This is a tough title to give a positive review on, most of the game is great, but there are some key things that can make the experience rough. I really dislike that some abilities are pretty much useless, I tried to do a "Ranger" style build and use a bow, and dear lord was that useless, I hit like 1 out of 10 shots, and I am not exaggerating, my shots would land 1 tile short of the enemy and then the enemies would be in my face and whoop me. So there are some playstyles that are just completely useless and should be removed from the game if they are THAT unplayable.
Another thing I very much dislike is that your spells deal damage to your character, just for casting the spell, and this is stupid. So, picking this playstyle you are punished for playing it.
This is a very punishing game, it is fun and it is very challenging, but it really rides that line of almost not enjoyable kind of challenging. I do love me a challenging game, but this is close to almost doing it wrong, which is where it becomes intriguing. I don't enjoy every moment of my time with it, however, there is enough here that I do like it, I like the survival elements, the various buffs and debuffs including the cooking and food mechanics. IMO it is very very close to being something special, it is just missing some key elements and tweaks to get it to that next level. I am fine with the exhaustion mechanics, injury mechanics, and survival elements, but just make the game playable and remove the self-damage of spells, it's a stupid element that goes in the not fun category. The amount of times I could have squeeked out win, I actually lose because my basic fire spell ticks me for that last 3-10 HP I had left and kills my whole vibe with the game. This has happened enough times that it is a problem, let me just play your damn game and have fun, it doesn't have to be easy, and I don't want it to be, swinging a sword has an inherent risk of hitting yourself, why is there no self damage with a sword? it's weird
