absolute trash. hasn't been touched since early access launch in september 2025 and it's beyond rudimentary and buggy. for starters, I spawned inside a wall, though I could still move. second time a wolf spawned 2 tiles from me and immediately started eating me (I wanted to find some enemies before giving up, got my wish). sometimes instead of an icon, the name of the current item is shown on the left, obviously not fitting the tiny space, looks bad and lazy. and there's no audio whatsoever.
there's a game guide, both from the main and in-game menu, but it can't be scrolled, so not sure if there's more to it than a list of [b]non-rebindable controls[/b]. tried arrows, wasd, mouse, mouse wheel, also turning and shaking the monitor a bit, nothing doing.
difficulty settings aren't explained, character creation is only cosmetic, saving anytime is possible, so there's one positive at least (but see below). it also looks nice enough and there's an ai toggle to stop all the entities from moving. otherwise they do their own thing even when the menu is brought up, [b]pausing is only possible with 'p' but you can still manage inventory and craft[/b]. and the menu is brought up every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time esc is pressed, it doesn't close any windows, only toggles that one. controls are also listed there, scrollable for once, plus there's zoom and languages, the former also possible with the mouse wheel.
there's a minimap and it's mini indeed. must be a huge world, nothing wrong with that, but can't zoom in, so it's useless. can't bring up the whole thing either. the log is in a tiny window, shows the last couple of actions, scroll for the rest. you can type stuff there, not sure to what end, but even in typing mode the character moves around if wasd is pressed. smooth.
double-click or drag adds something to your hand, no hotbar, so [b]switching tools and weapons is a pain[/b]. there's an armor slot and a third one for something else. no tooltips in the entire ui but you can check what's what in the real world. yep, that's a tree. nope, I won't tell you why you're losing hp or how much hunger that item will restore, or indeed what that item is. the cursor also sees through that sham of a user interface and shows what's under it in the world as well.
more random issues. can't reliably attack/mine tiles around you, gotta use the mouse. picking up items puts them in random slots in the inventory. some items don't have an icon, impossible to tell what they are. [b]can't drop ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ items.[/b] crafting doesn't have a hotkey, only building, a lot less important function. crafting only offers bread and various woodstuff, no matter what I have in my inventory or if I'm standing on a workbench. might be the same issue the guide has with scrolling.
and a bonus. I thought talking to npcs is bugged but nope, it's just the guide mentions the hotkey but the in-game menu doesn't. so after mining around a bit, I brought the guide up, found the hotkey, closed the guide, only to be presented with the main menu: game guide, new world, continue grayed out, multiplayer grayed out. why, pray tell, is continue grayed out? I could still see my world in the background, the cursor still told me there's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tree there, esc kept toggling the in-game menu underneath but there was no way to continue playing. in case it wasn't blindingly obvious, manual saving anytime is good and it's on the player to make sure it's used frequently, but [b]no autosaving whatsoever in a game like this is terrible, especially if the ui is such ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥[/b]. text display during npc dialog is instant, the rest is bugged, further questions never get answered, only the top ones. and you might've noticed I never mentioned an exit button. well, that's because there isn't one.
like most things, it has potential but it doesn't seem to be utilizing any of it. maybe in a few years, if it ever gets any updates, it will be something worth bothering with. I would like a hunger toggle, for instance, on top of all the issues above sorted out to make it at least somewhat playable.
