I got the game working, and it's actually pretty damn fun for being an early access game.
EDIT:
Certain parts of the game can be pretty confusing, I'm not entirely sure how I'm supposed to make nails when I can't even make the right tools to make them without having them to start with.
I wandered out to find some iron to mine when I got attacked by a wolf. All I had on hand was a pickaxe, and I figured I could put up a fight. Every time I got hit by the wolf a new text box would pop up telling me that I got injured, forcing me out of free look mode and forcing me to take another hit. Same thing happened again every time I hit the wolf, finally I just bled to death and had my first official rage quit from LiF.
EDIT 2:
Has anybody been able to host a private server yet? I'd like to just play with a few friends, but we haven't been able to join on each other yet.