There is clearly a nice wee game here, but it's buried under so much busy work that hasn't aged well at all. Weapon elemental upgrades and strengthening, weapon degradation, thirst management, all things we still see nowadays, but DC is already clunky enough that these things feel like you're playing some fan modded hardcore mode. Absolutely kills momentum and feelings of progress.

I feel bad because I like everything else about it. The cute town management stuff is lovely, and I'm a sucker for rebuilding/restoring places, but I cannae waste hours wading through shit just to be allowed to do that.