Amazing Cultivation Simulator

--- The good --- Amazing Cultivation Simulator (ACS) is has many esoteric and arcane RPG mechanics waiting to be discovered. Experimentation and discovery is at the heart of the game. The game is about self-improvement, both on a lore- and mechanic-wise level. Music is good (not enough variation though). --- The bad --- When you start your first game, you are being set up to fail from the get-go. Usually, I would not necessarily have a problem with this, I like difficulty in games. However, unlike games like Dark Souls and XCOM, both of which have the curtesy showing you that you suck ass from the very start (i.e. you get your ass smacked all the way), and that you should probably improve if you want to succeed, ACS lures you into a false sense of security. You don't have to do anything right in ACS to get far into the game (40-50 hours), only to learn that your strategy, approach and choices have basically all been wrong. ACS creates a hard block in the form of reputation (accumulating more seems like good at first, until you are destroyed by enemies far beyond your ability) and the hard block of the first boss (which is so impossibly hard, you would have to be some kind of 300 IQ genius to beat it on your first try). There is no practically realistic way for you to know or learn all the intrinsic and hidden things that you must do right in order to not loose against these things. If you do not have a pre-existing knowledge of important mechanics and the pros and cons of certain character development approaches, it will be impossible for you to develop your characters enough to overcome these challenges that only occur 30-40 hours into the game. Essentially, the game goes on for a long fucking time, and then tells you "oh you didnt know that you had to follow this exact approach? get fucked and try again from square one". Suggestion: Get the mod that add numerical values from steam. It is essential to be able to make 'more' correct the decisions.

"It's like opium war but the Chinese are winning." Haven't bought it but played enough to say that it's so god damn difficult to get in but when you do at least a little - you're done and your soul is sold to the Chinese aesthethics and this absolutely beautiful game. Not recommended for students, you might be kicked out of the uni.

The GOG build of this game does not completely remove Steam DRM: viewing in-game online player notes is impossible and the game does not run under Wine on Linux (both of these problems are solved by using a crack or buying the game on Steam). As for the game itself, it is not worth your time — very linear and tedious to learn. The meta sounds more interesting than the game itself. By the time you get a grasp on it, you will discover that you spent more time reading tutorials than playing — assuming you will even reach that point.

This game has a LOT of systems to learn and you'll probably be overwhelmed at first but once you finally come to understand a mechanic, you'll get a euphoric feeling before you're promptly given 1000 more mechanics to learn.

Its infinitely better than Rimworld. Its not ridiculously priced, the DLC doesnt cost you twice of what the game is and it has amazing replayability.