In 10,5 years the game has changed a lot, gameplaywise to the absolute worst, graphics and content for the better.
The game still neither has a story, nor do they have much worthwhile to pursue in the game other than exploring the world and building your base.
You will have at least 6 hours of very boring grind to get started in this game, because of ♥♥♥♥♥♥ decisions by the fun pimps.
Its more of a very boring and extremely repetitive looter shooter than a survival crafting game right now because the developers want you to suffer and feel like you're working instead of having fun.
There are lots of mods that make the game better by reversing the absolute incompetency of the lead designers, but don't rely on this for a buying decision, since every update of this game can make your game crash a lot with mods.



I've played this game for a long time now and used to have a lot of fun with it, but every iteration just gradually got worse and worse gameplay.
This is no longer the crafting survival it promised to be (and still promises). Practically every part of this game has been updated to be more of a looter shooter, and with the latest updates you even need to find water or dew collector parts, you cant even collect water anymore and boil it to survive.

The base building used to be such a fun thing but they changed every game mechanic to be against base building, since you need to find recipes or skill books for everything now and cant even craft most things without finding enough of these skill books now.
Its a completely boring soulless grind just to be able to build mediocre stuff, it used to be much better and the development team just ♥♥♥♥♥ on everyones opinion and introduces these awful changes.

It was fun to play with friends but with all the changes it's become increasingly boring, needlessly grindy and bland.
For example, you can't craft solid weapons, vehicles, food, pretty much anything in the (early) game without searching for hours upon hours through mailboxes and bookstores, even if you change all the settings to make it easier you can just make the possibility of finding the books higher, BUT first you need to level up a lot to put skill points towards those higher chances.

There are quests in the game, but they are just always the same fetch, bring, find or fight quests that get boring after the second time(no variation just diferrent places), and you need to do quite a few to get good rewards from them.

The story is on the roadmap for the future after release, even though it was part of the promises they made over 10 years ago, which is a complete joke.

Some good aspects of the game:
-The quests can give good rewards early on
-The airdrop, since you can actually get good stuff in there depending on your level of skills.
-The vehicles if there was another way to be able to build them. A quest based approach to players with a certain amount of skill points in the mechanic tree for example.

[h1]Don't buy this for the full price after 1.0 ![/h1] [h2]Short review:[/h2] In 10,5 years the game has changed a lot, gameplaywise to the absolute worst, graphics and content for the better. The game still neither has a story, nor do they have much worthwhile to pursue in the game other than exploring the world and building your base. You will have at least 6 hours of very boring grind to get started in this game, because of shitty decisions by the fun pimps. Its more of a very boring and extremely repetitive looter shooter than a survival crafting game right now because the developers want you to suffer and feel like you're working instead of having fun. There are lots of mods that make the game better by reversing the absolute incompetency of the lead designers, but don't rely on this for a buying decision, since every update of this game can make your game crash a lot with mods. [h3]Long explanation/Rant:[/h3] I've played this game for a long time now and used to have a lot of fun with it, but every iteration just gradually got worse and worse gameplay. This is no longer the crafting survival it promised to be (and still promises). Practically every part of this game has been updated to be more of a looter shooter, and with the latest updates you even need to find water or dew collector parts, you cant even collect water anymore and boil it to survive. The base building used to be such a fun thing but they changed every game mechanic to be against base building, since you need to find recipes or skill books for everything now and cant even craft most things without finding enough of these skill books now. Its a completely boring soulless grind just to be able to build mediocre stuff, it used to be much better and the development team just shits on everyones opinion and introduces these awful changes. It was fun to play with friends but with all the changes it's become increasingly boring, needlessly grindy and bland. For example, you can't craft solid weapons, vehicles, food, pretty much anything in the (early) game without searching for hours upon hours through mailboxes and bookstores, even if you change all the settings to make it easier you can just make the possibility of finding the books higher, BUT first you need to level up a lot to put skill points towards those higher chances. There are quests in the game, but they are just always the same fetch, bring, find or fight quests that get boring after the second time(no variation just diferrent places), and you need to do quite a few to get good rewards from them. The story is on the roadmap for the future after release, even though it was part of the promises they made over 10 years ago, which is a complete joke. Some good aspects of the game: -The quests can give good rewards early on -The airdrop, since you can actually get good stuff in there depending on your level of skills. -The vehicles if there was another way to be able to build them. A quest based approach to players with a certain amount of skill points in the mechanic tree for example.