I loved the game. I liked that it followed a story, where many similar building games don't have anything comparable. It creates a nice atmosphere and the snow looks good IMO. Same for the exploration aspect. You get to make many decisions for exploration, research and building. I felt that most of my actions really mattered. The whole "law" system I didn't like so much, mostly because there weren't many options and you usually just have to decide whether you can afford to do the better option, or you just do the bad thing when you're desperate. Enacting more and more laws always leads to more severe decisions, but nothing really forces you to enact another law if I remember correctly, so you can just not do the bad ones if you don't want to. I remember the first game I started without changing any of the standard settings to be really easy, you definitely can win it and do right by your people. On harder difficulties you'll at least have to send the children to work, and maybe make some other tough decisions, depending on your goals. Vegan runs are pretty annoying to do tho. Replayability is limited IMO, once you play through the 3-4 scenarios you've pretty much seen everything.
I loved the game. I liked that it followed a story, where many similar building games don't have anything comparable. It creates a nice atmosphere and the snow looks good IMO. Same for the exploration aspect. You get to make many decisions for exploration, research and building. I felt that most of my actions really mattered. The whole "law" system I didn't like so much, mostly because there weren't many options and you usually just have to decide whether you can afford to do the better option, or you just do the bad thing when you're desperate. Enacting more and more laws always leads to more severe decisions, but nothing really forces you to enact another law if I remember correctly, so you can just not do the bad ones if you don't want to. I remember the first game I started without changing any of the standard settings to be really easy, you definitely can win it and do right by your people. On harder difficulties you'll at least have to send the children to work, and maybe make some other tough decisions, depending on your goals. Vegan runs are pretty annoying to do tho. Replayability is limited IMO, once you play through the 3-4 scenarios you've pretty much seen everything.