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"Impostor Factory from your wishlist is now available!" Oh, is that what we're doing tonight Steam? we're ugly crying in front of my wife?

Gee, this is kinda difficult.

It's 2:30 in the morning, I have to be at work at 8, I'm exhausted and I'm sitting here bawling. I actually paid money for this feeling.

Start game.
Survivors are 3 vegan wierdos
let the demons murder them


In all seriousness though, there's a steep learning curve with this one. It's rough to figure out just how much food you need to generate to support your colony. It wouldn't be a problem if farms weren't so resource intensive and resourses were such a pain to gather. This is the basic run down of my first settlements:

1: Oh no, I'm not generating enough food!
2: Oh no, I don't have enough trees to build another farm!
3: Oh no, I have to grow more trees, wait for them to grow, chop them down, build another farm, wait for the veggies to grow and hope some one is still alive to harvest them!
4: Oh no, I'm out of water and my basecamp didn't spawn with a well! I need to research woodworking so I can make a furnace so I can make bricks so I can build a well!
5: Oh no, I need more trees to make a saw mill to make boards to make bricks so I can build a well and I chopped all the trees down so I could build more farms so my people don't starve! I need to plant more trees so I can maybe save someone!
6: Oh no, Everyone is dead.

this wouldn't be as big of an issue if it weren't for the fact that it takes so long to figure out that you're doing it wrong and the first thing you have to do is plant trees right there next to your base because the AI for the tasks system is rudimentary and can't handle the size of the base map in the beginning. Get ready to watch your survivor start to walk over to a pile of clay, get 3/4 of the way there, realize he's hungry, turn back to gets something to eat, finish eating and start heading back to the clay, get half way there, realize he's tired, then go wait for the only bed to open up.

The combat system could stand a bit of tweaking as well.

I get what they're trying to accomplish with the cover system, but it comes off a little cumbersome. It's wierd to watch a guy crouching by a barrel while an imp is wailing away at him 2 feet away. The tutorial makes a big deal about "flanking" but the enemy AI just bum rushes you every time they see you. Maybe I didn't get far enough into the game play to see the more advanced enemies, but over all the combat came off as tedious to me.

All that being said, The bones are there. I can see this being a good time sponge. I know as soon as I post this review I'm going to start the game up again and start over. I know that it's a work in progess and I can't wait for it to be done, but I think most people SHOULD wait. I cannot reccomend that my friends buy it now because I can see the potential for them being infuriated by it, but once it's been tweaked I would be more than happy to change my oppinion.

My kingdom flourished thanks to a deer based economy.

11/10 would throw coins at dirty peasants again.