Acording to GOG I have 842 hours in Weedcraft. I've done just about everything I can think of but I keep coming back to it as it is a good balance of laid back, take your time gaming with scope for you to do your own thing. If strategy/management is your preference buy this.
Instantly became one of my all time top 5 games alongside things like Witcher 3, Skyrim, AC2 and Alpha Centaurai. I play games for the story/experience and not the challenge so, for me, the great thing about PC is it's ability to make the mundane seem like an achievement. The first time the sky went blue I went outside and looked at it. The first time it rained I went out and stood in it. And I jumped in the first puddle I saw. Because there's no time pressure in the game you get to enjoy the fruits of your labour. Too often in these types of games just as you get everything up and running nicely the scenario is over and you start again somewhere else. PC isn't like that. You start on a barren plant and turn it into a habitable one - your way. There is a storyline but it's not a major feature of the game and can be ignored altogther if you choose. Is it perfect? Very nearly. Bug free. Quick loading. Stable - Has the odd crash but nothing to worry about. All it needs is a map randomiser. There is a kind of randomiser but I'm thinking like SMACs type. That would make it endlessly replayable and in my view perfect. And if that cost the same as the original game I'd happily pay for it.
Have played as far as the first boss fight and that's as far as I'll be going. There's no tutorial so if you're not very familiar with this type of game (like me) you are at a massive disadvantage. I didn't even know there were fight combos until I came across them on the internet. And that's what ruined it for me. I'm a casual gamer who doesn't enjoy the "challenge" of hard fights and spending hours getting to know the game's fight mechanics intimately. All they had to do was make the Easy combat setting actually easy. Other than the combat it is brilliant. Everything everyone else has said about the story, graphics,Norse mythology, immersion etc is bang on and I loved it. Shame the combat killed the game for me.
