Enshrouded Review

These notes and journal entries are interesting enough, but aside from a short opening cutscene and a few quest-related dialogues, they provide pretty much the extent of any explicit storytelling Enshrouded does after you – the Flameborn – spawn in the Cinder Vault at the southernmost tip of its expansive world and then blaze off on your own path.

once you build a Flame Altar out of a few common resources and place it down, you can begin plopping down your own structures, furnishings, crops, crafting stations, NPCs, and so forth. This is necessary in order to make progress while exploring the map, since – aside from a few sparsely-located fast-travel towers – the only places you can quickly teleport back to are your custom bases.

nlike in other RPGs, no one’s pulling any emotional strings to propel you to the next objective. There’s no “critical path” in the traditional sense, meaning if you want to travel further out beyond the current biome – of which there are currently four as of its Early Access launch.

Surviving within the Shroud is challenging since you only get a limited duration to stay alive. A countdown timer begins at the start of every visit, only restoring itself when you resurface or find hourglass capsules. If you take too long inside, you eventually die. Granted, this is just a minor inconvenience if you’ve set up a base nearby. Upgrading your Flame means the Shroud is less capable of killing you, but you’ll need to grind quite a bit to get there.

Reaching the Flame level cap of six and unlocking Enshrouded’s endgame areas means doing lots and lots of crafting. This all ties back into those helpful NPCs I mentioned earlier, who will often send you on fetch quests to collect the next piece of crafting equipment, like the Carpenter’s tools or the Blacksmith’s smelter. an instant hit for anyone who’s ever wanted to build a castle in a fantasy world full of danger, and it makes all that building fun and easy with an intuitive set of tools. But even if you don’t care much about crafting or building, Enshrouded’s RPG systems are already solid enough to carry you through its open world.

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