Really slow grind purpsely made to waste more time of yours. From the get go, you don't press F to interact, you have to hold F down for some time for every action. Even in the crafting table, you hold down the button to craft.
Then you have a hunger bar/stamina; every action makes you hungry, once you reach full hunger and faint, the night time enemy wave begins. That's ok, but next day, your hunger is still 100%, what you have to do is plant and grow more food, so you can eat and take more actions in the day time.
Tile a field +5 hunger,
plant seed +5 hunger,
if you don't have water, go find a water plant and shake it +5 hunger, water droplets spawns and start running around and you have to go after and catch them all for some time wasting your time running around,
water the plant +5 hunger,
Eat the vegetable -17 hunger.
Although there are subtexts on seeds encyclopedia giving hints to how to double the yield, mostly by planting same two seeds side by side, still collecting resources all over the map and farming was the most boring, repetitive and time wasting thing.
You want a watering well that collects some water daily, it needs 2 planks, 2 bricks to build; so you need to craft those from 20 wood and 20 stones; where would you find wood and stone is mostly to run around in the day time, reach every corner of the map and touch every tree and every grave along the way, hope for a resource to drop, collect 10 of them and turn to usable resource for your building. It is just wasting time.
There are some free action fruit bushes around, you shake it, drops some fruit and gives -2 hunger each. Every day you run left and right the whole map. Look for treasure dig-sites, collect fruit and water, feed Cthulu for some seeds, turn excess seeds to little bit of experience, faint in the day from hunger, start the night defense, rinse and repeat.
There are upgrades to buildings and plants but doesn't make the game any faster probably up until the mid-end game.
If you lose your house, you drop some of your inventory but gain -50 hunger, it might even be better to lose.
And the Uncle Stein NPC that gives you quests, talks, talks and talks, just doesn't shut up.
Just no. It could be better if it was purely top-down base building tower defense without a character and you didn't have to run around everyday to collect resources so long.
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I wanted to give another chance after submitted my review. I have launched the game and when I started my save it tried to load, it froze and crashed both the game and the Steam as well. Steam restarted. And I tried second time, same as before, the game launched and when I tried to start my save file, it froze, crashed the Steam and crashed my Browser too, and I couldn't do much but to restart the PC. I am not going to try third time.
