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6About The Wandering Village
In a world where mysterious plants are spreading all over the earth, emitting toxic spores as they grow, a small group of survivors seeks shelter on the back of a giant, wandering creature they call 'Onbu'.. Become their leader, build their settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with Onbu to survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world. . Build your village. A functioning village is the basis of your survival. Build your settlement and expand it over Onbu’s back. Plan production chains and optimise them to utilise the limited space as efficiently as possible. Create a society that can overcome any challenge. . . Live on the creature’s back. Living on the back of another organism comes with its own set of challenges. Will you live in symbiosis, bond with Onbu and survive on mutual trust? Or will you become a parasite, only aiming to ensure a better life for your villagers? The choice is yours. . . Discover different biomes. Continuously adapt your village as you travel through a multitude of different biomes, each with its unique climate zones, opportunities and threats. Scout your environments and send out foraging missions to gather rare resources
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Underlying gameplay is fun, but 1.0 is a constant exercise in micromanagement and the UI is not helpful here
Underlying gameplay is fun, but 1.0 is a constant exercise in micromanagement and the UI is not helpful here. You can't queue anything or set resource limits so you'll spend most of your time clicking across your Onbu tweaking worker allocation. All growing facilities(farms, shrooms, etc) grow a lot more crop than workers there can harvest. Which means either finding how much each facility can make, then making more of them or habitually manually harvesting with idle workers. Neither are intuitive. You need to shift workers around constantly but there is no overall UI screen to help you. You must rely on the flags next to each building then manually click on each one. Once the village becomes large enough it's easy to lose track of a worker or two and find out they were doing something you didn't need. There's potential here and I am an early access buyer it's just the user experience needs a lot of work.
- Graphics2.5
- Gameplay3.0
- Story3.0
- Value2.5
Pretty good town management game, the theme is quite interesting
Pretty good town management game, the theme is quite interesting. The only real flaw is if you've played any of the more challenging town builders, you'll find this one very easy with very little tension. Which can be good or bad depending if you want a more relaxed experience or not. -There is a little bit of micro management needed, but once you get most systems down, its very easy to overproduce everything to not have to be a concern, supply chains are very basic with no math needed. -The story allows you to progress at your own pace, nothing really overstays its welcome as you can quickly push through story events when you are ready to do so. So whilst this game is more on the casual side, I would still recommend it for anyone that wants a more laid back experience as its still a very beautiful game with lovely music.
- Graphics4.0
- Gameplay4.5
- Story4.5
- Value4.0
The best co-op experience I've had in years is actually this single-player game
The best co-op experience I've had in years is actually this single-player game. I've got four decades of gaming under my wrist and I'm tired of flavorless standardized AAAs. I bought this expecting a simple, chill city-builder to pass the time. I was wrong. It’s a logistical masterpiece, but the real magic happens if you play it as improvised couch co-op with kids (doable as early as 3, providing they can handle the spooky mushrooms, recommended after 6). We established a strict "Village Family Council": - Me (The Clicker): I provide the manual labor and the credit card. - My Daughter (6 yo): "The Onbu Advocate." Her sole mandate is ensuring the beast gets petted and fed. She spams high-frequency vowels the moment he looks even slightly hungry. - My Son (10): "The Village Union Rep." He couldn't care less about the beast’s feelings; he demands efficiency, resources, and enforced happiness like a true Soviet dream. Watching them argue over the moral dilemma of "Hurting the beast to save the village" was a novel game experience. Following the story ultimately felt like playing a Miyazaki movie with ecological & philosophical inquiries. Verdict: Don't play alone. Grab your family, assign roles, and let the chaos unfold. 9/10
- Graphics3.5
- Gameplay5.0
- Story4.0
- Value4.5
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