This is an amazing automation game that does not want to be an automation game. The art is phenomenal, the concept is great, but the core gameplay loop of exploration and doing quests just sucks. The majority of playtime is spent walking with a restrictive camera view through a randomly generated field, which the waypoint system helps with but not significantly. It is not clear what order you should progress the quests in and the characters have paragraph after paragraph when giving quests but will not repeat what your objectives are.

There's alot to try to make this work! The waypoint pinning helps with walking aimlessly to different points on the map, pinning a quest manually helps with figuring out what you even need to do, the teleportation you unlock later in the game helps reduce the absurd amount of travel, the recent buildables being available in the sidebar helps with the horrible to navigate building menu, but all of this is just putting a bandage on problems with the core gameplay loop just not being fun. You have to fight against the game to actually play it, and I'm hopeful that in later updates the game either figures out a better way to do exploration or just lets you ignore the story and play it detached from the village quest system.

This is an amazing automation game that does not want to be an automation game. The art is phenomenal, the concept is great, but the core gameplay loop of exploration and doing quests just sucks. The majority of playtime is spent walking with a restrictive camera view through a randomly generated field, which the waypoint system helps with but not significantly. It is not clear what order you should progress the quests in and the characters have paragraph after paragraph when giving quests but will not repeat what your objectives are. There's alot to try to make this work! The waypoint pinning helps with walking aimlessly to different points on the map, pinning a quest manually helps with figuring out what you even need to do, the teleportation you unlock later in the game helps reduce the absurd amount of travel, the recent buildables being available in the sidebar helps with the horrible to navigate building menu, but all of this is just putting a bandage on problems with the core gameplay loop just not being fun. You have to fight against the game to actually play it, and I'm hopeful that in later updates the game either figures out a better way to do exploration or just lets you ignore the story and play it detached from the village quest system.