Leningrad

Kind of a mediocre game. It's a fine concept, execution isn't broken or anything. It just doesn't excite in any particular way. A game where you make choices, and they affect 4 stats that you need to balance, but the game is so short that it doesn't get very interesting. Presentation-wise it feels like a Papers, Please inspired game, but without the challenge of actually having to use your head to judge the passports, you just make choices. It feels kinda like a demo, or a proof of concept, with how it lets you play for a few days and see what feels like a super condensed version of an actual game's story.

If your looking for a review on this game you've come to the wrong place, but if your're looking for an outstanding pie recipe you've come to the right place.

Ingredients:
1. 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
2. 1/2 cup white sugar
3. 1/2 cup brown sugar
4. 1/4 cup water
5. 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
6. 1 pinch salt
7. 5 apples - peeled, cored and sliced
8. 1 pastry for double-crust pie

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
2. Combine butter, white sugar, brown sugar, water, cinnamon, and salt in a saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil, remove from heat and set aside.
3. Roll out half the pastry to fit a 9-inch pie plate. Place bottom crust in pie plate; pour in apple slices.
4. Roll out top crust into a 10-inch circle. Cut into 8 (1-inch) wide strips with a sharp paring knife or pastry wheel. Weave the pastry strips, one at a time, into a lattice pattern. Fold the ends of the lattice strips under the edge of the bottom crust and crimp to seal.
5. Pour butter-sugar mixture over top of pie, coating the lattice, and allowing any remaining sauce to drizzle through the crust.
6. Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C), and bake until the crust is golden brown, the caramel on the top crust is set, and the apple filling is bubbling, 35 to 40 more minutes. Allow to cool completely before slicing.

Leningrad is a lulzy Russian 2D retro pixel "decision manager" game where your job is to look after 4 stats (fuel, morale, health and technical condition). In charge of a fictional city/fortress, you are randomly presented with a series of problems (a crew member stole some vodka, got drunk and published a cash grab asset flip on Steam, how will you punish them etc). Whichever answer you choose may boost some of your stats but typically has a net loss, so the challenge is to go as far as you can before you inevitably lose to the RNG. What fun.

This text based garbage is like a browser version of Oregon Trail but with worse graphics and shallower gameplay. There's no serious merit as a video game here, the whole thing could be done in a web browser. There's no real point to this being on Steam.