It's unnecessarily grindy. I don't think it's 'fun' to lug around 1 giant log, or large stone around when the buildings require 4+ of each. Sometimes one must go farther away to gather these materials. Your inventory does not seem to increase as well as your maximum stamina. Constantly running low stamina to build anything yields a boring experience. Hopefully this game gets better because I can't refund it anymore.

This game is a slow burn, which might be fun if events were more tweakable. As it stands, I'm unable to build a village that can defend against a bear attack and feed itself at the same time, so I probably can't handle whatever winter is going to throw at me. And it takes 15 days of building and planning to find out I didn't plan adequately -- that's a lot of time to keep losing. This game feels like I've wasted 48 hours of my time.

PRO
Very good and fun game. It has a lot of potential.
The developpement team is active and keep sending update frequently.
Combat is fine, it's not the primary focus of the game.


CONS
The game is in open Alpha and it shows!

The AI is fine for most part but it doesn't work well in keys area degrading the gameplay a lot. For example, it is very hard to control how many items the villagers will produce. The warehouse workers keep taking away items from building required for crafting. The gatherers cant use carts for some reason so they bring only 1item at a time. An other big issue is even if they good cooked food they just eat raw food. I have 20 villagers right now and I do more work by myself than all of them combine.

Most key ressources (like trees) never respawn so you have to travel more and mroe to get ressources and the longer the game goes the harder it is to get ressources. And remember the npc cant use the carts so they bring back very little ressources to the settlement.

You can,t set boundaries to a settlement, so if you build a second one the villagers try to travel between them, so at some point all your villagers do is try to reach the second setttlement never reach is and go back to sleep.

It is a big issue with mines. Building your settle next to a mine is pretty much mandatory and you're in big trouble when the mine doesnt have any ressource left.

Some skill trees are incomplete. you can chop down willows trees but you cant uproot them because the best tool in the game right now are not good enough.

Terraforming is bad but at least it's there. There are some big rocks you cant remove so its hard to build everything you want where you want.

The are some bugs, I fell out of the map many time.

CONCLUSION

Overall one of the best game I've played in a long time, but I love colony sims/survival open world but it does need A LOT of work. If you don,t mind playing a VERY unpolished game I highly recommend it otherwise I would wait for more updates.