Dinky Guardians

TLDR: It's exactly what it claims to be: a simple factory game with not much thought needed. Think Astroneer back in beta. Full review: I played Factorio, Satisfactory, Dyson Sphere Program, Astroneer, Foundry, Shapez, Blueprint Tycoon, you name it--if you build a factory, I've probably played it. This one is... okay. It feels like Astroneer did back in early access--despite being a full release game. Everything is just a little bit clunky. The animations are a bit wonky and your arms clip into your torso constantly. The graphics are simplistic to put it nicely. Picking up things is awkward since you can't use your cursor, only the position of your character. Placing anything precisely is impossible--say goodbye to neat rows of houses or machines. Throwing objects with any kind of accuracy is also virtually impossible because your character gradually turns in the direction he's moving, but throws in the direction he's facing. So if you're facing left, press right, and immediately throw, you'll throw diagonally instead of straight right because your character isn't done turning right. The character creator is janky too--instead of giving you separate choose the thing, then color the thing, no, it's just select one out of dozens of options which are really just the same 6 options in a dozen colors. The intro animatic is incredibly cheesy, so much that it seems intentional, but it just comes across as trite and cliche instead of tongue-in-cheek wink wink like I think they meant it to be. Oh and combat, don't even get me started on combat. It... exists. And it shouldn't. Anyway, I say recommended it because it's cheap and fairly good at what it claims to be on the tin--a simple and chill factory game with not much thought or complexity behind its systems. But this is not a complete game, this is an early access beta build at best; it needs so much more polish before it can call itself finished.

a fun game for sure, starting out with a nice tutorial that shows you what you need to do clearly, while guiding you along into the game effortlessly! once you start, you find yourself with cute lil dinkies you are tasked to watch over, give them food, and set them to manage your workflow/production chains... within a few hours you will be unlocking full scale robot automation, eventually progressing to a point you no longer need the dinkies to do your bidding. but even then they hold an important role in that they are the only things that can give you xp to progress your skill tree/unlock future upgrades. the tree is simple and honestly easy to unlock and progress. my biggest hurdle initially was keeping the litle ones safe (using turrets, and such). but eventualy down the line, it became easier! to the point full automation is realised! theres still more gasmeplay should i wish to continue, and i admittedly idled the game (busy life lol) but overall a chill fun game!

what if instead of skibidi toilets they were skibidinky toilets and instead of guarding they got 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 with the player

game breaking bugs in the game. I found out too late to obtain a refund.

It's fun to figure out how to automate everything.

More fun than a barrel of code monkeys!

Interesting and unique gameplay. Lot of fun.