Obviously it’s a very hyped up game, and I was apprehensive posting this as they have sufficient marketing behind them already. It’s meme’d as “Pokemon with Guns”, but at its core is a very heavy survival play style.
Have you tried it? How many hours in are you?
If you have, what do you think? How does it stack up against other survival games for you?
My view is in the comments…
Edit: First 2 votes are downvotes and into minus immediately? I get you may not like the hype. Say it, but this is to also stimulate debate and build this community. We’re off the lemm.ee first page and any downvote is just going to contribute to keeping this community buried when it needs a little oxygen. Do we really want another dead small community? It’s also an opportunity to bring folk into survival games…
I see the charm of it but the survival aspect seems a little basic to me and as a result I haven’t bought it yet. I got a bit of a “My Time At Portia” vibe. But I’d be happy to stand corrected.
My preference goes to either survival with some kind of automation or increasingly complex mechanics (eg Factorio) or those that requires actual survival and mastery of it’s systems that make building your first base rewarding (lately I found out about and have been absolutely addicted to Vintage Story, before that it was Haven and Hearth)
I mean there is a level of automation in terms of picking the right pals to work on your base with the different skills, either cutting trees/rocks or farming, or carrying, or producing drops (cows for milk, some others for wool). I’m not too far in, but that automating the resource gathering has meant I don’t need to worry about food, stone or wood any more, which is nice :).