Recent reviews by Zórik

The demo shows off a REALLY good foundation for a very casual idle farmer, but leans a little TOO laid-back as to harm some aspects of the game.

You can place decorations like walls and paths to add life to your farm, but they otherwise serve no real purpose. Because of this, the only gameplay impact of placing lighting & decorations is to limit your farmable space and impede little guy(great name!) movement. Now, OF COURSE, adding hyper-meta, "HAYBAIL = +10% Wheat Growth during Storm Events!" modifiers would kill the point of having a game on your taskbar, but small things like paths speeding up your guys or pollination bonuses to crops would be great!

One great example in where they succeed at this is with wildflower honey. Because the requirements for bees to make it is SO STRICT, it forces you to carve out a piece of the woods to make a tiny flower grove away from the main farm, which is RIFE for creative expression! They could expand this in tons of other ways, like corn growing better while planted in horizontal rows, cacti that require DRY soil, tons of stuff to add just a little more management and flair while keeping it casual enough to have YouTube in the background.

Overall, a GREAT little demo! Can't wait to see this project grow.

There are A FEW poor writing moments, including some (understandably for early access) underdeveloped side missions near the end, some "homages" that vary in funniness, the unification of two different hereditary dynasties of great renown into one, thus eternally bonding their bloodlines, through the marriage of two Queens (who I guess'll adopt an heir making the whole thing meaningless anyways???), and a (not that) short main plot that reads like it's from someone who watched "Look Up" and wasn't embarrassed by it.
That being said, this was a scant few quests and the rest of them are largely well done.

Now for the good stuff.

EVERYTHING ELSE
It's a Sky-City Builder that does everything it needs to do as well as it can. Building your city is fun. Balancing your weight is fun. Fighting the pirates is fun. Collecting resources, along with moving closer to collect them faster, is fun. It's all I was hoping I'd get out of it!
The visual aesthetic is GREAT. One of my favorite parts of this game is that, with the slightest tone change, this game could be a dystopic nightmare: A massive ship ripping the scant resources from the earth to fuel its endless warpath. And yet, the visual design does a perfect job of keeping it light and fun.
Traveling is fun. They do a good job of guiding you with cool things in the distance to places of interest & all the hidden treasures reward you for actually looking around at said cool things. There's a bit of a scale issue that makes everything seem small as there are NO structures taller than you, but you're supposed to be in the sky looking down at it all so that's easily forgiven. Maybe ONE cool thing that's super tall, but I digress.

Overall, wonderful little City Builder. Can't wait for what's ahead!

I am so happy that I can give this game the highest praise I possibly could've hoped to give.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 is jankey as hell, lacks polish in many places, and is often unfair to the novice and unfamiliar (like me).
I love this game so much. I am going to destroy it with mods.

I've downloaded this game on any device that could run it for years, now I have it on Steam.
Thank you, devs.

This is the one game I refuse to tell my friends about, the peak of my Strategy-Autism Powerlevel that can't ever be shown.
10/10 Good Game

Think of this game less as a "Total War Killer" and more as the Medieval spiritual-successor to Townscaper.

Lights are horribly unbalanced, wildly overpowered for what their class should be, and yet are near solely used by 20 IQ children who believe soloing a full team & dying half way cross the map is preferable to defending their team's cashout ONCE.
But, if you're lucky enough to get a team with a Medic Mediums and a Heavy, you'll experience some real magic.

Love this game to bits.

It’s a wonderful little clicker game with enough city mechanics to make it feel unique.

My only gripe is the lack of graphics options. It plays fine on the Steam Deck, but the text size is so small that you often can’t tell the difference between a “+” and “-”.

oh god oh no oh god oh no this is hitting my Civ5 brain-button man I had things to do this year oh god

4 hours in and this game is already the most graphically impressive game I've played yet. Can't wait to get more stuck into it.