NEED: No End

Full Disclosure: i know the developer, he's an amazing guy i don't talk to nearly enough, i met him through our youtube escapades on the game scum i checked out his game NEED that he made himself and even though it's not the type of game i typically go for i had a lot of fun with it, it's really satisfying to try and keep your realm going and survive through all the different perdicaments that come up

Fun, challenging, and surprisingly addictive! I jumped into NEED: No End and quickly learned that this game does not hold your hand. My very first attempt lasted only 6 minutes 😂, but instead of being frustrating, it made me want to try again and improve. The game really makes you think strategically. Every decision matters, and managing your resources efficiently is the key to survival. Balancing workers, production, and survival needs while dealing with constant pressure creates a great challenge. If you enjoy strategy and management games that reward planning and smart decision-making, this is definitely worth checking out. It's easy to learn the basics, but surviving for longer requires careful thought and adaptation. Pros: - Challenging but rewarding gameplay - Strong focus on strategy and resource management - Keeps you thinking and adapting - "Just one more run" feeling Cons: - Be prepared to fail a few times before things click 😅 Great fun! Definetly recommended! 👍

This game appeared before me when Steam implemented a personalized queue of new games releasing in the near future, 2-3 games every day during 2 weeks. The feature was such a neat surprise that I decided to give the game a try! Also seems like this is the very first developers project, so it would be fair to support small indie studios. "NEED No end" has great style and immersion in the process of managing your village, developer managed to capture that feeling of being alone in the forest by yourself and you gotta survive. The weather is outstanding, engulfing dust storms, downpours, I think there were red moons? Gameplay loop is good and easy to understand once you get the hang of it. The OST is amazing, the tickling clock or pounding heart sounds when you are low on bread got me sweating bullets while I was scrambling for solutions. I have managed to complete the hardest difficulty eventually after few evening, it was a nice puzzle. I'd rate the game at 7\10 for its novelty, idea and effort. --------------------------- Here I want to leave feedback on how to improve the experience of the first 30 minutes of the game, I launched the game and went in completely blind, only to immediately stumble down the rocky road of tedious things. 1) For whatever reason you start at midnight. Clear starry skies above and pitch black surface, you are surrounded by scary darkened silhouettes of buildings here and there. This absolutely did not help me to get engaged and my first thought was to uninstall. But I have promised myself to beat this game so I had to endure. -- Maybe the game should start at dawn? They are wonderful and the sight of sun timelapsing away never made me tired of it. 2) Game has a mouse cursor yet you are unable to drag the map around using LMB. I spent 10 minutes helplessly trying to drag my realm around while some scary scaffolding at the mountain and the bell were staring at me, whispering to uninstall. Only then I have opened the control settings where I learned that indeed you only have A and D buttons to roam around + shift button to do that faster. Kinda unintuitive moment here! -- Either implement mouse-drag or probably there should be big banner blocking the screen explaining how to roam around with a big OK button because I completely missed the explanation if there was any in tutorial. 3) You have population count that acts as available workers count (if its not 0 [zero] then you have available workers). I found it hard to look up where you have assigned workers unless you click on every job manually. On my first playthrough I lost my 2 starting workers on some gig job and couldn't recall them back uuhhh so I had to restart the realm. -- I think there should be some sort of external counter visible from outside without clicking on the job. Also what is the purpose of housing counter? Housing should be the current total population/available rooms and the other counter is for available workers/total population. 4) Exactly how long is "one tick of work"? Any progress bar please? It's impossible to manage anything if you can't estimate the amount of time it takes for anything! -- I desperately needed any sort of visual for job progress. 5) It seems to me adding new workers resets the progress of current job and this can be fatal if you missclicked. No way to prove without visible progress bar. -- You have meister learning progress bar, why can't there be a job progress bar? 6) There are no worker silhouettes visible outside when you have anyone assigned on the job and this can be confusing. Shaking trees, bubbling wells and soaring ovens are okay clues but I was expecting some people to be present at all. -- Add people, even shadows in the windows or between trees would suffice to indicate the job is occupied. 7) I have completed the game 5 times and still don't understand what exactly Silo does and what is the meaning of brick icons? How does it work? I ended up just filling the quotas right at the end to finish the game -- Expand tutorial on what resources Silo takes and what exactly assigned workers produce 8) Stations are crazy! They consume a fixed amount of resources and produce by the numbers of workers assigned! This genuinely feels like cheating! 20 workers make 20 flour from 2 wheat? Yes please. 20 workers make 20 bread from 1 water and 1 flour? Yes I'm taking that -- I think either scale consumed resources by the number of assigned workers or there should be a cap on how many workers can occupy the station. Right now it is so easy to overflow the integer on every resource counter. 9) Because of how stations work, the best way to solve the game is to assign as much workers as possible on a single job. Then rotate them wheat-flour-water-wood-bakery and upgrade bakery asap to lvl3. At some point you are projected towards infinite bread amount produced and you just build more houses and repeat the cycle. -- Resource production needs to be rebalanced, right now the abundance of material is comical 10) Meisters and bells are cool, but bread is already infinite making them feel like and extra checkbox to fill. Also trader offers are disappointing. 1 water for 1 coin? Brother in Christ, I'm making gazillionz of water right now as we speak -- Nerf production and make upgrades more desirable. 11) I paid 10$ for the game and if you excuse me, but that a really high price to pay. It may deter a lot of guys away. -- I would pay 5$ at best. TLDR: Start the game at dawn, upgrade the UI\UX and rebalance the amount you can produce.

Really solid game. It keeps things fresh, feels satisfying to play, and has that addictive “I’ll quit after this one” energy. Not a city builder or your typical survival game, which makes it stand out even more. Disclosure: Been following it since beta and got to test it early since I know the dev.

Bought it for 15 €. Its worth maybe 3€. Its a pretty simple game which gets boring pretty fast.

I like it very much, for me it’s a new concept of 2D games.

It is a minimalist base building and resource management game that I've truly enjoyed. The core gameplay loop is challenging, satisfying, and keeps you thinking. On top of that, the developer is really responsive and helpful. It is a well-thought-out game that is definitely worth trying. I'll be looking forward to future updates and new projects from this developer!