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I like the graphics and the atmosphere. But that's about it. The gameplay is horrible. You control everything via icon buttons that hardly tell you what they mean. Text is used VERY sparingly and that is not helping. The whole game leaves you in the dark of what you need to accomplish and how to do it. My favorite is the line "Anna feels bad" - Good to know, but *why* she feels bad is up to you to find out. One of my peeps suddenly died and i still have no clue why. Ressource management games are actually my favorite genre and yet i was fed up after 10 minutes. What a waste of nice graphics.

It's grindy and difficult but I finished it on PS4 and took a lot of satisfaction from doing it. Definitive recommend go Gods Will Be Watching fans, since there aren't many games like that.

In short: NEVER RECOMMENDED. It has the merciless ticking-down needs that will kill you if any of them hits zero. It is more about mandatory, non-stop optimization-math than playing a game. It offers no incentive to finish AKA beat it, though will kill you fast if you stop microing it with full focus for a second. Basically, if the game really hates you, your "survivor" can die during its first resource-harvesting trip and that survivor is not replaceable. Also, it randomizes the starting stats of the random 3 starter survivors, so you can get shafted really hard (to the point of unwinnable) if you don't start a new game. This game tries to be challenging and ends up being unreasonably, cheat-codes-requring or walkthrough-mandatory-hard. I ended up getting rapped mercilessly despite microing my dudes hardcore. Good luck making the vital food when the game decides to constantly break your energy generator and your electric food processor while the trip to the repair resource piles is getting longer and longer, i.e. less resources to fight off the needs and crappy game design. "An unlockable survival mode?" Every difficulty I tried was ruthlessly challenging. Kids and people with redemption complexes ( and / or / i.e. shills ) might like it. I can see that the game is trying to screw me over and waste my time and I will never find that enjoyable, let alone fun. This game is garbage. No music, barebone graphics, laughably generic plot.

Not long enough.

The hostile conditions are the low temps which will kill the fatty if you send him out. Thta's basically it. Feels like a mobile game.