I'll start by saying sometimes I'm not necessarily the best at this type of game, no matter how much I like them, a strange concept, I know, liking a game I'm bad at, but there you go.

Anyway, maybe it's just because I'm bad at the game but I definitely feel like the difficulty ramps up way too quickly. I've read a couple of other posts form people who completed the demo, and they all pretty much played out the same way. And I want to play my way, not the same way as everyone else. I've tried multiple ways to get through this but I always end up failing on the third, or sometimes 4th move, never even gotten to moving towards the snow place once yet. It should definitely be more viable to play multiple ways rather than having to rush for very specific tech with extreme micro-management of the golems. But getting swarms of highly-explosive bats, octopus guys that just sit there at the far edge shooting me out of range of my weaponry, or a fustercluck of lightning squids that sit so high above me most of my weapons don't have an angle on them, as early as wave 2 sometimes, when I've barely had time to work on the tech trees, feels like a bit of a cop-out.

With the resources that you need for upgraded ballista (not ballister, by the way devs) and trebuchet being random finds and not getting them back upon destruction means they're a waste of time, resources and energy, but not having them means the regular ones get absolutely hammered in no time flat, so the only option for decent firepower, cannons. Which if you're not lucky you may not find enough resources to be a viable weapon until late... Too late.

Now onto a few bits of weirdness I've seen. The Golemn AI is... lacking. I've seen them go to transport an item but then drop it back on the floor a dozen times before taking it back to the storage area. They will often work til starvation, despite having food stored and not being an emergency. They will stack multiple boxes partially full of the same item, taking up unnecessary storage space. The workers will try to take items out of storage to use on the work stations and then either one of the other golemns, or they themselves, after placing it in front of the work bench will then pick it up and put it BACK IN STORAGE, and so a fight ensues with one golemn trying to take an item *out* of storage and another (sometimes the same one) trying to put it *in* storage, thus neither of them get any work done. Resources dedicated to a work station should not be able to be picked up, just like when resources get dedicated to a building/fortification, it gets put down and reserved for that build until it's complete. But resources for production (most notably stone arrow heads) get placed by the work bench by one, then removed by another instead of being reserved for the assigned output. And, of course, sometimes they just seem to mill about aimlessly, sometimes even when there is work to be done.

So, with all of that out of the way, I'd like to move onto the positives. Overall the game is a brilliant idea, an interesting mix of Genres and had a *LOT* of potential. Each individual aspect of the game works well and is implemented well, but all together they just need a little bit of a re-balance. Overall though, for an early access demo where problems and bugs are to be expected, I'd still give this a solid 4/5