Is TERAVIT Worth Your Time? A Nintendo Switch Review

Recently, my back has been in pain, so I have found myself relying on playing my Nintendo Switch Lite more, and due to my situation, I figured I would take the time to go through Nintendo Switch’s Free to Play game section. When I last checked, there were 111 games that the Nintendo Switch offered for free. So as I was scrolling through the game, TERAVIT happened to catch my eye, so I immediately downloaded it to try it. Before playing the game on the Switch and deciding to write this review, I decided to check to see if the game was available anywhere else, and it is also found on Steam with an astonishingly Mostly Negative review from players.

Surely, the game cannot be as bad as the players on Steam are making it out to be because, if it were really that bad, then why would the team come out with the game on the Nintendo Switch? I read through a few reviews on the Steam version of the game, but as I missed out on games in the past for taking someone else’s world for it, I decided to download the game still and give it a go on my Nintendo Switch Lite, and here is what I thought about the game.

According to the description, TERAVIT is a sandbox game that gives users the freedom to build their worlds and share them with other players, opening up countless play options.
There are many different player-created game worlds in TERAVIT, each full of exciting adventures, role-playing games, obstacle courses, racing games for fast competition, PvP for action-packed fun, monster hunting, and more. You will never tire of playing and having fun because there is so much to do.

So, this makes the game sound like something right up my alley, as I do like to create and craft levels for games. So, I begin my adventure, and the customization in the game is okay. You can choose a masculine or feminine face. They do have all skin tones, and they have quite a bit of eye colors to choose from. Sadly, there are only four hairstyles and outfits to choose from. The game then proceeds to tell you that you can go through the tutorial or head right into the fun, and because I have never played, I opt for the tutorial.

This is where things take a turn. The Switch hardware occasionally struggles when playing intricate user-created environments, and this was shown in the tutorial as well. The experience can be ruined by sporadic lag and frame rate decreases, particularly in more crowded projects. Furthermore, user-generated content carries the danger of inconsistency. You’ll find both excellent creations and unrefined experiences. To uncover the true jewels, you must be willing to explore. Another notable difference is that, while the main gameplay is free, cosmetic goods can be purchased with real money. This may incentivize some players to grind for in-game currency to purchase these products.

If you like to grind, that won’t be that big of a problem, but because it lags from time to time on the Switch, you will find yourself not having a lot of fun with the grinding portions of the game. It’s almost like they want to force you to do the microtransactions, and that’s why they haven’t fixed the issues with lag. Another thing that caught me off guard is that the game starts in English and then randomly switches over to Japanese, which I found strange when talking to NPCS. So they would be explaining something, and then bam, it’s now in Japanese, and I have no idea what their even talking about, and sadly, there doesn’t seem to be an option to select language, or at least I could not find it.

Looking on the Steam page, it looks like there was an update back in January for the game, but it doesn’t say that they’ve tackled any of the ongoing issues, and I’m not sure when the last time they updated the Switch version of the game. Overall, the game could be good, if the developers seemed to care more, but because it’s free-to-play, it doesn’t seem like they care at all. I don’t know if all the negative reviews got to them, but it would be nice if they took the time to address the issues people had. I would be a little more understanding if the game was in Early Access because you expect bugs with Early Access, However, this is a fully launched free-to-play game. So therefore, I would say that I would for now avoid TERAVIT until the developers work out more of the issues with the game.