In current state, on reccommended difficulty, which is hard (Lose everything on you, on death) i cannot reccommend this game, is this game fun? Yeah, when it works and when devs don't decide to kneecap a mechanic just for the fun of it (Looking at you rocket gravity, killed all the rocket variants, and gutting infinite ammo settup (your gun still breaks, so it wasn't even that good, just funny), as fun isn't allowed).
In my 90 hours of play i only "died" 2 times in this game and both of them do to game just breaking, first i wanted to try endless mode, i thought it might be cool, and yeah when it works it is fun, but it can just break and rob you of everythnig, enemies might not spawn and you'll just be stuck there with no escape, as amulate (Your way to dip back home anywhere, anytime, as long as it's charged) doesn't work in endless to get back home you need to progress and lvl your "Meter" until you roll the "Go back home" card, so i had to quit and loose everything, that sucked, but i just said "I'm not going back to endless so ♥♥♥♥ it".
And the 2nd time was recently, when i finaly got some good items, wanted to to a challenge in the side door of a lvl, it was "Find and kill 10 chickens in that room, while enemies spawn around you" cool i thought what could go wrong? Well apperently everythnig, i was using cryo rockets scrol, which were recently added, and i didn't know they were absolutly gutted, but oh well, i forgot to pre charge my amulate, so i just went with it, and the funny thing is, it apperes when cry rocket splash dmg these chicken their "Deaths" don't register properly, so when i killed all of the 11 chicken in that room (Yes, they give you 11 chickens in "Kill 10 chickens challenge") i still had 2 left, and i never failed one before so i was thinking it'll just boot me out of the room, but no, it just kills you, and you lose everything (On hard).
And now on possitive note, if you play this game on normal (Lose everything in the inventory, but keep things on you) or easy (Just lose money on death, i restarted on it, cos it's just more fun) the game itself has a lot of fun things you can do in it, and gore effects are really grusome for the game that looks like this (Had rooms painted red a lot, when i was using explosive scrools, it's peak), not to mention o lot of fun (And some absolute TRASH) guns and things you can do with the, making bad weapons good in this game is one of the funniest things you can do, and the buff mechanics are reletivly deep, you can change the bullet calliber on everything, other then energy guns, and add scopes, laser pointers and barrel attachments (Energy guns can't have barrel attachments, but they have no recoil, so you can build around it, or not, up to you).
But here creeps in another one of my personal grudges, 50% ish of buffs\scrols mods are bad or outright useless, like anything with bullet drop will just kill any gun, unless it has bouce on it (Previoucly rockets weren't affected by gravity, so you could build around it, but now it's either bounce or a dead gun), and your gun can only have 5 buffs (As in oils or scrols, attachments, aren't buffs, so you can just slap them on without worry), and only 1 scroll buff out of these 5 (So you can go for 1 scroll\4 oils, or just go 5 oils) so putting things like + durabuility or knockback on guns just feels like a waste, when you could put anything else there, like dmg, reload speed, firerate, less recoil or less spread, not to mention repairing your gear is as easy as it can be in this game, you can find a lot of random trash, that just does it, and repair kits restore an indane 6k durabuility (Which is so much i don't think any base gun has that much durabuilty, i saw 5ish k at most on handheald minigun, i think), and getting these kits as easy as talking to the repair woman in the run\at base, not to mention if you break the secret wall you can find toilets (The way for you to offload gear back to base without going home, but it's only 2 tiles wide, so you can't drop armour or something else big there, mostly just guns or scrools, or something else small you'll need back at home) and in there you can find toilet paper, which restores 375 durabulity, and that's enough to repair any non weapon gear up to full and any weapon up to 10-20%
In short, if you go on easy and look up wiki, like it's terraria it can be fun, guns, combat and what you can do with guns may bring you joy, untill the game breaks out of nowhere or devs push some stinker of a patch killing fun strats, that you enjoyed
