I'm hard-pressed to call it a Masterpiece. But nothing comes quite close to the invigoration I've felt playing this game. Running for my life with an inventory full of precious junk, as bullets ricochet around me; or intense hand-to-hand combat with a spear-wielding naked man yelling racial slurs. The cozy safety of a campfire inside my 1x2 base where I'm almost certainly getting carbon-monoxide poisoning; or running through the rain and fog collecting wood and stone in an eerily quiet server while everyone else is offline.

I love how abhorrent, crazy, and untrustworthy people are in this game. It feels like a true Mad Max simulator.

I hadn't been able to play it for a few years, because the loading screens and performance issues got too much for my old PC. But I've played it again since building a new PC and I'm happy to see that it's still the same old game with a unique atmosphere, just with some cool new features, as far as I'm concerned.