Just play the demo ! You can keep your save from the demo to the complete game :)

I dislike how this game is expanding with new ideas faster than it can teach them to the players. While also completely not following its own rules on what IS told to players.

Synergies with other workstations and constructions allows you to build new things. These new things get a green background on them, illustrating that you have them from a synergy. There's a collection of blacked out silhouettes at the bottom of a crafting menu to show that there's yet more things to unlock.
Only problems:
- First few times I had a synergy give me a new recipe it was the normal background and I had no idea what happened.
- Silhouette'd items can come from anything, including just making the previous tier of the item "unlocking" the next one.
- You can have new silhouettes appear, so you have to constantly check previous crafting stations if you missed something.
- When you have all the synergies for a crafting station, you still don't know what is from what and how to unlock the rest of the items. These could be from world progression, getting a rare drop off the ground, getting an item you need to get a tool from a different crafting station and use it on a mob, crafting something you unlocked at a different crafting station, or my personal favorite some weird item I have to unlock at the research station but I only have the silhouette of it from that station so I have to go back and forth multiple times because "is it THIS tall thing? or THAT tall thing?"

To make coconut cocktail (an item required for progression) you need to unlock the area to get coconuts, go to the workbench and split the coconuts, then unlock the cooking pot (which explicitly states it's for complex cooking), build the cooking pot but it doesn't have coconut cocktail, notice that the cooking pot is the square silhouette for the workbench synergy, place it next to the workbench, then craft your coconut cocktail AT THE WORKBENCH INSTEAD. I was stuck here for over an hour until I gave up and looked it up. Which I found that so many others had this problem too.

Chlorophyll? Craft dozens at a station that takes a lot of rare items. Or get an advanced research table to get the chlorophyll converter after unlocking a different item first in the advanced research table and then just place the converter near plants and wait. Guess which one you have access to WAY before the other?

I don't even know what I did to make the spinning wheel gain a new thread recipe.

I don't have any issue with complex crafting chains, unlocking new tiers of items and recipes, or even having the unlocks obfuscated. Really! I love the idea of learning these things. Starting on a path and looking over what all my new options are to play with. But when I have to remember 12 hours ago when I first unlocked the energizer that it can be used to "electrocute resources" and that I have to place that next to this uncommon resource, wait for it to electrocute it, THEN I can mine it to get 1/10th of what I need for one new tool... All while not communicating anything to the player, and maintaining over a dozen crafting benches that might have only 8 things in them to make? Its too much spread too thinly and too little communication.

Every unlock is a chore. It makes you realize you have to check 20+ stations to see what is new (if you can even remember what it had before) and what of these new options is required for you to progress. All to get a little faster at breaking rocks.

Illustrate clearly to the player what they can do. Give them a little journal that has info on each build after they construct it! You can read it say the synergies it has, what recipes it comes with and what it unlocks as you add synergies, even some stats like how much power it stores. The journal is magical or something and has blacked out areas that give a hint how to unlock it (only with souls can I be revealed~). When a big new area is unlocked, have stations that are effected with new recipes glow until you interact with them. Let me read somewhere about my resources, so I can learn in-game that octanite can be energized with tools rather than me guessing what the hell "energized octonite" is when it's a crafting ingredient completely stonewalling me.

Sonewalling is an experience this game has given me too many times now.

The closest comparison to this game is easily Forager and Nova Lands. If you enjoyed either of those games then you absolutely will enjoy this similar experience in the first person experience. It's a cozy fun incremental game that has a beautiful pixel art style, what more could you want?