Wastelander

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An amazing, very unique game. It looks and somewhat plays like a puzzle game but it feels like a colony sim roguelike. The fun thing about it is that it's very replayable, a game that is nice to pick up to do one run daily. Looking forward to more content from it as it still feels a little small for its price.

really great puzzle game

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A good game. The tech choices can radically change how you approach the game. I've had games where water is irrelevant. And games where I was desperate for every last drop. And don't get me started on turning all your batteries into bombs.

It's quite unique. A turn-based roguelike colony builder. So far I played 4 runs and all of them played out differently because the technology and buildings you discover from the map are randomized. Oh and the graphics are very nice.

I love how different each play through of this game is. The wide variety of buildings/abilities and the randomness of what you get throughout a game make it so that your strategy needs to be constantly adapting as you go and each game feels completely unique. It's also nice and refreshing to play a game that reliably takes ~1-1.5 hours, so starting a new game isn't some big commitment.

Quite a good turn based strategy game. It's not quite a city builder, but more a direct strategy game versus a turn counter. And when I say strategy, I specifically mean strategic resource expenditure. Your goal is to connect to all the relics before 50 turns pass. Nearly every resource you have is usable in some way shape or form. The game is fairly easy to start with, but has a nice scaling difficulty with the desolation system if you want additional challenge. I'm still working through them, but I doubt I'll be able to beat them all. My only complaint is that I don't really like the 'beat the game in X turns' achievements much. Just not one to enjoy speedrunning and that's kind of what it feels like. But this is a positive review so I'll talk more about the positives. For one thing, I think the music is very fitting. It often has this sort of 'disaster siren' feel to it like you've got a constant storm warning system going off. It's not 'the best music ever', but it's incredibly fitting for the themes involved. Also, I'm not actually that big a fan of 'wasteland' games since aesthetically I find deserts to be the most boring ever, but here the stress of trying to 'win' in a certain number of turns makes it feel like I feel. I need to get away from this ♥♥♥♥. So I'm pretty ok with it I'd say. The gameplay itself is the best part though. Every new game you play is randomly generated so you get this sort of repeated 'exploratory' experience which I absolutely love. A lot of exploration focused games just drag on a little too long, whereareas this game lasts almost the perfect amount of time. I do kind of want something like this in a fantasy universe even too with [spoiler] big tiddy elves[/spoiler], a little more variance of objectives and such, but sticking to the 'limit how long you play the game' kind of feeling. Each round of the game never overstays it's welcome and there's enough variety to where it will take a while to discover it all. Of course I'd definitely like more, and sometimes I'm not a huge fan of how the map layouts can spawn, but ehn, it lets you keep re-rolling and choose the map you want, so not a big deal. Anyway, quite a fun game. Relaxing to play, rounds don't last too long, exploration and strategy feel to it that I like, and nothing stands out as oppressively bad.

Wastelander feels solidly in the same genre as Against the Storm. It doesn't have the level of polish or genre re-invention that AtS does, but it does manage to capture a level of tension and dynamism that I feel like other turn based entries in the "colony sim/city builder survival roguelike" fail to capture. The nature of fog of war and drafted rewards that are both highly impactful and frequently accessible makes exploration feel incredibly rewarding. Highly recommend.

It's like minesweeper, but actually fun!