That’s going to be difficult to answer because people are going to look for different things in the game. I don’t particularly care for the survival mechanic. I don’t like having to keep up with food. And the food appears to spoil rather quickly. Like some of it has a timer of like 15 minutes. Currently there’s a bug though where you can make it last indefinitely. If you have food on you drop it and pick it up and it resets the timer. If you have food in the feed bin, move it from the bin to you then back in a resets the timer. Also appears that perhaps if the pals add food in like eggs it resets the timer as well.

For a pokémon game it’s all right. It is leagues better than what the pokémon company has been putting out. Closest I can say is it’s kind of similar to Arceus.

The AI needs work yet. But it’s early access so that’s to be expected.

Combat, I really don’t know what to say. You have stats as the player that go up based on your choice each time you level. You can increase your damage by 2 each level… You start at 100 damage… And the weapons that you get are basic, poison and fire. You can also get a melee weapon but… If the player is meant to fight alongside the pal it needs a little work yet. Especially with your range attacks you need to constantly craft ammo.

The whole crafting mechanic… I don’t really understand the point. It’s the exact same mechanic that’s just lobbed into every single game. I will say it works quite well in this mechanically. Like when you’re trying to put a wall up or floorboards down they snap together. And you don’t need to keep the resources on you you can just have them in a container literally anywhere on your base.

There are proper bad guys, which the pokémon company has long since abandoned.

If this game gets the proper support from the developers, I can definitely see a lot of potential from this. But I think they’re definitely going to have to sit down and think about what should be in the game and what should not be in the game.