Necesse

Item: Necesse
Rating: 91
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-10-18

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Summary

Blends multiple sandbox genres, highly addictive gameplay
Rich content and rewarding progression system
Robust NPC and settlement automation features
Boss design and difficulty can be problematic
Content can feel lacking and repetitive over time
Clunky controls and movement hinder experience

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Satisfaction35%Excitement13%Frustration7%Joy6%Enjoyment5%

Reviews (sample size): 2000
Helpful reviews: 68%
Unhelpful reviews: 31%
Protest reviews: 0%

91%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
9%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 4079
Negative points: 1224
Gameplay points: 1716
Perf. points: 53
Rec. points: 693
Misc points: 520

Point	Description	Importance
Blends multiple sandbox genres Description Players consistently praise the game for its successful fusion of elements from popular sandbox titles like Terraria, Rimworld, Stardew Valley, and Minecraft. This blend creates a familiar yet fresh experience, often cited as an improvement or evolution of these established genres. Importance 66%	Players consistently praise the game for its successful fusion of elements from popular sandbox titles like Terraria, Rimworld, Stardew Valley, and Minecraft. This blend creates a familiar yet fresh experience, often cited as an improvement or evolution of these established genres.	66%
Highly addictive and engaging gameplay Description The game is frequently described as incredibly fun, addictive, and a 'time destroyer,' with many players losing track of hours while playing. Its engaging gameplay loop, rewarding progression, and high replayability contribute to this strong positive sentiment, whether playing solo or with friends. Importance 58%	The game is frequently described as incredibly fun, addictive, and a 'time destroyer,' with many players losing track of hours while playing. Its engaging gameplay loop, rewarding progression, and high replayability contribute to this strong positive sentiment, whether playing solo or with friends.	58%
Rich content and rewarding progression Description The game offers a vast amount of content, including diverse biomes, dungeons, bosses, and extensive crafting and building mechanics. Players appreciate the rewarding progression system, which provides a continuous sense of accomplishment and keeps them engaged for dozens to hundreds of hours. Importance 57%	The game offers a vast amount of content, including diverse biomes, dungeons, bosses, and extensive crafting and building mechanics. Players appreciate the rewarding progression system, which provides a continuous sense of accomplishment and keeps them engaged for dozens to hundreds of hours.	57%
Robust NPC and settlement automation Description A standout feature is the deep and intuitive NPC management system, allowing players to recruit villagers, assign tasks like farming, mining, crafting, and even combat. This automation significantly reduces grind, freeing players to focus on exploration and other activities, and is often compared favorably to Rimworld's colony management. Importance 44%	A standout feature is the deep and intuitive NPC management system, allowing players to recruit villagers, assign tasks like farming, mining, crafting, and even combat. This automation significantly reduces grind, freeing players to focus on exploration and other activities, and is often compared favorably to Rimworld's colony management.	44%
Polished early access and 1.0 release Description The game is consistently lauded for its high level of polish and completeness, even during its early access phase. The 1.0 release and subsequent updates have further refined the experience, introducing significant improvements like a seamless map and enhanced graphics, making it feel like a full, well-developed title. Importance 19%	The game is consistently lauded for its high level of polish and completeness, even during its early access phase. The 1.0 release and subsequent updates have further refined the experience, introducing significant improvements like a seamless map and enhanced graphics, making it feel like a full, well-developed title.	19%
Active and responsive developer Description The development team is highly praised for their continuous updates, quick bug fixes, and active engagement with the community. Players feel the game is a 'labor of love,' with developers consistently adding new features, improving quality of life, and listening to player feedback. Importance 18%	The development team is highly praised for their continuous updates, quick bug fixes, and active engagement with the community. Players feel the game is a 'labor of love,' with developers consistently adding new features, improving quality of life, and listening to player feedback.	18%
Diverse and challenging boss battles Description The game features a good number of bosses with unique designs, attack patterns, and mechanics, providing challenging yet fair combat encounters. These boss fights are often highlighted as engaging, strategic, and a fun way to break up other activities, with many players enjoying the progression through them. Importance 15%	The game features a good number of bosses with unique designs, attack patterns, and mechanics, providing challenging yet fair combat encounters. These boss fights are often highlighted as engaging, strategic, and a fun way to break up other activities, with many players enjoying the progression through them.	15%
Enjoyable multiplayer experience Description The multiplayer aspect is a significant draw, with players frequently noting how much more fun the game becomes when played with friends or family. The seamless co-op, easy hosting, and stable netcode enhance the overall experience, especially for collaborative building, exploration, and boss raids. Importance 14%	The multiplayer aspect is a significant draw, with players frequently noting how much more fun the game becomes when played with friends or family. The seamless co-op, easy hosting, and stable netcode enhance the overall experience, especially for collaborative building, exploration, and boss raids.	14%
Flexible difficulty and combat styles Description The game offers highly customizable difficulty settings, catering to both casual and hardcore players, which can often be adjusted mid-game. Additionally, it supports a variety of viable combat styles (melee, ranged, magic, summoner) with diverse weapons and gear, allowing players to tailor their experience. Importance 13%	The game offers highly customizable difficulty settings, catering to both casual and hardcore players, which can often be adjusted mid-game. Additionally, it supports a variety of viable combat styles (melee, ranged, magic, summoner) with diverse weapons and gear, allowing players to tailor their experience.	13%
Strong modding community support Description The game actively supports and encourages modding through the Steam Workshop, with developers showcasing community creations. This robust modding ecosystem adds significant depth, replayability, and quality-of-life features, further extending the game's already substantial content. Importance 6%	The game actively supports and encourages modding through the Steam Workshop, with developers showcasing community creations. This robust modding ecosystem adds significant depth, replayability, and quality-of-life features, further extending the game's already substantial content.	6%

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