Will check back later because survival games are my jam, but it isn't ready.
Graphics: dated. Though jungle interiors can be quite beautiful at times, assets are endlessly repeated, and the rock formations and sand/dirt look like something from the PS2 era. Your avatar, a female in shorts and a tank top, is always visible when you look down, but because of the low detail this breaks immersion rather than strengthening it.
UI: Mostly not there, which is good if that's your thing. Food and water meters have no indicators to draw your attention to them as they get critical, and because they're so unobtrusive you kind of forget they're there. Suddenly you're breathing hard and limping, which is your cue to eat or drink.
Icons could definitely use some work (the crafting book for example).
Crafting has both your recipe book and your inventory laid out in front of you physically, similarly to Green Hell, but every item is represented by only one of itself. 1 wood looks the same as 45 wood. Because of this it isn't possible to see at a glance how much of something you have, you must mouse over individually, which is clunky.
Gameplay: Basic, yet unexplained. No surprises here, shift to sprint, e to pick stuff up. Crafting recipes are strange in their requirements, with 15 wood, 15 stone, 5 cloth to make a starter axe.
When crafting, you right click an item from your inventory and it appears in the middle crafting area, but no matter how many you move to the crafting area, visually you only see one. So again you have to mouse over to double check how much of an item you're crafting with. Crafting an axe for example would require 35 clicks to move all the materials.
This needs work.
Speaking of crafting, there's no indication in game for how to get cloth, which is needed for starting tools. A dev dropped by the forums and said to kill animals for hemp(?!), which can then be made into cloth. Searched for animals for 15 minutes, never saw one.
Unfortunately there's not much here yet to differentiate this from other more complete survival/crafting games, though the devs have a promising attitude. Quick fixes would be to reduce crafting requirements to something more realistic, or at least more reasonable (it takes almost as much wood to craft an axe as it does a building foundation) and have some alternate way to get cloth.
I will always try to support folks making this kind of game so I will not be refunding. That said, I can't recommend it at the moment. See how the devs do for the next little while and come have a look again sometime.
