One of the original "unfolding" games that showed you could make an idle game that builds itself out as you go. Half the fun is seeing where it goes, so I won't spoil the narrative that develops, but it was satisfying and surprising. Brief but good.

The third act drags if you haven't had all the logistics lined up ahead of time (no way to get charms, for instance), but otherwise satisfying.

I played this some on Android, but actually finished in on Windows. While the mobile versions are expanded in terms of features, I think they're lacking in quality-of-life features. In particular, for a game that is at least idle game-adjacent, the mobile version doesn't appear to have any catchup mechanics for when the app isn't running. The navigation between menus is also just somewhat clunky, likely mostly just because they have so much less screen real estate to work with.

The mobile version also adds to the narrative and all of it makes the story much darker and more morally dubious. This may just have been making explicit the intended reading for the original. I don't find it satisfying because it tries to make the player feel complicit without really doing anything with the results, at least as far as I played.

Reviewed on Feb 24, 2022


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