Game feels over around day 20

[Sotanaht]

It took several attempts to reach that point of course, but by the time I get to around day 20 or 30 I have a full camp with everything I need including enough permanent food sources to generate a surplus and a meat effigy to stave off even stupid deaths if I'm playing the right character. After that the game seems pretty much over since there's nothing left to do but grow an already more than sufficient camp and just wait out the days to unlock a new character (side note, about how many days does it take to unlock the 4th character if you have the 3rd?). I would suggest exploring, but with the world as small as it is that doesn't take more than another week at most, if you haven't already done it on smaller ones.

I feel like it should take a lot longer to reach that kind of stability, and I think there should be more incentive to do things once you are there, especially to explore. Maybe a ramping difficulty would help, I've been thinking that if either your hunger emptied faster every day, or food was simply less filling each day, I would need to constantly expand that stable camp and there would still be some kind of soft cap to how far I could get (and a challenge to try to get just a little farther).

Edit: Actually 20 might be an overestimate, I probably reach full sustainability in the first week, I just spend the next 2 on solidifying it and ironing out all the major conveniences.

Edited November 26, 2012 by Sotanaht

[Fiendish]

I do believe that in the update as the days go by the difficulty, especially in regards to hound attacks will increase making it much more difficult to continually survive. There's a quote somewhere, I'll see if I can find it

[501105]

The game is still in early beta and with each update the game becomes considerably bigger and better. Currently the game only has the beginning of your survival, so at some point you indeed hit the content wall. That said, there is more to do then just survive. You could build everything there is to build, explore every inch of the world or make a collection of hats. The new update (coming tomorrow) should make things a lot more difficult, so things are becoming very interesting.

[Juxta]

The game is still in early beta and with each update the game becomes considerably bigger and better. Currently the game only has the beginning of your survival, so at some point you indeed hit the content wall. That said, there is more to do then just survive. You could build everything there is to build, explore every inch of the world or make a collection of hats. The new update (coming tomorrow) should make things a lot more difficult, so things are becoming very interesting.

To be honest, I don't know how long this game has been around, but there is a ton of content to unlock already. And after tomorrow even more! But a content wall is always going to exist in any game you play, just the updates always pushes it back a bit more.