Build your ship, manage your crew and explore the cosmos whilst trying your best to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning. This game utilises an events driven AI and simulated ship systems to ensure gameplay is kept challenging and every game you play has a different story to tell....
I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
February 3, 2024 - Day 399 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 435
Game: Hammerting
Platform: Steam
Released: Nov 17, 2021
Installed: Feb 2, 2024
Unplayed: 1d
Playtime: 25m
Rating: 1 - Nope
Hammerting is a 2.5D Dwarven mining colony sim.
I know this, because after 25 minutes of playing, I quit, and searched the web to find out what it was I was trying to play.
It feels like there's actually a reasonable game in there somewhere, but it didn't click with me, because of the way it introduced the game mechanics.
Hammerting starts by pausing the game during the "tutorial", and lighting up a bit of the screen with a popup that says "This does [x]". You then hit Next, and it repeats until it runs out of things to tell you. Sometimes it tells you quite a lot of things one after the other.
Presented like this, these things are abstracted away from their purpose, and with ADHD and not taking my meds on a weekend, it was a lot to try and fail to take in.
Even when I did manage to take something in, the UX was frequently inscrutable, with no system to give me any idea what I was looking at.
You start the game with three dwarves, and you can click on a button, and click on an item in the environment to get them to do something.
Click the mining button. Click on the copper ore. The dwarves mine the ore. The ore falls out of the wall.
The ore sits on the ground. The dwarves do nothing with it. It has a right click menu, but none of the options have anything to do with picking up the ore.
Then my hardy band of dwarves got attacked by a rampaging slime. They killed it in short order. Pieces of slime on the ground. They apparently have value, based on the tooltip.
No idea how to collect them.
The final straw was about 10 minutes later, when I thought I might be starting to get the hang of something, maybe, and the dwarves were attacked again by slimes.
The dwarves stood there, resolutely, being attacked.
I clicked on the attack button, and clicked the slimes.
The dwarves stood there, resolutely, being attacked.
I clicked to move the dwarves, they moved out of range of the slimes.
The slimes followed until they reached the dwarves.
The dwarves stood there, resolutely, being attacked.
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Build your ship, manage your crew and explore the cosmos whilst trying your best to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning. This game utilises an events driven AI and simulated ship systems to ensure gameplay is kept challenging and every game you play has a different story to tell....