Ashen is a great looking game and a relatively enjoyable 20 hours, but there is absolutely nothing going on under the surface to make it stand out. It’s a decent experience that’s worth giving a shot if you’re interested, but don’t expect much from it. It suffers severely from it’s over-simplification, and it needed to have way more enemies, weapons, items, or SOMETHING to switch it up a bit. I mean, you can very easily beat the entire game with the starting weapon (which, if memory serves me, is just a wooden stick). There has to be more progression than that.