The Deadly Path

要么搞好优化，要么改改你这个暂停机制。一边是频繁的工人调配，一边是极其卡顿的操作界面，体验非常差。

this game is in desperate need of love and attention from the people who made it. It's a really interesting concept, and I really like it, but it's really very broken. You can play it for a long time and have a good go of it-- that's what I did-- but you have to be willing to put up with a game that gets worse the farther you go into it. The Maw is an obvious jump in difficulty, requiring some map generation luck. However, that's nothing compared to the level of fortune you need to complete a stage like the Brass Leviathan, where you will spend the first 10 turns praying to the damn thing that it gives you a way to generate more bones. The game unpauses itself at strange times, it is possible to load into a completely broken map on a restart, the achievements for completing a stage trigger upon simply spending a certain amount of time in a stage, I have no idea how to unlock the next level of difficulty for a given god, and there is no guidance given on how to increase the energy chits needed to equip higher level charms. Sometimes I meet a condition that should unlock a new character to play and it... doesn't. If this game were still supported by the people who made it, I would recommend it wholeheartedly. But it's not, and that's rather sad to me. I've not played anything else quite like it.

(This is a mostly-negative review, but it is still a "thumbs-up" because every game is a miracle for existing. These devs don't deserve un-recommendation, because they've brought good ideas to the table. And you really might actually like it in ways I couldn't.) Two things about this game got me walking away from it: 1) It's a little too hard to find the rarer tiles that are needed to advance ages and complete scenarios. For all ~3 of the runs I played, I had done the work to manage my economy, knew what needed to happen to finish, but then ran into a slog of uncovering *so many* tiles in order to find enough Graveyards or Chasms or whatever to actually seal the deal. Some kind of better control over this -- maybe an ability to highlight a region of the board where a rare tile would be, or an ability to "summon" chosen tiles for resources -- would have helped balance this problem. 2) No saving mid-run. Why??? It's a shame, because I did really like what was going on here. It seems the devs are going for a Cultist-Simulator style game that's less opaque in its workings, and can therefore be managed like something more like a fast-based, real time-ish city-builder. I could see how the system could branch and complicate and get very satisfying, but all I could think of was that awful slog I'd probably have to go through to find rarer tiles, and I couldn't get myself to look forward to going deeper in the game. (Yes, there are also bugs and the controls/UI are kind of wonky, but I could have tolerated those if the game systems themselves were tweaked to address what I flagged above.) Ultimately I do recommend trying this game, and if you can stomach the pacing then you might find something you really enjoy.

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Can't get it to run on mac even though it says it runs on macs. Get an error at start every time. Bought the full game. No luck.

Buggy mess with mediocre gameplay and confused writing underneath. It does have a lovely style and great tunes, but those can't carry the rest. Definitely not worth it, despite how much I wanted it to be otherwise. Some more details: Moment to moment gameplay is severely undercooked with bad UI/UX getting in the way constantly. Given that you can't do anything while the game is paused, you are forced to hurriedly micro manage 100 different things at once, all of which take more clicks than they should. The UI either hides or simply lacks many of the info you'd hope it would offer. (like, you know, showing what can be build where without clicking on it. Or showing how much of a resource you are currently earning per second. Or showing the meat cost of excavating without having to hover, or allowing you to select several tiles to excavate at once. Or moving units without it being a three step process. Or, like allowing me to zoom out far enough to actually see more than a quarter of what is going on.) But even if you would mod the UI to do it's job, the underlying game would not be worth the hassle. It relies so heavily on randomness, it's comedic. The core game revolves around unlocking building slots/tiles, depending on their type you can build different things there. You get the tiles you need? Great, no thinking required, turns into a micro management heavy idle game. You don't get the tiles you need? Great, welcome to accidental hard-mode. Or even impossible mode. You wanna change which buildings you have available to better use what the map gives you? Yeah buddy, me too. Sadly, that's also RNG dependant and you get only a limited amounts of tries there. Once I ended up unearthing the entire map and not getting a single tile of the type I needed to win. So I just sat there grudgingly micro managing a large settlement for several cycles until a random level up rewards deigned to finally grant me another building to generate the resource I need. Which I then had to wait for another few cycles to actually generate enough of that to "win". Another run the game decided I don't need tiles that can hold houses. Which was fixable later in that runs progression, but it just slows it down and makes it severely harder to get anywhere. "Luckily" I didn't get to finish that run, cause the UI deadlocked itself. Dimming the screen and blocking some but not all game actions. Since you can't save, that run was lost. Lastly, for a game with such evocative art and occult vibes, there's like no lore or worldbuilding. Any writing I found is, well... I do like the poem for the intro cutscene. But it's downhill from there. Building descriptions repeatedly go for cheap meme stuff like "is this what generational wealth looks like" and other such highlights. Which undermines what was still left of it's atmosphere. I wish I could play the alternate reality version of this game where it clicks together properly, cause it's vibe is just so much up my alley.