I would be lying if I said that this game were polished by any means, but it most certainly is fun, promising and alright to play already. This is, of course, after my game had crashed 3x just loading it up for the first time. The game ran fine after I reloaded it for the fourth time except for random moments where my game completely tanked its fps for a few minutes and would stop working. It is odd, as it works for a majority of the time, but there are horrible spikes.

This game looks like survival craft, with the juxtaposition of overly-realistic items in the inventory with the lower resolution landscape. It also has the same gameplay that you would get should you download a mod pack on minecraft. The same sort of loop where you collect resources like stone and wood, craft tools, make kilns furnaces and the sort and eventually lead to killing dragons and hard enemies. This comes alongside exploring pyramids and other structures.

I have had lots of fun playing this already! It feels well balanced with stamina, with things depleting your energy but replenishing just in time to continue activities like cutting down a tree etc. I also love the levelling system, it makes you think about how you collect resources (i.e. chopping down a tree vs picking up sticks) and it is well balanced too. Being able to scale with level points is a great thing in this sort of game as it gives you the motivation to keep playing, with quests being introduced to gain relative trait levels too (rather than the average game making you just repeat the task a million times for ranging XP gains). The game itself is very player friendly. I didn't do any tutorial [I've no clue if it has one!] but it isn't needed whatsoever. It is very intuitive, there is a great deal of progression indicators, and you do not feel lost whatsoever.

The differences between the two is mainly the price point (with this being free), the levelling system the game provides, and the over simplified mechanics.

The game provides many different modes:
- Survival (where towns are safe zones)
- Survival (with no safe zones)
- Survival with no towns
- Survival from an island
- Survival (but you get waves of enemies periodically)
- Survival (but you're a vampire)
- Waves of enemies (medieval)
- Waves of enemies (futuristic)

These modes are welcome, as they give you a choice in how you play the game, but they should perhaps be DLCs AFTER the main concept of the game is polished. At the moment they are just different versions of the same unpolished thing and I cannot imagine so many game modes being perfected in the short time frame of 1 year that the developer has set as Early Access.

The inventory is very large, and you do not seem to have a carrying capacity in terms of weight. This is great as a new player as you get to explore and basically pick up EVERYTHING! I love and hate it, as it does make the game quite easy, which I can see becoming boring once you're not necessarily new.

Crafting is also oversimplified in terms that you can craft directly from the inventory. This comes with the caveat of there being a crafting timer, but it is nice as you can exit the inventory while it crafts and you can queue multiple things at once. Again, I love it as it is so simple! But this also does remove those extra steps for a player, like in minecraft, that do slow you down a little to keep pace.

There is this constant wind blowing sound that doesn't get quieter inside of buildings and it drives me insane!

The biggest problem with the game (from a personal standpoint) is that the UI is sooo hard to see. I messed around with the settings and changed the screen scale, this does help as it increases the UI (such as making the inventory boxes larger etc) but the items inside of it do not seem to scale. It is incredibly difficult to tell what is what in my inventory as a new player, and it made it significantly harder to craft or locate anything as the items are just so small and jarring to look at.

The world also feels incredibly boring as a solo player as there is an element of loneliness. There are no enemies within an immediate range of the player regardless of the mode, and friendly NPCs are entirely silent in their interactions. They do not offer even textual dialogue. Personality would be nice to introduce, or perhaps a line of dialogue before entering the trade system to make it feel like an exchange between a player and a character. At the moment, NPCs serve as basically just quest terminals.

Finally, combat is quite lacklustre considering the entire game's premise seems to be working towards fighting enemies. The wave defence mode is incredibly slow. It took ages for the first goblin to arrive at the house, and the first wave is just 1 enemy lol!

Overall, this game is not bad by any means, but also not the best. It is free, however, and if it were able to play with friends then I honestly do see people finding this game lots of fun. It is still early access, so everything must be taken with a pinch of salt and recognise that these are the building blocks for what honestly can be a great game that takes elements from all the crowd favourites, but doesn't feel like a copy. Once this game is fully polished, it'll be great! The developer seems to be in tune with players and I can't wait for it to develop. :)