Played this for 8 hours and even now I feel a certain compulsion to go back for more, to unlock a bit more research or build the next thing... but I've never had any fun with the damn thing. It's all RPG Progression loops on top of ultimately bland activities. Walk here and hold X for 5 seconds to chop. Walk here and hold X to build. Walk for 5 minutes to find an NPC who'll ask you to walk to the other side of the map and hold X to get some moths. It's Stardew without a satisfying core loop or a division between short and longterm goals.

There's a bizarre lack of signposting where vital skills are completely locked behind talking to a faceless NPC somewhere, and in the meantime your gormless protagonist can hold an shovel in his hand in front of a mound of sand saying "Technology required" to do this. MATE. It's a mound of sand, start digging.

The graveyard element also seems oddly peripheral. I spent the majority of my time playing the game chopping wood, planting crops and breaking rocks. There's so much Stardew stuff included that gets in the way of a very fun premise.

The story's also just a non-starter which made me disinclined to interact with any of the NPCs.

There's a lot of big ideas in this one, it really feels like they're trying a lot of stuff. Some of it works, some of it really doesn't. A kinda hero shooter PVE game where you fight MASSIVE waves of dinosaurs- dinos moving like a fluid there are so many of them - that works. That rules. All the progression gated behind story progress in a multiplayer game... that doesn't work so well! There are a couple of modes that are absolutely great, I remember a moment where everything clicked and I thought "oh! all this character's abilities seem good and useful in this context", but you don't get to choose what mode you're playing, it's all random/progression locked, so I only saw it twice in about 8 hours with the game.

Kinda hope it keeps going, I played it on Gamepass and had a pretty good time of it, might give it another shot in future.