Recent reviews by Joost

Super fun, super pretty and it just totally makes you feel like Indiana Jones. It captures the vibe of Indiana Jones so well, from the voice acting to what you do as a player. Also, the structure with a series of small open worlds is really fun.

Great music, really powerful atmosphere! I love the world building, looking forward to explore this world further.

Super fun! A highly simplified version of a railroad management game, with a strong focus on creating optimal tracks.

In a sense it feels more like an automation/factory game than like a tycoon game. It lacks all kinds of basic functionality of tycoon games (signals, being able to skip stations), but if you embrace it, that's actually it's strength: there's a lot of fun in creating the optimal network within the boundaries of the game's rules. The main challenges are time-based, so expect it's more stressful than regular tycoon games, but in a good way.

My one complaint is that in the last third of the campaign the levels become tedious, with too many resources and levels that take too long. So I quit at that point. Still, great value for money!

Really great game and feels complete! The starship management is just amazing, feels like playing an anime Star Trek. It's a bit bugged due to Early Access and some minor missing features, but overal it just feels like a finished game. The game sadly won't be finished by the devs, but if this is your jam, just play it as is, because it's super fun in its current state!

Amazing experience, super intriguing! And with nearly 2 hours of polished experience this is a very extensive for a demo.

Really fun and nice iteration on the Reus formula! It's a real brain teaser!

Amazing game!

This is a weird one for me. I enjoyed myself for 10 hours, so it's definitely a positive review.

The core is quite fun and unique: a resource management game where you're constantly trying to make do with how the dice roll, because re-rolling them is expensive.

However, I feel this is also a very flawed game. A lot of the progression is built around roguelike systems, with ascending dice, losing progress when you fail, etc. But a single match takes several hours, which makes it a poor fit for that, and the progression feels very grindy and uninteresting. Also, during my first match I played 4.5 hours only to find out my tactic was wrong (it being my first match after all), which felt very punishing. If I'm doing it wrong from the start, don't let it take several hours before I start losing. In another match the win condition wasn't clear to me so I lost my ascended dice because I accidentally won the match before re-ascending them. So I essentially lost progression by playing well. I also didn't receive any unlocks for that match. Extremely anti-rewarding success.

So all in all I had fun, but I also had a lot of frustration.

Fun, slow, deep, lots of things to do. Sometimes a bit confusing, but nothing the interwebs can't fix.

Super unique and fun. Well written, fun gameplay, unlike anything else that I've played.