This game right here is one of the greats of all time, and I'm not just saying that because I have to! :D It is an inevitable fact of life that any act following a great and famous one is bound to be compared. It is inevitable, therefore, that Tinyfolks be compared to Darkest Dungeon, without a doubt a smash hit, but in my estimation it is far more fun and inspired. It has many innovative mechanics, can be challenging but is fair, and its minimalist style manages to leave much to the imagination yet also be charming. There are very few games that manage to pull this off, and this is one of them. I learned of this one through a BaerTaffy video, and hopped on to the Tinyfolks train 12 days after release. We've been through a lot together, and Pierre is a fantastic and talented developer who gives ear to his fanbase. One guy said the time limits on the campaign made him anxious, Pierre added an easy mode (now time limit can be disabled straight). I said I wanted more than a 7 character limit for naming folks, and we got more. We even got caudillaje in the Spanish version, and other tidbits, and I endorse it. For my personal touch and more, it is very possible I have never endorsed a game as much as this one, for as much as I love the Barrelgrounds, my influence on them has been minimal thus far. In my original review for this, I also emphasised how essential having an imagination is to enjoy a game like this, and I preserved my example narratives below. Between having an imagination and all the challenge modes, the last of which dropped only a few days ago, all those who say that this game has no replay value are full of rubbish. Look at my hours, and counting. I will, no doubt, continue to play this until the end of the world. Yet I dream of Spacefolks one day...

[NO IMAGINATION]
I started my first playthrough with metagaming intel from having watched footage of it beforehand. I party wiped 20 days or so into the campaign because of poor judgement and raged, and then went on to beat the final boss. Mkay, not bad for four quid.

[IMAGINATION ENGAGED]
In the afternoon yesterday, I was a King. I employed a Hero named Boreas to help me retake my crown after my rival for the Kingship of Shadow assaulted my kingdom. We slowly but surely became an elite force to be reckoned with, eventually being joined by several others, including a man named Stanley (some guy off the street), Boreas' noble friend Octavius, and Nico-my-cousin-is-here. Things were going hunky dory until myself and the other four went to the crystal fields, where after a long and terrible struggle, we were DEPRIVED OF LIFE. This was a shocking turn of events we'd never recover from, and the story was thenceforth turned into a roaring rampage of revenge. The only veteran survivor of this massacre was Oliver, who had not been there. He then turned into the Arrow (duh), and rallied the survivors to wreak great and terrible vengeance. A friend of Stanley's, a man as equally equanimous, placid, and unnotable as Stanley himself was driven to religious fanaticism by the death of his friend, and this man, Jim, became a saint. Enraged by my death, my servant Fritz and my second-in-command Felix took up arms alongside Arrow, the vengeful survivor, and none other than Zephyr, the brother of the late Boreas, joined them as they trained to avenge our deaths. But first they ended up in the wrong place entirely because they did not pay attention to where they were going (or perhaps they lacked their King's map-pointing skills), and in spite of their victory, our sorcerer Vlad (not a vampire) died there. A couple of weeks later, they returned to the evil prism that killed us and, being prepared, roflstomped it with extreme prejudice and hatred. From there, it was principally a matter of scrounging up enough iron to make gear even the Shadow couldn't laugh off. So thorough was their preparation, so steely their determination, and so vengeful their vengeance, that when they embarked, they wiped the floor with the eldritch usurper, and despite coming close, they did not suffer a single casualty. Felix, no doubt, would have to be the next King, with Fritz, Jim, and an important personage named Bahamonde (who did not participate in the final assault) forming his court, and Zephyr and Arrow being his champions. There seem, at any rate, to be two morals on the one way: the first, don't get dead (especially, of course, for kings). The other is harder to swallow: pick up and move on when bad things happen, don't cop out or try to undo the past. Without sacrifice, there can be no glory.

===[☺ Audience:]===
☑ Children
☑ Gamers
☑ Everyone
☑ Casuals
☑ Professionals
☐ Heretics
☑ Crusaders

===[☼ Graphics:]===
☐ Make your eyes bleed
☐ Sad
☐ Unremarkable
☐ Pretty
☑ Beautiful
☐ Masterpiece
☐ Indistinguishable from real life

===[$ Price/value:]===
☐ Utterly worthless even on discount
☐ 90% off only
☐ Buy on sale
☐ A question of taste
☐ Okay choice
☐ A sound investment
☑ Well worth the weight

===[§ Requirements:]===
☐ Having eyes
☑ Corroded toaster
☐ Antique or better
☐ Competence
☐ Powerhouse
☐ NASA computer
☐ Multivac

===[† Difficulty:]=== (Between all the available and customizable difficulties)
☑ Just leave it running (only on zombie mode, hahaha!)
☑ EZPZ 🍋✊
☑ Easy as 🥧
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Stay frosty
☑ A true challenge
☐ S-c-h-m-u-c-k Bait (seriously, it's not worth it)

===[⌛ Game/run length]===
☑ One shot (0-2 hours) (if speedrunning)
☑ Short (2-8 hours)
☐ Casual (8-12 hours)
☐ Dedicated (12-18 hours)
☐ Weary journey (18+ hours)
☑ Arcade (determined by you)
☑ A sound investment in your future

===[🔧 Game mechanics]===
☐ Liquid chaos
☐ RNG-based
☐ Poorly designed
☐ Straightforward
☐ Nuanced
☑ Brilliant
☐ Genius

===[Ʊ Story] ===
☐ You'll have to make one up
☐ Blink and you'll miss any there might be
☐ Cheap fanfic
☐ Normal
☐ Exciting
☑ Memorable (Yes, you DO get a different ending depending on the mode or if your monarch dies)
☐ Epic

===[♬ Music] ===
☐ Will give you cerebral haemorrhage
☐ Just turn it off
☐ Tolerable
☐ Good
☐ Most excellent
☑ IT'S A MASTERPIECE (even the tutorial music is thematically on POINT!)
☐ Deus Vult

===[☣ Bugs]===
☐ CALL PEST CONTROL! NOW!
☐ Check your systems for invasion
☐ Crawling
☐ Unpolished
☐ Like clockwork
☑ Clean enough to eat on
☐ Clean enough for surgery

=== [✠ Considerations]===
☐ Mod friendly
☑ Singleplayer
☐ Multiplayer
☐ Local co-op
☑ Contains heresy [The game SAYS it's "perversion"]
☑ Contains crusading/inquisiting
☑ Imperial Approval ALL MY APPROVAL.

[h1]Stop.[/h1] [b]This game right here is one of the greats of all time, and I'm not just saying that because I have to! :D[/b] It is an inevitable fact of life that any act following a great and famous one is bound to be compared. It is inevitable, therefore, that Tinyfolks be compared to Darkest Dungeon, without a doubt a smash hit, but in my estimation it is far more fun and inspired. It has many innovative mechanics, can be challenging but is fair, and its minimalist style manages to leave much to the imagination yet also be charming. There are very few games that manage to pull this off, and this is one of them. I learned of this one through a BaerTaffy video, and hopped on to the Tinyfolks train 12 days after release. We've been through a lot together, and Pierre is a fantastic and talented developer who gives ear to his fanbase. One guy said the time limits on the campaign made him anxious, Pierre added an easy mode (now time limit can be disabled straight). I said I wanted more than a 7 character limit for naming folks, and we got more. We even got caudillaje in the Spanish version, and other tidbits, and I endorse it. For my personal touch and more, it is very possible I have never endorsed a game as much as this one, for as much as I love the Barrelgrounds, my influence on them has been minimal thus far. In my original review for this, I also emphasised how essential having an imagination is to enjoy a game like this, and I preserved my example narratives below. Between having an imagination and all the challenge modes, the last of which dropped only a few days ago, all those who say that this game has no replay value are full of rubbish. Look at my hours, and counting. I will, no doubt, continue to play this until the end of the world. Yet I dream of Spacefolks one day... [NO IMAGINATION] I started my first playthrough with metagaming intel from having watched footage of it beforehand. I party wiped 20 days or so into the campaign because of poor judgement and raged, and then went on to beat the final boss. Mkay, not bad for four quid. [IMAGINATION ENGAGED] In the afternoon yesterday, I was a King. I employed a Hero named Boreas to help me retake my crown after my rival for the Kingship of Shadow assaulted my kingdom. We slowly but surely became an elite force to be reckoned with, eventually being joined by several others, including a man named Stanley (some guy off the street), Boreas' noble friend Octavius, and Nico-my-cousin-is-here. Things were going hunky dory until myself and the other four went to the crystal fields, where after a long and terrible struggle, we were DEPRIVED OF LIFE. This was a shocking turn of events we'd never recover from, and the story was thenceforth turned into a roaring rampage of revenge. The only veteran survivor of this massacre was Oliver, who had not been there. He then turned into the Arrow (duh), and rallied the survivors to wreak great and terrible vengeance. A friend of Stanley's, a man as equally equanimous, placid, and unnotable as Stanley himself was driven to religious fanaticism by the death of his friend, and this man, Jim, became a saint. Enraged by my death, my servant Fritz and my second-in-command Felix took up arms alongside Arrow, the vengeful survivor, and none other than Zephyr, the brother of the late Boreas, joined them as they trained to avenge our deaths. But first they ended up in the wrong place entirely because they did not pay attention to where they were going (or perhaps they lacked their King's map-pointing skills), and in spite of their victory, our sorcerer Vlad (not a vampire) died there. A couple of weeks later, they returned to the evil prism that killed us and, being prepared, roflstomped it with extreme prejudice and hatred. From there, it was principally a matter of scrounging up enough iron to make gear even the Shadow couldn't laugh off. So thorough was their preparation, so steely their determination, and so vengeful their vengeance, that when they embarked, they wiped the floor with the eldritch usurper, and despite coming close, they did not suffer a single casualty. Felix, no doubt, would have to be the next King, with Fritz, Jim, and an important personage named Bahamonde (who did not participate in the final assault) forming his court, and Zephyr and Arrow being his champions. There seem, at any rate, to be two morals on the one way: the first, don't get dead (especially, of course, for kings). The other is harder to swallow: pick up and move on when bad things happen, don't cop out or try to undo the past. Without sacrifice, there can be no glory. ===[☺ Audience:]=== ☑ Children ☑ Gamers ☑ Everyone ☑ Casuals ☑ Professionals ☐ Heretics ☑ Crusaders ===[☼ Graphics:]=== ☐ Make your eyes bleed ☐ Sad ☐ Unremarkable ☐ Pretty ☑ Beautiful ☐ Masterpiece ☐ Indistinguishable from real life ===[$ Price/value:]=== ☐ Utterly worthless even on discount ☐ 90% off only ☐ Buy on sale ☐ A question of taste ☐ Okay choice ☐ A sound investment ☑ Well worth the weight ===[§ Requirements:]=== ☐ Having eyes ☑ Corroded toaster ☐ Antique or better ☐ Competence ☐ Powerhouse ☐ NASA computer ☐ Multivac ===[† Difficulty:]=== (Between all the available and customizable difficulties) ☑ Just leave it running (only on [spoiler]zombie mode[/spoiler], hahaha!) ☑ EZPZ 🍋✊ ☑ Easy as 🥧 ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Stay frosty ☑ A true challenge ☐ S-c-h-m-u-c-k Bait (seriously, it's not worth it) ===[⌛ Game/run length]=== ☑ One shot (0-2 hours) (if speedrunning) ☑ Short (2-8 hours) ☐ Casual (8-12 hours) ☐ Dedicated (12-18 hours) ☐ Weary journey (18+ hours) ☑ Arcade (determined by you) ☑ A sound investment in your future ===[🔧 Game mechanics]=== ☐ Liquid chaos ☐ RNG-based ☐ Poorly designed ☐ Straightforward ☐ Nuanced ☑ Brilliant ☐ Genius ===[Ʊ Story] === ☐ You'll have to make one up ☐ Blink and you'll miss any there might be ☐ Cheap fanfic ☐ Normal ☐ Exciting ☑ Memorable [spoiler](Yes, you DO get a different ending depending on the mode or if your monarch dies)[/spoiler] ☐ Epic ===[♬ Music] === ☐ Will give you cerebral haemorrhage ☐ Just turn it off ☐ Tolerable ☐ Good ☐ Most excellent ☑ IT'S A MASTERPIECE (even the tutorial music is thematically on POINT!) ☐ Deus Vult ===[☣ Bugs]=== ☐ CALL PEST CONTROL! NOW! ☐ Check your systems for invasion ☐ Crawling ☐ Unpolished ☐ Like clockwork ☑ Clean enough to eat on ☐ Clean enough for surgery === [✠ Considerations]=== ☐ Mod friendly ☑ Singleplayer ☐ Multiplayer ☐ Local co-op ☑ Contains heresy [The game SAYS it's "perversion"] ☑ Contains crusading/inquisiting ☑ Imperial Approval [b]ALL MY APPROVAL.[/b]