LORED

This is a challenging review to make, because Lored is a very complicated game. From the standpoint of someone who is a long-time connoisseur of both indie games and idle games, I appreciate titles like this because they are very much auteur-driven. It's a one-man project through which much of the developer's presence and particular quirks are obvious. It's an artistic exploration as much into the mind of the dev as it is a game, and the landscape within is very interesting. In a land full of AI slop and hastily-generated games that don't try anything new, it could be thought of as a breath of fresh air. Unique is a perfect word for this game. However, interesting does not necessarily mean good. For instance, there are several messages that use "gay" as an insult, or the over-played "are you acoustic" meme. Every one of your "resource collectors" is a stick figure that has an entire conversation tree, some absurdly long and some absurdly short. The humor(?) is a combination of occasionally clever meta-humor, absurdity, and edgy aggressiveness, sprinkled with extraordinarily dated memes. For example, many of the Stage 1 Loreds are just off-putting or aggressive to you, and you're …

i played the ♥♥♥♥ out of this in hs until i beat it, recently felt some nostalgia and wanted to play it again, realized it had a steam release. already a great idle game, insane amount of content added, seems like more is coming... true peak

got done with most of the game and now waiting for the next update, also I love all the memes and jokes, and I will rewatch the last airbender.

Yes amazing game, it has some minor bugs and only 1/2 of the game is currently released but other than that it is an amazing game to try

Have been following this game since the early versions on itch.io and I get that this is a single-dev early access title with quite complex mechanics influencing eath other needing a lot of tuning. Fun concept, good implementation. Progression turns from being quite active at the beginning (and when reaching new tiers every once in a while) and slows down a lot in between that. Meaningful content updates are pretty sparse, but I want to at least see where this goes while just reading the changelogs to - quite frequent - updates for minor stuff until something more substantial comes out. So all in all, I can tentatively recommend the game (but please don't delete forum posts with serious questions. I don't know if I've hit a wall for the current available content or run into a game breaking bug and am currently missing out. Really frustrating.)

I dont know whats so addicting about the game, but I but this is the only idle sim that I have actually enjoyed so much that I would give up both my kidneys to play again