TL;DR: Played for 3 hours. This might be the worst game I've ever had a displeasure of playing. Combat is so awful that removing it would improve the game. All the other game systems are almost just as awful. Only good thing is the art, music and sounds.
Pros:
Art - great art style, very well drawn
Music - fits really well with the art style
SFX - same as music
Cons:
"Tutorial" - I wasn't really expecting a tutorial but I was expecting a few tooltips here and there. Literally nothing is explained in the game. Am I supposed to open a wiki on the 2nd monitor to play this game?
Combat - genuinely who thought this is good combat? There's 1 button for combat, which you hold to attack. There's 0 depth, dodging is performed by moving out of the way so you need to learn the animations of enemies which are awful at telegraphing the attack as sometimes it will look like it won't hit you but it does. Trying to click on an enemy is awful so you need to hold F but then it just chooses random enemies so if there's a group of them good luck.
Crafting menu - everything is shown from the start. Opening the craft menu overwhelms you with hundred's of items you don't know what they are, when you're supposed to unlock them, or why you even need them as again NOTHING is explained in the game. Am I supposed to search through all the items see what I want to craft? No. Am I supposed to just craft random stuff as I gather new items, potentially wasting some rare resource because fuck me? If so this is as bad as the combat.
Survival system - one more god awful system, as once again nothing is explained. What is sanity? How is it lowered, how is it replenished? Hunger is at least straight forward but seems overtuned even in multiplayer. You lose max health by dying it seems, idk the game doesn't explain it. It is also only replenished by healing items which I did not even find the materials needed to craft because I had no intention of playing this game any longer. The days pass way too fast by default. Resurrection requires you to go back to a resurection point and then go back to pick up your stuff making you run 2 ways just to waste your time.
Neutral:
Modding support - easy to mod on steam, which improves certain aspects of the game if you can find a mod for it, but nothing can fix the base godawful systems
Exploration - this might be nice but idk, all the other systems just ruin it
Base building - didn't get far enough for this, might be nice but from what I've seen it's just another basic system with no depth.
If you want a survival game just play Valheim, or really any other survival game.
Overall score: I'd rather starve/10
Pros:
Art - great art style, very well drawn
Music - fits really well with the art style
SFX - same as music
Cons:
"Tutorial" - I wasn't really expecting a tutorial but I was expecting a few tooltips here and there. Literally nothing is explained in the game. Am I supposed to open a wiki on the 2nd monitor to play this game?
Combat - genuinely who thought this is good combat? There's 1 button for combat, which you hold to attack. There's 0 depth, dodging is performed by moving out of the way so you need to learn the animations of enemies which are awful at telegraphing the attack as sometimes it will look like it won't hit you but it does. Trying to click on an enemy is awful so you need to hold F but then it just chooses random enemies so if there's a group of them good luck.
Crafting menu - everything is shown from the start. Opening the craft menu overwhelms you with hundred's of items you don't know what they are, when you're supposed to unlock them, or why you even need them as again NOTHING is explained in the game. Am I supposed to search through all the items see what I want to craft? No. Am I supposed to just craft random stuff as I gather new items, potentially wasting some rare resource because fuck me? If so this is as bad as the combat.
Survival system - one more god awful system, as once again nothing is explained. What is sanity? How is it lowered, how is it replenished? Hunger is at least straight forward but seems overtuned even in multiplayer. You lose max health by dying it seems, idk the game doesn't explain it. It is also only replenished by healing items which I did not even find the materials needed to craft because I had no intention of playing this game any longer. The days pass way too fast by default. Resurrection requires you to go back to a resurection point and then go back to pick up your stuff making you run 2 ways just to waste your time.
Neutral:
Modding support - easy to mod on steam, which improves certain aspects of the game if you can find a mod for it, but nothing can fix the base godawful systems
Exploration - this might be nice but idk, all the other systems just ruin it
Base building - didn't get far enough for this, might be nice but from what I've seen it's just another basic system with no depth.
If you want a survival game just play Valheim, or really any other survival game.
Overall score: I'd rather starve/10