In the game there is also a meteor that strikes after I believe 30 days or so. You can build technology, and many other things to survive. There is polution, extinction of animals, and many other things. The game is based on the environment and saving the planet while you survive.

There is no 'creative' mode that I know of although there are ways to give big amounts of whatever to yourself in-game such as points. I have not yet got the game, but based on what I have read, and I have done a lot of research into this game, this game is nothing like minecraft. And new content is added all the time, one of the things coming in the next patch (5.6) is a full-fledged excavator! On a normal server you'll easily get tens of hours of playtime out of it already now. There is still a lot of content missing, but at the same time, Eco is one of the most content-heavy alphas I have ever seen. You have to work together with other players as well, to progress in one skill you might need the help of another skill, and for one player to get all the skills takes a lot of time (although with some edits to the skillpoint rate the game is entirely playable solo (you'll still need a server for that)). The focus isn't on building like in Minecraft. You can't cut down too many trees, you can't overhunt, you have to make sure the entire ecosystem survives and thrives to really be able to move forward.

The special thing about Eco, for me, is the way they did the whole ecosystem. They're also hoping to reach Beta by the end of 2017, which means the game will also be made available on Steam! Anyone who has bought the game before that will get a Steam key, so you won't have to rebuy it, if you buy the game, you get all future updates, including alpha, beta and full release. I think you'll find the community is a lot more active there as well, so you can get more opinions on the game :D If you join the official Discord server you can see the progress in the #codestream channel ().

The devs are hard at work and constantly working on the game, usually adding stuff every day. It's currently in alpha 5.5, with 5.6 being set to release on the 20th.

Eco global survival game review