I will split this review in 2 parts:

1. A kind of buyers beware.

The reason why im writing this review so early is because the devs have just announced that they are already working on a new game. With the state of this game that is quite disheartening to see. So for that reason I would recommend everybody to hold of buying this game to see how the quality and quantity of updates progresses.

2. The actual review.
At the moment im unable to recommend this game.
While there are a lot of good ideas here and a plethra of content, most of it is quite clunky and not thought to the end.
The worst part of the game is by far the inventory management. I cant remember a game where i found going through my stuff more annoying than here. Just the message that i cant pick an item up because my inventory is full makes me want to quit.

Basically every item can have several prefixes. Say you have Wood and Dried wood. In your inventory you can put up to 4 stacks with different prefixes of the same item in 1 slot. And it stiff sucks. I have like 10 different kinds of claws lying around. You can of course remove these prefixes but that requires choosing them, clicking on the button to remove prefixes, confirming the removal and then manually clicking all 4 stacks and moving them together so they become one.

What makes it even worse is that crafted items retain these prefixes even when the stat change doesnt have any effect on the item itself. So using all your stone to build a stone wall may result in multiple stacks of stone walls with different prefixes. Did I mention that each stack also requires their own hotbar slot when trying to equip that item. So if you equip a food item, run out of that food item with that prefix and want to use that same food item with a different prefix you have to reequip it? Also did i mention that in chests and other storage options you cant put the same item with different prefixes in the same slot to save space? Great isnt it?

But enough of the inventory management. Apart from that the game gives absolute freedom on what you want to do. In my opinion thats more of a hinderence than a positive point as its quite easy to get lost and taking a while to figure out what youre supposed to be doing next. It doesnt help that later on the game doesnt explain a lot of game mechanics to you.

Just a cheap asset flip like the others that get released here every day.

-No options menu except resolution and presets in the launcher
-Weird mouse smoothing that cant be turned off
-Some items and structures (especially the furnace) look very similar to rust so im not sure whats going on there
-No rebindable keys
-Bad graphics overall (im playing at 4k with the highest preset)


Also the dev is trying to censor criticism by DMCA striking youtubers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ByzdR2y-ic

Definitely steer clear of this garbage.
Buy Rust or any other survival game for that matter.

Edit: Dev is also deleting threads in the forum and banning users for legitimite criticism
Edit 2: Dev marked my review as inappropriate. (Luckily lifted now)
Edit 3: Dev is using alts for positive reviews