Malmyr

I think, with a lot of detail work this might be a decent game. I also think that graphics department here is brilliant because this looks way cooler than it is. Problem is the basic game is a fairly basic supply line type game. but with roads instead of conveyor belts. And the peasants are to stupid to know where they are going with anything so you can't have a road go more than one place. *sigh* So, conveyor belts called roads. And yes, later, with knowledge derived from ancient dwarven ruins in the third mission, you can have a road that peasants will choose the proper direction at a fork. I want to take an aside here and not that Steam Powered Game's proprietary spell checker does not know the word "dwarven." It's not the core game play that brings this thing down to the "not recommend" status. It's a bunch of little things that add up to it being frustrating. And that's really it. It's not hard or requiring any gret skill at the point I bailed. It was just annoyingly frustrating. As mentioned, the roads make no sense. With that comes the weird nature of what needs a road. Houses and farms and stores do not need roads but ore does. *shrug* I think this was ori…

There's a lot of cleverness hidden in Malmyr's design that's not initially obvious. It forces you to unlearn all the things you've learned while playing city builder games - you NEED to remove existing structures, you MUST plan several expansionist moves ahead, and just playing around will help you solve the first few maps, but eventually will crash you hard into a wall. That said, Malmyr could be improved lots by better writing. It's so clearly a German game, with all the worst writing and cheap humour you'd expect from a German game, that it hurts the game overall. An engaging story with better presentation would elevate Malmyr to something really good. With this, my recommendation is: Play the demo. Get it on sale. Enjoy something unique.

50% Supply lines, 50% clicker, 100% terrible dialogue. It's a slog in a "waste your time" kind of way and not a "solve a puzzle" kind of way. It feels like a mobile game.

I usually love games like this but this one is just not for me. I don't really enjoy solving the puzzles, they feel like a slog to discover what an optimized road looks like. often, there just isn't one and you need to delete and re set up the same area- I found that very tedious and not fun puzzle solving action.

Products only move one way along roads. The whole idea broke down during the tutorial. What kind of idea was that? I'm not into it.

I bought this as I was hoping for a little more Norse Theme than it shows, Kinda disappointed 5/10 for effort