Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Mar 21, 2021

  This is sort of a difficult review because I started playing it with different expectations. If you want a nuclear fallout shelter game, this game is not for you. If you want a buy low sell high game where you explore a lot of stuff, gather, craft, expand your stuff, farm and just get materials to build a huge secret project while the government comes to search your house every week, this game is for you. It is great for what it wants to do. Grindy, but great. Also can be confusing at times. My problem was that I came expecting a game where you prepare for nuclear wasteland, it eventually happens and you have to keep surviving like that with what you already gathered. Nope, you're just gathering to make money in current non-apocalypse setting in order to get the resources needed for your project. I hope the devs release an update or a DLC with the kind of gameplay I was expecting.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 12, 2021

  this game HAD potential,but the fact that its basically prepare for nothing is really what killed it for me,because you take so much time to prepare for this nuclear explosion and when it happens the game just kinda ends,so basically you prepare for all this but don't get to see your facilities in action after the nuke like whats the point
• gamedeal user

  Oct 5, 2021

  Not sure why the developer is announcing the most recent update as "new". They simply deleted the exact same post they made in June with these same updates they're now claiming are new in October. Seems like it's just because there's a promotion and want people to think it's still being developed for. Not Sure why else this would occur with a 64 byte DL. Seems pretty shady.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 28, 2022

  The only bit of this that is fantasy is owning my own home.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 20, 2021

  3/5 stars, my only complaint is that the game makes it seem like there are multiple ways to escape, but it is really linear and replays the exact same way each time.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 27, 2022

  I tied this game a few times. It's really just not got what I want out of a game. It lacks a ton of depth. This is more like a game you'd play on your phone for a few bucks.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 28, 2021

  An excellent premise marred by a potent combination of perpetual grind and grotesque inconvenience. Your first hour or two of play time might be the game at its worst (though the sheer grind of the final month gives it a solid run for its money). A lack of user-friendly features transform the standard mix of survival mechanics (food, stamina, resource scarcity) from a stimulating collection of challenges into an unwieldy, soul-crushing vocation. I'm not exaggerating, my first two play sessions (each lasting a mere 20 min) felt like clocking in to a corporate hellscape. But, let's get specific. Take, for example, the inventory system. I truly appreciate the dev's decision to grant the player unlimited inventory space. I believe this was intended to spare the player the constant pocket-sifting common to other survival sims and MMO's. However, the sharp backhand of the game's oppressive weight cap now stings all the more. It nauseates and infuriates to recall the time spent shifting items from my character's pockets to this container or that. What does this look like in practice? To cook anything beyond a grilled rat steak the game requires me to, first, fetch perishables from the freezer in my underground bunker. Then I must scurry across the bunker to collect what must be 5 tons of water from a tank, but careful, I better know exactly how much I need because carrying extra of anything is never an option. Next, I must scale a few ladders and make the trek back upstairs to the kitchen, where I take the not-so-perishables from the fridge. Only then can I finally gather any additional spices/flour from the cupboard. Grouping ingredients into one convenient location is not to be tolerated. Either by dev whim (eg. the fridge cant hold water) or game mechanic (if the inspector see's too much of any type of ingredient, youre at risk of arrest). However, even this tedious trip is not so simple. See, you'll have an unequal supply of each ingredient you needed to cook. And, as we've already established, inventory weight is extremely tight. So holding extra copies of any one ingredient, especially water, will limit room for others. This creates a world where cooking any more than one type of dish at a time requires you to right know the quantity and type of ingredients for each recipe you intend to cook so that, while gathering from your disparate and numerous storage containers, you can right click each type of ingredient and manually adjust a slider to indicate the amount you need before placing each in your inventory. Maybe then, if you've planned accordingly and prayed hard enough, you can cook your two or three unique dishes without repeating this Tolkein-eqsue journey for each dish. The problem persists throughout the late game, despite multiple sources of increased weight capacity. Each explorable location also requires a specific collection of items to gain access others. I'll spare you the rant, it's just another logistical headache. Salvaging items into their weightless components might be a conceptual remedy to the sickness, but this can only be done at a workbench and requires you to destroy the initial item which you might otherwise need. Early game you won't have soda to chug, so you'll be napping at least once a day from all the reorganizing you've been doing. Admittedly the game does hit it's stride four or five hours in, when each location harbors unknowns waiting to be explored, technology waiting to be discovered, and recipes to unlock. In this early-mid game era, the game did capture me. And it was fun to plan out my next few days and see what I discovered. However, this honeymoon phase passes rather quickly when each main and side objective, one after the other, is really just a shopping list of resource accumulation. The combat also does little to impress and break up the tedium of resource harvesting and sorting. The inspection mechanic is interesting and helps pull the player into the game, however, collecting illegal items you have lying around (such as water collection buckets), and thinning out your illicitely-stock cupboards each and every time the inspector comes saddles the player with just another laborious task. In the final month, I really had to push myself to finish the game. Like going into work on a Monday, each challenge required a deep breath and terse consolidation of inner strength to pursue. My non-recommendation is a soft one. Few players will finish the game, but many will enjoy it for a few hours before succumbing to the oppressive grind. And those that perish underneath its weight, will not leave satisfied that they've gotten what they wanted out of the game. With more avenues in place to play as you wish, I can see Mr. Prepper being a solid survival experience, with a classic and intriguing story telling approach. It has all the elements in place, but nothing to shield the player from the monotonous bureaucracy similar games (This War of Mine) do well to pave over or eliminate.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 30, 2022

  Be sure to watch someone else play the first few days online and play the free demo before buying. It may not be what you expect. Interesting base concept, which lured me in, but then there's some half-baked adventure point-and-click game. And the resource management (on Easy) was too restrictive for my taste, I don't do well under pressure.
• gamedeal user

  May 3, 2023

  Every advertising pic and video of this game is about "building an underground bunker"... Que Darth Vader: "I lied!" 1) So the building part of this game is like 10 min out of 12 hours I have played. Rest is waiting-walking-talking simulator bullshit 2) Worst part is it's literally "A > B > C" kind of follow these exact steps or you will fail kinda game. Just watch youtube "walkthrough" tutorial and you'll see. "10am on first day stand on spot A, then walk to person Y and talk. Then go talk person Z and wait a day. Then walk to location ABC and talk to person XXX..." and if you miss one step, do it a minute late etc. you can not complete the game, i.e you won't have enough fuel for your car to drive in the lame desert driving minigame. 3) I bought it on sale for 5€. Wouldn't play for free. And I am guy who has played CLOCK SIMULATOR for hours. A clock simulator. Cost me 2€ and it's literally only click once per second as accurately as you can kind of a simulator. And sadly it has more content, is more enjoyable and has more freedom of choice than this cash crab fake bunker building game... 4) Bugs. Oh yes. There's bugs. And I got over 2k hours on Skyrim legendary edition, 1k hours on Special edition, 1k on Cyberpunk and 1.5k on Fallout 76, so I have high tolerance over bugs. I face game breaking bugs daily but in this game ever minor clitch feels like the last nail in their coffin. "Oh the item X is not here even tho internet says it is here...? Oh they also say there's possibly a bug that it won't spawn and all you can do is restart 12h worth of game?!" (yes that's why I'm here all pissed up writing this...) 5) DLC. Looks good in trailers and promotional material. Ain't good in game. same as with the main game. Just waiting for the "Build the bunker" DLC where we can actually concentrate on building a bunker, not running in empty forest fighting wolves.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 10, 2022

  Not what I thought it was going to be. The management aspect is very limited and the game is heavily scripted - it sometimes actually feels more like a point and click game than a "planning ahead" type of game. Some people might get their kick out of this one - it wasn't my case.