Tethered

Tethered is one of these games that hide their complexity. Tethered is a fully playable mature god simulation game with great graphics and well balanced game mechanics. Don't watch a video about the game and think: "another simple game for children". It has a lot of elements which can be combined in different ways in order to achieve the goal. It features: - day and night cycle: day for building, night for defending and gathering spirit - 5 basic buildings with ~3 upgrades each => 15 buildings with different features - 4 ressources - 6 weather effects with different effects on peeps / enemies and buildings leading to > 10 effects - >7 professions for peeps with different benefits Combining all these elements during day and night while catching spirit and keeping all peeps busy (and preventing their suicide) is a pretty tough task. While the tutorial is very calm, level 1 can already be challenging. My first try has led to mass suicide because I did not watch my food storage. It was empty and so some were hungry and some went over the edge. It does not have a story, but it does not need to. I am happy to have a VR game which is well developed works fine (on Quest 2/Steam/Airlink). Minor points are: - manual does not contain info on all the options available - sometimes info panels are behind the player so you must turn to read - opening build panel resets world view