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I normally don't write reviews, I've only written one before. That being said I hope this will be visible to others and the development team. My play time is roughly 9 hours, and my tool upgrades are at the current max, I have the bridge built , and I've broken down everything I can in the first few areas.

I'm having a blast. This game is fun, cozy, and definitely scratches an itch I've had for a while. I played the demo a while back and that pretty much sold the game to me. The graphics are great, gameplay is solid, and I haven't encountered a bug yet. I recommend this game to anyone who likes top down survival games.

However, I have some gripes.

1: Food: As you progress and gather different seeds, you get access to better satiating plates. These are basically useless to me because the amount of materials required to give you +50 food is way more time consuming than going fishing to make patties en mass. With how quickly your food deteriorates, there is no point in putting all the time in to gather all the materials necessary to make some of the higher end food stuffs. That brings me to my second gripe:

2: Hunger: Wow does hunger go quickly. It seems the more you eat, the quicker your hunger goes. You get a bonus to carry one extra item if you bring your food levels up past 65, but that lasts only a minute or two because your hunger depletes when its over 65 (it seems) by double. If I'm not taking up an inventory space carrying 10 food items, I can't get much done. Again, crafting some of the good food items takes 4-5 different food items to get a measly +50 satiation that lasts only 5 minutes. Hunger depletion is probably my biggest problem.

3: Carrying items: With your cybernetic hand, you can only carry one item. With 65+ food, you can carry two until you upgrade your hand. Then you can carry a max of three. For how far you have to meander around to gather these materials, the carry amounts should be doubled. Which brings me to>>>Storage

4: Storage chests are okay with spacing for a tier one build, but that's all you get as I've seen so far. The metal and wood storage only hold ten pieces each. So while you're running from one side of the map to the other to gather 2-3 at a time and run it all back, you will end up wasting materials on building these storages that don't really hold much. So currently, I have a mountain of wood and metal cluttering my screen. Plexiglas (as far as I have seen in my time played) doesn't have a storage unit, so you definitely have to make a mountain of that in your storage area.

I understand this game is in early access and has more to come, things will change, and overall the game will improve. However I hope this review finds the dev team respectfully as feedback and the community as a fair review. I recommend this game and give it a 6.5/10 for now, and will update my review as things change.

So, let's be real. Eden Star is your good looking, and fun survival game that you can currently get 6-8 hours out of (which is nothing compared to most survival games but hey, whatever). But let's also dance on the spectrum of how long this game has been in early access and how many actual updates there have been. They wished us a happy new year on Feb 5th with another experimental branch update. It's like the dev team is going backwards and not actually working on this game like their income and reputation depends on it. Most of their replies to reviews are "tell us more about why you did or didn't like it please" Dev team, lets be frank, they did, they said this game has been out for 4 years now and you literally have nothing to show for it. I normally don't write reviews but this game to me had so much potential and I wanted it to be a success. Alas, it is not because the dev team appears to completely have given up on it, or just taking all the money they made from the years past sales, and slowly abandoning the game. Anyway, if you're thinking about getting this game, DON'T at it current state. Wait for a final product because having this sit in your library wondering when the next update will be is useless. Kay bye.