade my flame once again the bosses I fought so far almost don't feel like real bosses they feel like stronger Elite monsters maybe like stronger nor normal mobs that thing went down incredibly easy okay it looks like I'm traveling into a different biome now more of a forest area but how do we open this blow a hole in the wall yeah that works that's cool I love that you can do that that wasn't actually the way you were supposed to do it I think there's like a a switch here no we'll just throw a grenade at the wall that works as well there's more than one way to skin a cat as they say medium magic chest items stored here be used for crafting purposes anywhere in the base oh my God that's so useful in a lot of games it's just a feature it's just like a convenience thing but in this game you need to unlock the convenience through progression okay it's once again time to strengthen the flame got everything we need got the scavenger matron head and that's flame level three that's once again lengthened my time in the Shroud and now we need to go hunt down the fell whisper Wy head level eight now this is a settlement I'm expecting some good loot in here grenade grenade grenade AOE farming this is a dangerous place [ __ ] hell yeah these mobs are way harder L pulled the entire [ __ ] Village there that's a mob that I've never fought before no special loot though just the same as what level one mobs drop we need to expand this house a bit it's just too small [Music] now [Music] the house has been expanded I love the building in this game it's so good build this around the edge of the house as well little half Foundation that's much better very cozy finally crafted myself a decent bed let's place it down the bed of a king how's things going here so now I've got lots of corns seedling so how do we do this we just plant it here oh it's as simple as that that's how you plant crops oh I like that the house is looking good it's looking very picturesque almost like a cottage I bet you can make absolutely gorgeous houses in this game if you put in the time the game certainly gives you the tools to do so I've actually got a lot of quests down here that I've kind of skipped out on so let's finish up down here before we get too far ahead of ourselves ooh a boss hang on I wasn't expecting a boss let me mentally prepare by killing the ad okay let's take on this next boss yay he came in hot oh he's got a lot of Health it's the first real boss fight I guess only thing I'm worried about is do I have enough weapon durability thr a bomb at him it's one of the easiest bosses of my life I have to say finish him and he's dead we've defeated another boss level 10 moving deeper into the forest feels like I've certainly moved moved into the next phase of progression okay let's unlock merciless attack and also power Parry I feel like for some of these mobs I need to be parrying them and I've heard that the parrying in this game is really good I haven't made use of that whatsoever yet yeah it's really good it just blocks a 100% of the damage oh merciless attack go oh we got the execute it's the first time I've done that pretty cool how how deep can I dig can I just go right through a mountain if I want to doesn't seem to be anything stopping me the mining in this game is so cool that's so cool I've mined such a big hole in this mountain I love games that have mining like this okay I finally got my 50 bricks and now I can build a smelter and now we can finally craft oursel the adventurer set we can also make a copper axe now so I've basically like fully gone into the next tier also unlocked some new weapons chest legs glove gloves boots and head how do we look like an adventurer but my best sword is still the sword that I got at the very start of the game as I've got more and more into the game the sense of progression has really started to improve and I'm actually having a lot of fun so now we are tasked with reaching the capital apparently quite a track glider there it is level 12 more skill points and now that I'm level 12 I can get a really good skill Swift blades just makes me attack way faster let's see how much faster oh yeah substantially I hope the devs add great swords to this game because I haven't seen any like big two-ended great swords that you can wield there doesn't seem to be any talents for it either gad's buried treasure so apparently there's treasure buried here really oh I love these buried treasure quests they're actually super cool melee weapon 32 damage that has to be an upgrade so I feel like now would be a pretty good time to wrap up this video because I'm absolutely addicted to the game and this is only meant to be a first impressions we made some pretty good progress and covered a massive chunk of the map although as you can see there's still so much I don't know if all of this area is accessible as the game is only in Early Access but yeah let's wrap up the video here with the pros and cons pros visually I love the aesthetic of enshrouded and I especially like the game's use of lighting and Mist to create a cozy and mysterious atmosphere right out of the gate the game gives you an exciting feeling of freedom and exploration it's not one of those games where you need to sit through an hour of cutcenes and handholding before you can actually play the game the voxal based building system is s here probably the best building I've ever seen in a survival game and I can't wait to spend time actually making a nice base off camera it feels like a lot of the gatherable remain relevant throughout long phases of the game so it's often good to just gather everything the game's talent tree seems pretty solid so far the game allows you to play a hybrid play style fairly easily mixing melee with bow wand and staff the sense of progression whilst confusing at first did improve massively and become very addicting around the 8 hour mark of play time I love how mining Works in this game and how you can mine huge holes inside of terrain the combat feels responsive and fast-paced by Survival game standards I'd say the combat and enshrouded actually feels better than valheim I think the Shroud mechanic is fairly cool and I like how it's tied to progression via the flame alter upgrades and I also think the glider in this game feels very fun to use more so than gliding in other games cons for vast amounts of the game it just feels like you're fighting the same enemies with the same loot over and over again with the loot not being much better from the high level enemies compared to the lowlevel versions loot over overall is confusing I found a legendary sword within the first hour of the game and I've basically kept it ever since the same can also be set for Rings sometimes you'll open chests in high level areas that will drop worse loot than the stuff you'll find at level one to three early on you'll be frustrated by tedious Inventory management which is later made easier from crafting more bag space and magical chests early on though I was so annoyed that I was basically having to fast travel home to bank my full inventory every 5 minutes it didn't feel fun and to be honest I think the base inventory size should be bigger especially considering the amount of loot that you need to pick up in this game stack sizes are unnecessarily small once again making storage management tedious as much as it's cool to explore the settlements in the game the predictable and mediocre loot makes it feel like a waste of time to fully explore them which is a shame because typically I love games where you can go into buildings and find treasure treasure in the rooms but in this game I just ended up focusing the quests when I realized that the loot from random exploration isn't rewarding the game lacks decent boss fights on a regular basis from what I can tell there's only one truly epic boss in the game from what I found online the user interface feels quite clunky to navigate and interact with and it feels like there's a lot of copypaste in the world the Shroud Wells for example are all basically the same overall I think enshrouded in its current state is probably a solid seven or 8 out of 10 survival RPG that has the potential to be a 9 out of 10 with further improvements and development this game has only just came to steam Early Access and it took roughly 10 hours for me to start getting obsessed with it I think the game feels a bit confusing in the beginning when it comes to progression but once you've made sense of the game's structure you'll likely be addicted until you see it through to the end would I recommend enshrouded yes if you enjoy games that blend survival and RPG together then you'll likely enjoy this game however I do believe that the game will massively improve with updates over time so if you're broke then it might be better to just add it to your wish list and wait for further improvements to get the most out of the game but that's it for this video as always let me know your thoughts on enshrouded in the comments below I'll likely keep playing this game in my spare time anyway so let me know if you'd like to see a follow-up full review of it once I've finished the game social media on screen help us out with a like to the algorithm gods and also to give me power to make more videos thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one

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Length: 29min 34sec (1774 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 07 2024