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39 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 1.5 hrs on record
Posted: Apr 14, 2015 @ 1:08pm

A decent premise, marred by technical flaws.

Major issues:
  • Some Game-breaking bugs. Loading screens get stuck/crash, and tiles can become impassable at random. Needs a lot more QA.

  • Resolutions are very broken. 1080p Max, windowed mode only; which often displays a 720p window. Causes the small text used in-game to appear blurry, and difficult to read.

  • Some graphical anomalies, such as backgrounds/textures vanishing, requiring a restart.

  • Info pane sometimes gets "cut off" at the bottom of the screen, letting you only read half of an instruction/info text.

Gameplay/logic criticisms:
  • Lives feel far too short, and stats are dictated almost entirely by dice rolls and random number generators. Subsequent generations of heroes lack any real feeling of progress as a result.

  • Battles are fully dictated by dice roll/RNG mechanics; a lost battle feels far too punishing, taking away from an already short lifespan.

  • Town/Structure building feels far too much like farmville/mobile tap-gaming. Re-visit tile for reward, re-visit tile to upgrade, re-visit tile to prevent building degredation.. with so few moves afforded per lifecycle, it feels like a forced grind to make your actual "play" session even shorter.

  • Unless I'm missing out on a deeper meaning in the game's message, I'm quite sure two males cannot produce an offspring as of yet - or at least, not in a time period where train stations are a new invention. Name/appearance generation doesn't appear to pay any attention to supposed gender.

While the idea is good, the execution unfortunately, is not. With some minor amounts of polish, and more QA, this title could have fared a whole lot better. If this were a beta/early access game, I'd feel it has promise.. but as a completed title, I would not recommend it.
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Developer response:
heartshapedgames  [developer] Posted: Jun 17, 2015 @ 8:42pm
Hi, I'm writing as our many recent updates have directly addressed most of your concerns in this review, and I was hoping you could consider modifying the review to reflect the improvements. Specifically:

-All major reported crash bugs have been fixed.
-Now has full screen mode, supports many more resolutions, increased text size on larger resolutions. Full screen fixes the issue with the window blocking some ui elements.
-The graphics bug you mentioned where elements could disappear has been fixed.
-The game supports same sex couples and adoption (you had accidentally mentioned in your review that it did not).
-We have since balanced the game to give buildings more lifespan, and more items that make it easier to repair buildings. The balance is much better and less tedious to manage.

Thanks for playing, and thanks for taking the time to write a review.
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YuraConst Aug 16, 2016 @ 1:55am 
The only good things about this game are being DRM-free and having Fire Emblem-like GFX.