The combat is fun and combines melee and gun fights, and you get a party of up to 4 members (excluding additional storyline NPC). On normal difficulty the game is not too easy and provided challenge plenty of times, though if you've played a lot of tactical games before I'd suggest playing on hard after all, especially if you plan on doing side missions that provide additional items and experience. There are multiple character builds possible, and other team members have their own abilities depending on their class. There are plenty of supplementary items to assist combat: poison or oil you can put on blades, various granades, different kinds of ammunition for bows or guns. You get to manage party and choose who you take on a mission, although it seems to open only half-way through, the first half of the game had essentially set characters. The gameplay overall makes me think of a mix between the new XCOM series and Dungeon Rats, but unfortunately with more linear levels where you basically move from one point to another with occassional minor side task.
The story seems interesting enough, serves well as the background during gameplay. However, at the time of writing this the final missions seem not to be in the game yet. Cutscenes appear between most of missions, and the game's atmosphere is quite unique and intruguing. I won't comment on graphics because I had to play it on low, but while the game looked like a total turd on GTX 1060 3 GB it still run in 60 FPS without major graphical issues, so I can't complain. Audio needs a lot of work yet, there's plenty of issues with audio not fitting dialogues etc, it's a clear work in progress. Music is okay but extremely repetitive, I eventually turned it off, but from what I understand the final version is supposed to have new music and artists.
If you like tactical games then BEAST is certainly worth checking out, I had plenty of fun playing even the unfinished version. At this time in the beta the game is a bit rough around the edges, but the combat is appealing and I got absorbed to complete the game in a week (about 18h of gameplay). However, be aware that it is not an RPG, in spite of what Steam store page says - it's a pure turn based tactical game (maybe I should've posted it in another subforum, but eh).
