So, I played this game a couple years back when it was still in a really early stage. I enjoyed it much much more back then for reasons I will explain later. Tl:dr, game is fun, has a bunch of stuff in it if you put in the time, but the developer ruined it's own economy by adding in needless limits. Gave me a textbook response too, one just to get me off of his back.
So, this game is a little hybrid farming/Tower defense game. Most of the time spent playing this game was when I bought it a couple of years ago, when it was a LOT more fun and a lot less limiting in it's design. I genuinely feel the game is ruined now with the way it tkaes freedom away fro myou to build as well as make money. When I first bought it, you had no limitations to build things as well as plant plants. It was great. I could make a farm that was the size of an ACTUAL farm, and have turrets out the wazoo because I was making so much money. That's a good thing, as the levels tend to drag on a tad. That's not to say it's not boring, as every coouple of nights a new enemy type is introduced as well as new weapons and turret types. Same with crops. You start with some low tier crops that barely give you any money, and slowly work up to very profitable ones. I would have massive farms filled with a lot of different types of crops, not only because I wanted to make a nice looking farm that helped me explore my creative side, but because it was extremely satisfying to make a crap ton of money every day. The tractor is used to mass harvest your crops all at one time, and watching everything come in and be collected was something I lived for, like 500 crops just being harvested at once, having the resources float towards you, it was awesome. I did the same thing with turrets, where I would spend at least 40,000 bucks a day, getting new turrets and generators to power them, making little bundles of guns that defended my mobile home. Then I'd sit back and watch them tear the zombies apart.
I can't do that now. The developer added a limit to both your crops AND your buildings, so now I can't even build mass amounts of turrets like I used to, nor can I make a reasonable profit, NOR can I make creative looking farms. Now, you can only build 100 of each. It's so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tedious now to get around that limit. Instead of having these massive farms that gave you lots and lots of money, that had a bunch of different crops, making it look diverse, I cant do that now. It's stupid to do that as I don't make enough money if I do. Now it's just all peppers. It's ALL PEPPERS. Just a big square of peppers that looks boring and I cant do anything else because I actually want to survive the nights coming ahead. Same thing with buildings. The most stupid decision I have ever seen in a game devlopment, was shoving the turrets and buildings into the same limit. Now if I want to build a wall around my RV and farm? I have to make a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ little 5x10 square, because otherwise I wont have enough turrets to last me through the level. It makes it INCREDIBLY boring, as you have no way to express yourself in your farms like you used to. Same thing with the buildings, you cant make a farm now, something stupid or pretty or cool, you have to conform and make it the most ugly and profitable thing you can, because if you don't, you wont survive the level.
The gameplay is fun, and I remember playing the crap out of it for the two levels the game offers. It offered a solid 10-15 hours in those two levels, and most of it had content, it was filled with making these farms, getting new guns, making these little turret piles and then helping those turrets kill the increasing amount of zombies through the nights. The zombies were varied too, with a whole BUNCH of types of them. There were the normal zombies, midget zombies, zombified animales, skeletons, there were the spitters, the giants, the boss colossus, and all on the first level. The second level that takes place in the city actually has a HUGE amount of zombies that are different from the forest level, now theres gang members in cars, and flying zombies, and SWAT Zombies with shields. It was a genuinely cool game before the developer needlessely limited it with the excuse of "Making it more playable for lower end machines." The game isn't demanding either way, I mean LOOK AT IT. Why the hell did you need to make the limit so low, if that's truly the case, and if you really wanted to be like a true game devloper, why not make it an option, a customization to help anyone with lower end PC's, like, give us options instead of forcing all of us to deal with an update that basically ruins your game.
Also he hasn't updated it in quite some time, I think the last update was the one that basically ruined it. He promised a new level, and it never came. I even talked about it in the forums, and thats when he gave me the bargain basement excuse of "It was for lower tier PC players." I genuinely don't think the update was needed for that. I feel it was one of the most stupid 'additions' to a game I've every seen. It ruins a game that I thought was genuinely good, and I would've reccommended to hell and back, but now, it's not worth it. The dev isn't working on it, and when he actually did, he managed to ♥♥♥♥ it so hard he ruined it. Don't buy this. At least until the dev decides to come back and fix the things he's done, which I honestly don't think will ever happen.
