Vintage Story, a beautiful survival and building game on Linux

Sounds interesting, has a good few graphical features and general gameplay features not in Minecraft, an actual modding API and so on. Added to my list to keep track of.

Good first article! Had never heard of it :)

nice find, thanks for the write-up :)

Wait, so is it standalone or does it depend on Minecraft?

Sounds interesting, has a good few graphical features and general gameplay features not in Minecraft, an actual modding API and so on. Added to my list to keep track of.

Good first article! Had never heard of it :)

I definitely enjoy it! It's not as hardcore as TFC which is great. By the way, if you'd like to see how it pays, I have a [series](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFm-Anr-nmo&list=PLG-l13J5dfooMsLNjloZeadAdH7EgI0Uk&index=5) going.

Thank you for reading and for the compliment!

nice find, thanks for the write-up :)

I know, right? You're welcome.


Last edited by Draconicrose on 12 Oct 2018 at 3:56 pm UTC

Wait, so is it standalone or does it depend on Minecraft?

It's a standalone game, no Minecraft required. :)

This looks like a clone of Minecraft. How are they going to get sued by Mojang/Microsoft?

This looks like a clone of Minecraft. How are they going to get sued by Mojang/Microsoft?

It only looks like it, but the game is different enough. Every time models and such get updated it gets further away from Minecraft.

This looks like a clone of Minecraft. How are they going to get sued by Mojang/Microsoft?

Minecraft itself was based on another game. I always find it odd when I see comments like this. Block-based games have been around long before Minecraft.

it may look similar to Minecraft but the gameplay is quite different.

Thank you so much for the writeup, and for your Let's Play series, I quite enjoyed it.

It actually persuaded me to buy the game, despite having to fill out annoying Google Recaptchas – seriously? Why do they think I might "be a robot" if I actually complete payment, that should be proof aplenty by itself. Also, it will forever escape me why a physical street address would be required for a digital download...

That said, after playing for a few hours now, I don't regret buying the game; it's definitely a worthy spiritual successor to the original Terrafirmacraft, and its development process definitely looks more active than any of the Minecraft successor mods.

Thank you so much for the writeup, (snip)

Thank you for giving the game a shot! I'm glad you're enjoying it despite the annoyances you came a cross! I hope you enjoy it for a long time to come. :D

Thank you so much for the writeup, and for your Let's Play series, I quite enjoyed it.

It actually persuaded me to buy the game, despite having to fill out annoying Google Recaptchas – seriously? Why do they think I might "be a robot" if I actually complete payment, that should be proof aplenty by itself. Also, it will forever escape me why a physical street address would be required for a digital download...

That said, after playing for a few hours now, I don't regret buying the game; it's definitely a worthy spiritual successor to the original Terrafirmacraft, and its development process definitely looks more active than any of the Minecraft successor mods.

Hey, main dev here. Sorry for the retarded captcha stuff. I hate those with a passion myself. I think I've now
updated the site to use reCAPTCHA v3 which should be less teeth grinding. Otherwise I intend to purchase the software soon so I can get source code access to make the process more user friendly. Right now its a cloud hosted solution.

I'd love to not record your physical address but as far as I am aware of I am legally required to collect that data. Either way, you can also purchase the game on itch.io, through the [humble widget](https://www.vintagestory.at/humblepay.html), or through the humble store (though all of which seem to require your physical address)

Glad to hear that the game is worth your money anyway! We'll definitely keep working on it

Either way, you can also purchase the game on itch.io

Oh man, that sucks. I didn't know about it being on itch; I had [searched your site](https://www.vintagestory.at/search/?q=itch) and only found [one relevant topic](https://www.vintagestory.at/forums/topic/261-release-on-digital-distribution-platforms-eg-itchio-steam-humble/) with what I read as a tentative "maybe" at best.

Maybe you could post a link here on GOL and over in your forum as well?
Not that it makes a difference for me any longer; I went through Humble with a grumble, but I'd definitely have preferred itch.io had I known about it.

Anyway, all is well now and I'm really enjoying it.


Last edited by Valck on 29 Oct 2018 at 2:42 pm UTC

Either way, you can also purchase the game on itch.io

Oh man, that sucks. I didn't know about it being on itch; I had [searched your site](https://www.vintagestory.at/search/?q=itch) and only found [one relevant topic](https://www.vintagestory.at/forums/topic/261-release-on-digital-distribution-platforms-eg-itchio-steam-humble/) with what I read as a tentative "maybe" at best.

Maybe you could post a link here on GOL and over in your forum as well?
Not that it makes a difference for me any longer; I went through Humble with a grumble, but I'd definitely have preferred itch.io had I known about it.

Anyway, all is well now and I'm really enjoying it.

Ok, I added it to the footnote on the buy game page and that forum post. I still need to advertise the alternative buying options a little stronger though. Thanks for the suggestions :-)