Recent reviews by Dat Trash Cake

Really great metroidvania! I'd recommend finishing the game once (aka get to the credits) before looking up extra secrets you missed. And I assure you that you missed all sorts of secrets.

Really fun to play with a friend! Strong Heroes of Hammerwatch vibes but a bit easier.

Some of the meta progression stuff doesn't make a ton of sense but it was still a ton of fun. 100% achievements was a tiny bit grind-y but not bad.

Lots of fun! Similar vibes as Valheim. Plenty of content despite being EA. As of today, I'd say there's 30-50 hours of content and the devs have said they're working on more.

Fun game to play with a friend. Beautiful art style and decent story. Toward the beginning, I only wanted to play one or two characters but by the end, I liked almost all of them.

Really outstanding puzzle game! Story isn't great but isn't bad either (and not a huge part of the game either). Extra fun if your friends have already played and you're competing on leaderboards. As a general rule, it's really obvious/easy to solve any level in an inefficient way but quite challenging to solve some levels efficiently.

This is my first idle game and I had a surprising amount of fun with it. I ended up reaching the end game and then lost interest in finishing it but would still recommend the game.

For my play time, I was engaged with the game about half of the time and it was running in the background the other half. The game has a bunch of mechanics so it's generally okay to let time pass while the game is closed instead of leaving it open but there are exceptions.

I'd say my biggest gripe with the game is unclear in-game instructions. In hindsight, there were some game mechanics that I ignored for far too long and they were instrumental in helping me progress further once I started using them. Toward the beginning of the game, you'll unlock about a dozen buildings. When you unlock them, you probably won't have enough resources to meaningfully use all of them. That's okay but remember to go back to them later!

Is the game perfect? No. It definitely has some noticeable balance issues. But I also really like the tower defence + factory/automation genres and this game was a really nice mix of the two. I'm glad I played it.

Really great game! I was kinda surprised that it's advertised as a clicker game. There's some minor idle mechanics but it's mostly an automation/scaling game. Reminds me a lot of peaceful Satisfactory mixed with Minecraft and Terraria.

The videos + screenshots show that this is a cute RPG that pokes light fun at all sorts of games/media/events that came before it.

What it doesn't show is that despite the cutey/whimsical setup for the game, it has a poignant story that is meaningful in its own right. I bought this game because it looked like an adorable RPG and that's right up my alley but I'll always remember it as something more because of the intricate story it weaves and the credits music at the end that really puts a bow on it.

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