This game doesn't deserve the bad reviews it gets. Is it perfectly polished? No. But is it unplayably clunky? Also no. This game is a survival open world rpg, this is not a power fantasy game. Your character starts out as a random kid who gets thrown into something way bigger than them, you are not going to beat more then two enemies at once and you need to stay near home if you don't want to die of starvation or get ambushed in your sleep. You aren't a master fighter or a wizard, your attacks are slow and clunky, if you don't take off your backpack you roll like a truck, most enemies with two to three shot you. That's not saying the combat system is clunky and bad… Because that's how it's supposed to be. That isn't to say the game is impossibly hard, it's just you need to approach it in the right way. Run away from fights that are against your odds, use ranged weapons to weaken enemies before they reach you, stay well rested with enough supplies to keep you alive. Just play the game like you are a level 1 dnd character, a wolf is going to rip your throat out unless you are already good at souls like games. You won't become a proper adventurer until you are a good 10-15 hours in, but once you have proper gear and better perks you can then go and one shot those enemies who were one shotting you. And there is a tone of build variety, this is the closest to a true rpg you can get without going full kenshi and just not having a story. You have a bunch of different factions you can join, almost a hundred perks that each each have their own progression trees and can work well with different ones, hell the game even has multiple types of spell casters. Basically it's what skyrim leveling wanted to be.

So get this game if you want an immersive adventurer game. Not if you want a rpg power fantasy. Buy it if you are the type of person to enjoy small world details and exploring hidden locations, walking across big fields and planning your travels ahead of time, using landmarks to navigate and wearing heavy jackets if you don't want to freeze to death at night. Not if you like to fast travel everywhere and think eating in video games is stupid

This game doesn't deserve the bad reviews it gets. Is it perfectly polished? No. But is it unplayably clunky? Also no. This game is a survival open world rpg, this is not a power fantasy game. Your character starts out as a random kid who gets thrown into something way bigger than them, you are not going to beat more then two enemies at once and you need to stay near home if you don't want to die of starvation or get ambushed in your sleep. You aren't a master fighter or a wizard, your attacks are slow and clunky, if you don't take off your backpack you roll like a truck, most enemies with two to three shot you. That's not saying the combat system is clunky and bad… Because that's how it's supposed to be. That isn't to say the game is impossibly hard, it's just you need to approach it in the right way. Run away from fights that are against your odds, use ranged weapons to weaken enemies before they reach you, stay well rested with enough supplies to keep you alive. Just play the game like you are a level 1 dnd character, a wolf is going to rip your throat out unless you are already good at souls like games. You won't become a proper adventurer until you are a good 10-15 hours in, but once you have proper gear and better perks you can then go and one shot those enemies who were one shotting you. And there is a tone of build variety, this is the closest to a true rpg you can get without going full kenshi and just not having a story. You have a bunch of different factions you can join, almost a hundred perks that each each have their own progression trees and can work well with different ones, hell the game even has multiple types of spell casters. Basically it's what skyrim leveling wanted to be. So get this game if you want an immersive adventurer game. Not if you want a rpg power fantasy. Buy it if you are the type of person to enjoy small world details and exploring hidden locations, walking across big fields and planning your travels ahead of time, using landmarks to navigate and wearing heavy jackets if you don't want to freeze to death at night. Not if you like to fast travel everywhere and think eating in video games is stupid