TimeKeeper

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TimeKeeper is one of the simplest games I have played in a while, but I found something strangely relaxing about its whole idea. I am basically standing around a beautiful tree, waiting for the right moment to shake it and collect whatever fruit falls down. That sounds almost too simple to work as a game, but I actually enjoyed how deliberately slow and quiet the experience feels. The main mechanic is all about waiting for the time board to reach zero and turn green. Once that happens, I can grab the tree and shake it around to make the fruit fall. I liked the physical feeling of having to actually move the mouse around rather than simply clicking a button, because it makes the harvesting feel slightly more interactive. It is still a very basic mechanic, but it gives the game its own little personality. After harvesting, the tree enters another waiting period before I can do it again. I can collect the fruit and keep it in my inventory, or simply leave it there while I wait for the next opportunity. I found this oddly calming because the game is not demanding anything from me. There is no pressure to rush through a level or constantly improve my score. I can just check in, shake …

[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop][b]Warning: AI Slop[/b][/url] This game is partially or completely made with talentless, soulless AI generated content.[/quote] "TimeKeeper" is completely pointless garbage... a spin on the "cookie clicker" genre, this one has you shake a tree, collect fruit, rinse and repeat. There's nothing to this and it's hard to even describe this as a game... there's no reason for this to be published on a platform intended for sincerely, genuinely made PC games. It's garbage pollution. This feels more like a tech demo or a project smacked together hurriedly to try make a kind of minimum viable product just good enough to pass the developers unambitious idea and shove it into Steam Direct to see if you can actually pay $100 and publish junk through Steam Direct. Yeah, you can. Is this good for gamers? Nope. As mentioned, this features really godawful, "wrong" looking AI slop instead of genuinely and sincerely created game assets. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating real game assets or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is tha…

amazing game I like the little quotes at the start