Hexpire

This is a very cool little hidden gem. Runs last 45 minutes to 1 hour, and you're basically doing a puzzle in the vein of Dorfromantik - every building placed gives income, and every time you place a building, all your buildings give the income. But buying more random buildings costs a ramping amount of gold, so you're trying to stay ahead of an exponentially growing boulder, Indiana Jones style. Eventually the game will outrun you and you'll run out of building tiles, ending the run. There are a couple iffy translation things, and some of the more complex interactions are not very clearly explained. There's also not a ton of depth right now, the meta progression is limited to unlocking more boats, which basically are chosen at the start of the run to give variable bonus powers. There's also some problems where as the run goes on luck feels like a bigger and bigger factor. On some runs, you just get outright ♥♥♥♥♥♥ - i.e. my last run today where I got 20 fields with 0 wells (fields get an income multiplier based on adjacent wells, so, not great). There's also a little bit of a problem with it sometimes feeling like you've kind of run out of decisions to make in the late game - …

I love the concept for this game, but I wouldn't really recommend it in its current state. Firstly, the game lacks a bit of polish. A few examples... [olist] [*]Some things are not explained, e.g. the fact that you can only pick 3 ships, or that you can buy more hexes / buildings (I lost my first run because I didn't notice this button), or the differences between each of the game modes. [*]When you click on a building to place it, you can't see what you're placing, and there is no way to go back to double-check. [*]You can place buildings accidentally if you try to pan around the map with the LMB. [/olist] Secondly, the game feels quite slow to me, as you're constantly having to place new tiles around the island. This is much less interesting than placing buildings, because there is less strategy involved. I kind of wish the new tiles would just get placed automatically. The main problem, though, is that decisions lose their meaning as the game progresses. It becomes less about placing buildings optimally, and more about placing them wherever they will fit. The land-to-building ratio is just too low (or maybe I'm just bad?). In any case, I would love to see this c…