Dorfromantik

Awesome nice little slow pacing puzzle games. Its starts easy - placing your first hexagon tile - and ends up very difficult the further you advance your landscape puzzle. Its awesome.

This game works wonders on me. I take breaks from it nowadays, but have over 250 hours clocked in steam. Just the relaxed atmosphere and constant push to build more, bigger, works for me. Sure, the gameplay itself is thin, and can be repetitive, but it's closer to building a jigsaw puzzle than playing an active game. You give yourself the challenges, and by trying to keep going will be challenged. Current run is over 700k points, which has taken some time, runtime of that game is over 60 hours. This game is not for everyone, but it sure as hell works for me.

For some reason I was expecting a city-builder game made super casual via simple tile placement gameplay. I was a little underwhelmed to install the game and find out that it is almost entirely just tile-placement; with extremely basic graphics. The little towns you build have no needs or functions, they are just a pattern on the tiles. There's no sense of creativity or ownership of the resulting map; it's just the result of trying to score well for tile placement. A few hours in, and it has grown on me. There is a simple but pure enjoyment in laying down more and more tiles; and a good feeling of self-improvement. Each map feels a bit better laid out and a bit more like a real terrain map than previous games. And the mission/goal system makes each game feel worthwhile, even if the map didn't turn out perfect. I'm still a little underwhelmed that the game doesn't do a bit more to make the maps feel alive; either graphically or in gameplay mechanics.

My Mom likes video games, even though she is oustandingly bad at them. If she has to press more than 2 buttons it ends up in desaster. If there is any dexterity or accurate timing involved it ends in disaster and if she needs to apply any complex strategies... well you get it. Dorfromantik (German for 'village romanticism') avoids all these traps and is still not boring after a few hours. Or days. Or months. I even found myself playing it occasinally, as i'm not ashamed to admit. Sometimes even an avid gamer just wants to relax...

Something in this game just wants you to play it more and more. I really like the concept of this game, it's Carcassonne-like gameplay, chill music and graphics. Everything seems to come together in every possible way :)