Dorfromantik

I received an email from GOG with a discount advertisement for this game. I clicked on it, watched a 3 minutes video tutorial, I bought the game. It is exactly as advertised. Play it as a puzzle game or just as a landscape builder. Your choice. I've never bought a game so fast in recent times. They usually go to a wishlist and languish there for months or years. Totally happy with my impulsive purchase :)

Dead set, if this came had come out in 2020 I doubt we'd have noticed COVID. I've spent the last few days in a comfy year chilling with Dorfromantik, alternating between building for pleasure and chasing scores and challenges. I can't wait for the creative mode and for anything else this talented team of student developers choose to add in! Mechanically it feels a bit like a hex-based, single player Carcasonne, where you're aiming to connect the edges of each tile to match their neighbours while also trying to grow your districts to make the longest river or largest village. Thanks to a gentle tilt-shift and friendly art style, it's extremely relaxing to play and build, with enough complexity and meta-goals to chase that there's probably something here for everyone. To top it all off it's well implemented on GOG with full achievement support. It's still in development too so it's only going to get better with time!

Dorfromantik is a building, strategy and therapy game, where you have to organize tile after tile, take your time and enjoy the peaceful soundtrack. You will lost the track of time playing this game and after you finish your gaming session you'll be feeling better. This is more a personal experience, I been suffering anxiety disorder for years, it's really hard for me to switch off my brain and just stop for a moment, but now it's part of my routine to take some time before go to bed, start this game, put my headphones and just let my mind flow in those beautiful landscapes I build, it's part pf a peaceful night, and I want to thanks the devs for that.

Dorfromantik is an interesting game. Like everyone says, it's got relaxing music. In fact, the music could potentially put you to sleep if you're already tired while playing. The graphics are charming without being cutesy. And the gameplay is really fun if you enjoy board games where you put down hex-based landscape tiles. Early on, you unlock lots of achievements, new tiles, etc. It's a fun way to encourage the player. As the achievements slowed down, I began to look further into the gameplay. It turn out that there's a lot of hidden complexity. If you want to delay that "game over" screen and fill up the map with those charming tiles, you have to spend a lot of time analyzing where to best put them. If you're a perfectionist, this might actually become a bit stressful. Trying to find the perfect spot is not easy! What often happens in my games so far is that I got a bit tired of hunting the perfect spot, find a "good enough" spot, and soon after run out of tiles. If I want to keep those achievements flowing, it look like I'll have to put on the old thinking cap.

Wonderfully well designed game, chill atmosphere, art and music. When you have played a few rounds you begin to plan ahead and think about later game stages, so, its richer in depth than just placing matching tiles.