I can't get over the fact that this is pre-alpha lol. It's such high quality already, it makes the Last Barbarian beta build look like a hasty proof of concept. I'm thinking I'll have to scrape a few more bucks to support this on Patreon lmao.
One thing I will say: I feel like the on-the-fly character modification isn't very well integrated, and kind of works against the player getting invested in their avatar (and ffs you can't even name yourself). If your character can be anything, then at the same time they're nothing in particular, if you get what I mean? IDK, this is just spitballing, but I was thinking it could be better if you selected either human, or one of the three half-ascended (lizard, cat, or jackal), either male or female, plus your colour scheme. Then once you're in-game, finding artifacts would let you progress to your full furry form (if you choose to use them), or cursed cat, etc. Humans would have access to any ascended form, but the others would have to follow their set path.
Obviously, there could be NPCs in-game to let you customize yourself a bit further, but currently, I just find the character creation system too "debug"-esque, and not player/roleplay oriented enough, if that makes sense.