I realize this is an EA game. And, as an EA game, it should know that it's an EA game. I just suffered a death because my weapon wouldn't fire. It had a full battery, it just bugged out, I get that things like that can happen in an EA title. However, my death was more than 2km away from my base. No new materials are currently spawning around my base (other than Iron, but that doesn't help--I have so much iron). Now, all of my stuff is in a cave more than 2km away. I don't have the relevant resources to rebuild to go after my stuff, you only get one save, so, I can't go back to a previous save. There is no death-penalty turn-off for the game, so if you die and can't recover your stuff, it's just too bad. Maybe I could completely dismantle my base to get enough resources to try to get back out to where I died, but, if not . . .. And anyway, how is that fun?

So, the issue is, to progress the game, you have to risk being unable to continue. One bad bug and you're back at square one. This game isn't billed as a rogue-like, and if it was, I wouldn't have purchased it. If I wasn't 7+ hours in, I would have requested a refund because it's not ready to be played.

As the Steam rules for Early Access go, if work on this game ended right now, I could not recommend it. So, right now, it gets a thumbs down because, right now, in my experience, it's too buggy to play effectively: one bad bug and you have to restart from the beginning, no matter how far along you are.

I realize this is an EA game. And, as an EA game, it should [i]know[/i] that it's an EA game. I just suffered a death because my weapon wouldn't fire. It had a full battery, it just bugged out, I get that things like that can happen in an EA title. However, my death was more than 2km away from my base. No new materials are currently spawning around my base (other than Iron, but that doesn't help--I have so much iron). Now, all of my stuff is in a cave more than 2km away. I don't have the relevant resources to rebuild to go after my stuff, you only get one save, so, I can't go back to a previous save. There is no death-penalty turn-off for the game, so if you die and can't recover your stuff, it's just too bad. Maybe I could completely dismantle my base to get enough resources to try to get back out to where I died, but, if not . . .. And anyway, how is that fun? So, the issue is, to progress the game, you have to risk being unable to continue. One bad bug and you're back at square one. This game isn't billed as a rogue-like, and if it was, I wouldn't have purchased it. If I wasn't 7+ hours in, I would have requested a refund because it's not ready to be played. As the Steam rules for Early Access go, if work on this game ended right now, I could not recommend it. So, right now, it gets a thumbs down because, right now, in my experience, it's too buggy to play effectively: one bad bug and you have to restart from the beginning, no matter how far along you are.