EDIT TO THE REVIEW: a few days the developer pushed a silent update of ~200Kb. all it was, was an anti-cheat that actively checks item and gold values and resets/invalidates them if they arent the expected value. this is a SINGLE PLAYER GAME. there is never an excuse for adding these kind of anti-features to a SINGLE PLAYER GAME, and there is never an excuse for pushing an "update" like this silently. now half my inventory is returning invalid object errors all over the screen because i wasnt willing to sit around for 6 hours waiting for my rats to make enough basic building supplies to actually build a few buildings. edit again: the developer literally just banned me from the forums for posting a thread asking about the silent patch that pushed an anti-cheat. steer clear, this is likely going to turn into some datamining or something else nefarious, as theres no other reason to be pushing silent anti-cheat updates on a single player game with no plans for multiplayer.


fun and cute, but horribly balanced. everything takes a ton of time and resources to make, resulting in you having 4-10 of every single resource producing building, which each use up 1 ratizen. eventually having a bunch of spare rats running around isnt an issue, except that you NEED those rats for explorations. there is no point where you feel like youre actually progressing, because enemies scale infinitely upwards with time while your stats pretty much just scale DOWN with time. literally all the weapons other than the starter sword and the 2 variants of said sword are utterly useless. there seems to be no way to gain intelligence experience aside from the random events that can give 200xp to 1 stat. "custom" options are highly limited with arbitrary selections and limitations, instead of say a 0-10,000% slider. starter outfits dont unlock properly, and the new halloween event requires rare mats that your rats will absolutely suck up in huge quantities, preventing you from doing it. instead of you know, JUST GIVING US HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS.

worst of all is the utterly terrible translation. you wouldnt think it would be an issue ina game like this, but then you get the "random" events (that arent random at all from what i can tell, i get the same events in the same order every seed.), and things like "rotting meat", where youre told a guy found a dead animal in the woods. the name of the event implies that the meat is rotting. your options are "thank the gods! get 10 meat and +1 (meaningless value) happiness for 1 day" or "stale meat is a sin! get -1 happiness (meaningless) for 1 day" so 1 option heavily implies youre gonna get diseases from it, but you get penalized for not choosing it? i believe this, and many other gibberish events, are the result of poor translation that massively hurts the games potential. no matter how fun the game is, if the people speak like cavemen and in pure gibberish, people will just go buy dwarfe fortress instead.

needs a LOT of work. less adding more ultra end game content thats virtually unobtainable, for the people who bought the game a year ago, and more making the game actually playable. i shouldnt need some 40-60 ratizens JUST to get basic clothing and actual food production going.

EDIT TO THE REVIEW: a few days the developer pushed a silent update of ~200Kb. all it was, was an anti-cheat that actively checks item and gold values and resets/invalidates them if they arent the expected value. this is a SINGLE PLAYER GAME. there is never an excuse for adding these kind of anti-features to a SINGLE PLAYER GAME, and there is never an excuse for pushing an "update" like this silently. now half my inventory is returning invalid object errors all over the screen because i wasnt willing to sit around for 6 hours waiting for my rats to make enough basic building supplies to actually build a few buildings. edit again: the developer literally just banned me from the forums for posting a thread asking about the silent patch that pushed an anti-cheat. steer clear, this is likely going to turn into some datamining or something else nefarious, as theres no other reason to be pushing silent anti-cheat updates on a single player game with no plans for multiplayer. fun and cute, but horribly balanced. everything takes a ton of time and resources to make, resulting in you having 4-10 of every single resource producing building, which each use up 1 ratizen. eventually having a bunch of spare rats running around isnt an issue, except that you NEED those rats for explorations. there is no point where you feel like youre actually progressing, because enemies scale infinitely upwards with time while your stats pretty much just scale DOWN with time. literally all the weapons other than the starter sword and the 2 variants of said sword are utterly useless. there seems to be no way to gain intelligence experience aside from the random events that can give 200xp to 1 stat. "custom" options are highly limited with arbitrary selections and limitations, instead of say a 0-10,000% slider. starter outfits dont unlock properly, and the new halloween event requires rare mats that your rats will absolutely suck up in huge quantities, preventing you from doing it. instead of you know, JUST GIVING US HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS. worst of all is the utterly terrible translation. you wouldnt think it would be an issue ina game like this, but then you get the "random" events (that arent random at all from what i can tell, i get the same events in the same order every seed.), and things like "rotting meat", where youre told a guy found a dead animal in the woods. the name of the event implies that the meat is rotting. your options are "thank the gods! get 10 meat and +1 (meaningless value) happiness for 1 day" or "stale meat is a sin! get -1 happiness (meaningless) for 1 day" so 1 option heavily implies youre gonna get diseases from it, but you get penalized for not choosing it? i believe this, and many other gibberish events, are the result of poor translation that massively hurts the games potential. no matter how fun the game is, if the people speak like cavemen and in pure gibberish, people will just go buy dwarfe fortress instead. needs a LOT of work. less adding more ultra end game content thats virtually unobtainable, for the people who bought the game a year ago, and more making the game actually playable. i shouldnt need some 40-60 ratizens JUST to get basic clothing and actual food production going.