I don't touch survival-crafty games much nowadays, but this has been a really good experience so far. Extremely good at making everything you do feel rewarding, and full of fun little touches you don't really get anywhere else, like:
- Navigating the world by briskly dashing between pathetic little patches of shade (a.k.a Australian Summer Simulator)
- Being too late to light the mist braziers first thing in the morning and almost being burned alive
- Planning, building, and meticulously decorating your menacing Gothic edgelord castle (just a stone's throw from the shops, obviously)
- Having your vampire friends come over and roast your abode over the voice chat because you've been renovating
- The grim comedy of window-shopping the local farmsteads for someone with decent blood to drink
- Using combat buffs to speed up your mining rate, because you just mine stuff by hitting it
- Not only is there a button to automatically deposit items from your inventory into a chest if the same kind of item is already in there, it's also labeled "COMPULSIVELY COUNT". Because, you know, vampires.
- Luring roaming overworld parties of enemies into fights with each other and picking off the stragglers
- The first time you try to mine a rock and it reveals itself to be a stone golem, which subsequently flattens you in a single hit
- Feeding your old weapons and armour to a mimic you keep in your house.
- Cutting down a tree and realising that you just eliminated your only source of shade (ow oof ouch)
- Being able to move machinery and chests around without being forced to empty, destroy, and rebuild them every time.
- Feeling like an absolute monster because of the 'boss fight' where you have to chase down and drink the blood of a harmless little old lady who just happens to be a distant descendant of Dracula
