Farlanders

Good pacing and challenge

Umständlich und wenig benutzerfreundlich

Дуже гарна гра! Така собі “Факторіо” на мінімалках (тут чисто субєктивно). Не надто складна і не надто легка, якщо намагатись досягати цілей. Гадаю це гарний приклад інді проекту. 🦄 Не хапає зірок з неба, немає якось - "ми зробимо все", а в результаті все лагає і якось не дуже. Навпаки - все чудово! Як на мене все якнайкраще збалансовано: геймплей, графіка, наратив, економіка. Ну і звісно український розробник 👍

Objectively a good game. I cannot recommend it due to the terraforming cards being useless. Maybe its my luck, but I can't seem to even get objective necessary ones. The game is very cute, but it brings me little joy.

I was enjoying the game until I hit a show-stopping bug in the 4th mission, where the game refused to recognize that I was connected via power lines. Since I couldn't work around that bug and I'm not replaying the scenario, I've given up. But I enjoyed it while it lasted. Farlanders isn't really a city builder. That's not the case. It's a puzzle game but don't let that necessarily stop you. You have to balance water, power, food - like in every city builder - but the real innovation is the constant random terraforming that not only do you get but you really have to execute. You'll need to knock down mountains, clear rubble and constantly improve your territory as you expand for much-needed resources. Some resources, like mines, will exhaust themselves over time and force you to break out of your little stable environment to seek new ones. Others will rapidly be consumed by simple expansion. You can play it with a turn limit on and off. The developer recommends that you keep it on. I'm going to strongly recommend that you turn it off. The somewhat random nature of the terraforming choices that you get can utterly screw you over, even in simpler scenarios. You may have a map where you need to get to a particular resource to win and if you don't get the right draw, you may not be able to get to it. For instance, in one mission (the one that ultimately bugged) I needed an advanced mining resource. It was behind a canyon. For 4 straight draws I didn't get a card that fit that allowed me to fill the canyon. In a timed game, that would have been a loss. So because of the random nature of the terraforming, I think turns are a mistake. As I said, it's a cute game. I ran into a problem I couldn't fix but I think maybe I just couldn't see it on screen. Someone in the comments pointed out the problem and I've edited my review. I won't go back to finsih the game but it is a decent little title, especially for the sale price.

Cute and somewhat fun but either my luck is horrible or the RNG just sucks as I'm unable to get the stuff I need after many many turns.