Quite a compelling game with a good amount of content, I ended up playing for quite some time once I figured out how the systems worked. There's a nice variety of locations, activities, and resources which incentivize you to explore and keep moving around. Looking forward to seeing where you continue from here.
Played on normal difficulty. Some notes:
- There's some friction in the beginning when learning how to do stuff, perhaps the questline could be used to guide the player along more tightly? usually I detest overbearing tutorials but a little more guidance would've been nice. there are some major jumps between quests as well
- in between horse and car perhaps there could be some intermediate form of transport? or perhaps more variety such as wagons
- being able to leave and retrieve transportation was nice
- It took me a while to realize using a tool in one section would disallow usage of it in other sections
- Some things that players would expect to be easy to do, are quite limited or it's not clear what's required to unlock them. For example it's very easy to make the fishing rod/net in the early game but a screwdriver is required to dig up worms. Same with picking up water with the kettle, locked behind quicklime.
- A huge portion of the game was opened up when I looted some stuff from a hardware store by getting the screwdriver and crowbar and hammer but before that I was really limited
- My initial rope broke quite early and it wasn't until i found a screwdriver that I was able to make more rope
- there's no way to discard crew members
- There should be some way to designate which foods will be eaten. Mostly a problem with fruits, in the early game sometimes I wanted to save fruit for juice or whatever instead of eating it when i had other food options
- sometimes on a tile there are too many things and no way to scroll down unless your monitor is large enough
- When I'm missing one of the resources for a campfire recipe, it says I'm missing both (missing firewood, mussels) instead of just the one I'm missing (mussels)