Learning Factory
As a big fan of simulators (especially building-type simulators), I was excited to check this game out from the second it popped up on my gaming feed. It’s still in Early Access so it’s not quite complete, but you’ll still be able to put in quite some time to getting your factory up to tip top shape.
PROS:
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Nothing really costs too much money, so as long as you keep your researchers busy learning new things, you can make a large factory/shops with ease.
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Once you craft something, it’s yours forever. If you place it down, you can just pick it right back up.
– Real player with 20.9 hrs in game
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Highly recommended, I bought it the moment the lovely Discord staff said it was up on Steam for sale.
Keeping in mind, this is an Early Access game, so some features will be inevitably changed, but so far, the game is so reminiscent of Factorio. Within the two hours of me playing this game, it had me do some quests that get you a little taste of the game.
Fair Warning, this game is buggy. It just got released a few hours ago. Have some faith you people.
I personally have beef with that delayed crafting bug.
– Real player with 10.2 hrs in game
Chef’s Tail
The game is currently extremely buggy, and has no graphics settings.
I really love this game’s idea, and I love the game’s settings. I also love the story line so far.
I hope the game gets some optimization updates, and some bug fixes, preferably bug fixes to be honest.
I’ll recommend this game once it gets bug fixes and some optimization updates.
Editing my review December 2021. This game has had a couple of small bug fixe patches since I first made this review months ago.
Game is less buggy now. I recommend this game if you don’t mind that it is still a little buggy.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
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The game is currently broken as the cooking menu glitches out and makes it unplayable, haven’t even gotten a response on their discord. Shame, like the idea of the game and it looks cute but needs better support
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Overgrown
At first the game was fun, with all of the obstacles and everything. But after the 5th level, everything became more of a headache instead of entertainment. Not to mention, all of the achievements seem to require a 3 star rating, which was not specified. And since all of the levels become extremely difficult and tedious, you can’t get the achievements. Also, the achievement “Ultimate Scrapbooker” does not unlock even when finishing the game.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
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7/10
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
PuzzlePet - Feed your cat
♡ ฅ/ᐠ. ̫ .ᐟ\ฅ ᵐᵉᵒʷ ~
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
Pretty, cute and funny. Loved it!!
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
12 Labours of Hercules VIII: How I Met Megara
The quality of Hercules shines through again! Another excellent installment of the Greatest
Time-Management series ever. They’ve managed to move past 6-7 and back to the roots of 3-5 :), while still keeping it fresh, fun and creative. However, some of these levels are the fastest most frenetic I’ve played ;) My head was spinning haha.
Overall, they’ve accomplished a fun, new direction for the series… Genius, pure Genius !!
After recently playing through this again I rank it #2 in the series behind 5. The depth of the strategy is amazing. When you lock onto how each level is meant to be played it’s like Neo in The Matrix fighting Smith at the end… you lose yourself in the binary code flowing around you ;)
– Real player with 355.4 hrs in game
Another great Hercules game. I have every version from the very beginning. The game continues to add small new things to make it interesting. The toughest part of the game is the Developers rounds but at least you only have to do 20 out of the 40 available maps.
I definitely recommend this game for any fan of the Hercules series.
– Real player with 45.3 hrs in game
Cat Lady - The Card Game
Now here’s a great little game to kill some time and unwind from a stressful day.
Cat Lady is a simple but delightful card game with easy to relatively challenging rounds depending on your style of play, matched with adorable artwork and cute sound effects that’ll certainly give you a smile. The music is soft and jazzy, but a little repetitive.
Remote Play works great most of the time, though can be a bit buggy with not recognising the second player’s mouse movements on occasion (restarting the game or even Steam sometimes fixed this, other times you just had to give it a couple minutes in-game to catch up). Playing this way won’t award any achievement points to any of the other players, only the host. So if you AND your friends are achievement hunting, you’ll need to take turns hosting.
– Real player with 19.4 hrs in game
Purry Cute Card Game!
Cat Lady – The Card Game is a nearly purr-fectly reproduction of the physical card game created by Josh Wood.
Two to four can play, human or AI, in Classic or Challenge mode.
In Classic mode, AI comes in Easy, Medium, and Hard flavors. In a nice nod to creator Josh Wood’s dedicating the game to his childhood feline friends and that males can be crazy cat ladies, too, the Easy AIs are all characterized as little boys. Multiplayer is hot-seat style, and the game seems enabled for the new Steam Remote Play.
– Real player with 18.4 hrs in game
Nyako: Restaurant Tycoon
A restaurant, a small local cafe, or a van with glowing hot dogs? In Nyako Restaurant, you can create your own business empire and conquer the restaurant world. Challenge the Restaurant of the year title holders and take the top spot on the unspoken leaderboard.
Key Features:
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Individualization. Choose your start in this challenging world. Are you a businessman, a teacher, or maybe an ordinary homeless person? The choice is yours.
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Development. Learn new recipes, participate in cooking battles, face the unknown in the world of dreams.
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Cooking food. Prepare food like never before. Combine the ingredients, cut them and use all the kitchen utensils you can find.
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Construction and purchase. Build your own restaurant or work as an employee. Buy equipment, upgrade it, attend sales and follow the latest trends.
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Emergency situations. A homeless raid, a fire, an invasion of a horde of zombies, or maybe aliens who decided to drop a cow on your restaurant? What else could go wrong?
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Employees. Hire new employees, develop their skills and take them with you to the illegal disassembly of the restaurant mafia.
Veterinary Clinic Simulator
Diagnose your patients
In the Veterinary Clinic Simulator, you will not be led by the hand. Based on the animal’s behavior, you will have to find out for yourself what is wrong with your patient. Often even a simple and obvious case may turn out to be an unprecedented illness.
Choose a treatment method
After a successful diagnosis, your next goal will be to find the right treatment for the injury you have previously detected. Just like during the examination, also, in this case, you have full freedom in approaching the treatment for all of your patients.
Remember, not all injuries can be healed right away, sometimes you will have to look after a sick animal for several days.
Upgrade your clinic
To cure more exotic animals or more complicated diseases, it will be necessary to purchase the appropriate equipment.
With the money you earn, you will be able to upgrade your clinic in any way you want. Choose the right equipment and decide where to put it.
Handle random events
In addition to dealing with your daily duties, you will have to deal with all sorts of random events. You can ignore them or try to help everyone. It is only up to you how you approach them. Remember, you are doing all this for the good of the animals!
TV Kid
I love this game. The art and music come together to make a really fun and enjoyable aesthetic. Unlike most other clicker games I’ve played this one actually has some difficulty in it, so that’s another plus. Since its release, TV Kid has been getting multiple updates, adding convenient and noticeable features. The creator has said they would continue to work on and update the game at a slower and steady pace, which is most likely going to make any new additions even higher quality. This is a great thing because that will hopefully mean this game will have an increasing replay value over time.
– Real player with 21.0 hrs in game
Fantastic game. I was stunned by how realistic the game is. The Attenborough-like narrator and the documentary setting make the game quite educative.
Bullsharks [Carcharhinus leucas] give live birth, which makes the enforced caesarean section at the beginning of the game totally believable. They are found in sweet and salt water alike, which totally explains how the shark can intrude that many lakes and rivers. They are also big on energy conservation. For example, they react to external factors and can decrease energy required for osmoregulation. That totally explains how the shark can eat an entire bbq society while crawling and jumping for several kilometres over a golf lawn. Arguably, bio-electricity and grenade-resistance are rather atypical mutations of bull sharks, but hey, who can really claim to understand nature? Similarly, the shark possesses an active sonar which seems unlikely given that it’s only to be found in marine mammals, but it’s totally possible that her father was a humpback whale (also given the incredible size that this specimen reaches).
– Real player with 10.0 hrs in game
Uptasia
I thought I had reviewed this previously, I am sorry, I really should have!
I love this game, it is one of two I have played daily for a year. I love hidden object games, this one takes that in a unique direction. Basically, you are tasked with creating a town in the 18th century I believe. You have to build housing, businesses, parks etc. The hidden object games come in when you level up the factories (businesses). For most, you are creating product to sell like breads, cheeses etc. In order to get additional slots to produce, you have to level up your factories by playing these hidden object games that get progressively more difficult as you level your factory. They also do by-weekly events that are a lot of fun and keeps everything fresh and interesting. It takes a while to level but to be honest, I try to slow it down even more because as you go up levels, more factories become available and you have to purchase them so my goal is to have the money before I level. This is a free to play game and it is possible to play and advance without spending money. I have spent money on gems to get decorations and upgrade my residences because I am lazy and don’t want to work that hard ;D
– Real player with 8433.9 hrs in game
Edit after about 1.5 years in the game and at level 50:
As the game progresses, the hidden object games one must play to level a building gets effectively tedious. Even playing a bit in the morning and then in the evening when the timers are shorter it takes 2 or more weeks on a single building to get from level 4-5.
AS for my time played - look at it. You’re right, I’m not actually playing the game that much. Who could? Herein lies my biggest gripe: collecting resources. I generally collect one or two sets of resources a day. They renew every 6 hours. It currently involves literally 3 hours per collection. So I am AFK ALOT. Sometimes I choose my 15 resources (gets me about 225 wood at a time, so it’s not minor) and: go to work for 8 hours, go to the store, mow the lawn, go to sleep, cook and eat dinner with the family, watch a movie - you get the picture. In fact, I’ve almost quit the game dozens of times just because of the resources. My recent solution is to decide not to care and just pop in each evening, do some HO’s, collect from my factories, and get whatever resources I can before I log off. I won’t be playing much longer, I suspect, and I have paid for a total of 18 months premium account thus far. In my opinion, the devs really need to rethink resources and their collection specifically, because it has completely turned me off the game.
– Real player with 5626.0 hrs in game