I REALLY want to like this game, I've played 30 hours and I do find it enjoyable. I don't even mind the grind, though I will admit that even on easy setting, the game is pretty unforgiving. I don't mind that, I like some games to actually feel like survival games, you know? I don't even mind that it feels a bit "half assed" or "watered down". A lot of people have said this feels like an early access or beta game and yeah I agree, it feels like they've left it unfinished, but even that I largely don't mind.

The one reason why I have to give it the thumbs down is that part of the unfinished vibe is that it has a game-breaking bug or two, like villagers getting stuck in places and staying stuck even if you remove all obstacles around them. This is especially a problem when a corpse gets stuck or the villager dies and becomes a stuck corpse, as you then have a rotting sickness-spreading body stuck in the middle of your settlement forever, forcing you to either rebuild on the other side of the map and hope it doesn't happen again, or restart your playthrough.

I've had three good runs (5-10 hours) so far and all of them have ended this way, and when you combine that with how slow the game is to grind and build up, it means you ultimately can't even get half way through before it breaks. A damn shame, because I can overlook everything else, I WANT to overlook everything else, but I need to actually be able to play the game in order to recommend it.

I REALLY want to like this game, I've played 30 hours and I do find it enjoyable. I don't even mind the grind, though I will admit that even on easy setting, the game is pretty unforgiving. I don't mind that, I like some games to actually feel like survival games, you know? I don't even mind that it feels a bit "half assed" or "watered down". A lot of people have said this feels like an early access or beta game and yeah I agree, it feels like they've left it unfinished, but even that I largely don't mind. The one reason why I have to give it the thumbs down is that part of the unfinished vibe is that it has a game-breaking bug or two, like villagers getting stuck in places and staying stuck even if you remove all obstacles around them. This is especially a problem when a corpse gets stuck or the villager dies and becomes a stuck corpse, as you then have a rotting sickness-spreading body stuck in the middle of your settlement forever, forcing you to either rebuild on the other side of the map and hope it doesn't happen again, or restart your playthrough. I've had three good runs (5-10 hours) so far and all of them have ended this way, and when you combine that with how slow the game is to grind and build up, it means you ultimately can't even get half way through before it breaks. A damn shame, because I can overlook everything else, I WANT to overlook everything else, but I need to actually be able to play the game in order to recommend it.