Terraformental

I'm not super far in, but I've enjoyed what I've seen so far. A lot of the planning and decision making reminds me of reading 'The Martian', where you're spending a lot of time thinking about logistics and funky solutions to problems. I found portions of the game to be excessively repetitive, with few options for automating them. I look forward to seeing how the game evolves!

Gracefully combines progression by knowledge and steady passive improvement, making them both feel meaningful. A good exploration story attached to that makes the entire experience incredibly enjoyable

The narrative is amazing, and it takes full advantage of the looping in telling it! If you turned something like All You Need is Kill into a choose your own adventure, you'd get this. Try the demo, it will shock you at how much it draws you in.

Very enjoyable narrative mystery game - not very incremental (I'd describe it closer to semi-idle resource management), but very much my jam.

I did not expect a puzzle to be the incremental game. I also greatly appreciate that for a significant amount of the game, if you don't feel like figuring out the current puzzle for easier/sensible progression, you can go grind for hours down a different path instead. And if you don't feel like puzzling at all? Just grind until you bulldoze the challenge. Except, like, one puzzle so far. But I liked that one.

A wonderful experience. I was sucked in by the story, the description of the world, and the beautiful soundtrack. I loved the feeling of building my personal mastery over the game by learning where things were and the best ways to acquire them. Of course the in-game growth of acquiring better stats and unlocking new actions is also compelling. Terraformental is survival and exploration distilled to its core to take you on an amazing journey. I can't wait to see what the dev has in store as it approaches full release.