This was a complete slog to get through.

Seemingly endless hordes of enemies and if you're progressing you're rarely strong enough to deal full damage to them. I spent most of the game with my dwarf complaining about needing a better weapon for this, despite having the highest tier in each section. There's also just so many enemies, it's not engaging or challenging it's just annoying. All Boss fights were over in seconds.

Your map is virtually useless, bordering on unreadable. There's no layering to the map it's just vague squares that show you what "zone" you're in.

Building was just okay. Didn't engage with it, my friends made some cute stuff.

Hardest part of the game was not falling asleep before finishing it.

Combat is bad. It's very basic and clunky. Enemies spawn behind you and disappear. It's just lazy design and not one bit satisfying. It's not even rewarding because they drop useless stuff and there's no skill progression.
Progression comes in the form of crafting higher tier weapon and armour which does more damage and have more hp respectively. That's all there is.
The darkness of the mines is cool at first then it gets really tedious after the novelty wears off. Light radius is unrealistic. You build a torch and it only lights up a small fixed area. Another very lazy game design/game engine.
The essential resources are finite and there's no warning. We had to stop playing because we ran out of salt. The only place to mine some was near the start of the game. After mining it all out and using them all, it becomes an essential requirement to progress the game at the late stage. I think there are some tedious ways to find salt or create new worlds just to get salt from them. However, it's another example of stupid game design and looks like players have been complaining since the start of this issue. So even the Devs aren't fixing these basic flaws. We called it quits anyway at that point. Would rather stop our losses on time and play better games and support better dev teams.

The world itself can get repetitive. It's procedural generated partly and areas get copy pasted. The hazardous zones with poison cloud and shadow cloud doesn't necessarily reveal themselves graphically so you end up unintentionally walking into them all the time.

Hopefully this review will save you both time and money. It's also important to stand your ground to encourage the gaming industry to concentrate on what is important. This is just a cash grab on a famous IP. Maybe there were intentions on making a nice game but note that they are concentrating on selling dlcs rather than fixing these basic issues.

I recommend other survival crafters and this game I would rate as near unplayable and not worth the time/effort. 2 out of 10.

The game is a solid enough time with some friends but the issue is that this game doesn't even work. 90% of the time it fails to host a game so it prevents online play. Most of the "fixes" online don't work and my friends all have the same issue.