This is, as it turns out, fun.
I do have a tendency to like games way too much when novelty is still about, so I'll stick to the two strongest aspects of the game.
The leveling is really cool. There's enough depth that there are pretty obviously more "right" choices than others, but it doesn't seem like anything stands out as OP or useless. Enemies also stay pretty simple, so you could seemingly make it through the game even with the most basic options if you dig yourself a hole of bad choices.
There are three of each ranged and melee weapons and magics. Each of these has an offensive and defensive tree. You can equip any combination of two of these skillsets, and leveling is basically a job system. Unlock active and passive abilities and equip any seven of each at any time. So right now I'm mainly claws / blood magic, but also have a blade weapon passive for added life steal.
The missions are the other strength. There are the main story missions "major" which can develop and let you do other missions and basic side. Side is generally collection of some sort, and so far has always been open world items. The other two can be seemingly any kind of mission, but most importantly, there has yet to be a single "kill X Ys" mission. Nor anything even close to it. There was technically one to test out newly developed mines, but running down the street until you have a zombie train then dropping them all and watching the fireworks show behind you should not count for a second.
On top of that, there are a few creative ones. This could just come off as annoying if you want to play the game, but a lot require you to look around, do research, or hope people keep on top of wiki resources for the game.
The mission where you need to find the secret control panel at the church, the code to which you're told is "Sunday's song" and eventually realize "oh hey there's a hymn list hanging up here I'm dumb" was pretty cool. There's also an in-game browser for looking things up. That seemed really stupid to me until
the mission where I need the password to a guy's computer. As one might expect his corpse is nearby, but instead of finding a piece of paper where he wrote "can't forget new password is bananacock" you just find his I.D. badge. With his email address. Which leads to his "about" page on the address' host site and gives the answer.
