Charming art and music
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“the soundtrack is fantastic and the art is great”
Steam review · 108.1 h played ↗
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Mostly Positive · 78%Mostly Positive · 78%Abbey Games2013Sandbox · Strategy · Simulation
$9.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 6 h ago
The verdict
A charming, unique god-game puzzle about placing resource synergies for villages under a timer. Skip it if you want a free-form sandbox or dislike crashes and repetition.
Great for
Players who like optimizing puzzles, unlock-driven replays and cozy, pausable strategy
Main risk
Frequent crashes and a slow, repetitive, memorization-heavy timed loop instead of a free sandbox
What players love
Unlocks give strong replayability
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Every replay for the first 30 hours of the game has a different structure due to new resources.”
Steam review · 63.3 h played ↗
Cozy, relaxing pace
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Not a bad game, just the thing to unwind for a couple of evenings after work.”
Steam review · translated · 6 h played ↗
Deep resource synergy puzzle
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“What makes this game GREAT is the way resources combine with each other”
Steam review · 32.9 h played ↗
What players complain about
Frequent crashes and launch failures
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“It was the 20th crash in 6.5 total hours of play.”
Steam review · 6.8 h played ↗
Boring, slow and repetitive
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“It's the same thing over and over again”
Steam review · 7.8 h played ↗
Needs memorization and wiki; no in-game reference
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews
“the lack of an in-game reference tool for upgrades is frustrating, and the game expects you to keep the wiki open or memorize all of the upgrades.”
Steam review · 14.1 h played ↗
RNG projects and gated unlocks frustrate
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews
“you quickly reach a point where you can no longer unlock any more advanced resources, because the humans simply refuse to build the projects you haven't attempted yet.”
Steam review · 33.5 h played ↗
Tiny, unscalable UI text
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews
“The UI text is TIIIIIINY. And theres no option to increase the size.”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗
Long, overwhelming tutorial
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 negative reviews
“the tutorials throw soooo much info, its done in a really non intuitive bad way.”
Steam review · 4.2 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable500 MB
Minimum
ProcessorIntel® Core 2 Duo or AMD Phenom processor
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsDirectX10(R) compatible card with 512MB of memory
Storage500 MB HD space
Recommended
OSWindows 7
ProcessorIntel® Core i5 or AMD Phenom II
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsDirectX10(R) compatible card with 1024MB of memory
Storage500 MB HD space
ProcessorIntel® Core 2 Duo or AMD Phenom processor
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsDirectX10(R) compatible card with 512MB of memory
Storage500 MB HD space
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