Recent reviews by Rogue The Avali

It's such a poorly thought out dumpster fire, but I can't say I didn't enjoy it, or won't in the future. It has it's charm.

That being said, I'd say it's a prime example, of what selling your early access to Epic does for development. No forums, no communication with the fanbase, no direction. This game's such a mess of poor ideas baffling design choices, and just straight up insane balancing.

It's also missing frickin basic functionality, like work overview. Thing all the silly mobile games have now even. UI's a mess, difficulty spikes are insane, DLC's don't work together at all. They're insane in their own right.

The infamous Shattered Hope for example. While the side content is fairly decent, that the hope mechanic is just bad. I feel there's no other way to put it, it's just ♥♥♥ dumb as all hell.

Like, legit, imagine that, your entire colony's extatic, your life's perfect, yet they'll still enter "Anguish", and will literally TURN HOSTILE AND START DESTROYING YOUR TOWN, just because some arbitrary DLC introduced "Hope" meter is at 2/3rds.

Also that's how mental issues work, yes. They can't get over anguish, they can't get better. U need to waste resources on trauma centers. How do you rise hope, so anguish doesn't happen then, I hear u ask? Well, u have to waste resources on "feasts". Yes, stuffing your ♥♥♥ face is the only way to rise hope. Stuffing ur face with PLASTIC I might add, as feasts take next to no food, but over 130 plastic to pull.

And in grand scheme of things, Hope does nothing. It's there to hinder you, and that's it. You can literally pay to make your game worse. You get like, 2 or 3 buildings, that are pretty useless, and don't tie to the hope system at all. Overdrive is useless, how does ♥♥♥ moon dust tie to making hunters hunt better is beyond me too.

You get what I mean? It's just a dumpster fire, a horrible frankensteins monster of terrible ideas.

BUT, see BUT, it has its charm. Inside this freakish monstrocity is a game that CAN be enjoyed.

I just really wish, they held their early access in a place that actually mattered, and received much, much more valuable feedback. By the time game hit steam, it was already too late. Devs abandoned it too, so there's that.

To conclude, I dunno. Grab it if you want, It'll be on u. Reading reviews, pff, telling you what to buy. Make up your own mind. I told u how the game is, I'm not here to sell it.

Also I had a colony of over 80 people, my economy crapped itself, over 50 people died, Hope and Happiness at all time high. Mostly due to removal of debuffs based on population.

You see what I mean? It's such a terrifying little monster, but god, it has its charm.

I played Endzone too, btw. Between the two? Grab Endzone, god it's so much better. Things Aftermath has over Endzone: world map, specialists, vehicles, and vehicle maintenance. That's it. In terms of post apocalyptic city building? Endzone's just king. It has it's faults, of course it does, but yeah. Nowhere near as many as Aftermath.

Having just 100%'ed the game, I can wholeheartedly say, that it was totally worth it. The only fault of the game's that it's quite short.
Don't get fooled by my steam timer, left the game in the background and forgot about it for like, half a day. According to the in-game timer, 100%'ing the game took me a little over 22 hours.

And yeah, that's pretty much the only fault of it. The fact it's this short. But then it's priced accordingly, so I guess I can't fault the devs for it either. Hah.

But seriously, animation, story segments, movement, skills, artstyle, story, characters, I loved everything here. Game consumed me for the past few days, and I binged it pretty much start to finish.

As with a delicious cake, u just wish there was more.

Like, legit, go get it. It's amazing. If you loved Hollow Knight or Will of the Wisps, then you'll 100% love Biomorph.

I regret to say, but I genuinely don't find it fun. Sorry. The reactor build tutorial was the last straw. I produced all the other ingredients in like, 2 to 3 days, then had to wait next 10 for lead plates? Are you for real. And that's with 3 speed upgrades pre-installed in that furnace? It's a joke. Give me rimworld with 300 mods, including Save Our Ship, and I'll find myself around easier than in this game.

Dunno what to say. It looks lovely, plays lovely, it's very satisfying, scratches that Terraria/RimWorld/Dwarf Fortress itch perfectly.

Definitely worth every penny. Amount of polish here is just through the roof.

Rock and Stone, brothas. May it win Labour of Love 2023.

Game gets a lot of crap from beta testers and everyone that have been following its development for the past 2 or 3 years.

Me, being a complete outsider to both first game and development hell of this one, can say that I had a lot of fun playing through it.

Story itself was good to me. Won't spoil stuff, but it has a couple of "oh ♥♥♥♥" moments that were well executed, ending as well while open, felt decent to me. Bit of a Sequel baiting, but fair enough to em.

Changes in comparison to first game, like voiced protagonist, cutscenes, npc's, were all executed well too.

Character of the main protagonist is a personal preference, I wasn't minding her as much as some others, she had a couple of "oh ♥♥♥♥ off" inducing lines, but overall yeah, good stuff. It's nice not being mute.

Well in conclusion, give it a go. Especially if you like survival games that re-invent the formula, then improve upon it. Plus were oblivious to the game through the development hell it went through, cause over all, it's still a great product.

It's great btw, all you loathing fans should get it in an instant.

K, but where the hell is it? I can't seem to be able to download it. Can't recommend it if it's not working, sorry.

@Edit: After reaching out to Steam Support, we managed to fix the OST, should now provide a download.

Shallow, sure, but relaxing, and overall decent experience.

Good ol Crazy Machines. Now with workshop integration, even prettier graphics. Give it a go.