Meltopia

TL;DR - A great concept completely undone by terrible progression and bafflingly bad choices in level design. Do not buy this game or just refund it before 2 hours. It only gets worse after that. Things feel great at first and the level design feels solid, but the moment you reach the point where you're using the Tesla, the game grinds to a halt. The Tesla is slow and takes forever to upgrade. You never use the flamethrower again and are stuck grinding money to upgrade the Tesla. The third and last tool you get is a shovel, which after several hours with the Tesla, feels like the least climatic and the farthest step back possible. The level design in the middle to end of the game is miserable. You are points where you are so far from the nearest place to sell or regain heat that you're going to spend a bunch of time just running back and forth. This gets so tired so quickly. All of this could have been solved by just adding a way to regain heat in the shop. None of this yet touches on the poor performance issues. The game is slow during loads and freezes during autosaves. What should be a fun, relaxing, exploration game with incremental progression elements just ends up feeling like a cheap, quickly thrown together asset store slop.

[b]Игра неплохая. [/b] Цена невелика, а предложить игре есть что. Довольно занимательный гемплей, слегка сказочная рисовка и приятная аудиоподача, и многим игра может понравиться. [b]НО! В игре нет возможности отключить тряску экрана и размытие в движении.[/b] Можно поставить в минимум, но эффект все равно остается. В коопе с замкнутыми ледяными тоннельными пространствами, где пол, потолок и стены никак не различаются, а игра предлагает еще и элементы паркура и лазанья по всей этой красоте, когда ты можешь свалиться и вообще потеряться в пространстве - лично у меня вызывает ощущения крайне неприятные, немедитативные. Игра может и хорошая, но если вам так же как и мне неприятно смотреть на игры даже с незначительным размытием и тряской экрана, то играть не советую. Убрать вы это тут никак не сможете. И даже угол обзора не увеличить, чтобы хоть как-то компенсировать «покачивание». [b]Обзор не негативный и создан с целью предостеречь тех, кому это тоже важно. [/b] Кому все равно на тряску и размытие в движении и может устроить, что их отключить нельзя, но можно минимализировать - читайте другие отзывы и принимайте решение о покупке по остальным аспектам. [b]Спасибо за внимание. Приятного «чего-там-у-вас» и комфортного геймплея в любой понравившийся вам игре![/b]

The beginning is great but then after about 1,5 hours or so you unlock a new tool which completely invalidates your progress thus far effectively making you feel like you are starting from the beginning. You never use the first tool again, the new tool is extremely slow and expensive to upgrade making the game an absolute slog. I would have refunded it but unfortunately I went over the 2h limit.

The first hour or two is good, then the developers artificially slow down everything in the name of "a new challenge". Lazy design.

I really wanted to like this game, I've played dozens of similar games, but this one is unfortunately not a good execution of the formula. For some reason, the devs decided to make really elaborate and complex tunnels to navigate instead of focusing on the main objective (melting snow mechanics). Progression is paced very poorly and the ice melting mechanics are not that interesting.

Game's pacing is terrible. Like others have said it's pretty fun at first but once you unluck the second tool that all falls apart. You spent time exploring and upgraded your flamethrower? Well that sucks for you because the next tool is incredibly tedious to use and requires a cray amount to upgrade. Also there is no narrative or really guidance in anyway other than heavy handed visual tutorials (this is a terrible way to unbored players). I have no idea what stove "upgrades" do...

Muy divertido, lo completé todo obteniendo todos los logros =D

Once you get the Tesla gun, you need a lot of resilience towards tedious tasks. It slows the game down by a lot and makes it feel like a mobile game. You are pretty much waiting for the "pay 5$ now to increase the speed" popup. If you have a stark resistance towards slow gameplay, this may be for you, otherwise, stay away. Fun is something else.

Decently fun, but disrespects your time in a very bad way. So much running back and forth and extreme jumps in price for upgrades. Got to a point where I had to run back and forth earning about 200 for every trip, taking 30 seconds each, when the upgrade to increase my digging efficency was nearly 5000. That's nearly 15 minutes of tedious gameplay for a 20% increase in digging power.