I have been playing video games in one form or another for almost 40 years and this is so close to my ideal game that I could cry! It is a survival/crafting/management with optional combat. I have been building up my settlement and improving my skills for 35 hours and haven't even touched the quests yet. I don't have anyone else in my village either cos I want to have a go at everything myself and build up a really good supply of resources before recruiting new villagers. I have chickens and pigs, a farm and an orchard. I am not very good at the hunting or fighting mainly because I am old and have terrible reflexes but the options allow you to reduce the hp of animals and bandits whilst also reducing the damage they do so I at least have a chance of beating them (I still die a lot). I have seen a few people play optimising money making and recruiting early etc but the really great thing is you can play however you want and at your own pace, there are no deadlines to building your settlement (except that you age and can die of old age but if you have married and have an heir aged 18 + the game carries on as the heir!). I am loving playing slowly and I don't care if I'm "doing it wrong" it really doesn't matter so keep your disparaging remarks to yourselves! xxx

Too much jank. I keep coming back to see if it's fixed, but eventually get frustrated and quit after my first few in game years. It could be a really good game, but it falls really far short.

The only way I could afford to have my own home.