I liked it in early access and it's even better now, after release. The story is simple and (I think) quite linear but entertaining, the gameplay changes during the career and the voice acting is awesome. Also, you can play online via Steam Remote Play, I tried, it was fun but make sure that your friends know how to play! Early Access Reveiw You are the archeologist and you need to gain a reputation. To do so you need a team of explorers, which will need money. You pay money to the explorers to bring them with you to an expedition to earn reputation. But you also need money now, so you have to pick an expedition which will also deliver you money. But this expedition is hard so you need to train your explorers. To do so you need more money, and after the training, they will need more money in the salary. Then you decide to build a casino, to get more money, but to do so you need land, and you need to win an auction. To do so you need even more money. OK, now you areand you decide to sell artifacts on the black market to get even more money. However, one of your artifacts was confiscated and you lost some reputation. In shortcut, to get the reputation you hired people, trained them and lose your money. Trying to find new income you lost reputation and now you don't have money and reputation. You need to fire a few explorers to stay in the business. Business? Yes, because now it's business, you have your own casino, you sell artifacts on the black market, and you deal in favors with gazettes to publicly slander your opponents. It's quite a good game, even in early access and current state. And you can play together with your family and friends on one computer, but it probably will end like monopoly evening.

Review Early Access v0.70b after 18 hrs in the game This game has surprised me. At first, it’s a simple economic strategy with very simple mechanics, or at least I thought so. You go on expeditions, pick good explorers and try to match them to events on the expedition. Easy enough. But the game is focused on the other side of archeology. The player spends more time preparing and planning the next expedition than being on that expedition. There’s a lot of hidden stuff and you can get overwhelmed, but it’s probably the early access thing. The more you play the more you learn. There’s a lot of little gameplay secrets like you can find out the consequences of your choices one hour later or even later. It’s a well-made game with a lot going on in the background. At first, it looks simple but behind those visuals, you may find that it’s actually not that simple. It’s definitely not a game for everyone, but if you are into strategy and management, then you will have a lot of fun. And when in tutorial Cuppy says “you should experiment more with the mechanics for yourself” or something like that, it’s actually true. This game won’t give you everything on a plate, you have to figure out some things, like for example the results on the expeditions aren’t RNG, it works in a more subtle way and you will need some time to get familiar with it. There are still some bugs and I can't give it more than 8 for now.

You can hardly call it a game with that price tag and this style in 2019. We had free flash games with better controls and art in 2005. The text is often hard to read, changing the resolution doesn't help.