WAGON

The game is fun but is missing a lot of quality of life things. And the crafting book could be better implemented. (I click an item in there to learn how to craft but it takes me to a different page and shows me what I can use the item for instead of you know how to craft the missing resource.) After pressing escape you can either quit the game or continue. Where is the restart option? Especially when you have a rough start. Anyways game is cool but just needs more time to cook. I refunded the game and will buy it once it receives some more updates

This is a REALLY cool game and I am really enjoying playing it. The comparison to Inscryption feels accurate and Oregon Trail is a fertile ground for American Gothic horror mixed with resource management gameplay. The graphics look nice and it runs great on my lightweight little laptop. The one thing I would add is save data management. In my first playthrough I happened to get insanely unlucky and get stuck in a run that would neither flourish nor die and it gave me a really negative first impression of the game (if you saw my earlier negative review that was the reason for it). Upon going into AppData/Local/WAGON/Saved/SaveGames and deleting my save data (if you do this remember to turn off cloud saving first) and starting from scratch, I realized just how weird and uncommon my issue was.

SO FUN! I loved this game, played it nonstop for about 3 days straight until getting to the ending. The 1-bit art style is fantastic. The game pays homage to the Oregon Trail games without feeling like a re-make. Overall tone/mood of this game is unique in a way that I didn't know I was craving so desperately. I love how it's relatively easy to get the hang of without a lengthy tutorial, but it doesn't hold your hand and gives you plenty to piece together on your own--It feels like the creator trusts their audience, and I appreciate that. I would absolutely love to see more historically-set games with the same style and mechanic; I think it would lend well to a pirate theme, a medieval setting, maybe even a Stone Age survival game--No pressure, of course, just throwing some ideas out there ;) Definitely going to keep an eye out for more games from this developer.

Very Good game! The pixelated, de-saturated visuals, and eerie audio fill you with a sense of foreboding. I constantly have a feeling that something terrifying is going to happen any moment. Absolutely love the lack of a hand-holding tutorial. Your only guide is a book with crafting recipes. Meaning you have to discover everything else about the game mechanics for yourself. My only complaint is the jerky camera movements, the camera only uses cardinal directions as positions. meaning the camera will just rapidly turn 90 degrees with seemingly no transition frames. This does add to the overall feeling of the game, but it makes me feel a little motion sick. Luckily the camera does not move very often.

fun

Wagon is a very atmospheric 1 bit survival game heavenly inspired by the Oregon trail yet with a eldritch flair that does not hold your hand. A very show don’t tell game. I loved the heavy folk horror atmosphere with the interface being a spooky wagon where you lay the cards on the floor while you play a survival card game with a haunted doll. A little unintuitive but I think that’s a part of the charm, with crafting and harvesting resources all feeling like some sort of eldritch ritual. A hidden gem that will stay with you for awhile long after you played it.

decent game, merges the fun part of stacklands with the mystery aspect of inscription, though the story and inscryption aspects copuld be a bit more flushed out imo. overall fun if not short management roguelike.