Recent reviews by DorianGray

I loved the game for many hours when I played the demo, and I already see it just got better. It has been an amazing year for factory builder fans, but this little gem is the crown jewel for me. Fun, addicting, much more complex than you would assume first. If you have the slightest interest in building/automating/factory-builders, I say this is a must buy. :)

My 26 hours were with a lot of afk time and also the game running in the background. It keeps you busy for maybe like 10 hours, and in these 10 hours it's good gaming fun. Definitely worth the money.

This is a wonderful game! Please expect hours to get used to the controls. They are not bad, they are just complex because you can do so many things, you have combat combos, you have many skills ... but the more you dive into it, the more fun it is.

Supported this over a year ago. Nothing happened, zero visible or functional progress - while SE1 DLCs keep coming in. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth, therefore not recommending you jump onto the "support train".

If you hope for any type of gameplay or content, you are wrong here anyway. This is years away from being a game, so it's a "Kickstarter-without-Kickstarter-campaign" only.

Already a masterpiece, already a piece of art.

Nah, it's 2026 and people stating "this is more fun than any modern game" is simply blabla. "Better than PoE" statements are simply annoying, not only because they are lies, they also show how you don't understand anything about games. :) And no, you are not getting your youth back by buying this game.

And, also no, this is not "a great Steam Deck" title. There's literally a thousand better and more modern ones. - Did it have a price of let's say 5 bucks I'd leave it unrated as this might be worth the nostalgia and the few minutes you will actually play it, but at 8 times the price this is just nonsense and the just the next indication about how pitiful Blizzard has become.

Endgame still broken, that junior game designer at Funcom still not fired. What a joke. Funcom goes Ubisoft.

The best factory game since Satisfactory, a must have if you enjoy these types of games.

Very buggy at this stage, but can become really good. The framework works, but lots and lots missing to make in a truly awesome game. Still a thumbs up because this is not only "has a lot of potential" but already some good stuff in it. Just please, before you add more stuff, remove the bugs. Too many in the context of building and the conveyor belts ...

This is a very close thumbs up only.

Yes, it's Anno, it's awesome, it's more of the same and then some nice additions, plus many DLCs will likely make it even better over time (but it is just fine as it is right now, too). So, Kudos and respect to the developers!

Having said that, I don't understand the fairly big amount of tiny bugs that make things nasty (like stuck ships). I would have expected it's literally the same engine as Anno 1800, so where do these bugs come from? Also what I don't understand is why they did not remove some of the elements which are simply NOT fun ... like looking for stupid little items for hours in your cities to fulfill some random quest. Already one of the weakest things about Anno 1800, it's surprising we see that stuff again. No fun, so why not remove it.

Ultimately, this game get's a thumbs up from me, DESPITE Ubisoft still being the crappiest publisher with the most untalented management team in history of the gaming industry. Even in this project they forced their incompetency onto us by forcing Ubisoft Connect once again out of zero reasons onto us. No idea why a bunch of old, talentfree dudes can't hand over the reign to a new generation, people who are actually passionate about games and not about revenue only (and surprise, the later is the outcome of the former done right).

So, overall, Ubisoft has as little to do with the success of the Anno series as they have with Claire Obscure.