Recent reviews by Caralantha

beautiful, short distraction - great to keep a child busy

would love to print this off and color it in as well ;)

I do enjoy it for the most part, but it has dragged on a little too long as I reach for the last achievement at this time. It's a decent game but not meant for everyone.

Graphically Simple - Boxes and Text with a small color pallette
Buggy - it has some big issues with tracking heroes if you have too many of them
Harsh Tertiary Reset Mechanic - Colonization is worth doing once but building back up from it is such a pain
No real explanations - Most of the learning curve is thru experimentation unless you reach for a guide (like the one I made for religion!)
Achievement Hunter Warning! - If you are going for 100% this is not a quick one by any means. The final achievement, 25k Fame, is a months long endeavor. (EDIT: I am hoping that the game is stable enough to let me finish this one!)

As a simple idle game, it has the basics of design and is great if you want to understand the basic structure of an idle game from the perspective of a developer - this could easily be a teaching tool.

Fun little puzzle game with antagonistic narrator. Best for an arbitrary casual stream or just to pass some time. About 10-20 minutes of playtime.

It's a complex game that takes time. Not intense graphically, and even comes with a nifty story that links the components of the game together.

EDIT: Loving community, it still updates and has recently added a new adventure mode!

Another great series of images without being too big (i.e. not extensively time consuming). With the inclusion of a short story and animations for all of the images, this is definitely a worthwhile entry to the series.

While it is NSFW, it offers a surprisingly tasteful selection of images. Fun coloring of fun images. ;)

Having just finished the steam achieves, I'm walking away from this little gem. I wish to continue exploring the complexity hidden away and complete the in game list, but seriously need to walk away for other reasons. (looks away from "time played"...)

Try it out, seriously. You just might need a walkthru for the walkthru.

Game is mediocre. Over 12 of my hours were just letting the game run while I slept so that about 4900 meaningless achieves could pop - one of the biggest issues with the game. These meaningless achievements bog down Steam itself.
The game mechanics are simple enough, but it never communicated what the action button was. I discovered that button was the "E" key after looking up info on an achievement (entering a box for camo).
The game is poorly programmed (AKA - inefficiently) as evidenced by the size of the file and the data provided by task manager.
Ignoring these issues, it's cute and short. I will forever be traumatized by blinking red lines and growing blue circles. Given the aforementioned issues, I have no interest at looking at the other games in the series that I would have looked into had I not been informed of the inflated useless achievement spam added to them as well. I'm just glad I didn't have to pay for this.

Finally completed all the achievements!

This is a pleasant twist on a classic game. It's easy to get into, like the original. The only thing you need to know additionally is that where you select in the smaller tic-tac-toe board determines which square in the bigger board the next move is played in (unless that square is finished).

Finished it in about 17 minutes.

Got about 80% the first look over, 99 the 2nd and another 3 or 4 passes to locate the last one.

It was worth it - and the upbeat music helped to wake me up some, too!

Also a worthy image to print off and color with some crayons or markers. (or maybe toss into MS Paint?)