Recent reviews by CaptainCTRL

Love all these BESPOKED bugs. This is such a wait for sale game.

Really enjoy it. Just give me bigger maps, more of that good old battlefield feeling.

Funny how we play as super heroes fighting for freedom and rights. But there is heavy censorship in text chat. Its a first for me when a game censors Winnie the Pooh.

Gameplay is fun, but still lag spikes.

Released to early. We need workshop support. Would remove simulation and just have city builder in the tags. The simulation is just endless money. Feels bare boned for me. The assets looks all the same.

Gotta add, this game has so much potential. Just wished it was not a beta game at the moment. Need another year in development.

Great Game. As a florist I really enjoyed identifying plants and the look and feel of the game. The story was good. I do wish maybe it was voiced to give it more feeling. Had fun with the puzzles, they could maybe increased the difficulty a smudge but I felt it was fine. Made it a quick play through. 8/10

I can feel this is gonna be good after playing for 2 hours. But doing the first open world boss and experiencing the lag and stuttering, man that kills the mood. Usually you know when you are killed its about you not playing good enough. And you need to train and understand the boss right. That is what brings souls games to be so fun. Because when you finally kill the boss its such a rush, because of all the struggle you have been through. But this lagging makes me not enjoy it, because it feels more like Im playing against the lag and not the boss. You died, oh was it me or was it lag timing. Prob you but since the question is underlying in the mind. The whole experience dies. So right now its a Wait for me. Buy when they have patched it. Hopefully soon enough.

Wait for buy. Watch patch news until the fixed it. Gonna update to buy when its smooth and playable.

Update: Feels a lot better for me. Still some stuttering but not as bad as before. Managed to fight open world bosses without that nagging feeling. Amazing game, just a shame it was not optimized. And they should get that crap for it.

This is why I hate mobile games on steam. Buy on deep sale. Got this from humble bundle. Sometimes the cubes are not added to the cities. The interface.... lets just say its horrible, not helping anything in-terms of gameplay. I'm not sure if I am missing something but I cant go through discard piles.

Oh and what the heck is up with the epidemic and outbreak sounds. Its sounds like a slap in the face from anime.

Also no multiplayer?! If I want to play solo pandemic I might as well play the real copy I have.

Not recommended at full price, only if you are hardcore pandemic fan (like me) and even then I would just get TableTopSim.

Review in progress!!

The Good:
- Time period is a favorite of mine.
- Feels more streamlined than Eu4 and CK2. Not sure if good or bad at the moment, but leaning towards good.
- I enjoy that they have combined some of the best stuff from eu4 and ck2. I care more for my rule like in ck2 but also get the comquest/trade etc part from eu4. BUT I also feel like im not getting the whole experience like in eu4 and ck2. Its like its a bit disconnected from everything.

The Bad:
- Like every paradox game, we need a wiki, and with the wiki not fully fledged there is so much stuff I cant understand how works. I cant find out of much food is needed, when I get pop up about starving pops. Research is also something Im not fully understand, and it seems like I need to get every citizen pop to my capital, so I have to micro manage them around. ARGH its just feels so annoying.
- I dont understand how one province minors have more troops then me, and my manpower tanks so heavily from sieges its just ruins the experience, (again, prob need to improve my play style, but cant without understanding how it works, see my complain about wiki).
- BUT my worst complain so far! In Eu4, if a nation you are at war with got military access from another nation, you also got that access. This is not how it works in Imperator. I was at war with some scots, and I was in southern britian. I had to wait for them to come to me. 25 years where I could do nothing than to wait and have my armies parked at the border. Come on! I had to win 10 battles to get the white peace.

Neutral:
TBD

Current recommendation:
Wait for sale. It feels shallow at the moment. Missing that spark you have in ck2 when your ruler suddenly has a demonic child who kills him than rules your country, or in eu4 when you start colonizing and feel your empire grow larger and larger. Again, not played to long, but its not pulling me back for more.

I love this game. Highly recommended if you love escape rooms and puzzle games. Its just the right amount of difficulty without the hints. Sometimes you can be stuck looking for one specific item or clue, but it flows very well when playing.

Coming from Overcooked! I had high expectations and I feel they accomplished what I wanted. More recipes and more chaos! I like the throwing action and this can make a well oiled machine work really fast. The worst part of the game (which I expect to be fixed with the new game plus option, but not tried) is that it is to easy to get 3 stars. Sometimes we have double the amount of points needed to get 3 stars. That is just not challenging.

8/10 (9/10 if new game plus is more challenging)