Sometimes game-breaking bugs aside, while it’s decent enough fun, and the humour and eccentric cast of characters is a huge plus, I was hoping for something more like Coffee Talk, where the making things is mostly a throughline for a visual novel thing, and what narrative there is - mostly about the neighbouring factory/capitalist city of Spindelgard aiming to put crafters like yourself out of business - just isn’t strong enough to hold up as a visual novel. I do love the cast, especially Freifrau, and wish we had more repeat customers instead of single appearances that would up feeling a little shallow. Loved Saskia (the vixen) partly because she’s one of the few that regularly shows up (four times). Also quibble, but I am disappointed that your ultimate commission, in a land as wonderfully diverse as Windspell, comes for the generic white male fighter guy. Most of the cast is more interesting than him,p; I’m unsure why he gets to do the sendoff. Quibbles aside, given another few weeks of bug-squashing and it’s a decent, compact crafting game with a large and interesting cast, but otherwise a little forgettable.
More challenging to learn than modern city builders, but very satisfying once you start figuring it out.
