The Geology Game

This game is really fun just to play for an hour or two, especially if you like prehistory and the creatures that come with it. I hope there will be more updates to improve the game.

I picked this game because not only it was inexpensive but also it was potentially good educational game for my children to learn about geology, minerals, and ancient life on Earth. Once you know how to play and use the interface, it becomes entertaining in a limited manner. After two days with the game, I had my fill. The value of the game is not so much from its playability but rather from the joy of building your museum with fossils and minerals from your increasingly skilled geologists going all over the world breaking rocks and revealing what is inside the rocks. As you build and enrich your museum’s portfolio of fossils and minerals, you get some satisfaction. If one uses the links from the exhibits (they themselves do not communicate much), one can learn much about the different types of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic bedrocks; minerals like silicates, ores, gems, precious metals, oxides, sulfates, sulfides, oxides, carbonates and phosphates; and animals and plants from the Paleozoic, the Mesozoic and the Cenozoic. CONS: • The interface is not the easiest to use • Considerable trial and error to figure how to play • Boring repeating click-click-click on breaking rocks, limited replayability PROS: • Potentially educational for amateurs and children if used properly (clicking the links on the exhibits to websites on the internet to learn about the minerals/fossils) • Potentially entertaining (review) for people who studied geology and ancient life RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE GAME: • Provide some mystery to put together to unifying patterns about our geological past (i.e. Pangea based on where the fossils were found) • More science involved in trying to find the fossils and minerals within the rocks

I'll be honest, I got a refund for this, because when I started it the window was real messed up to the point that some of the options in game (related to actually playing) where un-clickable

Знаете, в этом что-то есть. Каюсь, я из тех людей, которые не могут пройти мимо двух тегов: "пошаговые" и "динозавры". Но как редко они встречаются вместе! Перед нами своего рода стратегия-состязание между музеями. Геймплей состоит из двух вещей: раскопок и улучшения музея. Каждый ход на счёт капает случайное количество каждого из ресурсов. Ресурсы нужны для того, чтобы путешествовать на места раскопок, получать разрешение на их проведение, рыться в раскопе и опознавать находки. Со временем ваши геологи прокачиваются, и имеет смысл оставлять самых лучших в музее: тогда на счёт будет приходить больше ресурсов. У каждого геолога есть рюкзак, куда попадают находки. Как только рюкзак заполняется (или по прошествии десяти ходов), имеет смысл вернуться в музей, чтобы отправить находки на выставку. Каждый новый экспонат привлекает посетителей, увеличивает престиж и повышает доход музея. Рано или поздно вам хватит денег на улучшение, будь то оборудование магазина сувениров или найм лаборантов для исследований. Все улучшения помогают набрать очки в сводной таблице музеев. Когда ваш доход достигнет 24 тысячи долларов, игра закончится А теперь по делу. + образовательный компонент: в описание каждой находки встроена ссылка, отправляющая по нажатию в поисковик. Все находки снабжены симпатичными рисунками и фотографиями; + достоверность: места раскопок соответствуют реальным; + жажда исследования. По сути, в открытии новых компонентов и есть соль игры. - аляповатая графика. Скорее всего, автор работал над игрой в одиночку, и он явно программист, а не художник; - звук. Если с кнопками и действиями всё нормально, то мелодии почему-то прокручиваются один раз, а потом наступает тишина; - слабоватый геймдизайн. Задумка цепляет, игра затягивает, но многие моменты откровенно сырые. Например, силён рандом: по факту, не имеет значения, сколько "tools" приходится затрачивать на вскрытие того или иного камня. И в крохотном, тратящем 1-3 единицы, булыжнике может оказаться динозавр, и в дорогущей глыбе за 10 - пустота. Прокликивать ходы, дожидаясь, пока скопится достаточно инструментов, незабываемо. Обучение... на Ютубе. Без комментариев. В целом... нужно больше таких игр! От опытных разработчиков, а не энтузиастов! Потому что обучающая игра может быть по-настоящему интересной. С разнообразными механиками, глубоким сюжетом... но увы.

Perfect for preparing my exams 10/10

This has the potential to be a very nice little game, but the user interface needs a little tweaking. Still, well worth the price. First of all, I have to unplug my secondary monitor when I start the game. Otherwise the screen size and placement will not work. It's okay to plug in again, though. I can even move the game window to the external screen without any problems. Adjusting monitor settings back and forth might solve the problem if you have only one screen. If I understood the reviews correctly, somebody actually got a refund because of this! Some customer support might have been a better solution... You NEED TO watch the tutorial videos first. And watch them carefully. There is no narration, only example play. And it's not comprehensive. (I'm not sure if I should tell you to use Research Notes to increase the likelihood of finds at a dig site, because figuring this out by yourself might improve your experience...) But the videos are not linked properly on YouTube. You may not recognize them from the search result list, and autoplay does not queue them correctly. Click the in-game tutorials link, and surf from the publishers channel to get all the content. In-game Help icons should be on as a default. They're not at the moment. Click them on when you start, and you will have a slightly easier time getting accustomed to things. Developers: The audio slider is way too difficult to work! Do something about this, please? Allowing duplicate samples will help your museum gain prestige sooner. It's really no big thing. There's limited space in exhibition categories, but you can take samples off the collection when you find something better. It would be nice to have an in-game record of all the finds through all the game time, whether exhibited or not. As there isn't, I wrote mine on Notepad. Much of the game consists of hitting the space bar for Next Turn, while you wait for your geologists to get to sites, or for more pickaxes to accumulate. This is likely to annoy you in the beginning, but it will be less of a bother as the game progresses and you get more to think about. There's lots and lots of tools needed to get to and access sites, but the only ones I've had shortages of have been maps, visas and pickaxes. It might be more interesting if some of the other tools they were more scarce, and if it were possible to trade them with the computer opponents. Or sell and buy at some free market... I would've been willing to pay a bit more for some extra functionalities like that. As other reviewers have said, the learning experience is probably better if you haven't got a lot of prior knowledge about geology. Still, I consider The Geology Game a good investment.

runs smoothly on 60fps, great game

Company closed down https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/802920/view/509569169404985911 get this game or nah will be removed soon