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Recommended 337 hrs on record (27.6 hrs at review time)

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Why it worked

The video likely resonated due to its relatable and humorous portrayal of common gaming frustrations and the creative storytelling within the Steam review format. The use of a popular game (implied by the review's content) and the comedic escalation of events would have contributed to its shareability.

Summary

This video showcases a humorous Steam review for a game, detailing the player's chaotic and often fatal experiences. The review humorously describes the game's challenges, from aggressive trees to failed attempts at cooking, highlighting the player's eventual resignation to eating berries.

Structure

1Introduction of a humorous Steam review
2Player's initial in-game actions and encounters
3Building a small house and attempting to gather food
4Failed attempts at cooking and repeated deaths
5Fast-forward to a developed base and reflection on playtime
6Concluding thought on the game's engaging nature

Product placement

Steam: platform for selling and playing video games. It appears as a watermark on the review box, and its functionality is implied by the review itself. Removing it would not change what happens in the video. Steam is the platform where the game is sold and played. The review is posted on Steam. It merely appears.

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Recommended 337 hrs on record (27.6 hrs at review time) EARLY ACCESS REVIEW POSTED: FEBRUARY 8, 2021 >see people buying game >ask them about it >overwhelmingly positive >ask discord server if we should play it >ok lets go >buy game >load in >wtf im flying >alright where we dropping boys >oh wait we're all in the same place >look a bird punch it >oh talking bird >pick up stones and wood >make axe >hew tree >my dumb: just stands and watches as it falls on me instantly dying >respawn sitting there agape >THE TREES KILL YOU IN THIS GAME >infer the trees kill you in this game >need a workbench? >needs to be roofed? >dude this sucks a >oh hey the stuff actually snaps to each other (LOOKING AT YOU ARK) >alright small house done >lets get food >deers run away before I can catch them >infer how do we get food >look a boar >bonk >ohhhhh theres 3 more of them >dead again >stupid bird tells me to get berries instead >nah f u im getting the boys we going for boar meat tonight >round everyone up >have ourselves a boar hunt >ok we got meat now lets cook it >put it on the fire >ok now we wait >somehow it burns to coal right in front of our eyes >go get more meat >put it on the fire >spam the e button >getting impatient i step into the fire >death no. 3 >return to burnt food >ok i'll just eat berries fs >fast forward to our walled base in the black forest with farm, furnaces and boats >27 hours played >i bought this game 11am Sunday >it is 11pm Monday >i haven't had this in a game in a long time

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