Posted on: July 12, 2025
Bloodrunsclear
Verified ownerGames: 1219 Reviews: 143
Rough Diamond
I still recommend this game, it just has a couple issues people might take and need to be aware of! The Good: Atmosphere is impeccable. Everything is creepy, slanted, soaked in shadows and gloom and perpetual rainfall. Dialogue and music is pitch perfect for a tribute to H.P Lovecraft's haunted world. Character design, U.I design, the environment of looming statues and ancient secrets...very very good! The Intriguing: This game has an extensive tutorial, but like the game Anno it borrows from, so things you just need to find out by trial and error. The tutorial will tell you to make wooden effigies to the Old Ones, but YOU need to figure out you can actually add additional materials to the effigies to make the offerings more favorable. The tutorial will tell you to put down Lumberjacks for wood, but YOU need to find out how to keep those Lumberjacks surrounded by forest to keep them efficient. The Not So Good: Little graphical hiccups are here and there. The worker wagon just runs in place next to buildings being made. Some pathing issues. The MAIN issue that might turn some away is all the timed events. Everything seems to take an arbitrary amount of time to do: making effigies, waiting for rituals to refresh, gathering materials, refining materials...etc. Some things you just have to wait for, and you don't always have something to do except admire the scenery while your cultists get on with it. Also there's the slight issue of extreme micro management. If you are fanatical about efficiency get ready to ritual scar EVERY SINGLE cultist you own and wait for the timer on assignment rituals forever to get everyone situated for their tasks. Chances are good your first crop of cultists will really love doing something you do have a building for, and so the cycle of inefficiency followed by micromanagement begins. STILL great game. Intriguing if linear story. Variety of gameplay. Staggering amount of intricacies. If you like Anno and Lovecraft, book passage!
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