Recent reviews by amdlo112

Interesting stories, varied gameplay, plenty of content, great visuals.

Very generic, boring and underwhelming solitaire game. There is nothing special or interesting about this game. There are only the three most basic boring powerups one can imagine (undo, joker and shuffle) and almost all levels are very grindy. The whole game is one big slog even on the easy difficulty. Prepare to play the same level over and over again until you have enough luck for it to be beatable. If you like solitaire games, stay away from this one and buy some of the better games. For example Santa's Christmas Solitaire or Santa's Christmas Solitaire 2.

The game has nice visuals, great music and atmosphere, but that's all. The gameplay is really boring, the story is nonsense, the puzzles are trivial or nonsensical, the walking is very slow, there's an arbitrary two items carrying limit and the voice acting is very bad to the point of being cheesy. The whole plot and acting is like an incoherent mishmash of serious and cheesy elements. If you want a good dialogue based walking simulator with a bit of puzzle elements you should rather play Firewatch, that's a good game, this isn't.

The game is fun but in the current state it's very short and limited. The farm is too small (10x10 when maxed out) and there is no goal, no missions, no quests. The only purpose of farming in this game is to buy upgrades which helps you farm more until you buy all upgrades. I can see the potential but the final game is far away. If this was the finished game then price about 1-2 EUR/USD would be appropriate but for the current price of 7 EUR I expect more. Also there are a few bugs and inconsistencies which should be addressed. I would also suggest to add these features:
- Implement some kind of missions/goals system. Something to add a purpose to the farming. Other then the upgrades.
- Make the farm bigger, much bigger. The ultimate goal of most other automation games is to build a huge self-sustained automated machine. In this game there is just a tiny place of square land with just a few different crops to plant and only one bot to program.
- Add many more bots with possibility to create a different code for each bot.

Also these are the bugs I mentioned:
- When you type a space character into the program title (window title) the whole text is shifted to the left. Only way to fix it is to add another space at the end of the title and then remove it with backspace.
- Windows with programs stick to each other when moved around. Then you have to manually separate them otherwise they will move together.
- Code completion sometimes reacts to Enter key and other times it doesn't. Tab key works fine but Enter key is buggy. It should react consistently to Enter key too.
- Windows with instructions have scrollbars when the content in them is too long and you can scroll the content with the mouse wheel. This is great and expected. But the other windows with programs can't be scrolled and using mouse wheel with cursor above them will zoom in/out the whole game. When you write a long code the window just keeps enlarging even outside of the screen. The windows should be resizable and have scrollbars. Or at least should have a maximum possible height and after reaching this height a scrollbar should appear. Also even when windows doesn't have scrollbar the game shouldn't react when mouse wheel is used above a window (to zoom the entire game cursor should be above the game content not above a window). The instructions windows work like this (the game won't react to the mouse wheel when cursor is above this window even if it doesn't have a scrollbar).
- Hint popup above X button of a window with instructions states: "Permanently delete the file in this window." which is a wrong text.

I would recommend the game but you should rather play the first one (if you didn't already) since it's better in every way. But if you played the first game and liked it then you will like this one too. But beware that there are no improvements, just drawbacks. Which are:
- There are fewer puzzles (only 30 vs 36 in the first game).
- The puzzles are too easy. The first game was quite easy too but this one is even easier.
- You can't replay finished puzzles. There is no level select menu like in the first game. Only way to replay puzzles is to play the whole game over puzzle-by-puzzle.
- You can't even look at the puzzle right after you finished it. The game locks the camera and controls and you can only advance to the next puzzle.
- There is a useless and shallow story added which constantly interrupts the gameplay. Every few puzzles the game won't let you solve another puzzle but instead forces you to walk around doing boring interactions with objects in the room or reading chat messages.

This is not an adventure, nor puzzle, nor detective game. It's a visual novel (or walking simulator). The story is quite interesting, the visuals are nice, the setting is cozy, but the gameplay is boring or one might even say non-existent. You just do what the game tells you to do which consists of: walking from A to B, pressing button near things, pressing button near people, listening to dialogues, connecting predetermined mind maps. The mind maps are boring, tedious and many times lack sense. It's impossible to fail at anything in the game, you have to do everything the game tells you and exactly as the game tells you (otherwise you can't progress) and you can't do anything else that you might want to do. Also the game is too long (12 hours for me).

The game seemed very good in the beginning but slowly the negatives started to creep up. After a few hours I didn't want to play anymore.

Positives:
+ visuals and atmosphere of the city
+ interesting story and setting (vampires in the middle of the Spanish flu epidemic)
+ voice acting
+ side stories of the citizens and dialogues with them

Negatives:
- combat system (camera is all over the place; bad lock system; attacks randomly missing enemies)
- boss fights (bosses are health sponges with too strong attacks even on normal difficulty; the fights are too long and tedious)
- bad checkpoint/respawn system (When you die the game wouldn't load a checkpoint but respawn you with inventory and blood level as it was when you died. But all enemies you killed respawn too, so every time you die you lose blood and all consumables you used during the fight.)
- too many and too long dialogues (There are the aforementioned interesting side stories but in addition to them there are too many NPCs with too many dialogues that are not interesting. They talk about any boring topics they can think of and they even repeat the same information in different dialogue options, which gets tedious, boring and time-wasting very quickly.)
- losable hints (During dialogues you sometimes have to choose one of three answers from which you must choose the "correct" one. When you choose something else than the game wanted, you lose a hint without any chance to save it. You can't even reload the game because it saves instantly after the choice without any backup file. When I accidentally clicked on a different answer than I wanted to and lost a hint because of it (the correct one was the one I wanted to click) I quit the game, this was the last straw for me.)
- boring leveling and perk tree (All upgrades you get from leveling are just +X% to damage/health/blood/etc. After you unlock your basic attacks there isn't anything interesting to work towards. And since enemies are getting harder you aren't even getting stronger relative to them.)
- can't continue after end game (there are plenty of sidequests and NPCs but if you don't do everything before the ending, you won't be able to do it later; I didn't finish the game but I googled this information specifically)

Too long and boring missions, too many time-limited missions, too many escort/guard missions. Your allies do absolutely nothing (they are not able to shot down a single enemy in the whole campaign). Aerial combat is about constantly evading missiles and turning around and trying to get behind planes that just keep flying around you in circles. Tedious boss fights (especially the last one). Cheesy and childish story. Very bad upgrades tree UI (too zoomed in and with some kind of smokescreen overlay so you can't see anything clearly). I finished the whole campaign and was planning to play the DLC missions after. But after two tries of the first DLC mission I found out that there isn't a single checkpoint in the whole 30 minutes long mission. So I wrapped it up, I just couldn't stand the game anymore.

It's a great relaxing Christmas game.

Very nice big world map and relaxing driving experience but the graphics are lacking. Very bad AA, quite flat lighting, stiff animations, no collision physics, repetitive models and textures. Also the traffic AI is really stupid and unrealistic. And I hate how every time the game updates it resets my job and truck position. I always keep coming back to the game just to find out that some useless update reset it.