I'll give the Overseer credit. They definitely made me suffer playing through this game. If the design is intentional, you certainly convinced me to stop after patiently playing for 3 runs for 2 hours. Because by that point, the game became unfun and I started questioning why am I wasting my time when the story hasn't gotten good yet. Mind you I played this on Easy because at first trying on Insane difficulty was what I tried to do until the first encounter.
At first the game itself had potential. Then you get to day 3 and you need to scavenge a lot of stuff, requiring a minimum of 15000+. You're basically restricted by weight and power, some stuff you earn doesn't net you much value, the maps are dark, one encounter can 2-3 shot you without much trouble unless you buckle down and upgrade. And they ain't cheap. You earn 2400 - 3000 at most and those 2000 are mostly used to pay for the other 2 party members. Everything is RNG in the worst sense, its difficult to navigate the terrain and find even the exit because the map itself is waaaaaayyyyyy too big for me to net around. There's no mini-map option which doesn't help one bit. It gradually becomes unfun the longer I played.
Saves are only on campsites.
The encounters with the enemies range from nightmare to absolute hell. The rats can stomp you with numbers. The bats can blind you, reducing accuracy. The robots can deal 50%+ of your HP, the blob can attack you with 90+ HP. The only saving grace are the coins who are super tanky but they do nothing until they run.
Also, enemies level up while you don't which is vastly unfair on your end. Which makes me question what the point of a level is in this game.
Now I'm unsure if its because I played on Insane then turned down to Easy yet the numbers don't change (which is a bug) or I actually am playing on easy and its still a nightmare regardless. Mind you, this doesn't include the thirst/drink mechanic that could kill your survivors if you don't give them rations.
I personally thought this game's presentation and atmosphere is well done but the gameplay is just... tedious. Even with the brutal encounters and stuff.