It is what it seems to be. A pretty solid open world survival craft, on a website where most games are Ren'Py VNs or cookie cutter RPGM games. It is worse than most games of its genre in how much you'll need to experiment before stuff starts working. For example, I only noticed that shields can be used to block late in the game. And a few people only noticed the "perfect block" mechanic when I told them.Well... it looks like some half-baked, janky Unity survival game. The beginning is kind of bad, and the mechanics are so-so.
Why do so many people play this? Does it get better over time? I saw a lot of screenshots with a lot of stuff on those, but it's hard to tell if there's any meaningful gameplay behind all of it.
I've played Don't Starve, Terraria, Minecraft, 7DTD, etc. This game is nowhere near any of those. At least not in the first couple of hours.
It's not much of a breeding game (there is no heredity worth talking about), and its castle-building potential is rather meh, but there is a good amount of content - buildings to build, items to craft, bosses to fight and so on.
Note that this is a game from the authors of Black Market, and it got even worse. So if you're into cannibalism and guro, this game can provide. Or you can safely ignore the mad stuff and it would not impact your gameplay much.