I love the concept of this game but as others have stated the rng of the cards is infuriating. I love the idea of only being able to survive with the cards you’re dealt, but it’s incredibly annoying to only get cards for things you can’t do yet because you haven’t gotten the card to first allow you to craft tools or build the workshop for example. It forces you to shuffle for a card you might be able to play or end the day after 2 deals. Which is fun at first til it keeps happening and you just can’t progress at all. I’ve not once been able to repair the stove. I’ve gotten the chance to do it once and I just happened to craft furniture right before and didn’t have enough materials (lesson learned not to use all materials at once!) but now half the time I can’t even get the card to build the workshop. I think a huge improvement would be to NOT get cards in your hand that you don’t have the requirements to be able to play it. E.g., don’t give player cards to repair cabin, warm up, garden, etc. before they have the requirements to be able to do so. It just leaves you with nothing to play.

I won finally around 106 days. Oddly, my best survival is 112 days, but I died on that attempt. Even more funny, prior to finally winning, I think I died on day 3. So, some luck is involved, especially early on, but once you established yourself, it’ll be easier to weather the storm, so to speak. The key is HEAT. You can survive without much food, but you’ll freeze without heat. Pay attention to the brief tutorial. Get that stove working and get an axe and hammer ASAP on day one. This is critical. If you don’t do it, good luck surviving. You’ll want a knife later to build some crucial furniture. The rest, you’ll have to figure out. That’s part of the fun. You can use gems to help with cards, but it’s not necessary. I won without using any gems, and it’s more satisfying that way.

This game’s cards seem impossibly difficult. They don’t appear to be random. I’ve spent days playing hundreds of times to rarely get by the first month. I can’t get far enough to find out what this game has to offer and have fun. My approach seems logical but the card algorithm has a different plan. Several cards need to be drawn, in exact order, to survive much less to get ahead. If you don’t get wood, then tools, then 3 woods every few days your going to die. Add a difficulty scale or something to make it less frustrating. If you try to buy items you’ll freeze to death. If you scrimp and save you will die too. My results are getting worse the more I play. The very few times you last a month bad cards, not bad play will kill you.What’s with the gems you earn from achievements? There’s no where to spend them that I can find. Also, this is for an iPhone screen. Small on my ipad. This will be good. It is not buggy and well put together. The fishing is fun, the dog is cool, and premise is great. I just really don’t care to learn a card algorithm as it is. I’ll check back.