I’m not going to hold the bugs and crashes against the developer, for now. Those could very well be because my PC is having issues.

That being said, let me tell you my experience.
I love the idea of a survival and colony sim type game set in the wild west. It’s a setting that I feel needs more games that are not RDR.
Starting off as a caravan that gets split up in the snowstorm is an excellent way to explain why you have absolutely nothing and why you’re alone. It’s a plausible situation.
My first few minutes was following along with the quests to learn how to survive; gathering wood and stone, build a campfire, craft and axe, so on and so on.
When the quests said I need to search for someone, I never got any questions markers or any notifications that I needed to leave the area I was in. I’m not asking to have my hand held, just something to say “go down the hill to start looking” or put a marker on the map to show ‘look around here’
Once I left the let’s call it the tutorial area, I found a few tents and started working with them.
Again, a few gather items quests were given to me, and again, no real indication where to go other than a vague “near the forest” or “farther North”.
After an hour or so of just riding around aimlessly to find my quest goal, I just got tired of having no sense of direction or guidance.
I don’t remember having these issues with Sengoku Dynasty or Medieval Dynasty, but like I said, it could have been a buggy download or computer issue.

I think I’ll go give the game a shot again, after a few weeks because I really want to like this game. We’ll see if I can get past the issues I have and I’ll update my review then.