I am conflicted about this review.
The best way I can describe this game would be an attempt to make a "Cozy 3D Terraria"
My first impression was that I wanted to recommend this, but after writing this review there are too many downsides and at this point I simply can't recommend it, I want to recommend, but the downsides are just too numerous for me to do it, for example, I love base building games, and systems like this drive me insane.
First, there are tiles that block base building, you'd imagine a huge rock wall would do that, and I agree it should.
However a small bush should not block base building... and about half of them do... that alone is a impediment for the sake of being a impediment, you want to block a big base for no other reason than "forcing the players to be creative", which can be replaced by 'adding impediment for the sake of adding an impediment and calling it "challenge", when it is just annoying'
There is no centralized UI for the base, you can see how much each battery has left of charge, or how much each generator has of fuel, but to do that you need to go almost on top of said batteries and generators. Oh, and the shock sprit generator, you need to 'fuel' it with a sprite, how long does the sprite last? ♥♥♥♥ if I know.
And the 'shroom' generator, how much fuel can you put into it? ~25 minutes, yes, about every God them 25 minutes you need to do 3-4 minutes of maintenance fueling your base, why? Artificial difficult, create inconveniences for the player, and call it 'challenge', of course.
Another big issue, there is no mass removal of buildings, if you want to demolish everything to reorganize, you need to do it one by one, the problem is, the floor blocks are super small, so you need to manually remove up to hundreds of them which take ~4 seconds PER TILE to remove in order to move things.
Then another big one for me, inventory. the backpack is RIDICULOUSLY small, and every upgrade you get adds 2 to 3 slots for it, no, I'm not kidding, it absurd. why limit inventory size this much? artificial difficulty, of course, create impediments to the player for the sake of creating impediments and call it 'challenge'.
The drone that follows you is also annoying, I wish it would stay further away, it constantly moves in close and stands on top of loot.
Speaking of loot, I find it absurdly annoying that there is no 'highlight items on ground' button, nevermind an auto-loot, that would be great too, but no highlight is something that I find lacking and would appreciate being added, not having it also feels like adding an impediment for the sake of being an impediment and calling it "challenge" when it is just annoying.
Now, the good.
Resource gathering would be fine if it wasn't for the absurd limited inventory sizes.
Combat is 'fine', response is good, I didn't notice any kind of lag on input, like all games of the genre enemies have patterns, once you figure out each enemy pattern you barely ever take damage unless you actually make a mistake, this part I enjoy because there are other games that straight either cheat or are so bad at hit boxes that you take hits you clearly avoided, this game does not have that, I feel combat is very well balanced for it's intended purpose, it's not "Oh my God, awesome", no, for what the game is meant to be, it is fine.
The story is not a epic novel for the ages, however it is also not the slop that we see everywhere nowadays. It is fine, I really like that aliens actually have alien languages, wish they could have explored translation a bit there, but for what the game is meant to be, it's fine.
Sound is fine, I didn't notice any kind of super annoying sounds that some sci-fi games have that I hate, felt actually relaxing to play.
Base attacks, for what the game is supposed to be, are fine.
In short, I enjoyed it, but the annoying parts are too numerous to recommend at this point, however, if they fix some of the issues I'd gladly change my review to recommended.
