a single dev spent 9 years of his spare time to develop a game with now 1900 steam-reviews with an average rating of "overwhelmingly positive". Such a life achievement, which tells a story of dedication! This game solved an issue a lot of strategy-resource-management games have: you either perma-pause your game or you accept that slow-thinking gives you a disadvantage. Makes sense, right? It leads to a stress-level which you don't enjoy. Or: you stuck in pause and have the feeling you interrupt your city (or whatever). This game is different: It's turn-based and while you are thinking, people move around and do things. But: the stats are not changing until you press spacebar for next day (=next round). This is great. You are chilled, you don't need to pause (you can't even pause). If your turns needs 15 minutes (girlfriends calls) you don't have a disadvantage. If you are an experienced player, you can "run through" the turns like a maniac. Obviously they were turn-based games before, but I haven't seen it in a resource-management roguelike game with a very appealing pixel-art. Roguelike you said? Yes, 3-4 stupid turns in a row can ruin your whole "run". But after that you are not mad, you are excited to do it better next time. It reminds me of Oxygen Not Included and Against the Storm in a way (which is a big compliment). You have this permanent pressure of the environment. Winter is coming? Better create some heat. The more heat the better your chances the coinflip is in your favor and the nature disaster won't come. You just have medium-heat? Then the chances are 50-50. No heat at all? Well, some thing like [Spoiler A], [Spoiler B] etc. will come. So it become boring real quick because you do the same things over and over? Nope, there is another thing I haven't seen before: your tech-tree is different every run. ... my text limit is reached.. I could tell you that this game is GREAT.. regulary updates after 9 years of development is CRAZY! 9,5/10!
I have high expectations on building games, and this game makes me happy. I want a good UI, shortcuts, fluent gameplay, a unique style, no high end specs and an overall fine experience. I love oxygen not included, space haven, northguard. It looks I will add this game to my favorite list. Keep going the good work, devs! Thanks for this game! Recommended.
