Emberlands: Desktop Village

Just startet playing it but this is a beautiful little game with a great atmosphere and a well needed deceleration. It's worth it's price and I look forward to keep on playing it.

I wish I could give a neutral review, cause it's a visually very cute game. But my god, the grind to max all achievements is painful. With the game being fully hands off idle, there's basically nothing you can do to actually speed up any of the in-game processes. I don't mind fully idle games, but I generally expect them to be shorter experiences that are easier to complete and max achievements on. It's not fun waiting 50hrs for a totally idle game to be "finished". You're bottlenecked at every turn by extreme price jumps every time you upgrade your little guy or buy cubes to add more production plots. Right now it would cost me 1.5million wood to add 1 cube and it takes 2 cubes for the good plots, upgrading my guy's speed would cost 20billion ember. The only viable setups seems to be min-maxxing fields/autofields/farms and trolls/troll shamans, which leads to every farm being identical because none of the other objects produce nearly the same amount of ember even when fully maxxed. The little guy moves far too slow when it comes to gathering wood and the wood doesn't spawn in with enough frequency. That's with me having the little guy pretty upgraded. I wish the lottery wheel didn't waste "upgrade" stars on non-profitable plots. There's absolutely no point to the basic land plots being upgradeable other than to unlock some ugly garish gold variants. They don't improve production or add anything other than pissing you off because you wasted a lottery ticket. And it's either use the wheel of misfortune or spend 6-12 lottery tickets per upgrade, and you have a better shot with the wheel because at least you sometimes hit the random prize and get a bunch of resources or extra tickets. Overall, as someone who has played a bunch of idle games and is always looking for new ones, I can't fully recommend this one just because of how grindingly tedious it is while not offering any actual gameplay loop.

No tutorial, no explanation, UI elements dissappear and don't return, so I can't even quit the games. I tried playing for an hour and simply couldn't because I don't understand the UI nor gameplay. I don't mind not enjoying a game, but spending an hour without even starting to play is not what I enjoy.

I can fullheartedly recommend this game! I don't play that much idle games and most that I did play didn't succeed in convincing me to play them like an >idle game<. I always just played idle games 'actively' in a couple of longer sessions until I was either "finished" or burned out. This game is the first one that actually works for me like it's probably intended to work. A game that sits next to me, does it's thing, and every so often there is something to do. Like a desktop aquarium. And whenever I want to I can be a bit more involved, send my little knack (mine is called Goober) around or reshape and decorate my cute little village. The artstyle is so incredibly appealing. Every tile, building or piece of landscape feels like it's breathing and alive. I also really enjoy the pacing. It's not too slow but after having this game active for 30 hours it's also not like there is nothing more to unlock. I don't even have unlocked or seen a quarter of it's content from what I can see. Awesome game <3

Love Emberlands! Cute and relaxing! I do hope some changes come, such as background enable on or off (like the trailer). I also hope scaling for my little knack can be made so it can actually gather wood and have a meaningful impact past the first few ranks. Currently the only need for even upgrading them is to gather lottery tickets but overall love it! Edit: Some changes have came to make the game better :) Def Recommend if you like games of this style!

Have it running in the BG and especially the rain sounds are very calming <3 Every 30 min I check in to upgrade stuff... So far I enjoy my time with it!

Nice small game to have at the corner of the screen. Chill music :3