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Steam reviews

What players say

Overwhelmingly positive: players praise its brutal, detailed injury system and emotional weight, while complaints centre on crafting, late-layer design and missing quality-of-life features.

Most players recommend the game and say it is punishing but fair, with a detailed health system where injuries, infections and exhaustion shape every run, and deaths that feel like lessons rather than losses. Many praise the atmosphere, soundtrack and the way the player's empathy for the small creature they control is built into the design. Some players say the layers and difficulty settings offer real replay value. Criticism focuses on crafting, which some find oppressive or unclear, on the later layers feeling like rushed dashes with little to gather, and on missing quality-of-life features such as selling items or saving mid-run. Some players call the tutorial locked behind progress a barrier, and a few note an audio issue with the health menu. Recent reviews are more mixed than the overall totals, with more reviewers saying the full release changed little compared with the demo.

Who it suits

Players who enjoy punishing, detailed survival roguelikes and don't mind learning through repeated failure, and players who like emotional, dark stories told through gameplay.

Who should skip it

Players who want forgiving pacing, a smooth early tutorial or a long late game, and anyone who finds graphic injuries or distressing content hard to handle.

Short vs. long playtime: Players with more hours tend to praise the depth of the systems and the late-game challenge, while newer players more often criticise the early overload, the tutorial and the crafting.

Summarised by AI from 72 Steam reviews (English, helpful and recent), as of Nov 12, 2026.