It's free, try it and decide if you're into it. There's a lot of cutscenes so give it a couple hours. And it's not like the cutscenes ever let up, if that's a downside for you consider it a no then. Reminded me of mgs4 honestly with how the plot and cutscenes went. The moment to moment gameplay is mostly hiking, a little bit of planning before a trek, and some real "oh shit oh shit there's ghosts/MULEs here oh fuck I didn't prep for this" tossed in. There's a spooky haunted woods section that was really fun in the beginning. There's a sense of progression from getting upgrades and advancing west. The combat is baby-easy, you don't want to kill people in-game for diagetic reasons but also because the combat is unrewarding. The game's themes are very appealing, I found. I thought the space they were exploring was intriguing and it'd be nice if more big budget games played around there instead of "I AM A GUY IN ARMOR KILLING EVERYTHING AROUND ME" - the idea of isolated people coming together is neat. I didn't find the characters all that deep or interesting, the lore was cool, the actual story is a little bizarro (it's untethered unedited Kojima so of course).
If you don't want epic launcher and have access to a console your local library might have a copy you can borrow (for free), that's how I played through.
It's free, try it and decide if you're into it. There's a lot of cutscenes so give it a couple hours. And it's not like the cutscenes ever let up, if that's a downside for you consider it a no then. Reminded me of mgs4 honestly with how the plot and cutscenes went. The moment to moment gameplay is mostly hiking, a little bit of planning before a trek, and some real "oh shit oh shit there's ghosts/MULEs here oh fuck I didn't prep for this" tossed in. There's a spooky haunted woods section that was really fun in the beginning. There's a sense of progression from getting upgrades and advancing west. The combat is baby-easy, you don't want to kill people in-game for diagetic reasons but also because the combat is unrewarding. The game's themes are very appealing, I found. I thought the space they were exploring was intriguing and it'd be nice if more big budget games played around there instead of "I AM A GUY IN ARMOR KILLING EVERYTHING AROUND ME" - the idea of isolated people coming together is neat. I didn't find the characters all that deep or interesting, the lore was cool, the actual story is a little bizarro (it's untethered unedited Kojima so of course).
If you don't want epic launcher and have access to a console your local library might have a copy you can borrow (for free), that's how I played through.
I use the Epic launcher exclusively for downloading free games that I don't want to bother pirating.