ENJOY THE PAIN, DONT GOOGLE ANYTHING, BE A MAN

I love survival games, but this game does not want you to survive, The Jungle hates you, and in my first 30 minutes I had died twice at my starting location. I had worms, parasites, leeches and all kinds of things hanging off me, letting me know that I am not welcome here. The learning curve is steep, you are going to die a lot just by tripping over a log into a bush and coming out with all kinds of nasty things attached to you. The first 10 days will really put you to the test, are you cut out for survival or in fact this game. But you ca learn, then restart your game and give yourself a better starting chance to survive. After those 10 days where you WILL come close to dying multiple times, you start to get to a point where you are no longer surviving, you are living and thriving. This is where the game really takes off and becomes addictive, you wont want to turn it off and you will want to explore, but beware, there is no real effective map system to help you, jsut your watch co ordinates and you WILL get turned around very easily and maybe never find your way back to your base. The game looks beautiful, the crafting and menu system is a bit awkward at first but you do get used to it, and you will love ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ out parasites and worms. Love it.

I shouldn't have let recommendations trick me into buying this. It looked frustrating, and it is unbelievably frustrating. It's a huge step backward from the Forest. What were they thinking making three different types of food in the game?! Who cares about nutrition in a survival situation?! Nobody bothers with a balanced diet when you're trying to survive in the wilderness. Just get something in your gut that doesn't make you sick, and you're good.

But no, this game had to complicate every little thing so that you're constantly struggling to not die, to the extent that you can never actually play the game. This is the opposite of fun. It's punishment. I wish I hadn't made the mistake of giving the game 5 hours to try to give it a fair chance, when I clearly should have requested a refund after 2. Even worse, I wasted the full $25 on this, and now it looks like I'll never get it back. Buying this is my worst regret on Steam.