Sapiens Craft

Oh dear. I bought the game just to expose the dodgy reviews posted earlier. Of the 9 reviews (all very positive), only 2 reviewers have now played for more than 2 hours. 4 reviewers saying how much fun the game is had only played for 0.1 hours, but at least 2 more managed to play for 0.2 hours. Just enough to do the tutorial - which simply consists of being told to click on a few icons one after the other. All these frankly worthless reviews (from reviewers who have never reviewd any other game on Steam) had 2 likes which makes me wonder ever more about gaming the system. No likes for the 2 reviews Only 2/9 of the earlier reviewers have gone over the 2 hour limit. The rest presumably wrote a review for a pal and then got refunds - which I will do now.

One hidden gem for sure, specially for that price. Unlike those endless mindless clickers you will find around the web with in-app purchase, this one offers you a beginning and an end for a really cheap price. The ratings you get after each stages might want to get some of us to replay it untill we get the best score... or go through another route. It also tackles in a minimalistic way some of the challenges we faced during our history, offering the option to repeat it or test something else. Above all, I almost enjoyed failing my modern age run due to climate warming and my poor management of the greenhouses gases, something you won't see in many games. I would almost say the game is too short... and yet, it covers our short society lifespan quite well. Definitely worth it for it's unique take on the genre.

Seems interesting enough, though kind of odd. For starters, I don't think we ever get a map, the core of the game is assigning workers jobs, with a secondary function of choosing research. The game claims that even when you are not playing, the workers are working, no clue if true, if so, that might impact how you want to leave things when you quit out. I do miss having a map, I like exploring, but that isn't a deal breaker here, curious to see if they do keep working when I am away. ADDENDUM: I had given this a thumbs up at about twenty minutes, but at an hour I am changing it to a thumbs down, simply boring. Sigh... All the research is a funnel as far as I got, so there was no real decision making, without decisions, there is no game.