How playable is this solo? Is the town management and construction more involved than in Terraria?
I played this game earlier this year. I'm not sure about the recent development, but for the time I played it, solo was definitely not a problem. You can even recruit NPCs to help you in hoss fights, and these NPCs have a low cooldown on potion consumption. As long as there's potions, NPCs are unlikely to die. You can even focus on dodging and let NPCs bully bosses. NPCs also help in other perspectives e.g. farming and mining. Its QoL is the best in this genre, in my opinion.
Thanks! Good to hear solo is viable.
What's are the mining, farming and building elements? Are they in-depth, do they require strategy and planning?
These are definitely not complex, but that also means it may be too shallow to you. The NPC management is quite straightforward, and they can handle quite a lot.
If I have to point out a problem, for chests with the same priority, NPCs will only seek the nearest chest, which may waste chest slots (multiple chests have the same type of item). In other words, NPCs will not seek a farther chest to try to "finish" a stack. But please bear in mind that I played an version of the game; this may not good true in the current version.
I thought the base management in Terraria was extremely shallow.
Cheers! Will have to checkout a first impressions video.
It looks like it but NPCs can help you with work so it may be more reward for the effort anyway. I have a group of friends starting it today so I'll try and remember to share what I learn.
Edit: The random NPCs you find in the world can be invited to your base, where you can prioritize the tasks they're capable of doing and define areas for them to do them in. I think the automation is simplistic and might need hand holding in the form of inventory organization and stuff but it's a huge difference from Terraria where NPCs just act like vendors.
With couch co-op I would instabuy. Now it'll have to be a pass.
It doesn't look resource intensive. One person plays on PC, one plays on a tablet. Easy.
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