Last Epoch is a fun Action-RPG with nice complexity and reasonable difficulty. Even for a person not playing every ARPG there is, you can make it to end game and with the factions (esp. the trade faction) you can create nice builds without 100s of hours farming for the basics - instead you are able to grind for improved gear fitting your build.

Having said that: Eleventh hour games has the clear goal of losing the player base by all means necessary. The first measure to loose players is to do a refresh mid-season, which is solely caused by EHGs incompetence in preventing item duplication which destroyed the in-game economy. As a second measure to loose players, EHG decided on randomly dropping key features. I bought Last Epoch enthusiastically for the native Linux support, which I fully acknowledge is irrelevant for the majority of players. However, the native Linux support was removed mid-season (which they call cycle to further alienate players) with no adequate communication of any reason for doing so. So why should the majority not on Linux care? Well, what is your favourite feature that costs them a few quid to develop and might they just drop it next week? Ok, let's not be unreasonable and use Proton which is handily provided as a Wine fork by Valve. Have you ever tried playing an ARPG with under 10 FPS? It simply is not feasible, so I cannot play the game I enthusiastically bought in early access. Having player 440 hours I think it's fair to say that I got a lot of game for my money, still I feel defrauded by the unceremonial drop of an adequate client for my choice of OS. So, when looking for a new (to you) ARPG the window for buying Last epoch is closed, EHG does not want you to play.

Last Epoch has really fun & well designed classes with lots of build variety, but the game is held back by horrible performance, boring & unfinished campaign, and slow development.

The game itself is very fun. Having skills interact with each other on the various classes makes the investment feel more deep, and the different skill sets per class makes the gameplay feel mostly distinct between each other.

That said, there has been a major (to me) issue regarding how inputs feel. Often times, the inputs feel unresponsive, and clicking on levers, quest objects, etc feels clunky. This is a terrible experience, and it has been that way since I got the game during the Early Access, and hasn't been addressed to this day. I don't know how to explain it best, but there often feels like a disconnect/de-sync between what you want to do when you click, and what actually happens. Sometimes this makes the character feel a bit floaty. Again, I'm not quite sure how to describe it in a way that really pinpoints the potential problem, and how it could be addressed. It just feels off.

I would highly recommend this for anyone who wants to play a variety of ARPGs during the downtimes of others, but I don't think the game is evolving in a way that makes it trade blows with its biggest contenders. That's not to say it would never reach that point, as the game itself is still quite young. But there are some UX problems that feel like they are basic enough that they should have been ironed out prior to multiplayer being added. I would really like to see addressing the "sense of polish" become the top priority before another expansion/season is considered, as it ends up breaking the immersion and creates momentary frustrations frequently.