HAINYA WORLD

You can tell what kind of game this is. Let's face it, if you're looking at this you've likely played Terraria or Starbound. It's a fun game, but the balancing is strange in some places in craft costs and bosses. I struggled immensely on the mech boss too using the same gear till the final boss and none of the bosses were remotely as difficult as that fight and that's several bosses in the handmade secondary world before the final boss. On that note: The secondary world where all the coolest gear is (About half the game if not more) is basically not safe to traverse or farm in till near max level (5 levels away AKA lvl 75-80). This is where all the towns and NPCs are. Why lock probably the most detailed part of your game for after or near where you've achieved max level? Yeah we can access it at low level, but there's not point outside the bank. The game needs QoL features like "quick stack to existing stacks in nearby chests" it's tedious storing things because your inventory fills up within 5 minutes of just travelling to a boss. Weapon balancing I found incredibly odd too. Many weapon types but the staff I found to be the most powerful weapon by far, it hits twice in a normal attack guaranteed, it hits fast, it's ranged and it hits medium-hard so it's likely to proc things like health on hit ETC which won't proc on skills and only basic attacks - it also pierces unlike the majority of guns. The staff also paralyzes AND stuns, this includes against bosses. The only thing that came close was a greatsword on stunned enemies and bosses while using an accessory for 30% more dmg on stunned enemies. Sniper is incredibly useful to cheese enemy range too, risky on bosses though because it leaves you open unable to dodge roll while reloading or chambering another round. Companion NPC's AI is just terrible too. They get stuck often or don't do anything until you're hit or you summoned them near the enemy you're fighting and remain close in most cases. Or they attack the air. So what makes Hainya world good then? Progression is fun, you have levels and some pretty indepth enchants and skill gems coupled with accessories makes quite a lot of possibilities for build variation. Despite the staff being OP other weapons are still viable too, it's not like the other weapons are bad, just not as good as the staff type. Bosses while sometimes frustrating are actually fun to dodge roll and learn their attack patterns. Where Hainya World really shines though? Character customisation and building. This by far has the most character customisation I've seen for a 2D survival craft game and pretty much all outfits outside of made equipment can be dyed at any time, at no cost using hue/saturation sliders. You even have a currency you earn ingame for outfit gachas. Your character will feel unique due to that. Just press P and boom, customisation menu. Even weapon abilities can be customised with skill gems that can change the main, secondary and ultimate attacks of the weapon and the skills it came with. As for building, well, pretty much all furniture is useable and there are a lot of variations you'd expect in survival craft games. If you can handle some odd jank in balancing and the lack of some core QoL features survival craft games usually have nowadays and you like Terraria or Starbound and wanted something akin to those then you will be okay with this one. Keep in mind my experience was all singleplayer. From what I've read there are some issues with multiplayer so if you're going to get it just for that, maybe keep expectations down but I cannot confirm myself if those issues still or even do exist. In my experience, issues like what I've read about in regards to multiplayer are usually due to players being in completely different regions. More or less syncing and latency issues. This wasn't a well thought out review. I just woke up and felt like ranting. Have fun. If I could, I'd give Hainya World a 'mixed' rating. Considering if this game was fully fleshed out, balanced a bit better and had the QoL features others games like it had I feel it'd actually have a good shot at competing with the well known ones. Also considering I got about 70 hours out of this I'd say it was worth the price point too for me.