Asbury Pines

The gameplay and narrative are mashed together real badly so that you get all the characters and events as worker pieces in an idle prodiction game, then you've got to manage those resources across time periods as well as locally. So you get a raccoon writing the newspaper to produce enough knowledge while the pine tree scours the murder site for clues, the gas station lady is researching the giant sloth religion, and a seagull is farming snails. Its super incoherent. Managing all the pieces is awful because you're jumping between the life, scav, work and nature screens, the popups dont link you to anything. What's worse is that the narrative is okay as following the survivors of that tragedy that starts the game then you finally get to the final solution for the mystery and its stupid as hell. Its so bad. I cannot recommend this game at all. As a narrative game it fails, as an idler its so incoherent and gets so annoying especially with the awful UI which only gets worse the more eras you unlock. Super awful and stupid.

I really enjoyed this game with its ups and downs. I was drawn in by the story, it kept pulling me in, then I had a little change of heart when the whole future bits started and it all went downhill for me, but somehow, the game managed to pull me back in as more and more of the world started unfolding. The world is very brutal yet hopeful, a very well balanced feat, in my opinion. With one notable exception that I see a lot of people complain about, the story completes marvelously, ties up all (but one egregious) loose ends and does an excellent job at conveying the message it had set out to convey. Yes, there are some artificial bottlenecks here and there, added in just to pad gameplay, yes, a few of the story beats and characters don't make sense, but overall this is an excellent game. Thoroughly enjoyed my time with this one, so much that I went ahead and 100% it. Notes on the 100%: I finished the main game and got about 88% completion with the intended 1x speed. Speedrushed through the final percents because I just wanted to knock everything out

I really love this game! So much to do, but also it doesn't rush you. The story unfolds in pieces with a lot of moving through different times... so if you like a straight forward story this won't be for you. That's my favorite part though!

One of the most incredible narratives I've ever experienced. The way this story unfolds had me choked up for the death of a piece of grass. The ability of the author to show humanity's capacity for overwhelming cruelty alongside our infinite ingenuity and optimism was truly amazing.

Bardzo dobrze napisany idler. Zakończenie jest słabiutkie ale nie rujnuje doświadczenia z poprzedniego 95% gry.

I've never played a game quite like this. The idle mechanics are fun and straight forward and the story is interesting. 10 000 000 snails, here I come!

Genuinely unique take on the idle genre. Intriguing narrative that kept me engaged.