Recent reviews by 「2XB」 Mitch

64 hours in the last 2 weeks

it's okay i guess

When I close my eyes, I dream of conveyor belts.

While the overall game is quite nice, the quick-time-events are frustrating and do not fit into the "cozy and relaxed" game theme. I found the entire underwater battles to be mostly button mashing with annoying and unclear pauses when you can retry an action (like aiming again).

Like Bloons TD 5, but better: More towers, more challenges, more rewards.

At first I liked it - a simple concept and great music.

But the game quickly becomes boring: Building stuff is just repetitive and not rewarding. While the devs added Copy/Paste-support, it's unlocked too late. Other games in the genre have a constant loop that keeps you busy: Do this, then do that, and based on that do something else. Here it's just... doing the same thing over and over again.

Requested a refund after barely a hour of playtime:
- Bad performance with quite uneven framerate
- The initial world creation takes quite long, which makes the game unresponsive to the point where Windows offers to terminate it
- Unintuitive and downright annoying controls
- Doesn't properly handle MOUSE4/5 keys (if your mouse has that)

The good:
- Funny dark humor
- Easy to pick up, well designed tutorial
- Low price

The bad:
- The game becomes very repetitive after a while, to a point where it's more of a chore. While other games provide some automation later as upgrades, you still do have to do the same basic stuff over and over again.
- Had game-breaking bugs multiple times (the wife gets stuck in the wall), that required me to restart the day and lose some progress.
- If the RNG has a bad day, so are you. At least you can get an achievement for that ("A boring day").

Overall it's fun for maybe 2-3 hours, then becomes just dumb clicking the same things in the same order until you finally quit.

The replay value is practically zero, as there's no meaningful choices to play the game in different ways.

A small survival/mining game with a lot of cool ideas. Worked really well, considering it's still in early access. Looking forward to future updates :)

I've been playing the game for 21 hours now, including multiple maps and different difficulties.

This game is soooo relaxing. The music adds a cozy feeling and I generally enjoy just watching over my city without having to put out fires every moment. If you want a city starving half of the time, maybe try Banished. :o

Building and extending a city is fun, the controls are mostly intuitive and the lack of a proper tutorial is not a big problem. Most of the time you do resource mangement and slowly increase the size and defenses of your city.

The maps are way to small, I'm now at a population of close to 3000 and already filled most of the map. There's also a limit how much you can extend your island with piers.

The game offers advisors, their recommendations are useless after 10 minutes of building and pretty repetitive.

When your city get's bigger, the game starts to drop frames as hell even with high-powered gaming PCs (I'm now around 20 FPS most of the time).
After having a bunch of 40-block-high balista towers, dragons become meaningless.
Recruiting an army is also rather pointless, as walls and towers provide better and cheaper protection in the long-term.

I'd love if the devs add some more content, bigger maps and fix the performance. But in general a enjoyable game for some hours.

FarmVille with Zombies. Very relaxing and frustration-free.