Recent reviews by [f13]Samwise

I saw this and thought "Papers Please but with plant identification instead of paperwork? YES." But the core of the game (plant identification) is incredibly frustrating if you've ever once done this in real life. Real botanical references describe every part of a plant, and in real life you can actually look at all parts of a plant to ID it. Neither of those is implemented here.

I wouldn't mind having the reference be bad if I could examine the plant closely to look for the specific features described in the reference, and I wouldn't mind having my character be bad at examining plants if the reference was thorough enough that I could look for the one detail that my character noticed. What's unforgivable is having them BOTH be bad, forcing you to process-of-elimination some of the "puzzles" (and get penalized for each unlucky guess) because the game just didn't give you enough information to solve it.

I don't understand how you build an entire game around plant identification and get this wrong.

Bought this game on a dare. It was entertaining until I got past the tutorial and found that I couldn't progress any further in the game because the tickets you need to grab are on the wrong side of the VR fence (which in my space is an actual physical wall that I can't reach through). Other users report similar issues with the VR positioning and it doesn't seem like a fix is coming.

A nice little Zen garden of starvation and frostbite. Suffers from a few unintuitive mechanics (you'll want to look up tips on what size to make your crop farms and what ratios of foresters to woodcutters to have), but once I got the hang of it I really enjoyed the process of expanding my little city and watching my villagers live their lives.

A word of warning: there's no "endgame" so after a point (maybe about 12 in game hours) I said "okay, I think I've done all the things I'm going to do here," and I was fine with that, but if you insist on a hundred hours of unique gameplay and/or a story arc with a conclusion, you won't get that here.

Bland and grey. Play Postal 2 if you want a game about running around a town doing whatever you want without consequence. Play Manhunt if you want a game with really excessive graphic violence. Hatred has absolutely nothing going for it.

I bought a 4-pack of this game when it was on sale for ridiculously cheap. After playing it for an hour, I wish I could delete the gift copies, because I'm embarassed to give them to anyone.

This game is possibly the worst thing ever made by a human. If you have received a copy of it as a gag gift (like I did), be advised that the trading cards are going for about a quarter each at the time of this writing, so it's worth running it in the background. I took a shot at playing it just for curiosity's sake and will summarize the experience here so that you don't need to do the same.

Like most games about raising animals, it's basically a social/FB game minus the social aspect. You have a magic horse, you level up the horse by alternating between feeding it and running it through a DDR obstacle course, then you make money with your leveled-up horse by sending it off to a race and waiting for five minutes for it to come back, you make some craftables with random drops that your horse got while you were waiting for it to come back, then you buy more horses and repeat. I didn't get as far as the "buy more horses" part but I feel like I got the gist.

So it'd be terrible enough on the strength of being a Facebook game that you have to pay $5 for, but the implementation isn't even good. There are loading screens when you go between single-room "buildings", and the feedback in the UI is terrible -- just as an example, the game doesn't tell you when you've done enough obstacle course grinding to max out your horse, so you might be grinding and not even actually progressing, thus defeating the entire purpose of the grinding, and this game is ALL about grinding.

I would not recommend this game to the general public. I might recommend it to somebody with an unnatural love of horses who is soothed by repetitive tasks.