Mason: Building Bricks
The game is as advertised. You build, build, and build more. If you expect anything else, you will be disappointed. Overall, a relaxing experience.
– Real player with 83.3 hrs in game
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I liked it simplicity and focus on personal creations.
– Real player with 81.5 hrs in game
RECONNECT - The Heart of Darkness
First off, this game is a piece of minimalist art! You really feel that the devs wanted to create something new and truly unique.
..and they succeeded!
Secondly, I really like that this game does not stress me. So, if you are looking for high adrenaline RTS action this game is not for you. It’s for peeps like me that enjoy being taken on a ride and like to sit in their heavily secured base and forget the time while watching dumb AI drones becoming hellishly smart AI drones.
Thirdly, it’s a game for people that like to be challenged! Enjoying this game is easy, winning this game is HARD! XD
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
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Mezmerizing game that doesn’t hold your hand but let’s you explore at your own pace.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Retreat To Enen
About The Game
Retreat To Enen is an open world, survival game featuring foraging, gathering, fishing, crafting meditation and exploration. The game is set in 3600 C.E. After humanity had brought itself to the brink of extinction, a new society has formed. This society has a new reverence for nature and the Earth’s environment. As a rite of passage, you are sent to the legendary island of Enen to live off the land, increase your connection to nature, and become more mindful.
Mindfulness
We have consulted with multiple mental health professionals throughout the process to ensure that the game is providing the most relaxing and engaging survival experience possible. Throughout the island the player will find meditation points that will take them on guided meditations, and breathing exercises that will unlock new items to craft.
Open World
Enen is a large island that you will need to explore to locate new mediation points and gather enough resources to build their perfect camp. The island includes beautiful tropical beaches, lush forests, and breathtaking underwater environments. The dynamic weather system, day night cycle, and interactive foliage will fully immerse you in the world of Enen.
Survival
Everything you need to survive can be found on the island. Start with basic traps and foraging and eventually travel the island by kayak, sleep in a large hut with an indoor fireplace, and even soak in your hand crafted hot tub.
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Fishermen’s Haven
Life on a remote island is not as easy as it seems. In Fishermen’s Haven, you have to take care of your people - make sure they have enough to eat, grow and harvest crops, fish using various techniques, or forage for food in the jungle. Remember that the tropical climate is unpredictable - be ready to face nature and tame the elements.
Manage resources, as you will need them to expand your village. Building new houses, tools or boats requires many materials that are scarce on the secluded isle. Be smart and take advantage of trade with foreign merchants who visit your village and sell products that can be crucial for the survival of your people.
Imagine Earth
I purchased this game some time ago and have waited a long time to review it, due in part to some issues I had with it, but also because I wanted to be fair, considering that it is an early access game. So with that being said, my review:
So I was flipping through the steam games and I came across this game called “Imagine Earth” in the simulation section, I saw that it had a demo and decided to try it. At the time the demo only had a missions available, a simple interface and not a lot in the way of content… but I was hooked.
– Real player with 41.7 hrs in game
I really like Imagine Earth. It’s a fun, lightweight city building game, where you have to keep track of not only economical, but ecological development as well.
The game has come a long way since its appearance on Steam. I get, that a lot of people compare this to games like Anno, don’t! Anno was made by a company worth billions, this game was made by a small indy team.
And especially in times of heat waves and forest fires in North America and South Europe, never seen floods in Europe and Asia it is good to see, that some people still try to educate about global warning.
– Real player with 29.0 hrs in game
Anitons
Anitons is an vast world monster collection RPG featuring base building, farming and real time combat. Your possibilities are huge! Create vast farms populated by your monsters or experiment with breeding systems; maybe you wish to spend the whole day decorating your cozy woodland cabin or maybe you want to focus on growing and training your monsters? Anitons has got you covered!
Each one of 9 different types of Anitons has unique abilities and perks. Some of them make your travels easier, some help you with your base maintenance and others have really strong combat skills. You are free to experiment with the types, breed new Anitons or focus on evolving your favourite one!
The world of Anitons is divided into unique realms that are inhabited by different kinds of monsters. Pack up and explore gloomy caverns, enchanting forests or threatening volcanic grounds. Gather resources, build, farm different crops and customize!
Sometimes, there’s no other choice but to fight! Choose your Aniton and control it in fast paced, dynamic combat; to win, you’ll have to put your strategic thinking, accuracy and agility to a good use. Anitons have the ability to call out for their kin for aid, so always stay put and prepare for an unexpected turn of events!
Features:
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Creature collection and evolution - collect and evolve various Anitons or breed a completely new one. There are 9 Aniton types you can encounter and each of them have their unique skills.
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Real time combat - Control your Anitons in real time combat and use the skills you’ve taught them. Engage in exciting encounters that will test your strategic thinking, agility and accuracy. A fight with wild Anitons won’t always be a fair one: prepare to face dozens of enemies at once!
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Vast world - Explore a vast world in which you can find wild Anitons and many useful resources. At first getting by in the wilderness may seem challenging, but as you collect and evolve more powerful Anitons, you will find ways to grow in strength…
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Base building and farming - Grab nearby resources and set up your base! Create vast farms and maintain them with the help of your Anitons.
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Customization - Customize your character to perfectly fit your playstyle and Aniton squad. Unlock new outfits as you progress by completing fun challenges. You can also build and customize your mansion, complete with decorating your walls with pictures of your favorite Anitons!
Magna Graecia
Magna Graecia is a game that lets you create unique ever-growing farming villages set in ancient Greek style. In this game, you have to transform a lonely house into a charming hamlet by placing your buildings strategically, raising their level, receiving various adjacency bonuses, and expanding your territory. Magna Graecia is suitable for both who want to relax, slowly filling their village with olives and grapes, and those who want to test their strategic thinking because every ill-conceived building can be one of the last in your Greek village.
You start the game with one house in the center and six empty hexagonal tiles around it, which you have to fill using a randomly generated sequence of buildings and resources: crop field, winery, forest, and so on, gaining points along the way. To expand your village, you need to build a house that adds all adjacent tiles to the territory of the Greek hamlet. In this game, you can (and should!) level up houses, wineries, and olive farms. Leveling up mechanics are simple: 3 same first-level buildings, where each is adjacent to the other two, turn into one second-level building, which gives you amazing bonuses. For example, a second-level house adds all adjacent tiles in a radius of 2 to the village (the radius is doubled). The game ends when the limit on houses is exhausted and all tiles in your village are filled with buildings and resources.
There are two key resources in the game – olives and grapes. We can say that this is the real pride of your Greek hamlet. You should place olives and grapes on the adjacent tiles to olive farms and wineries respectively because adjacency bonuses play a very important role here: each resource gives +1 by default, and for each farm adjacent to it, this indicator increases by 1. Farms level up the same way as houses. Their radius of influence and adjacency bonuses will be doubled (now +2!), significantly increasing production in the village. Remember, that’s a very powerful tool. By placing buildings correctly, you will literally become an olive oil and wine tycoon, thereby adding a lot of points to the overall rating of your village, which will show at the end of the game, how well you did in creating a Greek farming village.
Magna Graecia offers you:
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Evaluating different options. Should I place it here? Or here?
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Reflection process. There is no timer. No one is rushing you.
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Overcoming yourself. Wanna beat your previous score? Do it.
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Free camera. You can just stop playing and fly around the village.
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Growing olives and grapes. This is the most important.
Magna Graecia does not offer you:
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Triple-A game experience
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A cinematic story
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Microtransactions
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Character customization
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Battle royale
Game mechanics are inspired by Dorfromantik and Triple Town.
Graphic design is inspired by Islanders and Kingdoms and Castles.
Kity Builder
Summary
Kity Builder is a relaxing and cute city building and exploration game about searching for lost blueprints around a desert archipelago to decorate its islands. You’ll get creative designing dreamlike cities for other kitties to live in, while you calmly explore the peaceful ocean.
Key Features:
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A relaxing exploration and construction experience.
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Pixel art combined with low poly graphics for a cute, nostalgic aesthetic.
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Collect blueprints around the place. These will grant you new buildings to place.
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Three islands with different environments and biomes.
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Lots of buildable objects to decore however you want.
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A short and easy game to beat, but you can spend as many time as you want.
Snowtopia: Ski Resort Builder
As the game is still in EA, please so not take my review as negative criticism but as recommendations for things that should be improved for the final version.
So let’s go through it:
The setting: as a winter sport enthusiast, mountain lover and little snow angel, I love the setting and the idea. I followed the project from the very first alpha, and bought it here to support the developers.
Graphics: You get what you see in the screenshots and videos. A lovely mountain area with nice vegetation and some cute looking skiers. For a game focussed on snow, the white element is presented a bit boring. No variations, no animations, no structure… I want to see at least some improvements here, without expecting AAA-class graphics.
– Real player with 16.1 hrs in game
This is my very first review andI really wanted to write a positive one because I absolutely loved the demo. Now with more features, I thought that this sounded wonderful but after several hours of playing, it became more + more frustrating due to too many restrictions and bugs. I’m now listing up what I mean which is actually a listing up of bugs or negative issues and hope I don’t sound rude or so because English is not my first language. So unfortunately, this will be a negative review as I can’t recommend the game at this stage of development, especially not for this price as it has far too many issues.
– Real player with 11.3 hrs in game
Castle Flipper
i had 9 games on my wish list for the last 6 months and finally one of them came out—Castle Flipper. I love House Flippers and have about 400 hours on it. My first thought was this would be similar, but after reading the numerous negative comments, I realized it wasn’t. There were also complaints that the quests were completed in 10-12 hours and that was also a turn off. However, the Devs responded and explained the concept of building a castle after the quests.
The game was listed for about $5 (i live in a lower priced Country) and after some thought, I decided to give it a try. After all, everyone has different tastes. Boy was I glad. The setting and music are beautiful. I started by completing a couple of tasks and then was told to build my house. It only required a 4X4 floor plan and took no time to build. Then there were 2 new tasks, one of them was to clean up a ship. While that sounded cool, I realized that was the problem those negative reviewers had. They rushed, rushed, rushed. For example, one player I won’t name gave it a bad review saying there was little to do except the quests that took just a few hours. Yet, this player took the time to make a You Tube video of him playing the game. I watched it to pick up some tips. He rushed, rushed, rushed to complete the quests. This isn’t real life where we live in the fast lane. Slow down. Take a breath and enjoy the game. There is no prize for finishing the game quickly. He even commented that it only cost $10 so not worth the time to ask for a refund. What? Not worth the time. It takes less than a minute to ask for a refund on Steam (I know, I’ve refunded over half my games because they were too difficult.) If someone’s one minute of time is worth more than 10 bucks, then I’m in the wrong business.
– Real player with 42.9 hrs in game
First off all, I love these kinds of games. Building and maintaining your own settlement is something I can spend many hours on. Saying that you would think I would recommend this game seeing the endgame is based all around that. But sadly I cannot. The idea is there, build your own castle and collect rent. But the way this has been implemented simply isn’t satisfying. The world feels empty and barren, nothing happens beside the occasional ‘clutter everywhere incidents’ that makes you run around all the houses n clean stuff up. The visuals are great but without life within the game you quickly lose the drive to do anything.
– Real player with 13.0 hrs in game