my thoughts after 70 hours:

Bare in mind it IS early access at the time of this review.
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**I will not explain character creation... apart from... you create a character (all of which have been struck by the *YOU SO UGLY HEY! YOU SO UGLY HEY HEY!* Scanlan meme!!! and you can change the starting difficulty and name it)**

As a survival addict (its in the name) its *one* of the best i have ever experienced... and a VERY great try in being something almost completely different.

But... in true early access fashion, things could be better, some horrendous and also random bugs (which is to be allowed considering), however, Just over a week and no updates yet (apart from *we added a new server* stuff).

The bugs should actually be the priority as they are in MOST games - it is so annoying to have *random bug #1837* on character 12!!!! (this is what i mean by RANDOM bugs - example... one of my characters had his inventory eaten, none of my others did - in the Forest Antiquarian realm, the Realmic Transmuter is broken *on ONE of my characters* in the sense of, add a card to it, it does the GFX *i am changing this realm for you!* however, it doesn't take affect and you have no buffs/debuffs listed on the hot bar - as i say COMPLETELY RANDOM as it hasn't affected my 11 other characters)

Difficulty?
TO be expected... easier with friends... but a few of my friends express *the game play loop is currently too boring for me to play again currently, sorry dude, you are on your own!* - i have to agree in MANY ways that it does get extremely boring - i want SO MUCH to make it to The Watch, but i cant, because the bosses become IMPOSSIBLE on medium difficulty solo (in my abeyance), and now i am stuck on *medium* with impossible bosses... why am i stuck? Because if i want to make the abeyance realm easier i have to create an entirely new one and leave all my stuff behind!!!!

Content? I personally haven't seen much of it at all beyond the Provisioner Realm (as i cannot complete the Herbarium SOLO) so i have no clue! However, many streamers and youtubers have reached end game within 50 hours (but they at least, have friends who are bothered to play at all!)

Personal current outlook and feelings of where i am in the game? - Could have a LOT more content for us Soloists, mechanics SHOULD be explained a lot better! (how do i upgrade X bench with X? how do i get gear level 70? how do i get past my stale mate with the Formidable Bishop in the Herbarium? etc

GREAT AND AMAZING **try**.. yes.. its early access... yes it is being actively worked on (however, we still NEED updates!!! because now it is getting a bit boring having to create new character after new character, trying to figure out what my 6th character did wrong... and trying to find a *load* that ISN'T hit by random bug #937!!!!)

I am however marking as RECOMMENDED because for all its faults, it IS a very fun game (although gets boring fast) and they have tried so damn hard to make it such! BUY IT!!! ***If you dare!!!***
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TL:DR:

Fun concept
Trying to be something new in an old skin
Difficult as a solo player
Boring game play loop
A few bugs, many of them random
Worth the low price if you understand that it is early access

NEUTRAL REVIEW

my thoughts after 70 hours: Bare in mind it IS early access at the time of this review. ------------------------------------------------------------ **I will not explain character creation... apart from... you create a character (all of which have been struck by the *YOU SO UGLY HEY! YOU SO UGLY HEY HEY!* Scanlan meme!!! and you can change the starting difficulty and name it)** As a survival addict (its in the name) its *one* of the best i have ever experienced... and a VERY great try in being something almost completely different. But... in true early access fashion, things could be better, some horrendous and also random bugs (which is to be allowed considering), however, Just over a week and no updates yet (apart from *we added a new server* stuff). The bugs should actually be the priority as they are in MOST games - it is so annoying to have *random bug #1837* on character 12!!!! (this is what i mean by RANDOM bugs - example... one of my characters had his inventory eaten, none of my others did - in the Forest Antiquarian realm, the Realmic Transmuter is broken *on ONE of my characters* in the sense of, add a card to it, it does the GFX *i am changing this realm for you!* however, it doesn't take affect and you have no buffs/debuffs listed on the hot bar - as i say COMPLETELY RANDOM as it hasn't affected my 11 other characters) Difficulty? TO be expected... easier with friends... but a few of my friends express *the game play loop is currently too boring for me to play again currently, sorry dude, you are on your own!* - i have to agree in MANY ways that it does get extremely boring - i want SO MUCH to make it to The Watch, but i cant, because the bosses become IMPOSSIBLE on medium difficulty solo (in my abeyance), and now i am stuck on *medium* with impossible bosses... why am i stuck? Because if i want to make the abeyance realm easier i have to create an entirely new one and leave all my stuff behind!!!! Content? I personally haven't seen much of it at all beyond the Provisioner Realm (as i cannot complete the Herbarium SOLO) so i have no clue! However, many streamers and youtubers have reached end game within 50 hours (but they at least, have friends who are bothered to play at all!) Personal current outlook and feelings of where i am in the game? - Could have a LOT more content for us Soloists, mechanics SHOULD be explained a lot better! (how do i upgrade X bench with X? how do i get gear level 70? how do i get past my stale mate with the Formidable Bishop in the Herbarium? etc GREAT AND AMAZING **try**.. yes.. its early access... yes it is being actively worked on (however, we still NEED updates!!! because now it is getting a bit boring having to create new character after new character, trying to figure out what my 6th character did wrong... and trying to find a *load* that ISN'T hit by random bug #937!!!!) I am however marking as RECOMMENDED because for all its faults, it IS a very fun game (although gets boring fast) and they have tried so damn hard to make it such! BUY IT!!! ***If you dare!!!*** --------------------------------------------------- TL:DR: Fun concept Trying to be something new in an old skin Difficult as a solo player Boring game play loop A few bugs, many of them random Worth the low price if you understand that it is early access NEUTRAL REVIEW