Started playing this with some friends. It's a very approachable survival game. You have to eat but your food doesn't expire etc. Progression from tools and materials is very smooth. Punch some trees to get wood. Make an axe. Use axe to kill boars and cut down more trees. Use wood and leather scraps to make a bow. Use the bow to hunt deer. Use leather from deer to make clothes. Everything about the progression just seems well planned out so you're consistently getting new things to make and build.
Combat is very simple, and ai is primitive, but it's still kind of enjoyable. We just started seeing enemies with special abilities like self heal, poison etc. So it's going to ramp up. When you die you have to walk to your body and retrieve your loot. The trek can be long. The map is absolutely enormous and randomly generated.
We've only scratched the surface. For an early access game we haven't encountered any bugs or crashes. Performance needs some work though. I generally avoid early access, but this one actually seems good.
