I personally love grind-y, farm sim, types of games. I haven't been able to put it down!!

So, first negative review in awhile. Granted, this game is really fun, and I've enjoyed my time with it, but in it's current state, I cannot recommend this game. The gameplay loop is satisfying, and the environments are gorgeous. I absolutely love the art style. However, there are far too many game breaking bugs that currently exist. This game should not have been released in the state that it is in. Animals are despawning, which grinds progression to a halt, and the crafting system isn't fleshed out enough yet. I think, give it like 3-6 months, this game will be in a much better state, but right now, hold off on purchase.

Since I made a few good experiences with early access games in the survival genre in the last years and I am happy to support smaller companies in their developement process, I decided to give this one a try regardless of the mixed conception of the game in the community so far.

For now I have to say that the game was released into early access far too early. It is still lacking basic polishing and this just takes away so much of the game experience.

-> Starting off with one of the most important points: the character movement. It just feels VERY bad. Basic running over the jagged ground, climbing and fighting...it all feels extremely clunky.

-> the radial menu for selecting items is not user friendly at all.

-> Another point is the resource availabilty of minerals. I spent a large portion of my time running around to gather the far scattered lime stones. A ressource you need constantly while setting up the second town. A nice solution would be to put down mining huts in the areas where the resource is available and the hut is doing the mining.

-> The next point that drove me crazy is that you cannot relocate the buildings that function as workstations. In addition some of them require so much ground space that you can only place them very far away from the town center which results in a lot of running back and forth.

-> And finally the last point is the inventory and storage management: the inventory is far too small and the storage boxes are too small and too limited in number for the stack size of the many items. Also, not being able to relocate boxes is annoying.

All in all the gameplay loop would be awesome but the game is lacking QOL at the moment. This needs some more time in the oven before being truly enjoyable.