DrainSim

I want to be a little careful with this review. Overall I am going to mark this as recommended, but I have a few caveats from my play experience. Just to get it out of the way, the controls are kind of messed up. It's pretty typical for mouse look to get locked in a particular direction at random. Thankfully just looking the other direction will unlock it again, but I do think it's pretty representative of some of the rough edges. However, this game has probably the best water modelling i've ever seen in a game. It really flows in the directions you would think it should, which maybe shouldn't be a high bar, but when so many games treat water as just a slowing barrier, it is incredibly cool to see such attention to something that is so important to the core function of the game. I also adore that there are a couple of different ways to get everything done. I'm sure there are _better_ ways to do some things, but mostly it felt like a cross between a really interesting, open-ended puzzle game and wet spring mornings playing in the snow melt when I was a kid. There is just something incredibly satisfying with getting the water moving and seeing it work, and even more fun sometimes to see how your plan fails. The digging mechanics are probably where I found both the most satisfaction as well as the most maddening frustration. When it works, it's kind of magic. When it doesn't, which is a bit over the half the time, prepare for hanging chunks that are invisible from most angles but are no longer accessible except in the worst ways. Pathfinding for hoses and cords too can be... odd. The number of times that I couldn't route between objects through open doorways because a hose or cord insisted it needed to go through the top of the doorframe or a nearby shrub or, I dunno, maybe a pixie was holding on to it in the middle of the air, was too numerous to count. Mostly routing through truly open areas is consistent (mostly), but any texture transition is asking for trouble. So, despite those noticeable, and occasionally maddening, warts this really is a great game for the right kind of person.

This game is so satisfying about seventeen hours of gameplay on your first run depending on how fast you take it although with the new workshop soon you will be able to have so much more playtime. requires a pretty good pc though the water physics are so good and the ripples are amazing. Ive never seen a game like this. future updates will definitley bring more playtime too. WAY more. 8/10 because sometimes the long levels get a bit dull but still so satisfying. a few bugs still need to be worked out but besides that you need this game in your life.

While the game is sturdy, and I didn't run into any technical problems, the game just feels incomplete. Lots of repetition and waiting as water drains from one place to another.

game needs inprovements and i will play longer

Playing on Legion Go 1st gen

good game very easy to get 100 on it