Three hours in and - Yeah I think it has potential. There's a lot of clunky "Alpha" stuff going on. Inventories are a bit tedious... a lot of clutter and micromanagement. Enemy attacks are hit'n'miss and fighting is more luck than skill based. Balance isn't there... farming becomes tedious very quickly for the most basic stuff. Traps are 100 times more effective than combat in the early days... I dont know how that will go later but after day 3 I kind of feel maybe I already saw everything the game was offering. I think the day / night cycle is too short for real exploring and building... it takes so much time to farm the basic junk.

I hope they do more with this game. I want to explore the island. I think there is a good game here waiting to get built.

Great survival/base building game with plenty of exploration to be done. Really looking forward to see what the developers add in next. As it does need an expansion.

There has been a lot of random survival games from unknown developers hitting the market in an early access state over the last 2 or 3 years, there's been a survival game bandwagon and a lot of indie developers jumped on it.
Most of them have been clunky, light on content, and frankly, sub par games with underwhelming gameplay loops.

I fully expected IfSunSets to be another half ass effort to cash in on that market.
Well.. It has blown my expectations out of the water!!
Its an incredibly fun and enjoyable game, its also challenging enough to keep me engrossed but not too much to be frustrating, way more biome and boss fight variation than i expected from a game at its price point and stage in development. Graphics and gameplay mechanics are also good.
I'm 45 hours in and still have plenty to do.
I was also pleasantly surprised with the scope of the games progression in terms of skill tree, abilities, craft-able items and building tiers etc.
This Game is a hidden Gem and deserves way more attention than it gets as its frankly superior to most of the higher profile releases recently. I would 100% say its worth picking up if you even have a passing interest in the genre.

Its not without its criticisms though, for example :-
if you press F while in a chest (the general use key in the game) the chest empties into your inventory, This is incredibly frustrating and the default controls definitely need this patching out as it happens too often to be dismissed.
Progression can feel a little unbalanced at times as its not clear which area meets your current level and ability scale.
Tutorial and some in game prompts/instructions could be a little clearer, for example, took me way longer than it should have to figure out the 'fairy' mechanics and abilities.
certain elements of the game are very unfinished, like the boats, but this isn't obvious until you persue them.
The single background musical score just doesn't feel like it fits the game, and lack of variation makes it grow tedious.

Overall, the above negatives will hopefully be addressed as development continues.
This game is well worth anyone's money in my opinion, considering the deluge of survival games prevalent on steam at the moment, this one definitely sits head and shoulders above the average level of quality of the others and i will watch its development with great interest.

Keep up the good work!