This game redefines "early access".

Oh boy where to begin? Not sure if this Rust clone is really this messed up or if we are being trolled.

"But but but it's early access" you say? Even early access SHOULD BE PLAYABLE. You paid for it right? Did you just want to make a donation and hope they would eventually make the game or did you want to ACTUALLY PLAY SOMETHING? THIS ISN'T KICKSTARTER.

I thought I had seen the absolute worst of the worst of the latest results of steam's new ultra-low standards but boy was I wrong. The only thing this game has going for it is the visual art but that can be attributed to the unreal 3 engine. I wouldn't be surprised if they just bought a few content packs.


Now the long list of everything that sucks about this barely-even-a-tech-demo-but-released-as-early-access anyway.

- Long loading times.... just to get to the main menu... then long loading times to join a server.
- Every server shows 0 players.... even if they are full.
- If you can't join a server it kindly hands you another long *ss loading screen, but doesn't have the decency to tell you about it. It makes you continue to wait thinking you are still being connected.
- You have to restart the game ANY TIME YOU WANT TO RECONNECT TO A SERVER.

Let me sum these up for you so you can understand the connection sequence.

Start game... loading loading loading loading... ok let's get a server list. Oooo look I am the first player! Let's try chicago.
Loading loading loading laoding, frozen screen, loading more loading more... Oh I heard some ambient sound!! Oh wait it stopped.... loding loding... Oh back to the main menu. Ok let's try this again.... Loading... YOU MUST RESTART THE GAME. Ok let's restart. What's that steam? It's already running? Wait 10 minutes to end task (because it's taking up all your memory). Repeat until you finally get in 5 hours later.

Ok if you manage to get in the game you still have a lot of surprises coming your way:

- You can play a maximum of 20 minutes before the server crashes.
- Your character is saved LOCALLY, not on the server. Ahhh we trust gamers... they won't CHEAT OR ANYTHING.
- That's ok though... you can max out your skills in about 20 minutes picking carrots.
- Of course when your inventory is full of carrots you can only drop 1 at a time by clicking the carrot then clicking drop. (it looks like you can drop stacks of items, but guess what? DOESNT WORK! It will drop a bag but the bag only contains ONE ITEM).
- You can kill anything with a sharpened stick (the first thing ANYBODY CAN MAKE).
- Want to play as a female? I THINK NOT. If you choose female you are BORN DEAD.
- Did you die? Guess what you have to alt-tab and end task to quit the game!
- You lose all skills and XP when the next time you play. Did you lose connection or did the server crash? Well here we will just take all your skills and xp away. You can keep your sharp stick though. Oh yeah if you spent 1000 gold on a house, we will take that away too.
- You might as well hang out picking carrots for the entire game because that's the only way to keep your hunger meter from killing you. You will need to eat them almost as fast as you can pick them.
- Did you unlock the next class and want to make a new character? HAH fooled you. You just erased your old character by trying to create a new one! Now you can completely start over from scratch and still no unlocks! Hah! Don't even think about canceling the creation of this new character... YOU CAN'T!
- See a house you want to go into? NO PLAYERS ALLOWED. INVISIBLE WALL THERE.
- Want to swim out to those rocks about 10 feet off the shore? TAKE INVISIBLE DAMAGE AND DIE.
- it's ok though. Plants like to spawn in mid-air where you can see them from miles away.
- go ahead and jump off that ridiculously high cliff. It won't hurt you
- Hey look a mine! Hah you can't go in. INVISIBLE WALL.
- Hey look, NPCs in a city! Too bad you can't go in! INVISIBLE WALL.
- Hey look another player! They kill you. The guard just watches.... until you try to defend yourself... then he tries to kill you too. They would kill you twice if they could.
- Spend 2 hours just trying to connect. Steam won't refund because you "played for 2 hours".

The Simpsons predicted this game. Yard Work Simulator 2016.

Had I been able to get a refund I would not have posted this very negative (albeit truthful) review. Maybe someday when steam decides to grow some standards and developers learn that accepting money for a game too early hurts their bottom line they will prioritize their "resources" so this sort of thing does not happen as often. Until then I will post things like this every single time I lose some money in the hopes that they lose more money than I did (and gamers like me will save their money). Thing is I BARELY EVEN TRIED to be mean. This was my ACTUAL gameplay experience, and it seems to be happening more and more lately. COME ON STEAM YOU CAN DO BETTER.