Recent reviews by chartreuse

Gunplay is stiff stiff stiff. If you're better than average at aiming hitscan weapons you'll do great. Card mechanics are very basic and it seems like you're never incentivized to do anything but play your whole hand. It doesn't show you what cards opponents are playing so the reason for outcomes remains mysterious.

The aesthetic is cute but the core gameplay idea is just too shallow.

It has been fun watching this game get fleshed out. Lots of new features added since launch have turned this from a toy into a real game.

Dev wishlist
- WRAP-AROUND SCROLLING FOR THE MAP. PLEASE.
- Mode to auto-pause whenever a unit gets engaged in combat.
- Treaties to buy/sell land!
- The new border requirement for invasion doesn't seem to consistently apply to AI players? Also it just seems too strict.
- Custom game settings keep getting reset to default. The profile system doesn't restore my settings either.
- Maybe different map views? A north-pole-centered map would be great.
- Navy?
- Multi-nation treaties / organizations
- More sliders in each ideology. The ideology system is so clever, I'd like some more. :)

The new hero Yogger is fun and interesting to build. The mini-campaign to unlock him is really just a piece of bonus content for lore lovers.

- Broken UI elements
- missing national flag graphics during battle
- unit movement trails never clear
- units sporadically invisible
- No informational overlay maps of any kind
- Can't tell what's happening in battle areas
- Can't zoom in very far at all, not even as far as the screenshots show
- No option to change political party or make serious changes to form of government, much shallower than Superpower 2

Reeks of development crunch. Sorry GolemLabs, but I don't know what happened with this one. I'll check back in on you in a few months, okay?

I like some stuff about it, but I can't get into it in its current state. Menus are constantly appearing halfway into my head. Sometimes the hand menus get stacked on top of each other and become illegible. Some threads suggest that seated play is "supported", but it absolutely is not. If you play sitting down, menus and maps appear too high up, and you have to grab and move them. Using the SteamVR "reset standing position" while seated should fix this, but somehow the game ignores the calibrated height so this doesn't work.

Basically you are constantly re-adjusting the UI elements yourself, and I can't live like that.
If this gets fixed so that I can play seated, the game seems promising and I would like to return to it.

"Ah, pretty water. Alright, so I grabbed enough junk to build a hammer, and now I...

Oh, a shark bit part of my raft off. But I can build a new raft, so I'll just hop off onto this island and start fresh-
Wait... I can't build a new raft? My raft floated away already... Okay whatever, new game.

Alright, can't let the raft float away this time! I'll build an anchor. Here, let me test it out... Oh, it's one-time use.....
... I think I might not like this game."

Been imagining a game like this! Good Zach-like with gameplay based on modular synths. Not very many puzzles, but enough to occupy you for one or two sittings, and a few of them are complex enough to really take some time to figure out. The only real negative, for me, is the pacing of the dialogue -- the character dialogue between levels is sort of a nuisance until you get into the finale. The (also zach-like) social commentary is pretty heavy-handed too. Faster text speed would help a lot. But the puzzle mechanics are 10/10 great!

Have never been able to get friends into a lobby with me because the whole thing is busted. They do not answer support tickets.

Still waiting for this to become even vaguely playable on Index. Right now it's just pretty to walk around in VR mode, maybe throw the basketball, but that's all you can accomplish. It does not have appropriately mappable controls for Index, and the community mappings really don't get the job done. The entire experience is very janky and frustrating.

Overall, this does not feel like a finished product.

this software blows knob