Golem Creation Kit

Personally wasn't for me. Just couldn't get myself into it.

Golem Creation Kit is an older game from 2017. It's a venerable 8 years old at the time of this review. One important note is that even though this is an amateur project, it does seem to be sincerely and genuinely made. I couldn't find any flipped assets, plagiarism or any other kind of insincere actions from the developer, but unfortunately genuine intentions alone are not enough to produce a brilliant PC gaming experience. This is more of an E-book/Visual Novel than a game, which is a serious problem. Also, it's made with Ren'Py/Pygame, so you know straight away it's going to be garbage... they aren't serious tools intended for AAA game development, so it should be no surprise they can't produce anything of value. However there is a game of some sort after you wade through the craptastic mountains of extremely badly written junior high school tier writing. Unfortunately the game itself is a ripoff of a game called "Doodle God", itself a ripoff of an iPhone 3 era mobile app called "Elements". All you do is click around to find things then combine them together to create a "golem" to protect you against angry villagers. It's a mediocre premise, but the way it was implement…

A very original little game with nice pixel graphics, good soundtrack and curious mechanics. Mainly a visual novel, but with some strategy/management elements. Although other reviewers have pointed that it is quite buggy, have in mind before playing that those bugs can be part of the meta narrative of the whole game. Recommended.

Other reviews have definitely pointed out that it's best to do a double check if this game will be for you. This is a story game for the most part and will be majority of the experience with a little puzzle mechanic to build golems to pass each level using items and the material they're made of from the environment. I adored the multiple layers and as you took pieces more were revealed beneath though sometimes the dragging/ picking up mechanic can be buggy. Overall though, despite the bugs i quite enjoyed it and plan to 100% it to find the little story extras in its multiple endings. :> ♥

I really enjoy the gameplay, but it's buggy enough that I'm getting crashes every single day of the game. Cannot recommend.

I had a good time with this game, and if the concept looks interesting to you, you should check it out. Having said that, I have reservations about the execution of the story. My complaints largely are very spoiler related (I don't get the *why* of a big underlying component of the conceit, and don't feel like it goes anywhere with it). Additionally, the gameplay between VN segments doesn't [i]really[/i] change after you've gotten the gist. There's some texture with the words of power that can be used, but it's more of a game of maximization of resources versus application restraints. Since it doesn't change much over time, it definitely began to wear on me after a few "days".