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Buggy, shallow, and generally feels unfinished. It's a shame, because there was the core of a really good game here, but it feels like a jam game, or a game still in early access.

There's about 15-20 hours of extremely repetitive content that is mostly gated by the amount of time it takes to grind and craft an extremely small variety of extremely minor upgrades. There are effectively about 3 enemies in the game, just with different art and drops. Recipe progression feels good at first but it becomes immediately obvious that you've hit the end of the progression dozens of hours before you would expect to do so.

The monkeys are probably this game's selling point, allowing you to automate some of the time consuming crafting but... they essentially just allow you to bypass artificial bloat in crafting times that other games would just skip in the first place.

You might as well play V Rising, Core Keeper, or any number of other more interesting survival games, because this doesn't really add anything meaningful to the genre that other games haven't done better, and it seems unlikely that it will ever fulfil its potential given the last update was almost 2 years ago at the time of writing.

If this was an early access game that was 25% done, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it. But it's not. This is what they regard as being complete, with some absolutely insane game breaking bugs. Don't bother.

Great music, but generally not a fantastic board game. It's ok, and adapted very well, much better than many terrible PC versions of board games, just I'm not a fan of the game itself.

Extremely luck-based, with very little strategic depth, and just generally doesn't feel great to play because almost every space is something negative, until you get lucky and get something positive to offset it.

Somewhat more active than most idle games I've played. Early days yet and still needs a lot of work, but you can tell they care about it, and it's developing over time.

Frequent events to change things up, and anyone who's into the Forgotten Realms or D&D live streams will probably appreciate it

Massively unbalanced, 99% luck-based and extremely frustrating. Weirdly addictive at the same time, but at the end of the day it's just not... a good game. It's surprisingly not pay to win, but it is gamble to win. You get a significant amount of cards without paying anything, but everything is gated behind pvp progression. If you don't get lucky, a significant portion of the game remains locked until your luck improves. The value of strategy is vastly undermined by things like random powerups that hugely benefit one side over the other, and the previously mentioned poor balance between characters and units. Battles can pretty much be decided based on a coin flip, even between two players of equal deck strength, because one side gets a 6 health tree and the other gets a stacking powerup behind rocks and bushes that you can't do anything about.

I've gotten a fair chunk of play time out of it as I've played while watching Netflix but I can't honestly say I've *enjoyed* any of that time, and in fact probably enjoyed the time less than I would have just sitting watching Netflix without playing the game, due to just how luck-based and frustrating it can be. Just give it a miss, it's a generic F2P mobile game (which weirdly doesn't have a mobile version on android in my region) and there are plenty of other. better mobile games you could be playing instead.

Do you often find that you're too happy? Perhaps everything in your life is just fine and you really want to feel the crushing weight of despair as it slowly buries you. This War of Mine is the perfect solution to all of your joy and happiness.

It's really good, but don't expect light relief.

Seriously, stop acting like it claimed to be that.

If you like:

• Exploration
  
• Slow paced, relaxing gameplay
  
• Completionism

You'll probably enjoy it.

If you think this is supposed to be:

• Multiplayer
  
• Fast paced & exciting
  
• Star Citizen or Elite: Dangerous

You are looking at the wrong game.

Make sure you read the system requirements and actually check your computer's good enough to run the game, and maybe give it a few days for a bit of patching if you're not sure, but other than that if you like to have a huge, slow paced game to unwind at the end of a day, this seems pretty much ideal. Met all my expectations. 90% of the bad reviews (not including the dumb reviews of 'My toaster can't run it, waah') basically revolve around the over-hyping it got for features it was never supposed to have.

The good:

• Relaxing
  
• Beautiful
  
• Amazing freedom in exploration, upgrading, etc.

The bad:

• Grindy
  
• Can feel a bit empty (Needs cities!)
  
• Tons of inventory management hassle, particularly early on

My first thought was that this was alright for an early access game... then I realised it wasn't. And it's actually been around outside of Steam for a while.

The game feels incredibly unfinished, and is almost entirely random. Your choices and stats seem like they matter, but actually have very little impact. Career mode feels incredibly unfinished (I thought I was missing something, but turns out there's just no more of the game), and manager mode suffers from the same thing as the rest of the game, where your choices are ultimately inconsequential.

So the original Baldur's Gate 2 is one of the greatest RPGs ever made. I'm not even exaggerating, go and look it up. The Enhanced Edition adds very little in my opinion, but honestly it doesn't need to. They've done extensive work since release on fixing the admittedly horribly broken multiplayer, with any luck it should be resolved by now at least. There's really no reason not to buy this unless you hate amazing RPGs with good storytelling. In which case there's nothing I can do for you, why are you still here?

Civilization meets Heroes of Might and Magic. Fairly enjoyable, but not that amazing overall. Definitely consider buying if you like those two styles of TBS, but only if it's on sale, primarily due to the lack of multiplayer.

Like Dungeon Keeper? Like Impire. Very similar gameplay with a few fun twists that add a bit of micromanagement to the mix.