This game looks simple and does not have any depth, as someone already pointed out it can be good mobile port to kill time. Biggest flaw of this game is randomly generated luck for your character. Usually you have to restart it for 5-10 times till it actually provides you with some survival kit to start out. Example: you start your game with empty pockets, first 3 floors are completely empty (no weapon, medkits or food) but it has one enemy whom you have to fight bare handed and good luck to win that battle because next enemy is right around the corner. Having such setup means you die. Another flaw of this game is very strange crafting/leveling system. It offers some decent food recipes but weapon crafting bloated with schematics you'll never use (because you won't be able to level up to have required attributes and because it takes a lot of crafting for it - more likely you won't find all materials and if you do it can be taken away from you because game "needs to repair electricity" on some floors or something and it takes crafting materials up to generators and you will need many of materials to craft that generator). Because of such flaws game feels like mobile port and gets boring/irritating very fast. It took me 2 evenings to beat it on normal mode and try some runs on hard. Consider it as an amusement for 1-2 evenings if you're into survival games but be warned, it is not very deep or balanced game. Played Linux port from offline installer (which is older than steam version btw, steam updated their game to 1.1.20 in 2017, gog game is 1.1.19 in 21019), no issues found.
I should say I'm no stranger to Enlight Software games, I own full pack of their games on steam and had Restaurant Empire 2 CD till it got scratched and stopped to work, then repurchased RE2 on steam to have that game. Why I had to purchase RE1 if it is worse than RE2? The answer is simple and might help you're Linux user like me. RE2 does not work on Linux (via Proton or wine) and barely can be lauched from Windows 7 (depending on your hardware you might need to replace some files for video renderer in game folder). RE1 on gog does not have this issue and perfectly playable from wine prefix on Linux. Thats one main reason why I purchased it. Now about the game itself. I started to play from RE2 years ago and that game still is my fav for restaurant sim (especially in sandbox mode). RE1 is basically first part of RE2 with worse graphics. If you're after sandbox experience like myself that should be OK to play RE1 instead of RE2. Sure this game has alot of micro management for recipes, chefs and you can even add to its volume by imposing own rules for chefs (for example chef can cook only recipe they know, another chef can cook unknown recipe only if they supervised by chef who mastered that recipe), or by starting game with no money and one small venue (build and demolish at the beginning of the game to deplete your starting cash), or by hiring only cheapest available personnel (chefs only under 20 y.o. so they know almost no recipes). there's many rules you can impose and make your game more fun because its sandbox is where it truly shines by giving you the power to experiment and have fun. I strongly recommend this game to everyone who is into sims and who loves challenges.
I will review as a person who haven't played this game in early 2000s there fore no nostalgic glasses. Konung 1 is broken mess that won't run on Windows 7 unless you play original Russian version or if you want to play English you have to fix encoding in music tracks otherwise game will crash in couple of minutes. I picked Russian version to save time, to hear/read original story line. Too bad you can't un-read that nonsense they call a story. Or maybe it's not just the story but the style of writing, stupid jokes and poor command of native language. That was the worst thing in this game. Next to Russian literacy comes Russian masochism in form of boring, grindy gameplay with static respawn herbs, static respawn critters, static everything. Enemies gained power too fast compared to hero party and fight mechanics for your squad are the worst - you literally have no control over your squad in fight (and that can lead to rapid deaths). I haven't finished it, dropped half way thru because I started to feel too bored to continue. Then I desided to load Konung 2 and it greeted me with all hated things from Konung 1, moreover, it managed to kill my hero in the strating town after I spent 15 minutes trying to find an exit and then to find man who have to let me out. Character really crawls in this game. Same visuals, same lacking mechanics. Konung 2 feels like dlc for Konung 1 rather than new game. Purchase if you're Russian and this game is your type of entertainment. Do not purchase if you value your time and enjoyed real classic RPGs like Diablo 1/2, Titan Quest, Sacred, and do not purchase if you're looking for squad based RPG - this part is not working well.
If you ever played OpenTTD don't play Locomotion after it. You will be frustrated with controls, UI, economy just like I did. There's no way to group your vehicles, no way to clone vehicle with orders, no way to build rails and roads with your mouse (awful thing, took me 1 hour to connect 4 train stations with single rail and couple of junctions in the middle, not to mention signs - I would achieve the same in OpenTTD in 5 minutes). Once I connected it I realized I've lost alot of money because it won't pause (loss and restart). Next time I tried to connect same with truck routes, after 30 minutes it was done... just to learn that 1 truck hauls 5t of Ore and I'm in loss again. Definitely not recommended if you're used to play big OpenTTD maps with 1000 trains, you won't live THAT long to build all of your tracks :)
