Originally posted by Cooperal:

6. Black Forest. A very easy last place for me. It is a ridiculously long tutorial biome in a game that already has a perfectly serviceable tutorial biome. There is nothing I find fun about picking away at a dark hole in the ground while nothing can possibly throw a spanner into the works. Greydwarves and skeletons are ankle-biting pests.
Trolls are a cool spectacle and using them to bypass the need for an antler pickaxe is a feature that sounds fun on paper, but as a threat they are nearly as disappointing as everything else. They are ultimately just bigger pests.
It isn't just three times as much digging that needs to be done in this biome in order to get relevant metals for gear; you also need three times as much coal. You learn in this biome that in order to get said coal, you need to spend a load of time chopping wood and waiting for it to process in the furnace. This process that the game wastes so much time drilling into your gameplay loop becomes totally worthless for the entire remainder of the game once you get to the next biome and find a surtling geyser or two.

Seriously black forest nearly made me miss out on what came after. It has definitely deterred replays. It only kind of makes sense from a standpoint that this is the sort of game that you only play through once then never again. It has never been explained to me why survival games need to be stretched to MMO length. I thought retaining players in that way was all about raking up money from subscriptions and micro-sales.

Edit: Okay that last sentence makes it sound like I forgot that the game can be played in more ways than just solo, which for a second I did. Not going to remove it. Just owning up to a mistake. Still hate black forest.

Ooof, i dunno, Black Forest, at Night, with the illuminated weeds (forget their name), skeleton eyes...a brute around the corner that can off ya. Troll caves are a little weak, could have done more here. I think if you hit the meadows hard and get all your gear n food really up and then are cautious at the beginning...yeah Black Forest and be crazy easy. But overall, the look and feel and gameplay in Black Forest is my favorite. Going from that to swamp is when sh!t gets real.....