This game took 49 hours to complete. After 12 I started running into an issue where the game has about a 50/50 shot of crashing every time it loads a new map zone, which you do more and more as the game goes on. I thought to myself, 'surely the game's almost over, I should just power through this'.

Spoilers ahead, I think?

The main gameplay loop, where you go to a new area, get 3 or 4 of the area's rare drop, and then fight a highly defended area for a shard of the titular 'force of nature', is something I expected to have to do 3 times. Rule of three, ya know? Nope, you need to do it seven time. Each time you basically need to make new armor too, since the levels scale up all the time. After those seven, you get the final task: Go get 25 of each of those 7 rare drops. Have fun with that 50/50 crash chance on using the teleporter! When you're finally finally done, and you craft the 'force of nature'... a pop-up appears that says 'you won, now do it in hard mode'. That's it. The force of nature doesn't even do anything. It's just a blueish triangley thing. In no way does this explain why you woke up on an island you don't know with no memories, or where the quests are coming from, or what the 'force of nature' is.

In the first four or five hours I thought this game had good potential. The tools don't have durability (durability being evil and a curse placed on survival games), and there seems to be a good line of progression for your equipment. That doesn't really matter in the end though, as your stamina is so slow to recover that you'll just die to avoid waiting (which will likely load a new map zone as it takes you to your respawn point, good luck with the 50/50 crash), and each new type of armor is 100% required as they oscilate between cold and hot protection and you just die walking around in the wrong armor.

Very frustrating, far too long, only beat it because of sunk cost fallacy and believing it surely was almost over for the last 37 hours.