Godhood

good game with deep mechanics, but clearly had some rough development and it shows. would 100% benefit from mod support (i have several ideas on how to balance out some of the relic options) and even more from a sequel.

我才发现我居然每个你们公司的游戏都买了。。。。在不知道是同一家公司、也不知道是同一个开发者的情况下

You know what's really immersive? Spending hours crafting your perfect deity only to have the game spontaneously combust before you can even smite or convert a single unbeliever. I booted up Godhood with dreams of becoming a celestial tyrant—perhaps a cosmic raccoon demanding tributes of shiny things and garbage. But the only offering this game wanted was my sanity. Crash #1: Launching the game. That’s right—sometimes Godhood treats opening itself like a moral dilemma. Should it work? Should it not? Schrödinger's executable. It's a roll of the divine dice every time I click “Play.” Steam says I'm playing, but my desktop says I'm definitely not. Crash #2: Character creation. Ah, the sacred rite of divinity, where I shape my godlike identity, choose my virtues, my commandments, and… poof. Desktop. Apparently, my theology was too spicy for the RAM. Crash #3: The intro cinematic. You know, the one that’s supposed to inspire awe and make you feel like you’re stepping into a mythic tapestry of belief and power? I wouldn’t know. I saw three seconds of some glowing stuff before the game decided it was tired and needed a nap. Permanently. To be fair, the concept of Godhood is cool. You're building a religion, shaping your followers, unleashing holy wars, the whole divine shebang. But it’s hard to start a religion when your divine presence gets obliterated by a memory leak every five minutes. I imagine this is what it felt like to be a prophet during a thunderstorm while writing on parchment with wet ink. I wanted to feel omnipotent. Instead, I feel like a tech support intern at Olympus trying to reboot Zeus’s Windows 95 machine. Final verdict: Godhood is a fun idea trapped inside a program that’s possessed by the vengeful spirit of a sloth bear. If you're into theology, divinity, and existential despair via crash reports, this game might just be your kind of heresy.

Small but I like it. It really nails those Aztec/Mayan/Incan vibes, and that in itself makes this different from most other games out there. There's no full actual nudity despite a whole ideology focused specifically to that effect, which is disappointing but not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. The art's cute, and there are 0 crashes to speak of!

I love Abbey Games, first and foremost. I did steer clear of this game for a very long time, however. Got it for a good enough price on sale to finally try it out ($27 base is insanity), and see how they "went wrong". At times, the game is surely dull and unsatisfying. A handful of ideas thrown around, with minimal depth injected into them. Yet, there still exists such a magic in their game design that can be found even in what may be considered their worst. It's got a lot of DNA from multiple other games as well, though there is no inclusion substantial enough to shine and carry the game. As a side note, I did find it amusing how it resembles Umamusume: Pretty Derby, released years before. I wish I had more to say, considering my love for the team's other games. If you also like this dev team, I can recommend checking this one out on a deep discount. You still find those satisfying strategy-game diamonds in the rough. That being said, I feel way happier supporting Reus 2 through DLCs than I did buying this game.

Fun little game. Doesn't take too long, you get to design your own beliefs and make optimal (or non-optimal) improvements to your settlement. Lots of opportunity for cool class combos.

First impression, if you liked Reus 2, then you will like this, but not for the reasons you would think. It's not a similar game in any way to Reus 2, but it shares everything you love about the devs that shines through in their games. So whatever those touches were that you noticed about Abbey before, you will find them here.