Very nice game, relaxing and joyful.

"Home Wind" is an abandoned Early Access 2D retro "city builder" with some misleading, unacceptable pricing. Of course it's dead.

What do you do in the game? The idea of this "I can't believe it's not a browser app" game is to drop tiles next to other tiles to make a 2D picture of a city grow... yeah, that's it. Except the developer wants you to pay cash money to unlock tiles and more levels... yeah this is just a demo and you have to open up your wallet to buy the full game... disgustingly trying to hide a demo as a "free" game with the expectation you'll pay more money for the full game. Not okay.

The developers abandoned this 2 years and 10 months ago. It will never be completed. This unfinished game is just polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuinely, completely made games.

Despite not being able to finish the game, the developers apparently had all the time in the world to build a working cash shop microtransaction system and financial transaction back end into the game, as well as create paid DLC. Before the game is even finished!

That shows the developers primary goal was just to set out to gouge cash from Steam gamers just like mobile devs do with mobile peasants.

The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?). Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs and the latest 3D graphics cards to play 2D games. Even mobile phones and game consoles can do 3D graphics now. There's no excuse.

On pricing and value for gamers, this isn't really free as the game is infested with mobile app store like microtransactions. This is a consumer hostile model that we don't need to see on PC. It's deceptively priced to gouge gamers, and that's a reason in itself to avoid this.

Even after that, this is only free in a rudimentary sense... the developer has their hand out $7 USD to unlock the full game.

Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it?

Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.

Fun yet challenging, easy to learn the basics and fun to learn the strategy it takes to dominate levels.