Fun survival crafting game to play with friends, but the game asks a little too much of the player. It's fun to go around and loot stuff, but the most exciting part of the game is the horde night, where every 7 days an increasingly difficult zombie horde descends on your location. I enjoy this part a lot and I wish it was more frequent. The crafting system is also extensive and there are so many ways to customize your base, structurally or aesthetically, and is another one of this game's strengths.

If that were all the game was, I think it would be much better and more accessible, but it locks most of the crafting system behind a randomized loot system. You have to find magazines for certain item types within randomized loot containers in order to rank up those item categories enough to craft useful items, but the amount of this you need to do to get even one rank up is staggering. A somewhat cool idea on paper, allowing players to customize their roles in the group, but in practice it is massively prohibitive. If you play this game very often, this probably isn't an issue, but for a casual 1-2 hour session every now and then, this task is insurmountable. When I play this with my gf, we just eat glass or kill each other whenever someone gets thirsty because preparing drinkable water is locked behind dozens of hours of progress in multiple item categories. Overall, a fun game that is a bit too realistic for its own good.