Isles of Silence

Stylish, but not much more. The written poetry that forms the narration is quite nice, and all the hand drawn art is very charming. This is pretty clearly very early access- you see placeholders for future content pretty dang quick.

The core gameplay loop seems to mostly be sending your colonists on expeditions, which is fine for an incremental type game, but it manages to hit kind of the worst possible timing. It's not idle enough to leave for even three minutes, but there's VERY little to do for long stretches of 2 minutes. Consequently, most of my experience was just actively waiting. This may get better later? There's some hints at automation, but I ran out of patience.

Dev, you need to pre-load the music, as it causes SEVERE lag whenever a track finishes, even though it's repeating? This is obvious a wrapped chromium game maybe using electron or something, but you need to look into a way to tell chrome to process in the background. I can't remember exactly how to do it, but I ran into that problem myself in a game I made. It causes the game to hang badly for 5+ seconds when the window regains focus, and that's on a vr-capable desktop machine without any kind of power saving.

Cute little idle game involving picking up lots and lots of sticks, and sometimes you get to hunt a monster after you've got enough sticks.

For the sake of transparency, I’ve worked on the music in this game and have been providing feedback since the early stages of development.

With that said, I played this game mostly throughout the beta (hence the low Steam hours) and loved it. The progression is rewarding and there’s always a new goal just around the corner. The effort that went into the artwork and writing is just phenomenal and adds a lot of depth. It didn’t take me long before I was invested in the story and the fates of these little hunters.

The future content in the Early Access description is also really exciting, and from the added bits and pieces I’ve been hearing it sounds like it’s coming along well! Can’t wait to see how the storyline progresses, and I highly recommend this to anyone looking for a relaxed game with a good narrative.