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The reason why I gave this game a 4 is purely technical. The game itself is pretty good, I think it deserves 7-8. It's got fun mechanics, it's quite challenging - very hard at times! - which is quite refreshing considering the current overabundance of easy games. The heart of the game is clearly COOP - even in the menu this option appears before single player. The fun in this game grows exponentially when playing with other folks, since this game is mostly about controlling an entity (an orb called Balfus, IIRC) which can be challenging when it's done by multiple players. This is all good.... EXCEPT it doesn't want to work! Single player works fine, but COOP is horribly bugged. Playing a COOP game has been almost impossible to me and my friends. We bought the game a few weeks ago as it was on sale, and we were able to play only twice so far. Each time we'd spend 20-30 minutes trying to start the game without success. We'd get: 1) Black screen as the game started 2) Unsuccessfull connections to a lobby due to timeout 3) When the game started, some people couldn't move their characters... or they'd be able to move their and SOMEONE ELSE's character too! 4) Very noticeable lag ingame, assuming all the previous problems didn't happen 5) Some challenges would not complete... even if we met all the objectives.... Also, weird things can happen if someone (the host?) has a sub-60 framerate... We all have good rigs, so I can't confirm it, it's what I've read online. Checking the Steam Forums, I notice how many other people were complaining about the very same issues, it's a shame I didn't check it earlier. The developers have rolled out a pair of patches but they haven't solved anything so far. Also, for some reason, all these patches were named "1.1", so you couldn't even tell which patch you were effectively playing.... Of course we've tried a lot of solutions posted on the forums, including port forwarding, using the beta branch, and we tried to let each of us host the game without success. All this would have been acceptable IF IT WAS A BETA, instead this game has been released in OCTOBER 2013... more than 5 months ago. IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. I want to play this game, but I can't. We'll wait 1 more week before asking a refund through Steam. Do NOT buy it UNLESS you want to play Single Player ONLY.

It' a fairly okay game.... I admit I'm not a hardcore city building games fan, but I was attracted by the positive reviews this game had, and the fact that only 1 guy built it on its own, I like supporting indie devs. While the game itself is interesting and somewhat different from what I've seen before, the game lacks depth and content. There's no campaign, a very limited set of buildings... you'll be doing the same stuff over and over, I feel like I have nothing to look forward to... the only hard thing to get is some special items from merchants, like seeds and animals, but that's it. Infact, my desire of playing this game decreased rapidly in just a few days, now I barely touch it anymore, and kinda regret spending 19€ for it. If I could have gone back in time, I would have waited for a 5€ sale.