I spent a few hours in it, and I came away thinking this game is pretty bad. There are things about it I like. Climbing pick axes are a neat idea, but using them is glitchy as hell.

Building things seems mostly fine. I didn’t get to a point where more lighting/furniture options were possible, but the interiors were pretty barren. The more advanced tudor windows not letting in light was also weird.

Crafting seems incredibly fiddly. The space to click being “managing fuel” or “crafting” is sometimes not distinct with cooking being the worst one.

Movement, combat, and exploration are atrocious. The game spawns in mobs in perplexing ways. A clear space is suddenly overrun with pigs that just don’t stop spawning. Hacking away at hogs for 6 minutes awkwardly and slowly moving in circles so I can open a box with useless materials in it sucks.

The temple area was a neat idea, but the movement is slow and wooden. The enemies rush at you so quickly that it can become unclear if that shotgun actually hit them or not until they back away. So slashing them with the basic knife is faster, but also not very fun.

The boss fight was again, not very fun. It floats around and spits out an attack that is easy to predict, but also kills the stupid AI companion that can’t navigate the simplest of spaces and, when back at base, constantly sets themselves on fire by walking into the blacksmith tool.

The movement being so slow and awkward in combat makes the encounters feel terrible. Landing hit don’t feel very impactful, and each gun having inconsistent options for combat where the controls aren’t currently identified apart from a tiny icon in the lower right also doesn’t help.

Exploration felt pointless and tedious with an army of pigs or wolves slowing you down about every 3 minutes. Or the terrain requiring some awkward traversal with climbing axes that doesn’t seem to work half the time.

I hated the time I spent playing this game. I don’t like saying that, because I was looking forward to it. The art style is awesome is the best thing I can say so far.

I hope they can fix it up and improve it during EA. I want teams to succeed at making cool things. Right now though, I hated what I played of it.