4 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 104.5 hrs on record (48.9 hrs at review time)
Posted: 26 Nov, 2022 @ 11:29am

Early Access Review
Really fun and innovative, you have random maps with random resources and in every run, different random blueprints for buildings - make the best of it and try to make it to the finish line in time!

It felt a bit too RNG driven at first but as you get better at the game, both as a player or with meta upgrades (there is a cross-map progression system), you get additional options, rerolls or other ways to handle problems and the game really becomes fun at that point. Difficulty scales up well and you can push it further if you want to so it never gets too easy or boring.

Another bright spot is the excellent UI, the game has tons of shortcuts or intuitive actions that makes it very easy to manage your outpost and villagers. Definitely check out the tutorial, guides and default keybindings because they can help a lot and make it even more enjoyable.

There aren't any major bugs that I've seen, the game feels pretty polished and the devs seem to be on top of any issues, delivering updates and changes every few weeks, and unlike some other EA games these are actually meaningful and noticeable changes and additions. There are still some issues with the overall presentation and balance but from what I've seen so far, they will be solved sooner rather than later.

A definite recommendation if you like objective driven survival basebuilders in which you have to make tough decisions and balance tradeoffs at almost every step.
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