Brickadia

the systems in place for making interactive builds is an absolute nightmare. we seriously killed blockland for this?!? it might have been outdated but at least it didn't force you to become an electrical engineer. the old [url=https://brickadia.com/blog/interactive-brickadia-next-steps/]devlog[/url] made it seem like it would be easy. wire logic might be good for contraptions, but for the layperson trying to create basic interactivity, bot behavior, and gamemode logic, it is a nightmare. this is just a microcosm of accessibility concerns with game; it is built on modular, simulational paradigms that seem simple, but are inordinately tedious and complex to execute at scale. if all you want to do is build, maybe put together some physics contraptions, then this is the game for you. i don't hate the game, i still come back to it as a curiosity, and it may be worth it on sale; but as it currently stands, i don't think the average sandbox gamer will get very much out of Brickadia.

People are complaining about the Community, but that is not part of the videogame itself. the community can change, and even then, lots of ppl are still alright, i dont know whats up with the company or the staff, but the game itself? its amazing and fun to mess around with TLDR: dont be a doomer, its an enjoyable game, and its having amazing updates

This game has evoked a level of creativity I have never experienced or participated in, in my entire life. I have made my ideas reality in a fidelity I could've only achieved on a drawing tablet. I feel free.

the fact that palworld has millions of players and this doesn't says everything about how doomed we are as a society

Had a bunch of potential to be a proper Blockland successor years back, but after all the weird dev decisions over the years and now the fact that it's very noticeably vibecoded as of EA3, I can't recommend it. 7/8 edit: it also appears that the developers also modified their AI disclosure to remove any mention of their use of AI for coding, only talking about visuals which heavily implies they're leaning much further into it being used to code large portions of the game. Also the community seemingly likes to attack reviews that criticize the game.

a really good buildy game that stands at the precipice of either avoiding or becoming a tragedy, one signalling the fall of the new brick empire the new big update at the time of writing this, EA3, adds some phenomenal toys for detailing stuff you make like a versatile decal system and actually usable car physics, as well as a whole ton of additions to the wire system to make gamemodes actually feasible. i think if you want a game that's nothing but building, a straight up lego sim, this is still the best you can get but there are a few smaller things that are making me a bit worried for the direction of the game, and with early access stuff that's a pretty big factor. there's been a few additions and changes that feel either not well thought out or rushed into the game - there's now a weird dirt bumpmap on everything that's mad out of place when you notice it, without any obvious toggles to disable it (or even ways to modify it or change the texture, there's probably some things it would fit!) the catalogue UI's been updated to [i]introduce[/i] a lot of dead space and it now looks pretty sloppy with misaligned buttons, and voice chat's been added with only a mute button and no way to change anyone's volume. i'm usually an 'ignore the community if the game is good' person but in the case of a game like brickadia the community is the game - it'd be like saying never to go online on littlebigplanet. exploring the actually worthwhile stuff on the ingame browser is fun because of them, and it's those same community members that have been bringing all this stuff up to me. it does get me tugging at my collar when they then talk about how the head programmer is a graf zahl "my vision is always correct" type, which lines up with some of the more scattered questionable additions. there's also been mumblings that they're an advocate of AI code which seem pretty unverified right now, something i really hope isn't true as it'd totally go against how well optimised the game is if you actually read any of that ♥♥♥♥, i'd say to watch this space. hopefully all my hangups are totally unjustified and in 5 years i'll be able to join hands with my kith and sing about how we finally have a good lego game

Do not be fooled by its simple exterior, this game is a technical marvel on the side of the dev team and a show of talent and artistry by the community. I must say I enjoyed the locomotives made by APX and Plad and impressed by the systems.

As of EA3, I can no longer recommend this game. There are clear signs of AI-assisted development with Claude Code with this release. I can no longer support this developer team over many years of controversy. If you wanna play an AI-slop game, go ahead and buy this.