fun but long

It's OK

So why the negative review?
Because I'm not hooked.

You get dropped in the game and after a few hours that was it. I didn't want to play it anymore.
There is no 'goal', no idea that I want to see come to life in this game world.

With other games I have goals to reach, to progress or just to build cool stuff.
Here it's missing. In the volcalidus expansion, therethere is actual quests and a goal of sorts (rebuild the glade)
But the quests to make you go around the island are all just copy-pasted (move this box to the next NPC)
Why not move actual items they need (fuel, mining equipment, ...) no... here we copy paste the exact quest, just move the destination a bit and leave any storytelling or immersion behind.
I would have expected the handholding in the main game, not the addon.

I shoveled dirt, I made machines run on water
The hole is a few meters deep, the rest of the quarry is untouched.
I progressed to fishing rod tier IV, the fishing sucks because the timing is the same all the time and you can't 'lose' a fish.
I poured a 200.15 bar and made it into a dagger for a quest, the NPC in the castle rejected it because it is 0.15 over.
Buckets full of ore getting spilled when you pour them into a funnel above a smelter and having to pick them up one by one... The magnet stick just nudges them slightly, can't use it to collect it and throw it back in a bucket.

Don't tell me this game is for specific people... I played other games like DF, planetcrafter, satisfactory, deep rock galactic.... I strip mined entire mountains because I could or built excessive powergeneration because I wanted the factory to grow.

They advise you to play the game NOT on sandbox, but the game behaves like a sandbox since there is no story nor are there goals.
What goals can you set yourself if you need to first drive to the main city just to see what other things there are to work with?

Here you are hindered by the one item at a time you need to carry around.
The first thing you do ingame is go to settings and change the drop off point to some other color than the standard one, because it will drive you crazy.
The thought of having to go fetch the stack of coins, haul that around and handpick every single item you think you need, haul it back and come to the conclusion that forgetting a single 90 bend is not worth continuing the playtrough is kinda what made me write this out.
It's an OK game, but for me it is missing the fun part.

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