WAGON

"I think I see a theme here. Naw, I really think I do. Let me just go ahead and use my patented Tron-Bunk kit real quick to sort this out. Yeah. Yes, I see. Oh, that's righteous, that's good. Ah, there it is. It's clear now, I've got it." "Everybody moves ♥♥♥♥♥♥' slow! Everybody moves really ♥♥♥♥♥♥' slow!" -Jontron, 2012 There is absolutely no reason for anything in this game to take even a quarter as agonizingly long as it does to do absolutely everything. Half of my playtime was simply sitting there waiting silently with absolutely nothing happening because every single animation and line of dialogue has a twelve hour pause between them for absolutely no reason at all. And a quarter of the rest was waiting through those animations. Both of these, naturally, are unskippable. I cannot say the same for the actual dialogue, however, as that can be skipped... very, very, very, very easily, before it's had time to even render, much less be noticed, no matter how important it is to knowing how to play the game on a basic level. And that's not even getting into the actual gameplay, for what tiny fraction of my playtime was spent there. I can't speak to how well balanced or intricate …

This is a REALLY cool game and I am really enjoying playing it. The comparison to Inscryption feels accurate and Oregon Trail is a fertile ground for American Gothic horror mixed with resource management gameplay. The graphics look nice and it runs great on my lightweight little laptop. The one thing I would add is save data management. In my first playthrough I happened to get insanely unlucky and get stuck in a run that would neither flourish nor die and it gave me a really negative first impression of the game (if you saw my earlier negative review that was the reason for it). Upon going into AppData/Local/WAGON/Saved/SaveGames and deleting my save data (if you do this remember to turn off cloud saving first) and starting from scratch, I realized just how weird and uncommon my issue was.

absolute shame this didnt blow up. i have so far enjoyed jumping right in and figuring everything out one piece at a time. beautiful game, great ambience. pour out a milk for all these pioneers i definitely will not get killed

decent game, merges the fun part of stacklands with the mystery aspect of inscription, though the story and inscryption aspects copuld be a bit more flushed out imo. overall fun if not short management roguelike.

Wagon is a very atmospheric 1 bit survival game heavenly inspired by the Oregon trail yet with a eldritch flair that does not hold your hand. A very show don’t tell game. I loved the heavy folk horror atmosphere with the interface being a spooky wagon where you lay the cards on the floor while you play a survival card game with a haunted doll. A little unintuitive but I think that’s a part of the charm, with crafting and harvesting resources all feeling like some sort of eldritch ritual. A hidden gem that will stay with you for awhile long after you played it.

Very fun card-resource management game. A mix of something like Stacklands/Oregon Trail/Inscryption with fitting graphics. Any changes I would make to it, would be QoL stuff (like manual downsizing of cards, better recipe book handling etc.)