Hello,
I would like to pick up this game but I don't know if it's worth investing time in the long run. I've played the tutorial up to some point and I like the vibe, but I don't know if it's mature enough to invest time into. I don't have excessive amounts of time and attention, and a past of MMO addiction, so I need to approach these games carefully and it would be a bummer to discover that after 20-30 hours there's no content. What's your take on this?
Oh there's definitely lots of content. I've been at it for about a year before finally getting burned out on it.
In that period of time, we've progressed from stone age to iron age, got into a major war with the orcs and their god, invented lots of weapons and armor, built two colonies (north and west) about a day's travel from the starting spot, exterminated trolls, and had the north go extinct. The old rule of thumb was that we kept achieving the unexpected in just 45 days.
I think the main problem of the game is that it's still in alpha. The rules can change drastically, like recently we've had people hitting nearly 100 stats on sparring and troll slaying, and both of these things were nerfed a lot. It burned out the people who spent months on that, but to be fair, it was broken and unbalanced.
The game has progressed past the iron age into uh, agriculture and alchemy, I guess. So the focus lately is a lot on farming and players supporting one another, as well as going far enough to get ingredients for alchemy research. The wheel has recently been invented, but the materials for carts are still very rare.
If you don't want to start from scratch, the north seems to have mostly been abandoned with the recent update, and there's all kinds of tech there.
There's also dwarf mode still locked, which could take a few months or teamwork. But for the sake of not spoiling, you can inquire in game about that.