Recent reviews by Loki

good game, but very hard to draw anything with keyboard

great physics game, making all kinds of alloy and forging items for orders, still early stage for a game with bugs or need quality of life improvements here or there, but great potential and already has tons of things to do, totally worth it

PS I idled a bit for the spiders :]

This game is too buggy and way too tedious in the beginning, it is promising but not fun at the moment.

Refunded, may try again next year

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I got this from JingleJam2023, I am surprise I don't see people talk about this game anywhere else, I am on my third run and I am still finding new things.

There is a lie about this game though, it is NOT about running a shop, I mean, it is a big part of it, but the true theme is capitalism, to be a good capitalist or a bad capitalist, and money is not your only resource/currency. There are so many choices affecting not only the ending, but also characters you encounter in game.

There are so many secrets outside the main story line, and they all make a difference in the big picture, so many things to do yet there is always a guideline so you cannot get lost, it is clear the developer put some thoughts in this part to make sure everyone can get through the game.

This game has a very interesting story, there are things seems wrong in the first place, an example would be someone just picked up a stranger and let them handle their shop, but as the story unfold, it become very reasonable. Another good part of the story is, you are not having an idiot as your characters, not that everything they do is the best, but you can see their reasons behind the choices.

One of the thing I find this game excelled at which most games failed, is the progression pace, there are different things to do at different point in the game, starting simple and add things slowly, you don't get overwhelmed or bored, even in late game you can still focus on some side quest or big goals you set for yourself.

This has to be the best game I have played in 2023.

I tried to refund it, but because of the 0.5 extra hours steam decline it, it is the rule but I really do not think 2 hours is enough to understand game in this general.

I love the idea of this game, but the more I learn about it, the more frustrating and disappointing it became, this game has potential but cannot recommend in this state.

a few example,
1. you are playing as the main character, a man, which is fine, but he would age and die, if you did not get marry with a woman and have an heir(which will always be male) in time, your game just end. I just feel like I am forced into a marriage I did not agree to when I bought the game unknowingly. An adoption option would be nice.

2. the game progress so steep, almost awkward, the main thing in this game is building a village, but even to support just a few people, you need quite a few buildings, everyone need their own house(if you have two people you need to build three because one will always bound to you, a temporary bunker would help a lot), without a food storage you would need to put food into their home one by one(and a extra kitchen if you want them to cook foods themselves), even if you build a well they do not drink from there, you need to put water into their home again, and to harvest water you need to make buckets at the workshop, and you need planks from lumberjack, just too many buildings needed, and they get unlocked so slowly and at different pace, not to mention building is tedious, acceptable and understandable, but tedious.

3. a lot of counter initiative game mechanics, you cannot repair your equipment and they break quite fast(a wooden spear can only be throw four times, a better way to use it is just to have a stack of spear in your bag), trees DO NOT grow back if you remove the stump, you will get dirty and the way to clean yourself is jump into a river, you get teleport to your house at midnight, and so on.

4. it feels like the game is not design to be played in default setting, for example, you need more than twenty logs, but you can only carry a few without over burden, food is not too scarce, but you need to eat A LOT, eat ten pieces of roast meat and you are just half full(the developer says it is because there is only three days in one season, so one day should be like a month...), experience gain so slow, you barely gain a level even when you doing the same thing for a whole day. Most of these things can be customise, but in the default setting, you would feel like you are playing against the setting instead of things in game.

5. the choices in conversations make your character sounds like an annoying brat, I really do not feel like playing as an idiot.

I am not deep into the game yet, but I can only foresee there will be more and more disturbing things to find, do not recommend.

https://steamproxy.com/app/1139980/discussions/0/4580716151543429061/#c4580716151544352067

one of the worst developer I have ever seen, while the OP in this discussion did not make the reason behind their claim clear, the developer just replied by "being ironic", which was making a false statement about being in a trial involving Graveyard Keeper and Dinner Dash, which I highly doubt how legal that is.
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people keep saying it is a rip off of Stardew Valley only because it is much more famous than Graveyard Keeper, if you have played all three of them, you will notice Travellers Rest is actually a Graveyard Keeper rip off, and has very little to do with Stardew Valley.

for example, the skill tree system is like a copy from Graveyard Keeper, different crafting action give you a mix of three type of skill point, yet Graveyard Keeper has the idea WHY it is that way(they represent body, mind, and spirit), so it maybe hard to understand at first, but it is not confusing. While learning from a good system is not wrong, but what do these three type of skill point represent in Traveller Rest is not clear, like why does this action gives red skill point when that action gives blue cannot be answered simply.

Lovely

cannot save game, have to refund

simple in style and elaborate in puzzle