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I can't recommend this game because it heavily pivots on the ability to create your own space, but the building is extremely limited. Here's just a few of the problems I encountered: [list] [*] The build area is constrained, you may have an idea of how you want multiple interconnected rooms and hallways but you quickly end up hitting a dead end you can never build past. [*] There is no verticality to the builds. You can't expand up or down or have any kind of height change. No sloped ceilings, overhangs, basements or balconies. This results in every build being a simple box. [*] Doors open one way and can't be rotated. When you place a door you can't just delete it with the door tool, you have to switch to the sledge and shrink that wall block it's attached to. [*] Windows let in some light and would liven up the space, but all you get is a view of the empty void beyond the blocky wall prison. [*] The UX/UI is so frustrating. You're flipping through pages in a catalog trying to remember where that thing was. Was it on page 3? Maybe it was in the kitchen section? Oh wait, it was in another catalog. Flipping through each page one. at. a. time... Wait no, it was in the *other* other catalog. Don't mind me just flipping through pages, this is my life now. Oh here it is, but my hotbar is full, time to replace an item I'm going to need in 5 minutes from now with this new item. Now I need that item I replaced, was it on page two of catalog one or page three of catalog two? [*] The selection of items you can place feels so limited and weird. For example, I wanted to place a modern TV, but I found that it couldn't be placed on a stand because it must be wall mounted. Also it was tiny. [*] Seriously, the item selection makes no sense. Why is there an entire kitchen section but not one kitchen or bar counter? Almost all the categories have bewilder me in their own terrible ways. I guess we do have the workshop but the base game should feel complete. [/list] This is not a comprehensive building game. I understand that and I'm willing to get creative, but it's so frustrating right now. It's a shame because I can see the vision, it's just not ready yet.

I would love to recommend this game, but I cannot. Alt + Click does not allow you to change box art despite claiming it can. Lacks basic furniture like flatscreen TVs or modern computer monitors. Doors cannot close. You cannot click on computers to play games. There are like four options for couches, all of which are crazy and garish; there are no options for 'dark brown' or any other standard color. You cannot sort games by your favorites or other categories you select. Instead, you are forced to choose 'all games', which can be massive for some users, and you need to sort through hundreds BY HAND in order to find the ones you want, since many are 'buried' under other games. The catalogs have no button to flip to the front. You can't paint the ceiling. There is no ctrl + z if you mess something up. If you have your own 3D models from blender, like action figures, you can't place them throughout your room. There are so many basic features that are lacking from this experience that prevent it from being playable, let alone enjoyable. It's crushing, because I really feel like I could love this game and launch it practically everyday, if it worked as described. But as it is, it's unplayable. And I'm someone who LOVES Early Access - I was the first in line for Minecraft, Don't Starve, Oxygen Not Included, and dozens more. But this game simply doesn't work. I'll be thrilled to edit this review when more is added.

Gostei da ideia do jogo, principalmente da proposta de organizar e exibir sua coleção. Porém, não gostei do fato de precisar buscar informações e imagens dos jogos por meio de links externos para que eles apareçam corretamente. Se isso não for algo oficial e integrado ao próprio jogo, eu simplesmente não confio. Prefiro que esse tipo de conteúdo venha de uma fonte oficial dentro da steam, sem depender de links ou serviços de terceiros. Tirando isso, a ideia é bem interessante e tem potencial.

Let me start by saying, even thoguh I put I reccomond this game, I don't reccomend buying this game right now. I like the idea but needs some fixes. Because it is so new, Id wait it out to see what is done to the game. Here is a more in detail review. I love the idea, that was why I bought it, but the execution could be better. Sometimes I can't place items down even when there is clearly space and nothing blocking it, for example, I couldn't place a stapler on my desk even though the only other item on the desk was a monitor that was at the back of the desk. Also, I wish there were some more items or some more items get added. I wanted to do a kitchen to put some of my games that kind of fit and I wanted to have the microwave and coffee pot to be in a room separate from the bedroom but there was nothing that I could really use as a kitchen counter. More items need to be added. Another issue I had was some pictures I put as the game cover or screenshot for a game to put on the posters and picture frames wouldn't load. Half of the times I had an issue with the pictures I would see the picture on the cover but couldn't put the picture on the 2 big posters/frames but I could on the smaller ones and the other times I couldn't even see the picture on the game cover. The last main issue I had was when I would leave, my progress wouldn't save sometimes or my game cases would get kind of shuffled. Now, I will say, one of the times this happened my game crashed (because I am playing on a crappy laptop) but I still had this happen one time when I just left the game and got back on a few hours later. Because of how new this game is (Not even been out for a month as of writing this), I expect most of these issue I have been having will be fixed and more items will be added in the near future, so maybe don't get the game right now and instead wait a little bit to see what gets added and fixed or see if anything is done at all. Overall, concept is a 10/10 idea but execution is like a 4/10. Just needs bug fixes and more items.

For a game whose whole selling point is organising your library, actually organising it is the part that fights you hardest. I can't choose what goes in, I can't take anything out, the games box hands them over in no order I can follow, and half of mine had no box art until I found out from a forum thread that there's a separate tool for that. The Steam Family I'm in adds 366 games I never asked for and can't remove, so my own collection is buried somewhere in the middle of them. The building side isn't much better. Walls and doors don't get along, the space you get is more restrictive than the trailers suggest, and objects keep vanishing and turning up again later. The lights are their own adventure. Sometimes they take a setting, sometimes they don't, sometimes they change their mind after a reload. I've spent more time troubleshooting than decorating, and that's the wrong way round. The idea is genuinely good and I'd happily flip this review if it gets the work it needs. It isn't there yet.

Clostest we're going to get to physical ownership in the 21st century

So I really would love to recommend this game, i would, i really would. But at the current moment its still too buggy. If i close the game and reload the save, it cant keep the collection on the shelves. It also cant seem to keep box art on the boxes even if I use the tool they developed, Which also seems odd that its not a part of the game settings, but if they haven't figured out a way to incorporate it at least it exists.

I like the concept of the game but to use external apps for everything is really bad. My problem is that it's not grabbing only games that you have it pulls from tools to even games that you have hidden and set to private to even games that you have removed from your library this is really not fun. I want everything to be clean but it's just a mess I do not recommend it until that problem is fix

Obviously this is the closest thing we're getting to an actual "physical" library and it needs a few workarounds to get all the cover arts and everything automatically. For early access this is HUGE, bless the devs and the community for the tools.