Posted on: February 24, 2023

capt_taco

Spiele: 165 Rezensionen: 3

Good idea, horribly balanced

This could be a nice chill game, just making alcohol and piling up cash, but some poor choices leave it terribly broken. The weather RNG is terrible, almost every year it just goes to one extreme or the other and stays there, and there is NOTHING you can do, it just wrecks your crop. 90% of the time you will end up with "fungal rot" which will reduce your harvest anywhere from 50-75% in addition to lowering the quality, and again, there is NOTHING you can do about it. Needless to say, it is very difficult to make any money this way, and that will be the first few hours of any new game. They should have called it "Fungal Rot Simulator." Competition is horribly unbalanced if you choose to include it. The CPU competitors start out with the full tech tree unlocked, including all the late-game crops and advances that you won't get for easily 50+ years. They just pile up money 20 times faster than your best-case maximum and buy up the available land, while you're on first-tier everything with fungal rot every year and struggling to make money at all. It's too bad, this was a neat concept, but so many basic things are completely busted that you wonder if they even played their own game for an hour or two before releasing it. Like, all they would need to do is dial down the RNG and it would be a completely different game, but as it is it's basically just a broken game.

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Posted on: November 30, 2022

Siverix

Spiele: 203 Rezensionen: 2

Great concept horrible execution

This game is only worth playing as a lesson on how to not make games. Let's start with the good: The art style suits the pace of the game and the interface invokes the theme rather well. The music and sound effects create an easygoing relaxing atmosphere. The overall presentation is a cohesive whole and is not unattractive. The mediocre: The game has a text based tutorial which fails to explain any of the indepth interactions of the game systems. The interface is clunky at best. The game does not in any way explain what characteristics your wines should have to get a good rating. The process of wine making consists of multiple stages where you can pick what method to use but at first you only have one methodfor each step. The bad: RNG is king and you are at best a petty court noble. Player input at best can slightly correct RNG in their favour. The ROT event is absolutely unbalanced. one year you get no rot and 1.5 tonnes of grapes per plot. The other you get rot all year and get 0.3 tonnes. The ripeness stat seems to go up and down with one discernable reason. The interface while clean is confusing at best and doesn't adhere to convention at worst. TL;DR The RNG will fuck you over for no reason and at best you can slithly mitigate it.

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Posted on: February 8, 2023

wilkan

Bestätigter Besitzer

Spiele: 509 Rezensionen: 157

A Bare-Bones, Text-Heavy Math Tycoon

NOT RECOMMENDED. It is not fun and there is barely any gameplay besides min-maxing some wine attribute numbers. The UI is mobile app simple, yet requires diligence, e.g. closing a pop-up screen by right-clicking on it, not just anywhere like in most games. Most of the content is text and numbers. There is a short in-game tutorial that encourages looking into a 30+ article text tutorial index. It's a major reading assignment of a game. The content is split between numerous small pop-up menus, meaning you get the micro-management feel even when you are doing the most basic stuff at the beginning of a playthrough. The worst part is that the game refuses to tell you the variety-specific optimal wine attribute numbers and tells you to "experiment" with it, basically wasting your batches of wine and gameplay time and encouraging save-scumming and cheat-sheeting the numbers from some wiki guide. The wine critics give you vague hints about the numbers, though it is turning the knife in the wound of failure. That is because apparently you do not unlock good stuff such as better wine critics unless you make perfect 5-star wine. The 30+ article in-game tutorial would be tolerable if it take itself like a game and also included humor. The game is a way too serious. It tries to replicate few real-life wine business aspects, yet is simplified to the point of not feeling real. It should have picked one of the extremes: to be a game or to be a book. The only good attempt at a hybrid is I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (mostly because of a decent story, okay but not great) and this one is nowhere that good. So you work as a wine producer and try to get a high score in Terroir. This is the 1980s level of goal quality. Because of its real-life basis, you cannot be creative in the game, it does not allow it. You might as well work IRL and earn money if this is what you like to do.

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Posted on: February 14, 2023

horvathg

Bestätigter Besitzer

Spiele: 216 Rezensionen: 1

Nice idea, bad execution

The game has a nice atmosphere and the music is calming, which you will need with the interface glitches that make your life and gameplay hard in a really bad way. Some stuff my gf mentiones, who is playing the game with smoking ears from rage: - The interface is hard to interact with, the small arrows are hard to press with the big, oversized mouse pointer. - The pointer itself - The day-night cycle may seem like a nice touch, but it has nothing to do with actual day-night cycle (the game is more over a year-cycle), however "night time" makes it harder to see the map. - The game is lacking on the balance side. On easy it is hard to make good wines as you don't have the tools, however for upgrading you need a looooot of many and even more renown, which will be hard with wines. - Also in many cases the interface fails to tell you what is happening. Buy a field, try to plant, you have the money, the icon is there, yet the "Plant" button is grayed out. Why is that? - During chance&circumstances missions you don't have a tracker. Surrender 3000 bottle of wine to the military. Nice. How many bottles did I already sent there way? - Log does not contain information about the tips that you can see during review. All in all, the game seems pretty unfinished. The idea was good, but the execution is really poor. Avoid it.

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Posted on: December 12, 2022

mberthault

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Spiele: 267 Rezensionen: 24

lack of a proper tutorial

Yeah, this game is probably good, probably bad... How could I know when I cannot even begin to understand it. You can do things, or they say you can, but some things do other things, perhaps, I don't know. How could I know when I don't understand what I am doing? For lack of a proper tutorial, this game fails.

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