played it when it was first launched and thought that this game needed some major changes do be fun or challenging. and i can guarantee there have been no changes to the gameplay since day 1.
what is counted as fun in this game is just busy work and slow ass grind for resources.
and what's counted as challenge is the wildlife i guess, which only have 4 different animals but i'm only going to talk about the shark.
the shark have some of the basic coding in any game i have played lately, and this is your main challenge for 90% of the game.
if you jump in the water the "attack player code" kicks in
now if you stab him right before the attack he goes into "take a 180 and flee" mode
after maybe 10m he takes a 180 and goes "attack player" mode
if you manage not to fall asleep while doing this you end up killing him, and then you're free right? wrong. after maybe 10 min a new identical shark takes his place to harass and follow you until the day you kill him.
all the other wildlife is just like this, they only exist to follow and harass you. now this would not be a problem if it was some challenge to killing them, instead of just giving them unreasonable amount of hp.

TLDR: The gameplay loop is not fun, just filled with busy work to distract you from how boring it is

played it when it was first launched and thought that this game needed some major changes do be fun or challenging. and i can guarantee there have been no changes to the gameplay since day 1. what is counted as fun in this game is just busy work and slow ass grind for resources. and what's counted as challenge is the wildlife i guess, which only have 4 different animals but i'm only going to talk about the shark. the shark have some of the basic coding in any game i have played lately, and this is your main challenge for 90% of the game. if you jump in the water the "attack player code" kicks in now if you stab him right before the attack he goes into "take a 180 and flee" mode after maybe 10m he takes a 180 and goes "attack player" mode if you manage not to fall asleep while doing this you end up killing him, and then you're free right? wrong. after maybe 10 min a new identical shark takes his place to harass and follow you until the day you kill him. all the other wildlife is just like this, they only exist to follow and harass you. now this would not be a problem if it was some challenge to killing them, instead of just giving them unreasonable amount of hp. TLDR: The gameplay loop is not fun, just filled with busy work to distract you from how boring it is