LakeSide

LakeSide is nice cozy retropixel... well, lets be honest here, LakeSide is NOT a game. Its more like an art project or programming exercise. Good looking and not always working... But dont get me wrong here! You still can play this game and beat it quite easily. Relaxed, I would say. The issue is that more "complex" game mechanics just do not work and probaly will never be fixed. In everything else its quite pleasing art piece.

Lakeside is listed at $14.99 which is grossly overpriced. It is a very chill, limited, and at times even broken, city builder. You'll get a few hours of enjoyment out of it. It's about on par with any number of browser based games made in the early 2000s, think flash games from websites like armor games, kongregate, addictinggames.com etc. that era. In truth it should be listed at about $4.99. If you can get it on sale for a few bucks, it is definitely worth the buy. It's a charming experience that is visually stunning, but it's certainly not worth $15 or even $10. I am giving this a thumbs up, because for a few bucks, it is worthwhile, and that's around what I paid for it. Can't knock it for being overpriced. It is exactly what it says it is. I'd give it a 5/10 and barely recommend it. Not great, not bad. Nice art.

definitely don't waste your time. game is almost bare bones with a lot of fluff. get it on sale if you have to, maybe 2 or 3 dollars MAX.

Kurze Spielzeit, viel zu leicht, mäßige Umsetzung. Mit der netten Grafik und dem Gameplay wäre mehr möglich gewesen!

Pretty but quite slow, basic game loop is not very engaging.

The concept is quite novel, but the poor execution left me more frustrated. There are some mechanics that hurts the gameplay and performance. Some gameplay elements are not explained well.

There are a lot of things I like about this game, but I'm not recommending it because the randomized nature of unlocking buildings means that every run eventually hits a hard limit on growing your population. You don't have enough population to unlock new buildings, but you need to unlock new buildings to increase your population. Likewise, bonus estimates don't update based on what you've already built. So if you've got a building that gives +40% food bonus, new buildings that offer X food don't include the bonus. So it's very easy to forget what you're doing and minmax on accident, especially when buildings are not visually distinct enough to just look at your city and see what you have. Maybe these are intentional difficulty choices on behalf of the devs, but I find it frustrating.

its a very shallow game.