Recent reviews by Annuschka

Probably not for everyone. But if you like to analyze systems this will be pretty rewanding. It's not strictly necessary to really understand what every interface element does. Only downside is you can beat it in a few hours if you solve it systematically (though this might be an upside for some).
For me this was a special experience: A game about exploration - and I discovered something that wasn't supposed to be accessible (from the GUI).
Bonus Points: Psychedelic colors & nice music!

Made a land of plenty - Animatroids devolved to be fat, blind, stupid and lazy...

10/10 Would eat shrooms again.

Summary: This game is almost perfect for TabletPCs!

This review is focused on usability on a Tablet PC. I have a Cintiq Companion, 2.4Ghz, 8GB RAM, Win10, with some hardware buttons set to modifier keys and a pen with buttons. The game can be controlled with pen only-very well, I didn't have to change the settings much.

Performance
Yes, the game runs and even on the lowest settings it looks nice. Loading times and finishing a round take some time though. The UI seems to lag slightly.

Controls
99% of the interactions are left and right mouseclicks. A pen is recommended - I didn't try to play it with touch only, mainly because the buttons on the GUI are rather small even in "big UI mode". There are very few operations where you need to hold the control key and click: multiple selections e.g. - these are no game breakers though.

I tried to pinch-zoom the map, without success. And I did not notice any zoom buttons in the GUI. This can be a minor annoyance since some "jump to location" operations zoom all the way in. However once I set my favourite zoom level (With either onscreen keyboard or the Wacom onscreen controls), I barely changed it during play.

A bigger issue is that the user has to type in a name for customized units: I alt-tabbed to the onscreen keyboard (osk.exe), which is cumbersome but okay. One can probably use windowed mode + onscreen keyboard, too. An easy solution would be a random-name-generator preset or as button.

GUI
The Interface can be displayed in a big mode, there are still a few small buttons and especially the scrollbars are tiny.

Sometimes it is hard to mouse over an element precisely to read the tooltip popup - which usually pops up bottom right aka RIGHT UNDER MY PEN! While reading the popups/tooltips involves finger acrobatics, it's not a big issue. However people who use touch only will not be able to mouse over!

The whole graphics design of the UI is sleek and has a tablet-y feel. Bonus points for offering multiple controls for common actions e.g. Exit-button and Exit-by-right-click. I missed a GUI button to jump to the capital city though.

Gameplay
This game just screams to be played while relaxing on a couch or lying in the bed, also it's fun and addictive! (Refer to some other review, I'm not an expert on strategy games ;) ... )

I was looking for a cute game to show to my 5yr old son and this one has plenty of mounts and creatures to look at!

+ The game runs on my mediocre TabletPC and still looks nice
+ A few adjustments and it can be controlled with pen & touch
+ or with the mouse in the right hand, mug of coffee in the left...
+ family friendly enough
+ Even after a short play time I had many level ups and a couple of mounts to just stand in the town and let my son choose pet after pet after pet...
+ The green hair color is just perfect!

- No beards for the male player characters?!?! :-O