A very challenging game that captures the old highly mechanical turn based RPGs in a world just as gritty and ruthless as the difficulty. Sort of like playing D&D in a very OSR campaign setting. Hunger, vision, heat, and moisture are always factors, there is no fast travel, and danger is always present.

Unfortunately completing even the simplest task feels like a mountain to be climbed. Every encounter is heavily led by RNG which means even if you do all the right moves a simple roadside brigand encounter can kill you - which it often did for me after returning from an hour of carefully fighting through a dungeon and couldn't save until I got back to town.

Combined with the high difficulty it means that your fate is purely down to luck more than skill which really undermines the RPG side of things. I like a lot of what the game has on offer, but it needs to either be less difficult or less random.