Abiotic Factor

my favorite survival game of all time now. I love the theme, I love the gameplay, it has so many cool QOL mechanics that make me honestly not want to play any other survival games. Negatives: because it is a rigid map and a rigid story, it will likely be less enjoyable the more times you replay it, however I am at the start of my 2nd playthrough and honestly I enjoy going through the game knowing what is going to happen and also being able to find stuff I failed to find previously. some of the weapons feel super underpowered and some feel way too overpowered that it makes the others irrelevant. The game does incentivize you to a couple of the best weapons I personally for a while hated the ending, I appreciate it now but I knew what was going to happen like halfway through the game and I knew I had no way to influence the ending the skill system is a bit underwhelming [spoiler] cheesing the platform cart recall [/spoiler] can obsolete some of the challenge with exploring and loot management it felt like I needed to look up a lot of stuff to find out about it, some recipes and strategies I would have never found if I didn't look at the wiki it can be grindy to get leveled up in many skills whilst some are super easy to level up, even with the wrinkly brainmeat trait (20% boost to xp gain) some resources can be quite annoying to get fishing systems are stupid in every game, they arent as bad as other games here but I still don't like fishing systems in games at all. Its not required but some recipes need it and some resources are best obtained by doing it overall I would say its 9.7/10 for me. truly love this game. I tried to resist for a while doing a second playthrough and was successful for a few months but it won in the end