Wastelander

+Audio ---Plays way too much like a puzzle -UX/UI is lousy; small/tiny = Disappointment = I could not find the fun = I wouldn't recommend the game for myself. ............................................________........................ ....................................,.-‘”...................``~.,.................. .............................,.-”...................................“-.,............ .........................,/...............................................”:,........ .....................,?......................................................\,..... .................../...........................................................,}.... ................./......................................................,:`^`..}.... .............../...................................................,:”........./..... ..............?.....__.........................................:`.........../..... ............./__.(.....“~-,_..............................,:`........../........ .........../(_....”~,_........“~,_....................,:`........_/........... ..........{.._$;_......”=,_.......“-,_.......,.-~-,},.~”;/....}........... ...........((.....*~_.......”=-._......“;,,./`…

while lacking in aesthetic polish (taking a new turn is painfully static), this game hooked me with the simple resource balancing with exploration and neat special abilities. around desolation 3 or 4 it finally started to get old, but a lot of playtime for the sale price. music is really good. i liked the tile art, too, and would have liked to get an even closer zoom on its details.

Fun little strategy game, ultimately you're balancing planning and synergies with an endgame timer and damage every few turns, there are also generous random chance buffs. Seems like the sort of game that becomes more rewarding the more you play it.

Quite a good turn based strategy game. It's not quite a city builder, but more a direct strategy game versus a turn counter. And when I say strategy, I specifically mean strategic resource expenditure. Your goal is to connect to all the relics before 50 turns pass. Nearly every resource you have is usable in some way shape or form. The game is fairly easy to start with, but has a nice scaling difficulty with the desolation system if you want additional challenge. I'm still working through them, but I doubt I'll be able to beat them all. My only complaint is that I don't really like the 'beat the game in X turns' achievements much. Just not one to enjoy speedrunning and that's kind of what it feels like. But this is a positive review so I'll talk more about the positives. For one thing, I think the music is very fitting. It often has this sort of 'disaster siren' feel to it like you've got a constant storm warning system going off. It's not 'the best music ever', but it's incredibly fitting for the themes involved. Also, I'm not actually that big a fan of 'wasteland' games since aesthetically I find deserts to be the most boring ever, but here the stress of trying to 'win' in a c…

Awesome!

It's... fine. The gameplay loop is a little slow (lots of small turns where you do one or two things), which is not unlike a 4x The "roguelike" drafted upgrades are wildly variable, and you get a relatively small supply of them, so each game plays very different, but not getting answers to the problems you have can build up frustration over time. If I was young with a bad computer, no budget, and lots of time, I'd LOVE this game. But basically none of those are true for me, so I think it's probably just neat.