I've had a great time with this up to the current end, should it stick the landing it could very well be one of the top dogs of the survival-crafting genre in my opinion. What is currently there feels very polished, unique, and enjoyable so far.

I like how the game handles general area progression, but I do think it might be nice to make it ever so slightly less linear. Maybe make one point where you branch off into two areas or something along those lines? I also think that even for an early access title, it ends rather abruptly. That said, the atmosphere is really awesome and the level variety is top-tier.

While I like the crafting ideas system and think it gives something unique to the game, I think the recipes could stand to be be spread out a bit more instead of coming in batches like they do currently. Not a huge thing, but I think it would make that side of the progression feel a little more even.

My biggest issue (aside from various technical issues that I have to imagine will be fixed over time) is that it could use a combat update. A complete rework would be great, but what's already there isn't the worst, so even just adding to and polishing the feel of that would probably be okay. That's really the only core element of the game that feels specifically "early", so I'm interested to see what they do with this in the future.

I also feel like while the later chapters have some cool ideas, they are ultimately weaker than the top half of the current content. There are also some strange little things here and there, like a lot of the recipes requiring potatoes, but I guess they took potato farming out because it was causing issues? So you have like, maybe 10 potatoes across the whole game to work with as of writing. Will surely be fixed, but like... maybe make them a higher fridge spawn until then?

If you're on the fence, it's probably worth giving a go! Seems really promising, I had plenty of fun and I can't wait to see how it shapes up over time.

(Last updated as of 5/20/2024)