Pause Game - Single Player / Multi-Player

Comments: 71

• 23 Jan
  Leinorax Merged

  Allow to pause the game in singleplayer. It's important for phone calls, package deliveries, kids or pets... For me it's a must have.

  Like 100+
• 24 Jan
  Mochnant

  This really needs to be a high priority QoL improvement!

  Like 100+
• 24 Jan
  Steve Merged

  When you bring up the game menu using select you should be able to close it by hitting the same button not a seperate button. Right now its B to backout and you should just be able to hit select again to exit the menu. That's good menu design.

  Like 37
• 24 Jan
  Ago Merged

  PLEASE ADD THIS ~!

  Like 42
• 24 Jan
  QP Merged

  So I started playing, had to go to work. Whoops it doesn't save? Guess i started back at my base. Then I start playing and oh now it's super - so I can't save wherever so I'll just pause the game and oh it doesn't appear to pause...in single player even...so I guess I can only play this when I have a guaranteed amount of time to play or risk repeating things over and over for no good reason?

  Like 43
• 25 Jan
  Skawn

  This is a must for solo players please!

  Like 40
• 25 Jan
  Ace G Merged

  ADD THIS PLEASE. I HATE having to go to the bathroom and having to go to menu. This would really help

  Like 25
• 25 Jan
  Brutally Eating Lettuce

  Yes, single parent gamer with a family. I dont want to die every time one of my kids asks me something!

  Like 43
• 25 Jan
  dirtys04p

  We shouldn't have to vote this in. This should be standard op stuff for any SP game. I have a life outside of games. Things come up. I don't want to be dead because the pizza was delivered and I need to tip the guy.

  Like 46
• 25 Jan
  Gary Wilmot

  garwilm
  I second that, because as a single player, I need to go outside to smoke...came back in, I had to re-spawn,. a wolf got me, luckily I wasn't too far away from home. and also how about adding an auto-run feature.
  P.S. I bought the game at 10:30 this morning and it is not been shut down as of yet. Love the game. the time now is 11:00 p.m.

  Like 13
• 25 Jan
  cj Merged

  PLEASE ADD THIS ~!

  Like 10
• 25 Jan
  MeGa

  Yep I need this asap, wanna be able to go pee or whatever without having to first find a safe area, and do it all in a rush in case I die and it means 15 mins walking to my corpse

  Like 15
• 25 Jan
  Add Pause in Sologames

  Yes, it is annoying to have to close the game every time you have to attend to your biological needs.

  Like 18
• 25 Jan
  Grim

  This is an important accessibility feature too, for the disabled player base.

  Like 16
• 25 Jan
  CW

  Real life gets in the way a lot and if I have to exit the game to step away, I'm less likely to start it up and exit and start, multiple times in a few hours of play time in an evening. This is often my biggest grip with games that support multiplayer world generation, it should be a standard when there's an explicit solo mode.

  Like 13
• 25 Jan
  NightSilence Merged

  Absolutely agree. This would be by a million miles the best quality of life improvement to the game

  Like 15
• 25 Jan
  CoolUsernameBro Admin Merged

  "You can't pause AND you can't save - this isn't really workable" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-24), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

  Like 11
• 25 Jan
  CoolUsernameBro Admin

  "Pause the game in singleplayer" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-23), including upvotes (77) and comments (5), was merged into this suggestion.

  Like 11
• 25 Jan
  CoolUsernameBro Admin

  "Pause Menu" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-24), including upvotes (5) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

  Like 10
• 25 Jan
  SD777

  This one completely baffles me on the single player side and I've always wanted to pick the brains of game devs who do this. I don't mean to come off as abrasive, but it's really frustrating to lose progress because you have to attend to a crying baby, a delivery that needs to be signed for, grabbing lunch, or just going to the bathroom. Definitely needs a pause for single player mode.

  Like 17
• 25 Jan
  TOCruise

  @SD777
  
  It's because of distinguishing factors between how multiplayer and singleplayer work. To develop them both into a game, effectively requires double the time. What's often easier, is to create the game as multiplayer, and then add a "single player" mode that effectively boots up a local server that you join to (indistinguishable from a normal single player game, albeit that you can't pause). Does that answer your question?
  
  It's not to do with laziness, or making the game harder to play, it's often a time-efficiency thing, because the development time can be hugely different but with very very little reward to show for it.

  Like 6
• 25 Jan
  WeWantPause69

  Please we beg!

  Like 5
• 25 Jan
  Bakudan

  A pause in solo gameplay is really needed, i understand it's not fitting multiplayer but in solo, opening the menu for example, so you can take a call or refill the drink or go to pee, without disconnecting to the game to then be TP back at your base and stuff getting resetted is for me an almost mandatory "feature", i mean, its not even a feature ^^'.

  Like 9
• 25 Jan
  anerys

  It is very important!!! Maybe only for singleplayer.

  Like 5
• 25 Jan
  Mad Mike

  I have a disabled wife who needs regular attention. So this game has become a House Building Simulator as i cannot get to the blacksmith to recruit him as i have to exit to the title screen every 5 minuits. which respawns me back at the flame. Frustrating that I cannot play this game without being able to pause. I hope the devs impliment this but i think that someone will make a pause mod soon like Valheim did in 2 days.

  Like 12
• 26 Jan
  Nion

  It really is a must-have for single player gaming. I get that it'd be a bit difficult to put into the game, but it makes sense for single-player.

  Like 7
• 26 Jan
  Darkbirt

  If you need to go too the toilet, you've got a problem while being enshrouded.

  Like 5
• 26 Jan
  BrendanatorX

  Playing solo, found it really frustrating that I can't just pause, honestly I often just quit to menu until I can continue playing and I shouldn't have to do that.

  Like 6
• 27 Jan
  cykeag

  a Great Game but we Need a pause, please !!!

  Like 5
• 27 Jan
  Cowski

  A pause game is absolutely a necessity in single player mode. RL (real life) happens. :) Other players have expressed the reasoning so I will just recap what I've gathered:
  * Bio break.
  * Children\wife needs attention.
  * Someone at the door.
  * Phone call.
  * Boss wants to talk to you for a moment so you have to put an spreadsheet on top of the game. :D
  * Have to run out for food so you can continue to play!
  These are just a few of the reasonings you need pause in the game without exiting to the main menu & losing any progression you have maind.

  Like 9
• 27 Jan
  Josh

  I'd even like there to be a pause option on a hosted server as my kids and I play together and being able to pause the entire server at once would be great.

  Like 5
• 27 Jan
  Wil

  Simple enough to do - just make it so in single player game, hitting ESC on a non-focus context (in other words not exiting out of a chest or anything; ESC such that would bring up the top-level game menu) the game just pauses. I can appreciate the complications with multiplayer doing this, but in multiplayer one has teammates to consider and might be better-compelled to set-aside non-disturbable time for play.
  
  But in single-player mode no need for such pre-planning should be needed. The inability to pause - especially with rested and food slot buffs on timers - not to mention the day/night cycle, no hard pause basically glues you to your PC/console unless you want to waste mats. Also as others above have commented on there's further real-life interruptions like wife and kids, deliveries, etc.

  Like 5
• 27 Jan
  Jacob Wiley

  I have three young children, please implement a pause feature.

  Like 3
• 27 Jan
  Gavin

  truly no excuse for this to not be a feature in single-player mode.

  Like 4
• 28 Jan
  Lawrence

  It would be great to have a pause option solo. I play while at work, since I'm on overnights. When a call comes in, I need to pause, and just found out going to the main menu resets you to a spawn location, not back where you are. Please add a pause option for solo play! Thanks!

  Like 3
• 28 Jan
  shark420

  I just buyed the game and just learned there is no pause for single player. Are you serious. Top priority or save buton or both. I stoped to play multiplayer because cant spent constant time at a game so pause save is only for single player and now i learn that this game has no pause. Crap considering refund.

  Like 4
• 29 Jan
  Jessy

  Valheim got it working ;)
  
  Joking aside; This would be a great feature for single player "mode".
  
  Additional ideas
  
  - Toggle to pause when a menu is open.
  - Toggle to pause when interacting with world lore, or an npc.
  - Toggle to pause on game menu open.

  Like 7
• 29 Jan
  Tom

  This feature should be mandatory in all single player games!

  Like 4
• 29 Jan
  Grace

  I have a life, I need a play/pause so I can get up and go do real world things without having to exit to menu.

  Like 3
• 30 Jan
  Steelraven

  Such an option doesn't really fit into a survival game.
  There is just a certain additional danger in not being attentive.
  Apart from the fact that nothing can happen in this game at the moment. Just go AFK in your base.
  There are no raids or other negative effects when you're afk.
  I don't get it.

  Like 2
• 30 Jan
  Hisuinoi

  I play the game in single player mode, as long as there are no extensive server options that you can set and control a lot. And then it's also more fun with friends.
  
  Something can always happen, going to the toilet, the doorbell ringing, an unexpected long phone call...
  A pause option would be very useful for the single player.
  
  I would agree with the previous speaker with the following options:
  
  
  - Toggle to pause when a menu is open.
  - Toggle to pause when interacting with world lore, or an npc.
  - Toggle to pause on game menu open.

  Like 4
• 30 Jan
  Mushy

  Some kind of hard pause function is a must for us parents! it's so handy for us to be able to pause the game when the wife or baby is screaming 😂

  Like 1
• 30 Jan
  YouSuckIt

  This is not needed. Singleplayers having issues with pause? Why not just quit game to menu for a second while you smoke or whatever. There are more important stuff to do. I hope devs really make good priorities.
  
  Having issue with respawn then go crouch, this game has sneak not just for fun try to use it you will like it!

  Like 3
• 31 Jan
  MC

  Game Pause would be a huge QoL for me. I only pay solo and between kids, pets, calls, I have I rarely get 30 minutes of continual play. I can't say "give me 5 minutes to get out of an enshrouded area". I've have to exit/quit, or stop mid adventure and fast travel back home because of the lack of a pause feature. Just to be able to hit esc. walk away, for 5 minutes, and be able to pick right back up where I left off would be glorious!

  Like 4
• 31 Jan
  Ygdrad Merged

  The timers for various buffs seem to be based on the clock in some way. I have things that take me away from the game and when that happens, since the game doesn't come with a pause feature, I use the resource monitor to suspend the process. When I unpause the game, the buffs have ticked down. This is the only game I've seen do this. This is also an issue with a soft suspend on the steam deck. If you turn off the steam deck only a small amount of time ticks by but if you use a pause plugin to soft suspend without turning off the whole device, time will tick by and use up your buffs too.

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• 01 Feb
  jcb.isme

  Not sure if this has been mentioned yet but a workaround is downloading the "universal pause button" from Github. All I have to do on my keyboard is hit the pause key (typically near print screen, home button etc.

  Like 4
• 02 Feb
  Mekanimal

  This is such a fundamentally basic function that I will be forever baffled that it needs to be requested.
  
  There is no excuse.
  
  As much as I admire this game I cannot in good faith recommend it to anyone until you at least implement this for solo offline players.

  Like 4
• 02 Feb
  Eno

  For single-player this makes perfect sense. For multiplayer it does not.

  Like 1
• 04 Feb
  Aryn

  what I have been doing is always carry an extra flame altar around and drop it as a progress marker for my IRL moments that need me and tele to your home base real quick and your all good...unless your in the shroud then book it!!!

  Like 1
• 04 Feb
  BeardedFreak

  I went ahead and tried the "universal pause button" from Github. And it actually worked pretty good. Thanks for the suggestion.

  Like 2
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