I would pay for this game if it was a paid game to start with!

Dawn Restart: Survival has originality and soul to stand out as it's own one of a kind game! Yet, I don't continue playing it just because of ONE game mechanic.

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This game is really nice to look at. The texture is very high fidelity, the style is consistent throughout the entire game, there is no sexism in character design. The game is not 3D, rather it's isometric 2D with depth buffer that gives 3D feel. This is a smart choice, because since the dawn of age of video game graphics, this kind of rendering has been used to make games looks realistic without being taxing to compute, which makes this game never has a dip in performance ever. I'm sure this game runs on any phone you have!

The gameplay is interesting. It keeps you playing by giving you new stuff every progression you make, which is plenty of and easy to achieve at first. You then play with turn based (automated) to get some specific resources and to level up your character/bases. Your goal is to know more about the world and your main character, which has nice enough twists in it.

So what you do here? Plenty! Exploration by touch based movement, where you then gather resources for more stuff to be done for. In your own camp you can develop and progress, which then linked to how far you can progress in the story, and so on. The cycle is the feature that keeps you playing and not bored throughout the game.

And the progression is the best thing about this game. You have very clear goal on what to do next and so on from the HUD on the left of your screen. No need to think too much, the first few hours of this game will give you gist on how the game works and what you can do more the more you progress. The progression itself is plenty and seems neverending. You can unlock better and better materials, you can unlock many many more maps to explore, and so on.

Verdict:

But of course, no game is perfect. If you like free games with plenty of ads and microtransaction in it to keep playing, then sure, this game is for you. But it is not for me. I only want ads when I want to watch it. No sudden pop ups that destroy game fluency, which a lot of free to play games does, and I think that's wrong way to do it because it repel players from playing. I prefer if the game has Paid version, where there is no Energy mechanic and I can play as long as a want at any play session. Ads still there just to increase yeild or something like that, and in-game transaction still there too to speed up progress but NOT too much so it makes the game unplayable without ever doing in-game transaction.

But of course it's just my opinion. Each game handle income differently, each dev has its own strategy. So there... Try the game for 3 days and see if you like it.