Hmm.. I will say this beforehand it does feel like an early access game. This is not your AAA or even AA experience. It's very rough around the edges and it has a lot of polishing to do before i would say it's up to a decently high standard for "first person exploration/adventure games". But despite the flaws it has it was still a very good experience. I enjoyed myself throughout the entire journey, and i would recommend everyone at least give it a chance.

It's both very pretty and also very ugly in the sense that you will see a lot of rough textures and pop-ins which if that is what ruins games for you, skip this one. Personally i don't really care that much and as long as the game runs fine i can live with it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The gameplay is a mix between quests, exploration and resource gathering to paint (and when i say paint i mean photograph because that's what you are gonna do) or help with said quests. The map is mostly forests, fields, coast lines and a bit of glacier/mountains. It's very slow feeling and you will get around 8-10 hours of gameplay if you wanna 100% and maybe like 6 if you just do the story. Depends on how quick you figure out what you need to do.

Some things i really enjoyed and hated:
Pros:
+ The bicycle is hilarious to ride around. Loved going into the library with it
+ Same with boating on the reed one you get later, went around the entire coast line of the Island.
+ It's characters and writing is on the most part solid
+ visuals are quite good except for the afformentioned pop-ins
+ very relaxing to sit with, and just explore around.

♥♥♥♥:
- Had quite a few crashes (recommend: hardsave your game frequently)
- Texture pop-ins and a lot of holes in the map where you can see through the enviroment, low quality textures and the water was quite lame for a game that looks this good.
- The uncanny effect of the npcs can maybe turn some people off, but i personally got used to it. (they very much have the soulless staring into faces of older games like skyrim/mass effect)
- Lot of weird sound bugs and bad audio balancing
- Some... Questionable accents for a couple of the npcs...

Overall if you like this type of game give it a shot.

I've had this game for 2 years now and it's absolute perfection. I never get tired of going into Eastshade. Still the most stunning world I've seen, and beautiful thoughtful gameplay. Thank you to the devs for making this gem.

Love this non violent open world game, such a relief to not have to kill things in order to advance!