There is an insane learning curve with this game and the tutorials will not teach you everything there is to know (although more tutorials are being added as updates come out). The difficulty can spike drastically depending on whether or not you understand what you're getting yourself into when exploring certain areas or dungeons. Base building is immensely limited early on unless you either grind for things you want or be patient with recipe unlocks. There are exploits to cheese your way to riches and power, making the entire game a cake walk.

Despite all of this, I still view all of these things as positives. This game offers you so much freedom and is such a fun way to pass the time. There's an absurd amount of content already and many different ways to play. This game can be relaxing or intense, fair or a power trip, strategy focused or mindless fun, and more I can't think of right now because I stayed up all night playing this game again.

I really hesitated with this game at first. I saw the screenshots and reviews and thought this was my dream game, and after trying the demo and reading up on the learning curve I thought it was garbage. I stewed on it for a bit, read up some more on the game, and ultimately decided to give it a shot. It took a few days to finally get into the groove of things, but after about a week I finally found a comfortable loop to keep my character progressing. After 200 hours, I'm still checking the wiki and asking for help in the discord to learn about features I don't know about. There's so much stuff, both big and small, to learn about this game.

The steam workshop has some outstanding mods as well, a few of my favorites are the ones that add more games to play in the casino. I learned how to play Craps and lost my life savings on a single bet after a huge winning streak, I got in trouble with the law after forgetting to pay my taxes, I played DOOM and won a body pillow with huge hooters that teaches me new things to craft when I sleep. I'm also getting married to a goblin with breasts that are larger than I am. Only three of the things I listed were modded, DOOM, Craps, and the breasts for my Goblin, the rest is in the base game.

This isn't just a bunch of wild nonsense though, you can do some really chill stuff too. You can run your own store, become an expert at an instrument and make thousands playing at parties or on the street, become a master chef, learn how to sculpt, own multiple plots of land and give them each their own purpose (a tourist hotspot, a shopping mall, a vacation home, a bustling town, whatever you want really).

This game is all about freedom. It's still a work in progress, but beyond the iffy translations I can't name a single thing I dislike about this game in it's current state. It's quickly become one of my favorite games, and I'm so excited for what's going to come from the devs and the community in the future.