The art style, story, and concept is solid. But the delivery completely misses.

You can easily find yourself in a situation where you have to delete your save, simply because you ran out of the ability to feed yourself.

You can easily find yourself grinding for hours upon hours, only to get nowhere because your AI makes fight selections that are not nearly as clever as the enemy. For example, my character refused to attack for 2 whole rounds, while the opposing AI pegged down my 200 HP to 0, while he sat at 15.

You're clearly supposed to find a grind pattern (as the devs say it themselves) but it seems strange to not just build a game with the intention of user choice.

Did I mention the part where you can be robbed for having too much money, with no way of safely surviving as every time you're hit up by a robber he's about double your abilities?

The grind is brutal, if only you had a difficulty setting where you could just play through the game without being in an endless grind, I mean you set up the values for XP gain and monetary earnings per job, is it really that hard to do difficulty? It isn't, I know for a fact it isn't.

Overall, unless you want a frustratingly grindy game that possibly has one clear pattern to "win", avoid at all costs.

Update since the review:

I have put in several more hours into it, and had to remake a character (strength builds are an impossibility in this game, funny how a whole skill tree is pointless, i've heard the same for stamina builds) -- if you want to succeed grind agility as often as you can.

It's still a massively dissapointing grind even into the later stages of the game. the diminishing returns of a day passing versus the quickest points you can earn is a massive frustration point. The upkeep is a frustrating moment and even using steroids in the game you'll still have a rough time.

Games similar to this (Kairosoft, game dev tycoon, etc) don't nearly have as much of a grind as this game seems to encourage. It's a shame that I am nearing the end point of this game, but I have (once again) hit a massive wall.

The art style, story, and concept is solid. But the delivery completely misses. You can easily find yourself in a situation where you have to delete your save, simply because you ran out of the ability to feed yourself. You can easily find yourself grinding for hours upon hours, only to get nowhere because your AI makes fight selections that are not nearly as clever as the enemy. For example, my character refused to attack for 2 whole rounds, while the opposing AI pegged down my 200 HP to 0, while he sat at 15. You're clearly supposed to find a grind pattern (as the devs say it themselves) but it seems strange to not just build a game with the intention of user choice. Did I mention the part where you can be robbed for having too much money, with no way of safely surviving as every time you're hit up by a robber he's about double your abilities? The grind is brutal, if only you had a difficulty setting where you could just play through the game without being in an endless grind, I mean you set up the values for XP gain and monetary earnings per job, is it really that hard to do difficulty? It isn't, I know for a fact it isn't. Overall, unless you want a frustratingly grindy game that possibly has one clear pattern to "win", avoid at all costs. Update since the review: I have put in several more hours into it, and had to remake a character (strength builds are an impossibility in this game, funny how a whole skill tree is pointless, i've heard the same for stamina builds) -- if you want to succeed grind agility as often as you can. It's still a massively dissapointing grind even into the later stages of the game. the diminishing returns of a day passing versus the quickest points you can earn is a massive frustration point. The upkeep is a frustrating moment and even using steroids in the game you'll still have a rough time. Games similar to this (Kairosoft, game dev tycoon, etc) don't nearly have as much of a grind as this game seems to encourage. It's a shame that I am nearing the end point of this game, but I have (once again) hit a massive wall.