The main dev doesn’t seem capable of such well thought out tactics.

He has more of a "monkey see, monkey do" sort of approach to making games.

He just nailed it by jamming creature collection + survival. I love both and I’ve been addicted to the game. If this game doesn’t get more work done on it (from the devs or modders) these numbers will fall hard. It’s fun but it's a quick high that will last a couple of weeks.