Recent reviews by Rothana

Really I bought this for two reasons: to support the devs and to be able to listen to the OST away from the computer. Rarely do I care about the OST of a game, but with the added desire to thank the devs for this amazing game I decided to go for it.

However, there are many reviews for this which just say they want to support the devs and not much which actually reviews the content. I'm going to give this a positive review, but I'm in that unenviable position of wishing Steam had a "Sorta" recommended option because my overall impression of the content of this DLC is that it was thrown together in a hurry. To me it doesn't seem thought through, and it sounds like it has a great deal more substance to it on the store page than it does once you look at the downloaded files.

Wallpapers
Honestly the wallpapers are okay, but there aren't 9 unique wallpapers which was a bit of a letdown. There are in fact 10 wallpaper files, but two of the wallpapers have an alternate version which accounts for 4 of the wallpapers which means there are 8 unique wallpapers. They're kind of cool in my opinion, but not quite as exciting as I was hoping. I was hoping for some cool landscapes of the glades, or of a town mid-game, or of villagers harvesting berries.

Emojis
The emojis are awful. They're very ugly and the art style is completely different from the game. My first impression looking at them were that they were abominations of the villagers. The emojis which are in-game art have all simply had 8-bit sunglasses plunked on top of them. I was hoping for some resource nodes, supply crates, glade event monsters, maybe some buildings. This was not well thought through and looks like it was hastily assembled with low effort being applied.

Portraits
Really lovely portraits. It was interesting to discover that these are all really not meant to be viewed at the scale that they're at in this OST. They look great in the thumbnails, but the paintings just don't have enough detail in them to make them great to look at when they're taking up half my monitor. This isn't a criticism rather just an interesting (to me) fact because these portraits were clearly created with a specific purpose and specific intended scale in mind. At their intended scale they are delightful.

Concept Art
It's a little lacklustre as there are only three images with compiled sketches. I feel like there must be a lot of missing sketches because there aren't many things where you can see a progression of idea development. There are a few which show intended animation of something which is neat. Again I feel like some sketches were grabbed and laid out in an image just to create some concept sheets. It doesn't feel thought-through and it doesn't feel like a little bit of a tour of the making of the game. There are no sketches of villager development as an example of a glaring missing segment.
What's here is cool and fascinating and is much more imaginative and skilfully drawn than I can possibly do. It just feels like a small sampling of random sketches.

Soundtrack
Fantastic. Thankfully this particular bit of the DLC is half the reason I bought it. It is simple and straight-forward music from the game. Sounds great, and the tracks are all labelled nicely. For those wondering, this OST contains all of the music from the game.

Originally posted by Leisurely Luke [developer]:

Hey! The OST included in the Supporter Pack has all the tracks from the game (from OST Part 1 which was released on streaming platforms when the game launched in Early Access and from OST Part 2 which was released along with the 1.0 game version).

It's 61 tracks in total and they're all included in the "FLAC", "MP3", "OGG", and "WAV" folders when you download the Supporter Pack ^^

It's okay. I think it's a fun and good game, but I felt that Dungeon of the Endless had more heart to it. This feels very much like a remake of Dungeon of the Endless. If you were dithering between the two I would recommend Dungeon of the Endless over this very similarly named title. However, this isn't a bad game itself and I can certainly recommend it even if it isn't as good as the original.

This game feels pretty unique to me. You can build a city but it isn't a city builder, you need to learn and develop strategies but it isn't a strategy game, you draft different buildings but it isn't a deck builder, and you control what various workers are doing but it isn't really a sim. Yet it's all of these things. A delightful mish-mash of various genres creating something that feels very fresh and different. It is very fun, it's very addicting. Can wholeheartedly recommend this game.

I got this in a Humble Bundle. It isn't an amazing game, it isn't a bad game. I wouldn't recommend it enthusiastically, but it was charming and entertained me for about 2 hours and 40 minutes. No game breaking bugs, the controls are very simple. I played with the "harder" fishing mechanics which were very Stardew Valley and thus easy to grasp.

Yeah, don't know what more to say. Fun little game, very chill, no strenuous thinking required. Hit the spot, though I wouldn't have wanted to play much more of it than 2.75 hours. *shrug* I enjoyed.

Tedious and boring within a week. What a waste of time, energy, and computing power!

Just fantastic. Still in EA and it's given me 70 hours of pleasure. By the time this game comes out I might be down to having paid something like 5 cents per hour of entertainment! It's like MInecraft meets Factorio. Love it!

I have two big problems with this game which I discovered after installing it:
1) It has micro-transactions through a predatory store which obfuscates the cost of items with a secondary currency. So you must purchase the secondary in-game currency with real money, and that in-game currency is used to buy the store items to make it much more difficult to understand how much real money you have spent. I will not purchase microtransactions. Whilst I'm fine with a game offering up purely cosmetic items for additional money (this game is offering purely cosmetic items) I object to these predatory tactics. I personally am not okay with micotransactions, and it's particularly galling to see in a game which is clearly geared towards a young target audience. In my opinion it's not responsible or ethical of the game devs to engage in this behaviour. A simple design choice which make this much less egregious would be to at least put an up front real currency price tag on each item.
2) The camera movement makes me feel motion sick. I can't play this game. It is simply unplayable for me. I'm very surprised that in seven years the devs have not yet introduced the simple option of locking the camera to prevent extraneous movement.
I wanted to warn others about the motion sickness, but once I found the microtransaction store

Joining the herd of positive reviews. Awesome game. It's a tough and unforgiving game, but it was fun, and if you're persistent you'll slowly get better and it feels ever so satisfying when you finally defeat a boss.

Awesome game, having a blast. Even if it doesn't get finished I've already played it for long enough that I've paid less than $1 per hour. By the time I finish all of the EA content I'll probably be at something like $0.25 per hour of very enjoyable entertainment. If you liked Subnautica and you like Satisfactory, and you are sick of games with enemies, violence, and jump scares, then you're in luck! Planet Crafter feels a lot like Subnautica but with no scary monsters. The planet is completely dead, you're the only living thing on it at the start of the game. I love this game!

Fantastic game! Was sad when I finished it.