Recent reviews by Koopasa

I was expecting something else. Dirt exists primarily as an obstacle to the terrain. For anyone wanting to try this game out, just start a sandbox. destroy all the dirt in ember's cradle and then set up the automation you can set up with the local machines.
That was the game. Dirt is worthless, mining machines do not remove voxels. I realized too late that this was just going to be another logic gate puzzler with the negative downside to having to place every single piece by hand. Tedium.

I still remember the first game I loaded into. My dwarfs had reached the summit, hands shielding their eyes from the noon sun as they surveyed where the greatest dwarf-home the world has ever seen would be built.

But then! Without warning, an undead eagle assaults the dwarves. It was over in a flash. What just happened? I quickly discover the combat log, my mining dwarf had managed to hack head off the undead beast before much damage had been done, just a few scratches.

It was only an hour later, after my dwarf died to infection, did I see it. A seemingly out of place skull. I inspect the solitary skull only to realize, it was the eagle that had just killed my mining dwarf.

I was hooked.

Game is made to allow multiple accounts (so long as they pay) while they just released 'another' patch that tries to dissuade multiboxing.

The success of the game is dependent on the developers reducing the ways that the problem they created impacts the game they are trying to sell you.

Taxes appear to work

The last time I stayed up until the morning light crept through the blinds was in the 90's and I was a teenager.
Three weekends lost to this game, and counting.

I bought this for my mom so she can play a new city builder. I also started with that mindset and three hours in I am thoroughly impressed overall and am ready to start attempt two, but this time with battles.

I bought a Labrador from a traveling arms merchant.
Set up training and later got a message it got named Kaori after bonding with someone.
Gets random addiction notification... for Kaori the Labrador Retriever... I look at the health tab, Alcohol tolerance and a recently acquired ambrosia addiction...
I was sold a drug hound

This game just peaked. Game is currently breaking concurrent player records after a free 'expansion' patch 1.6

The world feels more alive, more colorful. Minor things like additional props in houses, to full blown end game mechanics being added for the first time. New dialogues, a new farm type to start with, entirely new items and crafting, like moss, squash, and broccoli.

Harvest Moon lite mechanics, and the terraforming phases are all story switches. Collect X, Make Y, bring to Z. Congratulations, you have terraformed a whole planet.

X, Y, and Z are all static. Though those numbers are subject to change the lack of much interaction or build up with the terraforming really disappointed me.

Did you enjoy Fire Emblem games? If, like me, you haven't enjoyed the more recent Fire Emblem release, then this game will fill that itch. It stands on it's own, and makes you want them to do more for the game, so I must recommend it.
If I'm being honest, it isn't as good as Awakening, but lives up to being one of it's successors.