Harve

maybe not game of the year but i can see it being game of the january 3, 2024.

It is clear that too much time has been spent on animation (which is beautiful) and not nearly enough on basic UI. I got this game deeply discounted, so for that reason I won't refund it, in the hope that the UI and UEX issues are fixed. What do I like: - Animation What don't I like: - Nights are so dark you can't see a thing, literally black screen. - No sense of passage of time. - Wind noise is way too loud (to the point of annoyance) relative to other sounds and doesn't seem to respond very well to reduction in SFX volume. - Buttons and boxes on the screen with no label or icon as to what they represent. - When you unlock a new animal it sometimes does not show you the prerequisites to place in game, and when it does, it is an image, with no label. So you have to try guess what flower, tree, or other it actually represents. You can't click on the prerequisite either. - Framerate is unlimited by default, which can make video cards consume far too much power, unless this setting is found and restricted to something more reasonable, like 60 fps. - Animals don't appear to eat anything and you struggle to see smaller animals in the undergrowth. I only played about 20 minutes, before becoming too annoyed with the game interactions, so this might be different later game. I am not sure what the developers are trying to achieve here, but as a game, it simply does not work.