Audio is superb, art style is cohesive and very nice to look at. I don't mind the heavy use of the color pink because it makes the important stuff stand out and I see this as more of a chill second monitor game. The lore tidbits are well written and it's actually exciting when you find a new lore recording.
Really good gameplay loop. Feels almost like Satisfactory the way it gives you a new goal to work towards to unlock new resources to build more new stuff. Love how you can just run into trees to get wood, but this later becomes tedious once you need a lot of wood. And I'm sure this is a jam thing but there are some trees near the outskirts (and I found 1 near the center) that do not drop wood.
I'm also a little unsure about the energy system as it hinders the flow a bit. Maybe add a more noticeable prompt or alarm when those wind turbines are full. However, I truly think it would be better to not make the player manually harvest those turbines and instead just make them automatically distribute energy to nearby crops. This would give the player some downtime to be able to explore the map. Overall a very pleasant and enjoyable experience.
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Hi Wagyu Dev, thank you very much for trying the game and leaving a detailed review! I will comment on some points:
I was very happy that you mentioned the lore pieces. I spent more time than I assume would be ideal for a jam writing them 😁
Regarding the amount of required wood and even fruit throughout the game, I received a lot of criticism in this regard, about the progression curve not being as smooth as would be ideal. Unfortunately, I didn't get much testing (by other people) during the game's development, and I think that had an overall impact on my perception of difficulty.
Finally about energy, this was a point of many doubts during development, I considered the possibility of the generator changing the growth speed of the surrounding plants, instead of requiring it to collect energy and feed the growing vegetables, but I was a bit afraid of the game becoming "too idle" since its a bit limited in terms of game mechanics/verbs.
Thanks again for the detailed analysis. I'll be testing your game soon, too. I followed its development on Discord, and your art is fantastic!
Of course man, I'm happy to give feedback much as I can. I also saw some of your screenshots on discord and this was the first game I tried lol. I'll be checking out your other games at some point too, really love your art style. Oh and for the wood stuff I was thinking, instead of lowering the amount required it would probably be more interesting to add new unique ways to harvest wood.