6/10
The lore and worldbuilding are simple but fascinating. The survival/strategy mechanics are brilliantly cruel, even more than in This War of Mine.
And yet, I still think that the genre does't quite fit its theme and rhetorical aims: it still provides a performance you can improve too much, in too many ways, with increasing mastery. And mastery, here as in This War, is destructive and goes against any narrative or rhetoric purpose.
The lore and worldbuilding are simple but fascinating. The survival/strategy mechanics are brilliantly cruel, even more than in This War of Mine.
And yet, I still think that the genre does't quite fit its theme and rhetorical aims: it still provides a performance you can improve too much, in too many ways, with increasing mastery. And mastery, here as in This War, is destructive and goes against any narrative or rhetoric purpose.