Needs tooltips and some help with guidance but WOW this game is really genre defining. I had been looking for a survival shooter with a lot of depth and this fills the gap. It needs some work but can surely be a top game and define a genre if the devs add some polish.

Its a interesting mix of light survival, base building and extraction shooter. For the price its a great deal, it does how ever need some polish on things like the ai mobs, spawn mechanics , ai pathing (mainly the human enemies). But overall its good with polish it can be great. The main game has 2 modes the first mode is the open world map which is very large BUT there isnt a real reason to explore it as you can get plenty of resources nearby and every different enemy you can fight. This is the same map where you can build your base (if you build it next to a poe it prevents spawning so you can have a source of free loot to farm).
The 2nd mode is the extraction mode where you jump into a map that is arranged in tiers and the maps are the same in each tier but the enemies get tankier. Each tier has a standard zone and a elemental zone for each element so you can build gear sets for each later tier element to give you an advantage. If you die in the 2nd mode you loose all your gear on you , but if you die in the first mode you will need to corpse run back. The 2nd mode is very fun and loot boxes are all random rolls except blue boxes which give mainly building mats or related mat.
Now on to the pros and cons first the positives. 1) cost of the game = for amount of content you get is great. 2) has a grind but once you get into it its not bad with the open map + extraction maps you can easily get basic mats on the open map and get your good mats on the extraction one. 3) weapons feel good to use. 4) enemy variety is good but ai needs some work. 5) base building is interesting, you have your standard base building then you have a town aspect which are basically vendors that can be upgraded and live stock.
Now the cons, 1) dragonlings sounding like mewing cats will drive you nuts, you will hear them non stop as if you have 20 cats but its only 1-2. Dragons act like abilities (magical buffs or grenades), they are useless for the most part. 2) dragons and pigs drop poop which isnt bad as you need it for fertilizer but they drop it everywhere so you need to go pick it up as its laying everywhere in the base. (also don't build the compost near where you hang around a lot as the fly noises are loud and constant. 3) enemy ai mainly humans have nearly perfect aim at close medium ranges unless they have a shot gun, there pathing is standard run back and fourth like crack heads until you hit them then its run straight at you like Rambo. 4) large parts of the game feel as if it is a asset flip (probably is) as there are lots of creatures and maps that feel as if they don't quite match. 5) food is either buffs which you don't need unless its late tiers or a boss or minor HoT. Its mainly used to sell as medical supplies are easy to find. 6) tutorial for some things are not explained well at all 7) you cant tell how basic states before crafting gear, you ended up using the forge trader to get a idea if the weapon your thinking of making is better or worse (tier 1 rifle hits 10 points harder in basic tier than tier 2 does). 8) extraction map is the same each time just the segments (rooms) are re-arranged.
Overall for the price its a great game, i have not tried it with friends but single player its not hard and its fun. Base building is cool, the open map with the extraction map is great (open map needs some work) and it forms a solid gameplay mechanic that doesnt feel like you have to do the extraction maps to get every little item as all the items you pick up can be used in some way for crafting. I recommend this game.

the game have the same bugs just like the demo