Combat, Main Enemy Types

Your main enemies are animals and insects. Rejoice my friends this is a Zombie free zone.

Characters and Leveling

The game is in first person so there is no character creator, however the game features 2 extensive leveling systems.

Creature Taming and Mounts

There is currently no creature taming or mounts, you will however need to build boats to get from island to island.

Weather Impacts on Gameplay

Much again, like the long dark, Weather does impact gameplay. It will give you status’s that you need to heal or risk death.

Game Modes

The modes are “standard” very easy, easy, hard, etc, with a second selection that limits how many times you can “faint” before your character dies forever. So you could essentially set the game to very easy and only allow 1 death. I hope they are able to add a “survival non-story” mode, again much like The Long Dark.

Map

The map is hand crafted, at first I thought it was rather small, but now after traveling around the starter island I realize it is HUGE.

Over Gameplay Difficulty

The game is not difficult to learn, everything works much like you expect it to. The game play is challenging. You must “slow down”. You have to sleep, you have a higher chance to injure yourself when working in the dark. You will need to stop and cure problems. Every action passes time, even to the point where mapping at night is not posssible.