Sintopia

I played through and finished the campaign on normal difficulty and found this game to be very enjoyable. Pros: -Simple, but challenging -Great art -Fun story (Love the use of Christian mythology, a lot of creators are scared to touch that) -Great music -Hell + Surface world mechanics keep the gameplay loop fresh and interesting -Good optimization (Haven’t tested scale, but for the campaign’s purposes I had no stutters or slowdowns) Cons: -Doesn’t explain itself well (lots of trial and error, here) -Humor can be a bit dull, repetitive -Finale is epic, but the punchline struggles to land -Recovering when you’ve made an error is virtually impossible (and usually an hour or two removed from when things begin to fail) -Game economy can be hard to read since it isn’t tick-based like is usually the standard with upkeep games like this Overall there are some things that could be better, but this is vastly overshadowed by the quality of the game. Can’t wait to sink my teeth into the challenges and the harder difficulties. 8/10 — One of the few management games where I finish the campaign and hope for DLCs. There’s a lot of room to build on, and it seems the devs are actively working on the game so looking forward to seeing where it goes!

A game that could go toe to toe with Black & White. If you like god games then this is the one for you, dont hesitate just buy it and you wont regret it. so much fun i am hooked

A fun game, very much in the theme of the 1996 afterlife. Worth getting.

It's actually not bad — IF you like having your 7-hour save destroyed by RNG, a scripted event, a time bomb, or whatever other BS the dev put in to screw you over. I did not expect that when I bought a game that looked like a cozy little colony management game. Imagine Dungeon Keeper, but it takes three times as long to build your dungeon, and all the attacks (which can and will end your game) take place in a part of the map where you have almost no control — in this case, the overworld. You cannot build or direct your forces there; you have nothing but a few puny little spells that are weak and limited by far too little mana (even when maxed). If RNG decides to throw several antagonists at you at the exact same time (these events like to cascade), even your well-managed, massive city can get wiped out, ending your save. And this is on "normal." Uninstalled. It has core game mechanics I do not enjoy and did not expect (at least not in this severity) from a game that only mentions these features in a single sentence at the bottom of its Steam page — implying they are something easily ignored, turned off, or managed. They are not. The overworld attacks, the lack of meaningful countermeasures, and their sometimes random, sometimes timer-based occurrence completely ruin the game for me.

One of the most interesting management-games around. You can be evil if you want to, automate hell and destroy saint-souls with piles of paperwork. The campaign has no hard learning curve, but it can get difficult. There is a sandbox mode with cool settings, a few neat challenges in the challenge mode and the possibility to replay the campaign with two harder difficulties. If you enjoyed Black & White and like factory & building games, you can have loads of fun with this one.

It's a pretty game with an interesting premise, but it feels very shallow. Carrying the tech forward is interesting, but causes downstream problems when the objectives change in the next mission. Micromanaging the birth and death rates seems like it detracts more than adds to the engine-building gameplay. Nothing is a deal-beaker, but at some point about 3/4 the way through the campaign I just didn't even feel the need to start up the game anymore; there wasn't anything more I wanted to know about the story or the game.

Had a GREAT time with this game. There were a lot of ways the different systems interact with each other that made keeping a balanced growth really engaging. Story was pretty silly too. Loved the humor and art style.

zzzzzzzzz......Falls asleep at the tedium of configuring the angles of roads in this game.