If you like to live through an adventure this game might be for you. There is no clutter of side quests and NPCs to interact with, it is a story about survival from a perspective of a spaceship crew member stranded far away from home. It is story driven adventure, it is good, yet is not something oscar worthy so keep that in mind. Lengthwise it is 7-9 hours of play. Throughout the adventure you feel that you are being presented with more and more tools to overcome future challenges and that feels great. New unlocks new weapons, it all ads up to be a true arsenal of options to deal with encounters and puzzles. Gun design is ok, two weapons I found has to be charged to shoot, the other are just element based guns, you have to aim to shoot, otherwise you attack with melee - something I avoided as much as I could. Save system and respawn system is taken out of soulslike games, so if you die or save or reload the game, enemies will respawn, but you keep your progress nonetheless. Bulk of it is done through pillars like in Remnant. Leveling up is done by scanning new species and finding data cubes, much preferred by me when it comes to this particular soulslike design - I would not want to grind monsters in this game, it is meant to be experienced not grinded through. Now for three obvious disadvantages for a PC player: 1. Collision models, I have died multiple times just because my character got stuck on the patch of snow. 2. Navigation during research/puzzles - if you lowered your mouse speed to be able to aim with a gun, you lowered how fast you can move a camera during certain puzzles, so hand was hurting for sure. 3. When engaging with certain exploration activities, I had to approach perform interaction multiple times or game would not let me progress further. All and all good game, but if I paid full price I would not be happy. Thus I suggest to buy it on a discount.
