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from the screenshots and description this looks cool, but this game has NO instructions at ALL you can use wasd or the arrow keys to move, and space to jump, but what else? the game dumps you into a world (with sections that don't load) and doesn't tell you anything. i was pressing keys on my keyboard willy-nilly to try to get something, [i]anything[/i] to happen (L says it reloads chunks but i didn't notice anything happen. some other button, i think C, says it toggles crouching, but nothing visibly changed) i couldn't find a way to use any of the buttons on the right of the screen, which held promises of magic and shyness. there's a bar at the bottom of the screen that looks out of place, and i was able to select it from the pause menu (esc), but activating it with enter didn't do anything i was able to break blocks (which have a very cute scribbly break animation btw) and pick them up, but i couldn't find an inventory. at one point i hit a key and threw a solid yellow block, which didn't match any of the blocks i had collected. i was not able to do this again at one point i hit something that opened a menu to the right showing items and number keys to press to select them, which worked, but then i couldn't figure out how to close the menu (also one of the tools was a stolen minecraft diamond shovel texture). there are four "screens" in the lower left side of the screen that also don't seem to do anything there are also small winged unicorns with very cute models (im assuming they were purchased from an asset store), and a floating woman i couldn't interact with, all up in the castle [h3]the things i like about this game:[/h3] [list] [*]the vibes. the world needs more pastel fairy sandbox games. the main reason i tried this game was how pretty the screenshots looked. i like the pastels, rainbow, and almost romantic feeling of the world [*]the colors. the textures have very pleasing colors, but could do with more actual [i]texture[/i] to them to break up the large swathes of the same color. [*]the builds. the pre-built builds in the game are very simplistic and are mostly made of all one type of block, but in a way they remind me of minecraft builds from back when minecraft had a very limited selection of blocks [/list] [h3]the things i don't like about this game:[/h3] [list] [*]its confusing. you're dumped into a world with no explanation of how the controls work and youre left to mash keys in an attempt to make something happen. i wasn't able to figure out how to open my inventory (if i even have one), place blocks, consistently switch from "survival" to "creative" (i did that at one point and was able to fly and insta-break blocks but then i could figure out how to turn it back off). there are buttons that i couldn't figure out how to reach, since the game locks the camera to the mouse even when in a menu, meaning you [i]have[/i] to press keyboard buttons to select things [*]its chaotic: there's a LOT on your screen all at once. the octagon(?) buttons on the right you cant press, the four screens at the bottom that i couldn't figure out the purpose of, the weird bar at the bottom that looks like it was ripped from a dark souls game, and the menu of tools i opened and couldn't figure out how to close [*]there's no saving: once you exit the game, the next time you load it spits you out back in the same spot with all of your progress (or, at least, the ~five blocks you broke) is reverted. [/list] overall, unless this game gets some more actual [i]gameplay[/i] to back up the pretty pastel colors and massive castles, [h2]i DO NOT recommend this.[/h2] this barely counts as a game, and it feels like maybe the developers should have waited a bit more before publishing this on steam. i would love to see a minecraft clone with a pastel, "fairycore" aesthetic, but this game has so little gameplay it'd be a bit of a stretch to call it a "minecraft clone" i will say it has potential in the "aesthetic" department, but just pretty colors aren't gonna get you very far. other notes: [list] [*]at one point i broke one of the blocks on a BIG tree and all the ambient occlusion on that side of the tree vanished, making the details of the blocks impossible to see since the blocks are all one color [*]there's an ENTIRE ARMY of differently-colored chibi unicorns in the castle that remind me of tokidoki unicorn figures, it made me giggle (sadly you cant interact with them from what i could tell) [*]the mysterious floating woman up by the unicorns intrigues me. who is she. what are her secrets... [/list]