Dorfromantik

I LOVE THIS GAME AND I WAS SO SAD WHEN MY WINDOWS LAPTOP OF 10 YEARS GAVE UP. I CAN FINALLY PLAY THIS ON MY MACBOOK!!!! THANK YOU MWUAH MWUAH MWUAH

This is one of my favorite "I'm bored and want to play something easy for a bit" go-to's. You're presented with a stack of 6-sided tiles, and the goal is to match the tiles as well as you can. Some of the tiles have a subgoal attached, and achieving those goals allows more tiles to be generated for your use. The game ends when all the tiles are put into play and the stack is depleted. It is in essence a map-making game, with five different kinds of landscape features featured on one or more sides. Match up railroad tiles to other railroad tiles, match up forest tiles to other forest tiles, and so on. Some of the tiles coexist with each other quite nicely, while others need to be placed in a strategic way that will match others later. The tiles are RNG and rather simplistic, but you can get some very clever combinations going, and the end goal is to beat your previous high score. And that's just one mode of gameplay, there's a creative free-style version, short timed trials, and a couple other challenges to keep gameplay fresh. The game has an amusing name but it's surprisingly fun to play for how easy the concept is.

The graphics are cute, cozy, and quaint. The music is fantastically relaxing. The gameplay is simple, but engaging enough to make time fly. This is a game that feels dreamlike, an understated surreal experience that feels like floating on a cloud gazing down on a calm sleepy world and time. On a lazy Sunday afternoon you might lay in a field and gaze up at the clouds drifting by overhead, warmed by the sun and content in the moment, and this game is what is floating by overhead. It's a tiny puzzle in the twilight phase between waking and sleeping. A chill meditative practice of creating cozy little villages nestled in woods, long meandering rivers that ease into lakes, and vast forests that stretch their verdant tendrils across the landscape. You form the tableaux one tile at a time, revealing a nameless map that could host a cozy little bedtime story; a solitary cottage nestled into a dark forest, warm yellow light spilling out of the window to beat back the enroaching night; a lone copse of trees standing tall amongst a sea of lavender fields, a place to read a book in the shade on a hot summer day; an old town with halfhazardly organized streets giving way to vast grasslands with a solitary train track running through them,a steam locomotive lazily trundling along to some far unknown place as white puffs of steam float up into the sky. Go by vibes and just create what feels right, or chase high scores by trying to min-max tile placement. This is less of a game, and more of a toy or puzzle for you to concentrate on with some guardrails to keep you focused. There is a game here, but I'd call this an experience, or you experiencing a series of consecutive moments. It's meditation.

If you've played islanders, love number go up games and relaxed vibes you'll enjoy this game!

Only reason I haven't played more is it wasn't ported to Mac, and my windows-based options were rubbish. Still wanted to support the game because it's just that good. Happy to see that it's finally been ported! :D

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