Amber Isle

I really want to love this game. I think the designs are wonderful, the dialogue is fun and cute, the story is a little bit one-dimensional but I think it fits in with the style the game is going for. It all feels amazingly nostalgic, reminiscent of the Nintendo games I grew up playing, with obvious inspiration taken from games like Animal Crossing. But, as much as I adore the idea behind the game, it is heavily unpolished. The optimisation is by far the most egregious problem; I have been consistently stuck at around 15 FPS when in the main map, and whenever I'm in buildings I'm generally at around 30 FPS. This laptop can easily handle far larger games with minimal performance issues (see specs attached to the review). The lag has also only been getting worse as I've added more Paleofolk to my island, and my only guess is that the game completely lacks optimisation features like backface culling or anything akin to render distance. There is also very little in the settings for performance. You can choose between a handful of V-Sync options (which I have found to change nothing about the game's performance, not to mention the fact that the two other options' names read like placeholders). You can also reduce the texture quality, which has only limited effects on performance (I've been playing on minimum texture quality). Aside from that, there is nothing to reduce the amount of particles, no entity culling settings, nothing about shadows, etc. I love this game despite its flaws, and I will continue playing it, but I cannot recommend it to others unless the performance issues get fixed. EDIT: Literally only a few hours since I wrote this review and it is getting so much tougher to justify playing to the end. I can barely move around in the shop when it's open to customers because of how my character keeps rubberbanding, and when everything is time-sensitive and there's a lot to do all throughout the shop (keeping the shop clean, taking orders, keeping up with the ambience items, ensuring that I interact with customers in other parts of the shop when necessary) it just makes it unfair to the player. It is currently basically unplayable and it's only getting laggier with time. This is overall one of the biggest letdowns of any game I've played on Steam possibly ever, because it looks high-quality and then just has little to no polish.

It's a fairly simple gameplay loop so far, but it's really fun! It's easy to turn your brain off and just enjoy gathering, running your shop, and talking to your dino friends! The story has been interesting so far, I can't wait to see where it goes!

I must say the art style is what pulled me into the game. I knew nothing else about it before I bought it since it was on a sale. I do think it is worth what I paid for it, but maybe not higher. It's like a simplified version of Stardew Valley. You get resources, craft items, sell them at your shop, rinse and repeat. You are also supposed to be able to bond and build friendships with townsfolk, but I have yet to see much of that in my current run. Take that with a grain of salt as I have only been playing for a few hours. They're moderately generous with the way you can customize your own character. I will say that even though you have the option to save presets, if that save file is lost your presets are also lost for some reason. Gathering resources initially yielded quite a lot of them. Over time however that begins to dwindle down and you can only get a few resources per day (until i assume you can unlock some sort of upgraded tools). Again I've only played for a few hours so there might be much more to the progression system. While there is certainly room for improvement when it comes to progression, I think it is overall a fair game with very memorable characters. I have a lot of fun voice acting them myself to bring them to life as the game has no voice acting of its own unfortunately. 8/10

Basically Animal Crossing but with dinosaurs. OH and you're Tom Nook. Getting started can be a little bit of a pain since you have to scrimp and pinch for materials once you've gathered all that you can get in the starting area for building your wares, but eventually you'll build up stock and won't be so desperate for materials. My main gripe is that it takes an AGONIZING amount of time to progress and unlock new item recipes, and sometimes your customers will ask for specific items of descriptions that you don't have, which can get a little irritating since you lose the chance to earn Amber when that happens..

Totalmente cozy, recomendable si te gustan juegos como Animal Crossing.

You're a dino and you run a shop. Worth 8$ on sale

I love this cute little game, the tutorial kind of takes a long time, and can be a bit frustrateing, if you are used to faster paced cozey games. However for the few like me who genunaley love the slow pace this hits the sweet spot that not many other games do. I'd recomend it.

Very nice game that's really chill, I always have a really good time playing