BioEden

Enjoyable and relaxing game. Perfect game for those who thrive in environments that require patience, planning and resource management. Have completed one play-through with the 'technology guild' and am interested to see the difference in a play-through with the other guilds.

This game had UNIMAGINABLE potential. It seemed like Terra Nil but lasting much longer. Truly beautiful animals, I stopped and stared at one when I unlocked it. Scenery that is fantastic, and cute semi-city-builder vibes where you lo-key just chill and clean up the environment... ...until you build your second dome and the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ROBOTS SIT ON THE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DOME AND DON'T BUILD ♥♥♥♥. DON'T BUY THIS ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GAME. I INVESTED SO MUCH ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ EMOTION THINKING THIS GAME WOULD BE NICE, IT GETS ME ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ NOWHERE AND THERE'S NO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MANUAL FOR WHY THE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ROBOTS ARE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DOING NOTHING.

I've played BioEden to 100% completion over the course of a few weeks. It's a competent game, good for low-energy days, but it's very shallow. There's multiple Guilds to play through the game as, but they aren't meaningfully different from each other beyond which biomes you have, and how many creatures of each biome are available. I feel like this was a missed opportunity for unique guild buildings and playstyles beyond just the Mapper(?) Guild getting access to a unique Antenna. I was hoping to see hydroelectric plants and other alternative buildings in other Guilds, but they all play more or less the exact same. The story beats (what little there is, anyway) are mostly identical, too. Meet your Guild rep, get chastised by an opposing (why are they opposed?) Guild rep, make good with them, get sabotaged (no gameplay effect) by your own Guild, clean up the planet & win. The game advertises zero stakes, and I think that's a big part of its lacking. The only thing you lose by playing the game 'wrong' is time. Riding your Crisis Risk at 90% does nothing other than occasionally slap you on the wrist and turn off a randomly selected building type, or add pollution back to a zon…

Fantastic game, great for filling time, but devs, please add more to the prairie and tundra :')

For a game that is pretty short (you can finish all scenarios of this game in an afternoon if you know what to do) it is a pretty chill time for some low-risk, stress-free session that still is going to tease your brain a little bit. The punishment and balancing choices, such as building too much structures would push you into a "lose" state, for example, is a bit arbitrary and forced for a game that is quite literally about restoring the balance of nature by building an organic and sustainable biome. With that said, I did have a genuinely good time, and is a pretty good choice to introduce someone to to the game genre of map-coloring.

This is a very casual game, as it does not really present any trouble even if you leave the game idling. I tried it as something relaxing to play in hopes to spare my carpal tunnel syndrome. I enjoyed the general gameplay and completed a run with each guild while also completing every achievement. It wasn't that challenging per say, and given I had same upgrade options each run, the pattern was the same across every guild, which doesn't really match how they are described. I won't say what they are, but I'm sure you can figure them out. Some upgrades are available so late in the game that they lose their validity as a choice by the time they're an option. It more or less speaks against the game's re-playability as there's not much meaningful difference between runs. The only real challenges I encountered were unexpectedly high hurdle mandatory tasks in early parts of the run. With explorer's guild it was creating a habitat for a savannah predator while I only had the tundra dome unlocked. I needed a lot of heaters and humidifiers, and I hadn't unlocked water purifiers yet, so lowering impact while needing more buildings was slow. With the mystic guild it was reducing a biome's po…