@etacet To other readers not yet familiar with the game: at this point in time they are releasing updates every 30 days or so. And it seems that they intend to do this for a while( as there is a constant counter on the main menu to inform you of the next one). Some seem to be more sliders in the set-up menu to tweak features of the world as well as new creatures and possibly items? But for now the incoming updates are constant. Not as an effort to "fix" but to simply add new content or ideas it seems.

This review is pretty spot on. It's a great little game but it's easy to lose your enthusiasm after a couple times of permanent death. Even turning up the number of touchstone (respawn points) doesn't ensure a better chance of lasting longer, since they only respawn you ONCE from each one you find. It's a great game, but I think it'd be nice if you could simply set the touchstones for multiple respawns in sandbox mode. It'd be nice to know you can lose stuff but not the whole game after so much hard work. Just to have the setting as an option would be nice. Because starting over again and again gets a little tiresome. Even with the resource settings turned up and enemies turned down. But I still suggest checking it out. Very beautiful art style and it is fun to play in bursts.

@FireVixen Yeah I think people forget that sites like this are here to provide some information in our personal game choices. NOT to make those choices for us. A bad review, weather "bad" as in the game content or "bad" as in a viewer's opinion of the review, simply should be another assessment of the game you are interested in. Not the sole point of information. Do you're own research.

I have friends that don't like some games I really like. I don't call them names and accuse them of being mentally slow. That's silly.

"3: You are a whiny little bitch." Thanks Johnny, it's nice to hear it called when it needs to be! I missed you guys and this show. Keep it up.

@hoplayletsplay I think it was created more as an experience or art, than an actual game.

@CptJohnnyRico @Citizen_King Is there an auto-save feature? Or is it permi-death? I can't wait to see the dlc where you get buried and just rot in the grave. Awesome!

Honestly, I think the rift being used to explore otherwise impossible things like this could be very interesting. Obviously not all ways to die. But just curious things we've never thought of. I think this creation is intelligent.

"... and yes playing a single-player game." Wow! Gee thanks Microsoft for letting us play your product we made the mistake of thinking we owned by purchasing it. Thanks for letting us have access to one of the most fundamental and basic features of video games ever: Single Player. I'm looking forward to the day when we get to rent the time we use our own controllers! Take that, us!

@Cruisemissile What aren't you also excited about getting your 120$ ready now for the new pre-order standard + "season pass" so you can buy all the pre-planned dlc? And then do it again the following year! And so on... I like feeling ripped-off ahead of time! C'mon kids, 120$ is normal now for a game!

@cowbellkid But remember, only if you have enough microbes in your blood now do you have a real chance of playing. May the force be with you, if you're saturated enough. Other wise... move along.