Forager

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Summary

Forager is the popular crafting, exploration and base building game that can best be defined as “the idle game that you want to actively keep playing”.

A quirky mix between old school 2D Zelda experiences and modern Minecraft or Terraria-like crafting games that places players into a small piece of land with just a pickaxe and a desire for expansion and exploration.

Players can buy procedurally generated lands to uncover secrets, solve puzzles, find dungeons, treasure and forgotten relics and to expand their sprawling bases. Nearly impossible to put down, there is always something to manage or work towards!


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Forager Reviews & Ratings

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Review by BenPatten02 [user]
April 5, 2021

A fun, albeit repetitive, console excuse for a cookie clicker game that builds on its concepts after hours and hours of mining, until youA fun, albeit repetitive, console excuse for a cookie clicker game that builds on its concepts after hours and hours of mining, until you needn’t play the game anymore, your only job to keep it on overnight. It could really do with a few more modes: the speed run is fun and the hard mode is cute and all, but something to properly diversify the gameplay as it all comes off samey and hamfisted.

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Review by Dronewolf [user]
October 8, 2020

The other reviews for this game must be paid for reviews. It doesn't deserve any higher than about 6.It boasts to be "Open world", whenThe other reviews for this game must be paid for reviews. It doesn't deserve any higher than about 6.It boasts to be "Open world", when really it isn't. You have to buy land with coins, gradually unlocking the entire world. If it was open world, there wouldn't be a need to do that. I clocked about 20 hours on the game and pretty much did everything. Did I enjoy it? A bit.There are more cons than pros however. It's an addictive little game, which is a good and bad thing. You can be sat playing and a few hours pass by, now onto why it's a bad thing. It's £16.74 on the Xbox store if you don't have Game Pass and for what you get, it's a huge rip off. Everything goes by real time, be it structure cool downs, crafting, fishing, stores upgrading their stock, everything. The higher ranking the crafted item is, the longer it takes to craft and it can take literal hours to craft depending on what you are crafting. You get spells and items and perks to speed this up, but most of the time, it doesn't feel like it works. If you actually inspect the in-game cooldown times, you will also notice that three real seconds pass before one second passes in game. So a 10 second cooldown actually takes like 30. I wouldn't mind the ridiculous crafting and cooldown times if it was a free to play game where you have to pay to speed up the crafting process, but it's not. It's a cheap way to try and get longevity out of the game.And for an 8-bit game, the more map you open up and the more resources that spawn, you are met with a LOT of slowdown and lag that it gets irritating. It feels like a stripped down, 2D Minecraft with all the freedom taken away. £16.74 is way too much to charge for this game. I'd say it's worth about £6.99 max. I said it's a good and bad thing that it's addictive. Good, because at first it can be and is fun, but the longer you play and the more time you need to craft things, it quickly becomes a chore and turns boring and then you start wishing you hadn't wasted like 10 hours on the game when you could have been playing something much better.All in all Forager is basically a glorified mobile game that found it's way onto consoles and is way to overpriced for what happens in it. As I said before if it was a free game I'd understand the long crafting times and would have rated the game a little higher.I'm not saying avoid this game, by all means give it a go if it's your thing, but there's just no rewarding feeling about it at all. It may as well be called Waiting: The Game.

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Review by Xbox_Alive [user]
August 2, 2020

Forager is an open-world adventure game developed by Argentine studio HopFrog and published by Humble Bundle. It has pixel graphics andForager is an open-world adventure game developed by Argentine studio HopFrog and published by Humble Bundle. It has pixel graphics and classic indie sounds. You basically keep mining and growing starting with just a pic axe in your hand. You can get hungry and get hurt by some slimy creatures be careful because when you die it's game over. You'll have access to various of items, weapons, skill upgrades and more but again these are one run only. Overall, Forager is a gem of a game where progression is the primary objective – and what that progression looks like is entirely up to you. Maybe that’s the point, in a way, to make our own choices and experience Forager uniquely from each other. It’s refreshing to play a game that expects nothing of the player except their participation, and I look forward to spending much more time in its world doing just that. It’s a great addition to the Xbox One library and a game I definitely recommend adding to your library as it’s definitely a fun experience each time you play.

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Review by TheXboxHub
July 22, 2020

Forager on Xbox One is a great investment. The amount of content in the game is phenomenal and it can only get better. If foraging, building, and adventuring are up your alley then I heartily recommend Forager.

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Review by fbnaulin [user]
July 22, 2020

Fun and addictive at the beginning, but very repetitive and grindy near the end game (at the 18-20 hours point). I get ideas from StardewFun and addictive at the beginning, but very repetitive and grindy near the end game (at the 18-20 hours point). I get ideas from Stardew Valley and The Legend of Zelda, but it is not at the height of neither.

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Game Information
Release Date April 18, 2019
Publisher Humble Bundle, Hop Frog, HopFrog, Humble Games
Content Rated E10+ (Everyone 10+)
Game Modes Single player
Player Perspectives Bird view / Isometric
Genres Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Themes Action, Fantasy, Open world
Platforms Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Android, iOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch