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Just not enjoying the core part of the game: drilling and vacuuming up trash. Might try again after a break but frustrated right now with how much vacuuming it takes to get through to the next area and progress the questlines. There are upgrades for the vacuum and drill and I wonder if they make the tedium much better. I have one drill upgrade and it helped but not enough.
The other parts of the game are generally fun, if clunky and in need of many QoL improvements. The farming and associated upgrades are fun to work toward. The farming itself is less great. Press E to individually harvest every. single. crop. I have about 100 crops. Then click each plot to plant a seed again. I think later there are automations for this but I'm 7 hours into the game and don't have this yet, not sure how far off it is.
Just about everything in this game is clunky. Talking to NPCs is weird. You exhaust one line of dialogue and it ends the conversation, requiring you to press E on them again and start over. The conversations are tedious to navigate...press space to skip dialogue, but then *click* continue to go to the next line. No button for that. Similarly, getting the prompt to harvest crops or items from animals is tricky and requires the perfect angle. Same for planting. There are special quest items and there are extras in the world that you occasionally come across...and then can't get rid of, taking up inventory space permanently. And at least 7 hours in, inventory space, even with the first upgrade, is constantly a problem. Combat would be frustrating if it weren't so easy...it's easy to get stuck on invisible walls and take damage. The jank overall would be fine if the core gameplay were more fun, but since I'm leaning heavily on the game's other aspects and comparing that to similar games, it's just a bad version of all of them. Unfortunate because I like the idea and there's a good core of a game here, it just needs some help.
Edit: Nearly forgot about the game's performance. While it runs fine, I couldn't believe how much it spun up my fans on the highest graphics settings. The game is not very pretty, which is fine, but not if it's going to tax my system for no reason. I lowered settings down to the Performance setting and the looks barely diminished while the CPU fan went down significantly. I think the only thing I missed was the foliage because the world is very "flat" without it. I tried experimenting with the settings for a few minutes to see if there was any key setting that made the fans spin up but couldn't identify it (e.g. usually shadows are a big one), so I settled for just lowering everything except the resolution.