This game is ugly, runs like hot garbage, and is as wide as an ocean with the depth of a puddle. It’s not really a survival game, or a simulator, or an RPG, or a strategy game. Despite cannibals existing, good luck trying to eat people. The build tools are ultra simple and lack customisation. Economy and trade aren’t systems at all, there’s no market to tank or corner. Characters are one dimensional and story nonexistent, so you only get what you project onto the mostly empty world. The biggest strategic choice you’re presented with is where to build your base, if you choose to build one at all.
Yet I am still recommending it.
One day, I ran past multiple groups of slavers on my journey. They all ignored me, a fine specimen to be captured and sold as chattel. This offended me so I did what any rational human being would do: track down key figures in the slave trade and assassinate them, plunging the area into chaos and doing in less than a week what Tinfist has had lifetimes to accomplish yet was too cowardly to see through.
If I wanted, I could have knocked them out and left them for cannibals or hungry animals, or brought them back to a base to be imprisoned forever and used as practice dummies. These are all viable options. And the world reacts to these things more often than not, sometimes in small ways, other times large. With the death of a handful of nobles, I brought entire towns to ruin while famine swept through what little was left. Anti-slavers sang my name at the end of the day, not Tinfist’s, unaware a bruised ego had motivated me and I don’t really care about slavery at all.
This is a “smoke ‘em if you got ‘em game.” You’re given a few pieces of LEGO from disparate sets and locked in a room to figure out what you can do with them. You may become frustrated or bored, but once you come up with something, the game excels until you’ve reached the bottom of the container and have to come up with something else. If you don’t like the pieces you have, just use the modding tools it comes with to make your own. Difficulty or tedium can be easily solved in a few clicks.
Beep.
Yet I am still recommending it.
One day, I ran past multiple groups of slavers on my journey. They all ignored me, a fine specimen to be captured and sold as chattel. This offended me so I did what any rational human being would do: track down key figures in the slave trade and assassinate them, plunging the area into chaos and doing in less than a week what Tinfist has had lifetimes to accomplish yet was too cowardly to see through.
If I wanted, I could have knocked them out and left them for cannibals or hungry animals, or brought them back to a base to be imprisoned forever and used as practice dummies. These are all viable options. And the world reacts to these things more often than not, sometimes in small ways, other times large. With the death of a handful of nobles, I brought entire towns to ruin while famine swept through what little was left. Anti-slavers sang my name at the end of the day, not Tinfist’s, unaware a bruised ego had motivated me and I don’t really care about slavery at all.
This is a “smoke ‘em if you got ‘em game.” You’re given a few pieces of LEGO from disparate sets and locked in a room to figure out what you can do with them. You may become frustrated or bored, but once you come up with something, the game excels until you’ve reached the bottom of the container and have to come up with something else. If you don’t like the pieces you have, just use the modding tools it comes with to make your own. Difficulty or tedium can be easily solved in a few clicks.
Beep.