Synergy

This game reminds me of a toxic corporate job----requests not being passed down and executed, toxic management overworking everyone, employees feeling helpless, and when you're tired and all, you look at the beautiful company office decor for some comfort. First, why does the tutorial only contain a segment of the game? Why not integrate the tutorial into the real game? I spent hours building a city just to find that the game couldn't go on because it was only a segment. Also, there were a LOT of bugs, the game quit without saving, and there would be a notification for more actions in the science tree when there was nothing to do. I also liked to keep my game at 4x speed, but whenever it was a new cycle it went back to 1x automatically, and I had to go back countless times to click that speed up button. For the prosperity score you die when you hit 0, but the description literally said when the number goes up too high you die?? Was the game made in another language and translated? Th...

TL:DR; Stylish and optimistic, you’ll like it if you are up for gardening and layout puzzles while stockpiling for disaster. I think you need to have the right attitude to appreciate certain games, so I think you should go into this game expecting a beautiful solarpunk survival challenge. It can play like Frostpunk but is the spiritual antithesis: optimism, ecology, and deadly heat waves. The best city builders stand out in some way, and here, it’s ecology - complex, interlocking environmental requirements and effects. You can only survive by gardening well - figure out which plants grow well where, and how they help and hurt each other and different parts of your city. The ecology also applies to citizen well-being – the bonuses from thriving are insanely strong, but only if city services are universal. I enjoyed the layout challenge a lot, of how to serve all houses, maximize district score and logistic efficiency, and minimize expensive buildings. An optimal city is a solarp...

I love this game, how it actually teaches you that plants and water are incredibly precious resources. Many other city builders force you to demolish all natural resources to make way for stunning technology. But here, if you cut down any of the few trees you start with, it is instead a terrible mistake. The game is also gorgeous, absolutely love the design! The pacing and user experience could use work thought. It is very easy to get stuck on a quest because you didn't build that exact specific thing that the game wanted you to, and then have to remodel half your city just cause you forgot to focus on the quest and got distracted with trying to make the city sustainable. Then you suddenly complete three quests in a row, but not if you were supposed to research plants, that you have to do again even though you already did it. I've also experienced many glitches and small bugs. Might be because I play on a Mac, but with larger cities the game sometimes bugs out and even though all cr...

This game gives me hope, not sure why, not even out of the tut but the art, the music, the concept brings peace in a way I cant describe. This is the closest thing I have found to solarpunk in a way that really is soothing, despite the challenges it poses. I am very excited to continue playing and love this, it also feels fresh for a very over saturated genre of city builders. Almost as if frostpunk did a 180, got dropped in the desert with a hippie paint job, but rather than face problems with despair you get to feel like there is hope, no matter how bad it gets the best of humanity stays put rather than be tested or compromised on. Hopefully I'm not speaking too soon, if child labor and cannibalism are buried in the tech tree I'll come back and update lol

Really cool city builder/resource management game - I've found myself enjoying it enough to go for 100% Its strengths lie in its gorgeous art, neat as hell sci fi and story telling concepts, and solid resource/worker/space management. This is not a large city builder with an extensive tech tree. You'll only spend about 20-30 hours getting to the end of each scenario, and it feels like it has just enough meat to enjoy a dozen playthroughs trying to optimize your planning ahead - with both layouts and tech tree priorities, but also with resource amounts in different tiers of each game. There are the story quests in the story modes, but they aren't timed. Other quests that ARE timed do pop up, though, to push you through the game so you don't stick around in the second tier just stockpiling mushrooms and brick on 4x. It's not that kind of game - you'll have to micromanage to balance water, food, and building material for most of each game to satisfy those timed quests. As you complete m...

The game is hard. And slow, and not just responsive, it seems to be living outside your actions only. I am loving the game so far. You have to actually learn the dynamics to finish a game, and the focus on environment understanding and not controlling is what boosts it up for me.

A good balance of story, strategy, and chill city building vibes. Aesthetically beautiful, using Moebius's best color palettes.

Paid for the game in early access . Not even played the game but I am satisfied with my purchase because I like and am supporting the art.