New player feedback, fun game

[Spark Bibo]

First, let me say, I am playing on Steam Deck with issues at all. I have put in 20 game hours and made it to year 7.

It's quite fun. The balance of trying to complete missions while not over doing it is everything. In other words, don't bite off, more than you can chew -- to keep with the cowboy vibe.

I agree with other players that the Unlocked purchasable items just muddy the pool with several choices I would never use. To be honest "Eggs in one Basket" is totally awesome. I think it should be a permanent unlocked skill instead of a purchasable item. The only purchasable items i find useful are the Commodity +1 (+1 bison, +1 deer, +1 mine etc etc)

If my mission says 3 Grasslands, and I get those 3, any other items on it (mine, bison, tree, deer) also get removed. I saw another post that likened it to the villager are greedy and take everything. Thats ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ though. I pay the guild fees to go collect this stuff. The people are stealng from me. I think either those extra items should be left there or I should get paid for extra items they take.

Only actual bugs I have seen:
1) When playing the Witch, for some reason had a hard time clicking on tiles. Had to move the camera and the pointer and come back to the tile to select it. This seemed to happen pretty regularly.
2) This might be related to above. When pointer is over the missions in the mission selection window at the start of an expedition, if you reload a mission (Y button) you do not like, and the new mission takes the exact same place in the window as the one you dismissed, you can't press any button (Y reload or A accept) until you move the pointer off the mission and back.

my 2 cents.
Love the game
SparkBibo

[Frog Collective]

Thanks a lot for your kind message !

Yes you're right, unlocking new items will increase the rarity to find one specific item in merchants. We found it interesting because it encourages you to try new strategies, using new items and trying to make them works.

There are multiple viable strategies in the game, some to play with one contract (like Eggs in one basket), some to play with mud tiles, some to play with Lost Prospectors, some with afflictions ....

Maybe some of the items are undepowered and this is why you feel it muddy the pool ? we should try to create a tier list of Coldridge items :D

And yes, tiles are cleared when you claim it, the guild does not move on a tile for nothing, so they gather everything! On a gameplay side, we found this very interesting since it adds a lot of dillema when planning for your path.

We've noted your bug report, we'll try to look to repro them if we found some time.

Thanks again <3