Dorfromantik

If You need a lovely, clever and relaxing landscaping game where no blood/guts/hords of mutated monsters would flash a screen then look no further. This is it. It looks simple. It is not. 1. Just for fun, try to work out rules without going through tutorial. Game mechanics will help You. 2. Needs a strategy and imagination, and counting the resources. 3. Once the creative mode is out, please, please include some ways of saving model landscape and sharing it...this game has an enormous potential.

I saw this game a few days ago, saw it had a demo, thought "Sure, I'll take a look", and gone were the next 3 days of my life. Kudos to the devs for offering that demo. It convinced me to buy the game. So, what can I say about the game? Simple Concepts For Complex Gameplay It's rare to see such an amazing execution of this idea. Good complexity is constructed by seamless interaction of simple concepts. Gameplay is deceptively simple. You start with 40 tiles. Each tile has 7 parts: 6 sides and a center. Each part can be 1 of 6 features: plains, forest, fields, city, railroads, or water. Match one side of a tile to the side of another tile with the same feature. Score points by correctly matching sides of a tile. The more points you score, the more tiles you earn. Play until you run out of tiles. Sounds easy, is easy at first, but quickly builds to challenging gameplay. Not Just Mix'n'Match If it was simply a matter of matching tile to tile as best you could, the game would become dull pretty quickly. The devs wisely included goals as part of some of the tiles you place. This is where that center part of a tile becomes important. When placing a tile, you can get a quest which requires you, for example, to build a forest of at least 50 trees. So, you have to connect tiles in a way to build a continuous forest. If two sides of a tile that aren't touching are forest, and the center part of the tile is a forest, you can now connect distant forest tiles this way. At first quests are easy to fulfill. For example, requiring exactly 10 houses in a city, or at least 6 fields connected together. Later quests might require a city with at least 100 houses, or forest with at least 800 trees. Now, placing tiles isn't just matching sides, but strategic placement. You have to weigh long term goals vs short term demands. Chill and Relax Despite how complex the game can get, it keeps a relaxed vibe. It's easy to start a game and play for an hour and a half without realizing it.

A wonderful and relaxing game with a calming soundtrack. It's a lot of fun to play and challenging enough to play more efficient every new game. I usually play one or two rounds before I go to bed. I look forward to more updates, hopefully bridges will be added that would bring a lot more variety.

easy Controls, unique graphic, stable running (despite early access), supportive but not obtrusive (even after hours of repition) and ... um ... challenging challenges. So technically a very recommendable game, but also one with a quite frustrating principle as well: Perfect fitting tiles are literally required both by challegenes and by the reward/continuation system of the game, but the huge number of possible combinations makes it unlikely to draw a specific one at all within a game, let alone in the right moment. Usually one is left with dozens of loose ends that would need just that one single tile and it takes often 20+ restarts not to have catastrophic combinations within in the first couple of tiles. This importance of (bad) luck (my record so far: requiring the same tile at 3 different places and getting it 0 times of 200-300 draws, but 4 times its mirrored sibling) also ruins any feeling of progress or control. One can just play along and hope something good will happen. Sometimes this results in a Civ-like "just one more round" feeling, sometimes it feels like puzzling 950 of a 1000 parts puzzle only to realise that all the others are from a completey different motive. An abbility to sort a limited number of tiles "on hand" or even influence them would greatly improve the game, until then it will teach one all about probability and chirality that one never wanted to learn in school.

Very enjoable game. It's relaxing but can also be very challenging depending on the mode you play. I love how you can continue your map in the creative mode after having no more tiles.