Stormbridge

This game is an absolute mess. A linear colony sim where you build everything in a straight line on a bridge while a storm frequently deletes all of your progress. I found very little strategy in basically rushing every piece of construction while simultaneously having zero clue which resources/buildings were being wiped 200 tiles behind me. You’re not strategizing, you’re spamming. Meta progression adds some legs to the game, but truly highlights how stat buffs just delay or weaken the storm mechanic while doing nothing to make the building any more strategic or enjoyable. I did like 3 runs and got progressively further each time, but not in an enjoyable or skillful way. Progress is purely a matter of attrition as you start each run with more money, resources, or villagers. You get further because you start with more, but the core loop of mindlessly spamming buildings to outrun a storm remains the same. It also reeks of asset packs. No cohesive art at all. Feels cheaply thrown together and uninspired.

Its good... But. The game feels like you're stuck on a tredmill; everything you do is so very quickly undone. there's very little time to develop a sense of satisfaction in a job well done. I think that is the point of the game, in which case it isn't for me, but might be for you. As far as indy games go, some aspects feel well polished while others are severely lacking; especially in the QoL aspect.

Overall a really enjoyable game. I was really hooked until I finished the game. This game has a lot of depth. Lots of upgrades and a mini skill tree. The last level underwater was too easy though. I think it needs a few tweaks as well. This game makes you click too many times to do simple functions that all other games don't. 1. Overlays should not overlap other items. I kept having to close one to open another. When you have a window to the left open. it partially covers the buttons where the achievements are below. Also when you open another box it should close the one you had open 2. Pet buying in bulk instead of clicking 100+ times to buy 50 of one pet. 3. Upgrade all option for that building type. 4. Selling is annoying. I have to "buy" gold for the items I am selling. Too many extra clicks to sell items. 5. You want us to build 5000M. Let us be able to buy more than 10 at once. Again making us click so much 6. Robots were pointless. 7. Sometimes you build a lot and want to go all the way to the right. Holding shift or spacebar still isn't that fast. Pet upgrade for speed isnt much either. Would be cool to have a button that teleports you to the end of the bridge. …

A chaotic and often frantic little game that I am really enjoying. Figuring out how to rapidly get all of the needed resources, keep citizens happy and fed and rebuild rapidly after storms has been a lot of very replayable fun.

It's a really cool idea and there's definitely thought put into it. I think it'd be a good idea to try it. However, the genre (a mixture of roguelite, resourcemanagement and balancing act doesn't really do it for me. Additionally, despite being in 1.0 it has several obvious bugs. The tutorial is plastering my screen with floating text boxes I cannot dismiss. These cover other UI elements like *the cost of the buildings*. And at the end of the tutorial the entire animation broke so I just t-posed my way across the sea. This would be forgivable if those tutorial messages didn't reeappear in the ACTUAL GAME. As is I cannot play without having much of my UI covered in popups I can't disable, telling me the most useless information. I'd love to try more, but the game feels very unpolished. It's definitely right for someone, but not me.

Seems like mix of autoclicker/faintly vague roguelike with some base upragding elements. It feels like the way to play is just spam bridges and build timber mills, with a few of each resource building dotted in between, gets boring fast and i don't even bother looking at what the storm is doing. Storm should not take out such a large length and distances between the events need to be shortened. The gameplay would be much better if it leaned more into the wave style tower defense, instead of just spamming to get ahead of the storm. The buildings should have better upgrade paths so that each storm you are trying to upgrade your next base better than the last. With the spam gameplay you don't even look at the storm too see how defenses worked, just build build build. Gets repetitve quickly. Really feels like early access.