Vintage Story 2016

Is it still worth playing?

Anego Studios' voxel based open world sandbox survival game, in early access from 2016 for Windows, macOS and Linux. You play a humanoid seraph in first or third person in procedural worlds with biomes, rock strata and 27 day seasons. Health and temporal stability depend on hunting, foraging, crafting and shelter, and hostile eldritch entities spawn from rifts that drain stability. Crafting follows real processes rather than a grid. Progress runs through metal ages that recreate ancient techniques, such as pit kiln firing, smelting native copper and anvil forging, and tool molds are made by placing clay voxels on the ground. On top of that, world generation, difficulty and story content can all be customized. Crafting built on real material processes, in a world set up as you like, still gives it a pace of its own today.