Gold Gold Adventure Gold

I wish I could recommend this game, it has such great potential in terms of concept and design. For me though, there's two huge issues getting in the way of the game being in any way playable. The first is the god awful explanation of the UI and various mechanics. The game covers the basics well enough, but there are some features that are just not mentioned at all, and it leaves you stumbling blind. I spent ages resetting maps to find suitable terrain that didn't block building (another annoyance - especially when building synergy is so important) before I found out from an online forum that you could terraform (for a cost). The second follows on in the spirit of the first - the "hands off" gameplay design really leaves you guessing a lot of the time. I understand it's supposed to be the central point of the mechanics, in that you're encouraging the adventurers and guiding them through your quest / settlement design, rather than directly ordering them around as NPCs. But the control / direction is far too vague for me - there's been several times where I've had entire groups of adventurers wiped by a new enemy (whom they should be level-par with) wiping them out with a completely unknown attack, that then ruins my run as in that mode you can only recruit once per in-game day. I've again read online that you *should* be able to direct quests to be available for groups/parties only, but the game doesn't explain this at all and at this point I can't be bothered trying to work it out. The game feels arbitrarily punishing, without giving you any indication as to what you did wrong to try again next time.