I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival

Fun game play and engaging story

I got it in a humble bundle for pretty cheap and I enjoyed the game a lot at first, but then it just started to fall apart towards the mid-to-late game. The busy work can be enjoyable if you're into it, but the reason I'm likely never going to finish this game is because I felt no real reason at all to expand my base after getting the main parts set up. I just upgraded my storage and the minions are very slow until you upgrade them. Even then they get stuck often and you have to set their job again after rescuing/moving them to fix their pathing. The game also has no way for you to keep track of buildings being constructed and what mats they need, since you can just set them up and leave them. The storage is abysmal too. You can store things in your workbenches. It sounds nice, but I don't believe the minions even access them, so they can't use those materials to build anything you set up. It's only useful for the cooking station, but inevitably that is way too small and you need an upgraded chest to store all ingredients. And the chests you start off with are Very. Tiny. They did introduce a storage that lets you stack One Item beyond it's usual stack and then withdraw stacks from it, but you have to manually do that every single time. The label for your chests also doesn't extend to being viewable where near it. So...you gotta click on every thing to check it. Which will quickly become tedious when you realise how many resources you need to swap for other resources to keep going. I did play it on normal difficulty with the survival mechanics on which were not really much of a challenge and I only felt inclined to make it more "cozy" because I was getting tired of having to cook when I need to grind resources, then all the leeches and weeds felt more annoying then something to care about. I never built a single defensive structure. I could go on. Even the relationship mechanics when finally introduced were shallow and boring. I had to cut a pickle??? Once a day??? Then press three buttons that light up in a row??? That's without going into all the narrative stuff, which if you care about that stuff the game is not worth it at all. Even without any bias it was just not given much consideration or depth and felt like it suffered from classic early access issues in general, where newly updated narrative elements and game flow didn't mesh with previous updates. Starts out strong, but just becomes grindy with little reason to enjoy the basebuilding or engage with it.