Another buggy mess from Minskworks, this time 1/2 finished instead of 1/4, like Jalopy was.
[h1]The Good[/h1]
[h2]The Setting[/h2]
Offering a fairly authentic feeling experience, with some pretty banger takes on the situation (though a lot of it is quietly slipped into the achievements), it feels nice enough as a game world.
[h1]The Bad[/h1]
[h2]Content[/h2]
There is very little content. There's a few jobs, which seem to repeat (odd, considering they're pretty one-and-done sort of afairs). There's one lot of land, so you can't get a property going as a rental, and work on another. There's little story, few audio tracks, very little character interaction. You can retire pretty early - it seems most of the "content" is collecting achievments.
[h2]Quality[/h2]
This game is often outright broken. I've lost wheelbarrows under the map, had quests fail to acknowledge completion, had stakes warp into awkward lances, and more. It's not broken enough to stop you, but it's bloody unreliable at best.
[h2]Gameplay[/h2]
Collecting scrap is awkward and tedious, and is one of only two things to do when renting, the other of which is playing a very boring poker machine (which if you know how to work it, is a better payday than most other things). Keep in mind, that full wheelbarrow they show you in the trailer videos? That's not typically possible, with large, awkward hit boxes making filling your barrow very hard, and necessitating multiple loads (often breaking fragile items if you carry more than a tiny amount of stuff).
Selling houses off the block and restarting isn't very satisfying, because it's a LOT of work to put something together, and scrapping it for a number that ultimately doesn't mean anything is just tiresome. And the glitches that can ruin work are nightmarish. Having a stack of building supplies go physics-beserk and demolish you whole job is heartbreaking - sure you can quit to the menu, reload the day, but it can undo a LOT of work.
Renting houses is almost as bad. Tennants are ALL destructive, with better tennants just being less-so - and with no bond or fault notices, it's all YOUR problem. To the point that, if you CAN skip renting, you SHOULD. Which for a game called "Landlord's Super"? That's a terrible endorsement.
Overall, there's just not much to do, and what content there is, it makes you redo it as a matter of course. This game DOES NOT respect your time.
[h2]Assets[/h2]
The chunky, pseudo-CRT look of the graphics is charming at first, but quickly generates eyestrain. The limited music is sparse, and full of chatter, to the point where it can be hard to zone in - hearing a tape rewind is charming at first, but with only 5 or so songs on a tape, it quickly becomes a full 1/6 of your listening experience. Other sound effects are sparse, often leaving you in uncomfortable silence.
[h1]Overall Verdict[/h1]
Skip it. There's better sandboxes out there, and there isn't much game here aside from the fairly broken building sandbox.
4/10
