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Looked forward to play it. but delayed addition of warning about AI generated content caught me off guard. There was no reason for AI to be used, and it soured my experience to the point I am not planning to complete it.

I sadly was past the return window by the time I had realized this game used generative AI in it's development. I want to be clear that this is not okay and I do not support it's use in game development. While the onus is on me to self police these things more carefully going forward, I cannot recommend this game in good conscience.

I regret playing this as much as I have, but only for reasons that exist outside the core gameplay. If you don't care about AI or it's consequences, play this. It's great. On with the rest of the review. There almost a dozen copycats of this game that have been created in under a year, and while this isn't the most complicated game to reproduce, all the copycats are from small or even single-game developers. That there is even a possibility that the devs of this one aren't as honest with their use of AI as they claim makes me worried that this is one of a long line of pop-up games from a single team, inventing new studios to cover their tracks as they release essentially the same game under multiple titles. The other titles all share a similar art style, and seeminigly run on the same engine. Something smells fishy and I don't like it. This was the one game I purchased that had the 'with AI elements' tag attributed to it, and because of this I'm getting recommended other games that have far less scruples with abusing AI assets than these devs claim. I regret even entertaining the thought that even a little bit of AI is okay. My advice to the devs is this: If you don't want to be lumped in with the egregious AI slop, don't use it at ALL. Claiming 'it's only here and there, and we all finished it by hand', is nice, but it still gets you lumped in with the lazy, scamming, no-love-for-the-industry publishers that are pushing for AI use. A drop of sewage in a barrel of wine means you now have a barrel of sewage. Learn and do better.

They use AI... Wish I had seen this sooner... Only got it because Smii7y played it.

Got this before i realized it was AI. Not gonna lie this game is too simple to be using AI. The idea is newish, but there’s plenty of menial task games already such as; digging holes, picking up leaves, sorting, cleaning, decorating whatever yk. So like they could have hired other artists for the book covers, the painting but I’m pretty sure it was all to test if AI games would sell. Cause now my feed full with AI trash games same font diff name. Sorry so long:( strong opinions

I was disappointed to find out that I had unknowingly supported AI after playing the game. Tbh before I even found that out though the game was just ok. I definitely don't recommend especially because the things they used with AI could've easily been done with people.

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Didn't know there was AI til after I bought it. I would not have purchased if I knew. There are 5 main skills in the game, and as I was playing, I realized that 2 of them were completely unnecessary because you can finish the game most quickly using exclusively the other 3. That's the kind of thing that sticks of AI-generated gameplay ideas. In addition, I completed the game with only one of the 4 minor skills. These were all completely unnecessary too, adding more to the feeling of meaninglessness in this game. This is really...the barebones of a game. I would love to see somebody expand on the concept of this game. There are a lot of ways you could add replayability, challenge, story, and more to this game. But no, instead I played a game that I beat in 3 hours and where most of the skills I obtained were meaningless. This is a cash grab.