Sintopia

This game is wonderful! Fun characters, fun story, and most importantly amazingly fun and well crafted gameplay. The humor is great too. Highly recommend this if you like management games!

Jeux très très rigolo et addictif mais très peu renouvelable... Au bout de 30h je trouve que l'on a fait le tour

Its an interesting game but you can tell its still in early access. Several areas appear to be in need of further development. In a way its a game of two halves. There is the underworld which you manage and the overworld in which your influence is very limited. The underworld is fun. Trying to arrange the most efficient method of shipping souls through your realm while extracting the most sin (and money to spend on maintenance and further development) while getting them to the exit so you can obtain Hearos for investment into the skill tree. Some of the problems I have experienced may well be things the devs are already planning to deal with but I can only comment on what is currently in the game. There is a real shortage of management information. Even basic stuff like finances and how much your spending. As each morning comes around you need to pay your bills and if you are struggling it can be difficult to know what action to take as there is no financial information provided at all, unless i missed it. The game needs overlays for things so you can better manage your own personal hell. Some of the in game concepts are poorly explained or not explained at all. For example, in the skill tree there is a toilet for your imps to take breaks and further up the skill tree there is a break room that costs twice as much. But the explanation for both is identical. I would assume there is some form of benefit but it isnt one the devs are willing to share. The skills that the imps can acquire from levelling up seem to be largely useless. The skills you really want relating to work speed, work time and break time are rare. Resulting in you having staff who have useless skills. To be fair you have the option of re rolling new skill options each level up, but imo most of them seem to have little to no value and are unwanted. The imps themselves come in 3 categories, secretaries (who have to all be female, obviously) and two other categories (all male) which despite my play time I have no idea of the distinction between the two male categories. i believe they perform different roles but I am clueless as to what each of them do. They seem very similar. The mechanic of streamlining your underworld is fun for a while but gets repetitive and has little variety. I dont really understand what the motivation objects do and some game concepts like motivation arent explained so its hard to know what actions to take. There are factors like, work speed, motivation and break time. I dont know which of these the motivation objects affect or how. I think they affect work speed but cant be sure. What does motivation do if work speed is a separate skill? I get that the overworld is intended to be a mostly hands off experience. You can influence things in a supernatural entity kind of way but no direct control. You wont be building anything or controlling units. You influence by who you allow to lead them, killing those with spells you find undesirable. Every leader has their own clearly stated aims and objectives and its up to you to decide if you want them in charge. The only other way to influence the overworld is through spells which start out really pitiful and limited. Im about 5 maps in I think and I find the overworld a little frustrating. I get that you aren't meant to have a lot of control but the control you do have seems too limited and ineffectual. For example, Im on a map with Zhumbies, yes they are zombies. I have to help protect the overworld from them by blasting them but the spells I have unlocked arent as effective as I would like. You can power them up but you are limited in how much you can invest in the skill tree in each map and if you haven't upgraded your spells before you run out then your kind of stuck. Which brings me to the skill tree. There are some genuinely interesting upgrades but also a lot which dont seem particulary appealing. Possibly because some of the later game concepts havent yet been introduced through the campaign. So again, you dont really understand their value but you have the option to unlock them it seems. I dont know why I would want to give souls attributes. That hasnt been explained to me. You have a limit to how many skill points you can spend to upgrade per map and the upgrades you unlock carry forward to future maps. It seems almost everything is available and, due to the limits, you could potentially find yourself locking yourself into a difficulty situation if you make the wrong choices. I think the devs should consider locking out more options until they are introduced to the player and also to guide the player into making more appropriate choices. I also think that the specialist sin removers for deviants should be more accessible. Having one whole page of the skill tree dedicated to unlocking them individually seems a bit short sighted given that they can pop up anytime in deviant humus it seems. How do you clear lust from souls if you hit the skill tree limit for that level and havent unlocked that sin remover for deviants? The tone of the game isn't entirely to my taste. It is genuinely funny sometimes and I have found myself having a chuckle now and again at the humour. But why is the main assistant a female demon succubus? Couldn't she just be a regular female demon? Is it necessary for her to be sexualised? Yes I get its a game about sins but this was a design choice. Like all the jokes about wives or the secretaries all being female and all the main workers being male. Its like they employed a 1980's comedian as a design consultant. Some of that grates on me a bit. It may not seem like it but I have enjoyed the game overall I just think the devs should have done more to direct the players progress in a more structured way and also provided more and better explanations and info relating to game concepts and mechanics.