Playing status: 100% achievement
Grindy Achievement(s): Yes (1+ achievement).
Optional Achievement(s): Yes (~24 achievements).
Difficult Achievement(s): No.

World for Two is a species creation game where you can combine DNA and a gene to create a new species, and redo the same process to the newly created DNA. 60 species can be found in total, allowing you to mix and match DNAs with up to 16 genes.

Pros:
- 60 species to be unlocked
- Small minigame to extract DNA for the first time

Cons:
- Extracting DNA take too long to finish
- The gameplay can feel repetitive

Specs
Intel Core i5-9300H 2.40GHz, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

Yes.
If you like to play slow-paced, relaxing games about species creation, buy this game when it's heavily discounted. Don't bother buying it if you are the type that gets bored easily.

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The visuals are one of the best things that the game has to offer. Four explorable regions with a sight to behold awaits you to be explored. Backgrounds are made in such great detail with tons of layers to give a sense of depth, turning the scene into a beautiful work of art. The visuals, along with the relaxing music, helps to get by the repetitiveness and lets you get immersed with the story that is told after you finished the game.

There is almost no story in the game. You are a robot, tasked by a human to create new lifeforms on a dying planet. All conversation that follows afterward is either small talk or tutorials to help you finish the game. You get another story to watch at the end, but since I didn't get too attached to anything, I feel nothing from the emotional scene.

The game tries to give more context on the ending through the bonus chapter, but even that is lacking. While I appreciate the relaxing music that helps to set the atmosphere, the lack of SFX bugs me to no end. Imagine that an alarm beeping with a piece of relaxing music playing in the background - there is no sense of urgency at all. The same music might help to set the atmosphere near the ending, but the story is way too predictable to me.

Gameplay
World for Two plays out like alchemy games where you need to mix 2 elements to get a new one. The "elements" in this game are represented by DNA and genes, where you can get DNAs from living beings and genes from a machine in the lab. Since you can only extract 3 DNAs before a living creature dies, recreating the same species is needed to keep the supply steady. Luckily, combining 2 of the same DNAs can also help to recreate the same species, giving you a surplus of 1 DNA to combine into other species.

You'll get more gene variations to combine as you play. A new area will be opened after you unlocked enough evolutions, allowing you to farm new materials to create new genes. This helps to unlock new species, especially since some species can only be unlocked from these genes.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2576397547

Some species can evolve into more than one species, although you need the right gene to combine it with. This turns the game into trial and error, especially at the beginning since you'll start with amoeba, an organism that is considered very basic. It's hard to predict which species you can evolve it to, after all.

You'll be able to predict the genes that you need to use as you create a more developed species. This reduces the trial and error needed to create the species to some extent, which really helps since there are ~16 genes that you can use to combine. Having a certain knowledge about animals is also needed to predict the "evolution" since you need to guess what animal that the current one can evolve into with the available genes. For example, there are several types of birds in the world, and the bird classifications can help you guess whether you need to use a mammal gene, sea gene, or other genes to combine it with.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2576397594

DNA Extraction
One thing that I liked about this is game is how you need to finish a puzzle to extract DNA for the first time. You need to match a DNA strain with the right color - red with blue, yellow with green, and vice versa - to extract its DNA. However, you can only do this once per species, and once you completed the puzzle, you are left with having to wait for a few seconds to extract the DNA 3 times, killing the species in the process. The waiting time can be very long, especially since you need to do it several times. I wish that I could get the DNA right away without the timer, even if I have to finish a puzzle at the first extraction every time.

The feeling of wanting to mix the genes into a new species intrigued me at the beginning. However, the slow extracting DNA process seems to kill that enjoyment. It wasn't fun at all to wait for the extraction, especially since you only gain 1 additional DNA after recreating the same species. I wish there is a way to increase the number of species living in the area if you leave at least 2 of them for a while, but with the game being simplistic as it is, I don't dare to try it out. The game doesn't tell that it's possible after all, and it has been helpful in telling the game mechanics in detail.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2576397680

Length and Difficulty
I finished the game in 5.9h after unlocking all species, which are not needed to finish it. A bonus chapter will be unlocked after you finish the game, allowing you to see the backstory behind the main game. Since the bonus chapter is focused on the story, it doesn't last very long - it only took me 0.3h to finish.

The game isn't difficult at all. The most that you'll have trouble with is to figure out how to combine a species into a new one, which can be circumvented by brute-forcing the solution. It might be time-consuming to do though since you need to gather more DNA than needed. Luckily, the game always prevents you from redoing the same combination that you failed before, so you don't have to worry about wasting your DNA.

It's hard to rate this game. The game has potential, but the execution feels amateurish to me. A lot of quality-of-life features are missing, namely the option to sort the DNA from the recently used or obtained ones. Heck, the font even feels out of place compared to the beautiful, pixelated backgrounds. A description of the created species might serve as a good way to give an educational value for children, but all you'll get after you create a new species is its name. There are so many things that can be improved in the game, and it feels like the art and music carried the game hard.

Still, it doesn't change the fact that it's an enjoyable game if you want to play a slow-paced game and shut your brain off for a while. You don't have to worry about dealing with complicated mechanics since it already lays everything out at the beginning. It's a nice game for casual players who just want to explore around and create new species, although I don't think it's worth the full price due to its repetitiveness.

This game was reviewed with a key provided by the developer for free

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World for Two is mostly a life creation game. You'll spend most of your time merging DNA to make new species and running around to gather DNA from the creatures you made.
It was fun to see the world come back to life as I continued my experiments while trying to not "lose" any species (a creature dies after 3 DNA extractions so you need to be careful). Fun, but also a bit unsettling as you play with the life and death of all these living creatures to reach your goal...

Since the gameplay is that simple and the level design is basically non existent, it gets quite repetitive but the game is short so it's alright. There are only 4 environments and I finished the game in less than 6 hours after discovering all the species, which is not required to finish the game.

The story is nice but it's a small part of the game, mostly confined to the prologue chapter you unlock after clearing the game.

8/10 - Great value for money if bought & overall a very pleasant, relaxing experience.

This game was truly an enjoyable time. I've not completed the game fully but I have gathered the main aspect and the majority of what I needed to do. If I'm guessing, you'll get about 6-8 hours of gameplay overall before "finishing" this game.

You're using DNA to create lifeforms and reviving the world, essentially. It's a very cute, relaxing indie game and the soundtracks are A.M.A.Z.I.N.G! Absolutely over the moon.

My only concern for those who buy this to perhaps stream/record for content purposes - It is relatively slow and extremely relaxing so it might not be perfect for content creation. It all depends on your style of enjoyment though! I personally loved the chill aspect of this.

Delighted to have been given the chance to have played this. Thank you Developers.

Relaxing pixel game about mommy robot

Worth it

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1/10 Deaf Cats recommend this game.

☑️It's a neat concept, but feels extremely empty.

❌Their is no atmosphere.

The idea behind this game is, you're an android, artificial intelligence created by a human. You need to splice genes and creatures together to create a new world as the previous world was wipes out (for some reason) along with most of or if not all Humanity.

The problem? There is absolutely no SFX. It's just the same song(s) looping over, and over and over again and again.

Open a door? Silence.
Touch a floating stone? Silence.
Walk/Run? Silence.

Games need more than just music to be done well. It would be a decent game with some added SFX to give it more well... life.

It is pretty and the soundtrack is nice.
I wish there were sound effects because without them, the world feels dead.
The creature designs are great, but once again, there is a huge missed opportunity to have them sing or make some noises.
The gameplay is a little repetitive and the game is a little short.
Still, it does all the things it says it does and is interesting enough.

https://youtu.be/QOJjJ5KtwrU

the game is absolutely beautifull, the audio and the video. if you care about lore this is something for you for sure. 10/10

If I could I would give it a "meh" - it doesn't have a lot of gameplay or story, which is sad because the world is beautiful and I like the setting, but the creation mechanism is boring to me because it involves a lot of trial and error and running and getting new genes if sth doesn't work. I got it on sale and think I'll visit it now and again, but I get bored with it very quickly.

So, I streamed this game, and I really love the overall feel of the game, but the mechanics can take some work that makes it increasingly more aggravating.

The Issues I had with the game are:

• 1. Any failure to create a new lifeform eats the genes you used, which at first, is fine, but when you get further in the game, this can put you back by about 10 minutes of back and forth to make a latestage lifeform, even with teleporting.
  
• 2. Want to make more than one artificial gene at a time? Too bad. Be ready to make each gene one at a time, comeplete with a small cutscene. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

The art of this game is gorgeous, and the music is great, and the story isn't bad. I love the frogs the most and I have like 7 of them so far.

A pretty game to look at and has some decent feels, theirs little to no gameplay outside trying to figure out how to use the genes in the right way to make creatures. Wasnt a whole lot here "Video game" like, but i enjoyed my time with it.