Here are some good and bad about this game after decent amount of gameplay.

[Good]

The graphics and the world are unique and beautiful.

[Bad]

There are too many things feels not right when playing this game, bad progressive gameplay design, stupid ass building system (you need to wait in real time for the castle upgrade and ingot melting, which is super absurb), over-complex map design (you will be unable to remember the path and map in your first walkthrough), awful keyboard+mouse compatibility (you will die a lot due to fall damage), very bad combat system (not hard, just not fun to play with), daily + weekly mission to keep you login (which, I do not think this should be a thing for a single player offline game).


Here are some points regarding the combat system:
1. Repetitive mobs, and too hard to kill in the very early game. I played dark souls, elden rings and other souls like game. I love souls like. But this game makes the mods so hard to kill without any reason in early game. This could resolve after you upgrade your weapon, however, they have patched and remove selling ingot from the smith, therefore, new players may not know they have to: farm -> upgrade smith by building system -> farm -> ingot -> upgrade your weapon.
2. Stamina system is f**ked up. There is too little stamina in your early game. I understand the dev want to punish whom loves to panic roll. However, when you are fighting a group of mobs, your tiny little stamina bar will not be sufficient enough to dodge from group attack. They should really increase the stamina in early game. Meanwhile, increasing stamina can make player to attack MORE and roll out from a boss in an opening (after boss performs a combo).
3. No hyper armor system and the poise break system is also f**ked up. You will constantly find out, you will not be able to stop enemy attack by double handed greatsword. However, your enemy can poise break you easily with their tiny kitchen knife, due to lack of hyper armor.
4. Stabbing from enemy behind is very unsatisfying. This game makes the stabbing angle very narrow, so you can only stab the enemy from behind in a very restricted angle, in other word, too difficult to perform and very unsatisfying.

[Other Quality of life/design problem]
1. They really should not remove the ingot sold by blacksmith. They make it less fun for unwilling-to-grind players.
2. They really should not increase the int requirement (from 16 to 22) of the staff sold by enchantress. This ruined many fun of some casual mage players.
3. What is the point to have a "World of warcraft"-like-mage-tower or "FF14 Deep Dungeon - The Palace of the Dead" system in your game, and renamed it into "crucible". It only makes it feel more boring, do the dev team know the player base of WOW and FF14 hates those system so much? cuz they are boring-af. These kind of systems existed to make more player active online, and grind is its sole-purpose, not fun. But NRFTW is a single player game and fun should be its design focused, not something like "daily mission, weekly mission, reset-when-you die dungeon"
4. Respec in this game requires materials and going through the crucible system. This is really unnecessary for new players since the weapons are already ramdomized.

Overall, not recommended. This game is souls like + arpg, and not hard in terms of difficulty. However it is very unpleasant to play with and no fun in the combat system.

pls alive

The art style is gorgeous, and the gameplay is not bad, but I've definitely played other ARPGs that do it much better. I am giving a negative review right now because for an early access title there is just not enough communication nor significant updates to make this game worth purchasing right now. When there is an update, the devs act like it's the greatest thing ever and do some big showcase for it. I'd rather see them spend that time actually posting regular updates to Steam and the forums and getting the game finished versus creating trailers and trying to generate hype for their unfinished game.

I'll happily consider changing this to a positive review if/when the game hits 1.0 and is actually a polished and complete ARPG that is fun to play.