Recent reviews by gheed

rotate shapes and feel the kaizen spirit

Real defense appreciators will love this one

Looks cute, but has a surprising amount of depth as a grid-based settlement builder. You're really trying to escape your own sprawl as much as the omnipresent darkness. Plus, the minigames (especially their sounds!) provide relief from thinking.

No Jira tickets or broken Python environments, just cute little robots and cozy music.

Very far from complete, frustrating yet still addicting. Easy to miss what's going on in the world while fixating on industry. Some quality of life stuff over vicky 2 but also a lot missing. Waited for the sale to buy as I had a feeling it would be this way, but still disappointing for a game I've been waiting for for over a decade.

Update: props to paradox, they kept updating and now it's playable

I liked Timberborn already before the Badtide update, but thought it needed a little more variability, which is exactly what it provided. Great colony builder/civil engineering simulator.

Near perfection, a well thought out game. Systems integrate well together and pawns really do feel alive. There are still a few rough edges, but most of them are solved by mods.

Most of the systems in the game feel shallow and don't interact in interesting ways with each other. Peacetime is still boring, with some random political events but not a lot in the way of events in your country or diplomacy. The trading system feels especially tacked on, and pretty much all production and economic systems feel too arcadey. The war is okay, though enemy AI remains rough and battles aren't very satisfying. It's sad it got abandoned, but it's probably too far gone to fix and Paradox knows it. The 2.0 update definitely helped a bit, but still leaves too many things unfixed.