Crest - an indirect god sim

Abandoned in an uninteresting state.

Disappointing in every respect. Worst is that your commands aren't "interpreted" in any interesting way, but completely, randomly, rewritten.

The concept of indirect control is delightful—this is the kind of game I absolutely love. So, it gets a "like" from me, despite all its issues. And there are... quite a few of them. The biggest one is that the game runs out of steam rather quickly. The tech tree is exhausted, resources are fully tapped, and every word combination has been tried. All that’s left is to watch the chaos of the world you’ve created, but unfortunately, that gets boring, eventually forcing the Creator to abandon their own world. 7 broken telephones out of 10.

I belive that this game does not have enought to offer. It is an active game, but you do personnally nothing. You watch the world do nothing. I would recomand Rimworld instead for a better expirience and more content.

I hate how the "teachings" are randomized and limit you to one playstyle based on fulfilling those.

It's been a while since I've had Crest installed, and to be honest, it has just sort of been sitting in my library for years... There's something very cool about the game that I can't quite put my finger on - maybe the highly stylistic art, maybe the novel approach to the "god game" genre, or just the bare concept of language being the guiding force behind civilization... But unfortunately it doesn't quite come together. It's a little too hard to be fun, or maybe I'm just an incompetent god, and the ability to upgrade plateaus rather early, so if you're not good at the core mechanics, you're just not going to do well. There are some obviously winning decisions to make, and it winds up feeling sort of forced to try to diversify your strategy in play. The art is SO stylistic. Some really bold decisions have been made, and I really admire that a lot. At the end of the day, though, I need my little meeples to look more like actual people. I need big bold colors and clear, sans-serif fonts, and a predictable, easy-to-read UI. I can't recommend it outright, but if you've been looking at it in the store for a few months, curious to see what's on offer, then maybe give it a tr…