So graveyard keeper is a fun little game with pixel Art graphics that has a whole new world to explore, but it has its quirks. E.g. you get quests along the way to meet certain people, but the game itself has no help like an almanac or indicator when a certain NPC is available. It might tell you once, but if you miss it you are left to ask the wiki. Then there are many tasks that are fun at first, but become dull over time. Like getting lots, stones, Iron Ore. But there is a Solution: Buy Breaking Dead DLC. In a similar fashion Alchemy is very important - you can distill, mill or mix certain items into powders, solutions or concentrates. But you have to remember what turns into which - so with 3 outcomes and like 40 items, that is quite a thing todo. Or you have a zombie that remembers, what you did at least once, whilst the game will not tell you what you have not done yet. Fun times. You might want to look for a cheat sheet the first time. The Inventory is very limited (16 or 20 slots), but there is a solution to this problem: _Buy_ Game of Crone DLC. After a certain time you get offered bags and it will help your constant lack of inventory space. It is infuriation - the game clearly shows that it can do better. E.g. if you plant seeds and use a simple bronze fertilizer - the next time it will remember it and you can do press 4x E to use the fertilizer and then plant the seeds. But only if you use a simple setup. Doing things more complicated like using bronze fertilizer + silver quality fertilizer + seed won´t get properly remembered and you get a inventory select war if you want to keep it up. I did enjoy planting, but I did not enjoy having to do the inventory clicking. Many in-game workstations have a queue - you can add multiple items to the queue and change the quantity later. But not for forges, stoves or food preparation. Or multiple quality recipies. The lack of (intentioal) lack of QoL features adds over time and makes parts dull.
It is nice to see that Sega has decided to also sell their games on GoG. Two Point hospital is a nice cartoony hospital simulator - it can be fun. BUT for me the fun ended when the game reminded me every time that there is a DLC to by - a new DLC comming - felt like one every quarter or 1/2 year that rarely added something to the mix for the cost. You can see 11 DLC´s for the hospital and the main is on sale for 75%. Something to get you hook to buy the others at full price. But this kind of game seems to work as they did release a university spin off.
This game was released in 2017 as Early Development - 6 years later it still is, like some AAA game. First Patch 22.12.2018 (465 days), 14.02.2019 (54 days), 20.06.2019 (126 days), 23.05.2022 (1068 days). Looking at these rather long gaps for first and last this game patch does not give the impression of a game in active development on GOG. Last there is no recovery in case the game fails. For me a party camped in the wild, but the break camp button never camp up, rendering the save and my tavern dead. There do not seem to be previous save files just in case.
Seeing the game both available on Steam and GOG I waited my time till I thought the game has passed its early release stage - aka all DLC´s for the Season pass have been released. So I grabbed the game on the summer sale. Loading the game forces me to agree to an EULA allowing them to collect data, tracking cookies, etc. The game has mod support (now?), but of course you cannot use these mods the game is able to show you in-game **without** a paradox account. I mean we are in 2019 and you need an account to use the game fuctionality. You could not track the mods installed on the local hard drive, retrive an index from the website,... You need to implement a privacy invasive mod support. I am using GOG to get away from Steams nosiness. These two fact issues cost Surviving Mars a star each. The last star is for a clunky UI and a bit of unimaginative implementation terraforming stage.
