Gotta write a long nerdy negative review because the funpimps are dumb af.

Game is fun enough but devs are really wishy-washy and keep postponing content & features in exchange for overhauling existing systems in the game over and over and over again.. OR removing existing content for no reason at all. These massive changes have always been loathed by the community because A: it means the actual new content is delayed again and B: the things that are being changed were 100% functional before and are seemingly being changed just to change them.

For example, Bandits just got delayed again with the announcement of 1.0. Bandits at one point were actually supposed to be included in this current "alpha" release. That is, before the full release of the game. Instead, in this most recent version we got ANOTHER overhaul to the experience system. Devs thought it was a good idea to totally revamp the existing xp system again for something truly avant-garde (aka ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥). They call it "learn by looting". So now instead of just earning xp by killing things, the games been turned into a collectathon and the player needs to randomly collect 100's and 100's of magazines in order to level up the skills they want..........

The game used to have a "learn by doing" system kinda like Skyrim that actually made sense and worked just fine. I guess that system wasn't convoluted enough...

The price is going up with 1.0 also without anything to really justify it besides updated player models and new armor. Again, updated player models and the armor rework were supposed to be in the game years ago according to their own words, on their own streams, the kickstarter from way back when and the multiple iterations of road-maps that they themselves posted throughout the years. They're also advertising the burnt forest biome as new even though it is a returning feature. It was cut at some point because reasons. Meanwhile we're still using their placeholder UI from 2013...

All in all, devs seem really unorganized and unfocused in what they want this game to be. That's evident just by the fact the game has been in "Alpha" for 10+ years now. Just the out of nowhere "FuLl ReLeAsE" announcement coupled with a baseless price hike and telling console players to go pound sand and buy the game again is just a ♥♥♥♥ move on all parts.

paid 7 bucks for 11 years of the devs life, worth.

For new players, here is the gameplay you can expect:
- Log in, get a janky tutorial. Hope you aren't in front of a zombie that automatically gets you as you run out of stamina trying to survive. Probably will be infected, ah well.
- Find a house to move into for a time.
- Go find a trader.
- Start one of several AMAZING quest types: Fetch. Clear. Fetch AND Clear (Woohoo!!). Restore power. Dig up treasure (canned food and junk). All at the same POIs over and over again.
- Get 5 tiers of this same quest. Then move onto another trader. Go back to up one step as they have the exact same quests.
- Find out the place you are living is a quest POI, possibly destroy everything you have.
- Build a new base!
- Lose base to a bunch of Demolishers spawning.
- Move underground, deep underground. Have a zombie 'sense' you at the very bottom at the bedrock, and have the hoard dig down to your location and leave a .5 block tunnel hole that you need to dig out and replace all the blocks in.

That's it. That's the content. If the Dev's spent even a minute fraction of the time making content as they have trying to ruin the players, this would game would have a dozen DLCs and an 80 hour long campaign. Instead, the Devs do almost nothing, no optimization, no story, no new characters, no new interactions that are actually fun, and instead make water harder, increase cloth costs across the board by x10 and then don't touch cloth dropsd, remove and break leveling and skills and make it RNG based with non-working 'if you spec for this book it will drop, except it doesn't 90% of the time!' skill leveling, breaking of vehicle, nerfs, changes to building, etc. The devs have spent 10 years trying to actively make the game worse for players. This isn't even talking about their scummy behavior of stealing bits by hijacking and taking over another groups work on an overlay for streamers.

As a note, people saying they are getting all the book drops are generally playing solo and taking every single book without looking. But after months on a server we found that the specs did not matter, at all, and the books we got were random. So I don't care about people saying otherwise, as I can only deal with what myself and every person on the multiple servers experienced. Enjoy your single player world.

All in all, you spend 20 hours and literally experience every single thing this game has to offer multiple times. The only reason people have tons of hours is they are simply grinding and spending, literal, days digging up metal (I was needing tens of thousands of resources just for bullets because of blood moon and the amount of zombies that spawn due to multiplayer), or simply deleting things and starting over from zero time and again because they don't get bored of doing the exact. same. thing. over and over and over again with zero variation. If that's you? Go ahead and buy it when it's on sale for $6 USD. If this isn't you? Just don't bother with this game. These Devs don't care, you can check back in 40 years when it maybe hits beta.