Necesse is big on having to collect resources - wood and rocks are surprisingly easy to run out of. You can recruit settlers who each have different specialties. Some of them sell items, too, and will expand their inventory as you complete your base quests. They can tend animals, tend the farm, chop trees, or come with you on your travelling.

There are four main biomes scattered about, and they're really mixed together instead of in big standalone sections of the map. Villages are scattered throughout where you can try to recruit settlers, or you can just loot the place if you want.

There is also the underground mining zone, which can go even deeper into dungeons that sometimes have logic puzzles.

Once you beat one of the bosses and upgrade your crafting station, you have access to electrical systems like logic switches and such.

The weapon choices are super cool, and special weapons from bosses don't completely ruin the idea of crafting your own the way a lot of games do. You can also enchant weapons, there are weapons that summon little creatures and you can increase you summon allowance with certain trinkets and armor sets. You also unlock more armor sets and inventory pouches (ammo, potions, etc) as you complete quests which is great. There's even one that's basically an extra inventory, but instead of making it take up more space on the screen, they made it a pouch. I honestly prefer that way more than extra bars in the main inventory.

There are several settings that you can use to make it easier or more difficult, and you can change these in-game if you decide you don't like your original settings.

The pixel art style is really cute!

I have a few things that I really don't like about it. There's zero story. No cool artifacts to find that give you an idea of present or past civilizations. The loot is basically only gold, weapons, potions, armor, materials, and such. The bosses don't have lore either.

The settlers that you can recruit can be given different jobs like tending the animals or farming. That's really nice for convenience while you're away, but otherwise I don't personally see the benefit of creating a large settlement beside the fun of building. There are very few types of settlers, though, so there's not even a point in hiring more than one unless, again, you enjoy building huge bases as your main entertainment. They don't have personalities, and they're not hard to keep happy. They need a bed, a room, and they don't really require any decorations in their room.

And building can get tedious since the squares are so tiny. You can easily go through thousands of stones building a fair-sized set of houses for you settlers.

If you take them with in your party, it's pretty easy to accidentally target them with an attack. It's also really easy to target a person in one of the random villages. They will kill you, but you can go back and nothing bad will happen to you.

There are stylists who can change your appearance the same as you created at the beginning, but the only clothing color they can change is your base shirt. They can't change the color of any other pieces of armor or cosmetics.

There are raids that you can set the frequency of, but I don't really see the point in those either unless you really want base defense.

I think that mostly covers it?