Mystopia

Really just a worse copy of garden galaxy at this point with less options. Although there are quite a few updates, so i'll come back in like half a year to see if it's improved enough to be fun. Edit: as of now, half a year later there have been no updates at all, so I guess the game died

GOOD: Aesthetics, Music BAD: This is not an Early Access title, they released this game as a full release, and as of writing this review, there's no Cloud Saves, no Family Sharing, and other Steam Features AFAIK. They promised Cloud Saves, but you know how it goes with the promises (: Inconsistent (lacking same type block size variation, some items rotate 90 degrees, while others rotate 45 degrees, etc.) Bad UX (instead of closing windows while pressing Esc, it open's game menu, can't delete saves in-game, can't exit into the menu and just some odd behaviour with things in general) Very very buggy as a fully released game. Some items merging together in a bowl, chests UI getting messy, sometimes items gets thrown out randomly. When you refresh "shop" list, it does nothing or even makes screen go white with "111" whatever that means. Textures rendering weirdly while sticking blocks together, same type blocks not merging textures while stacking them vertically. One of the game modes is not even out yet. And very little content actually. Some "assets" look cheap too with clipping in parts. Definitely not a smooth ride, feels rushed "Garden Galaxy" copy...

The game is very buggy. One of three game modes that is described as present in the game on store page is not available. I can't recommend this game in its current state. The problems I have run into in my 3,5 hours of gameplay: - tiles are clipping with each other - tiles sometimes start to float - the water is bugged and visual artifacts appear after moving the camera - potion cauldron is buggy as hell, there are two menus that showcase ingredients put in it (why?) also sometimes I can't add ingredients in it even if they are in the potion recipe. It is also not possible to empty cauldron, so on one save I just had broken cauldron and couldn't progress potion making - putting items in chests is bugged - they sometimes clip through closed chest and sometimes it is not possible to put items in them even when there is still space in the chest - pentagram shop is bugged and item refresh doesn't work - [b] progress of discovered tiles resets after quitting the game! [/b] - [b] after about 50 minutes of runtime spirits stop appearing (the game becomes unplayable) [/b] - even after restarting game save file is still unplayable, so the game cannot be completed Also the developer is straight up advertising the game on store page with feature (Saga mode) that is not in the game: - the game's description next to screenshots mention "three different game modes" - second and third screenshots display game mode that is not available - described in "about the game" section are three game modes and one is not present in the game - literally the first thing in "gameplay" section is Saga mode, which is not available - [b] there is no mention whatsoever that Saga mode is only planned to be included in the game and you can't play it after purchasing the game [/b] I'm writing this after playing on 1.1.0 update and I thought that the game would be more or less stable 6 weeks after release. I wouldn't mind missing game mode if I could even finish normal mode. But after I encountered game breaking bugs (two broken saves) I read store page once again and noticed that the client is not informed that one of three advertised game modes isn't even in the game. This is an issue because this is just false advertising. I bought the game not because it is Garden galaxy clone but because I honestly thought that the Saga mode would offer me different experience. Sure, all these bugs will probably be patched sometime soon but as of right now I feel a bit scammed.