This is the best extraction game I've played.

The setting is immersive with a unique and visually interesting style.

The PVP combat is well-rounded (with a few quirks), plenty of utility and guns feel different but balanced.

PVE is great, the enemies are challenging but some skill and learning means you can deal with them in most situations. A lot of the time if you get caught out it's on you and the poor decisions you made.

The maps are fantastic, loads of really unique areas with great consideration to tactical play.

Progression feels rewarding and failure to extract is a concern without being too punishing.

The player interaction tools are great and the player base is a good mix of friendly and hostile players.

It's like the Dark Souls of extraction shooters and I love it!

My Game of The Year 2025.

Don't buy this, they are going to charge people a monthly fee per plot on top of the premium price they paid to own those plots.

The game is visually impressive but that's all, the content is severely lacking and the player base is dwindling as a consequence.

The gear system is poorly thought out and AI and combat are laughable.

This game is abandoned, the studio has closed and it will not see any further updates. Don't buy it.

Expensive and still incredibly tedious and basic. There aren't "thousands" of people playing. The combat is clumsy and boring. Hardly any PVE content. Check streams if you're thinking of making a purchase. This game would have been impressive 20 years ago.

50 hours played and it's got me hooked. This game combines the best parts of many survival games.

It's only PVE but they actually put a lot of thought in to the PVE content and if you like to explore or co-op it's a lot of fun.
There are quests and bosses and all kinds of puzzles and combat encounters.

The only-online thing is justified considering this game has a Dark Souls type connection system that lets you visit public realms and meet randoms. There's no server hosting fee either.

You can invite up to 5 friends to your party but I don't know if there's a hard cap on players in a server/realm. If you want your friends to have access to your home realm while you're offline you can give them a craftable address card, which is handy. Or they can set their home to your realm too which my friend and I did.

The base building mechanics are a bit confusing at first, but it didn't take long to get a basic house set up and there are multiple styles of building you can unlock early in to the game.

There are no XP levels, just gear score (You don't drop equipped items on death). So you don't have that extra grind to manage.

The crafting system is easy to pick up and complex if you want to get in to the min-maxing of gear that you create, making it fun without creating needless complexity for those that don't want to pursue it.

There are only 3 main biomes so far but there are multiple effects that apply to realms that transform them both visually and mechanically so they can look and feel quite different, despite being a forest, desert or swamp. I think more biomes are planned for the future.

There are a few bugs here and there, but it's been a much smoother experience than most early access games, so far. Every time we visit a new realm there's something new that makes us stop to check it out... Different enemies, new puzzles, new landmarks e.t.c.

Definitely recommend this if you like the co-op elements of survival games and I can't wait to see what content they release next.