Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which Steve Hogarty explores the wilds of early access. This week, he’s attempting to reintegrate into functioning society by becoming a lumberjack.
Developer: Exponential Games
Publisher: Exponential Games
Release: Out now (early access)
On: Windows
From: Steam
For: 15.49/$20/ 18
January. Hell month. My powerful brain usually a throbbing, high-performance organ capable of doing several sums per minute has atrophied to a wet walnut, a sodden grey scrap of cauterised flesh that ricochets around inside my skull like a horrible slug. The excesses of the holiday season have left my wretched body brittle and hollow. My eyes are sunken into my cadaverous face, like somebody launched two bad grapes as hard as they could at some uncooked bread. There is only one reprieve from this cursed month, and that is to become a lumberjack. Don t try and stop me.