the ISLE survival

With early access obviously there are some issues but nothing game breaking that I have encountered. It does have an appeal to it. If the bugs are worked out, it will be a good solo survival game. Update after 14 more hours game time: The island is massive, you can run around for days and not see all of it. Plenty of resources to harvest for crafting items. Plenty of resources you can find in abandoned camps. If you like solo crafting survival games, give this one a chance.

TLDR; Grinding is typical for survival games, but the ISLE survival is so far out of balance that it's NOT fun and NOT playable IMHO. ***IMPORTANT*** This is NOT the "ISLE" as in the dinosaur game. That's what I thought it was when I bought it, but it is NOT. Don't be fooled. Update: NOV 2025 - Not seeing any updates, so assume this title is abandoned, and also evidenced by the total number of reviews. See below for my objective opinion. If your somehow manage to maintain interest in playing this game longer than 4 hours then kudos to you. As of the date of this review, my opinion is that the progression is so slow that it's pointless. Keep in mind I'm not new to survival games and have logged thousands of hours across multiple gaming platforms. I'm a grinding machine, but after 3.6 hours and getting nowhere I tapped out. - Gather rates are unbelievably low (1-2 items per gather) and you need hundreds if not thousands of any particular resource to make any meaningful progress or item. - A basic torch or other light source for use at night is so fundamental it shouldn't be missing, but it was. I didn't find anything besides a stationary campfire that could provide light at night. - Fuel consumption of the campfire mentioned above is set far too high. Even if you 'craft' wood into 'firewood' you'll burn through stacks every single night, which further compounds the issue with low gather rates. - Animals (some aggressive, some not) spawning inside buildings...? No. If it's going to be pitch black at night, and I have secured the location, spawning wildlife inside on top of the player isn't cool. It's just bad game design. Combat isn't great, and gets annoying fast. - Everything else I'm going to simply attribute to being Early Access. The atmosphere and overall feeling was actually interesting, and the weather added nicely so it wasn't all bad. It just needs more work. Ciao!