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The 2D art and style is amazing, the theme is unique, the world during gameplay does not really shine but it is far enough to enjoy playing. Beaver's voice is funny I like that. Vertical building system is interesting, but I have not reached the gameplay state I get to enjoy them. The other down points are so much that I decide to request a refund.


My main concern is user experience design.
The UI/UX is really bad for me. UX is just bad design one after another. I try to list what I face below as much as possible. There are so many I feel like I might forget some, but hope anyone reading this get a general idea.
- Small icon which is hard to maneuver around (hard to See & Click).
- Frequent actions we use are all on those small icons bottom of the screen. This drains my energy just to find what I need.
- On top of actions are hard to click. We can't even compromise with hotkey since we don't have hotkeys for frequent actions like building. Only for camera (at least the game provide camera movement hotkey)
- UI is not really informative. I cannot tell what this and that image means. I try to hover mouse around to gain info on what can they do and I feel like I know little more.
- Many parts are too text-heavy. I'm ok with text explanation if I know where to focus. Different games have different approaches to help the player focus easier or know which part of the text is important, but Timberborn is mainly just wall-of-text.
- UX design on buildings and road constructing are really bad. We need to connect road or energy pipe to a specific tile of the building to make them function properly. But when we're in road building mode, we cannot see which tiles are needed to be connected. I need to switch back-and-forth just to remember which tile I wanna connect.
- Crisis alert design is bad. By crisis I don't even mean things like Flood or events. I mean like when our town is running out of foods or water, there are some icon on top of the beavers. But I feel like it is not enough when we're occupied with some tasks. With game over crisis like these, I prefer something like notification or at least blinking icon over the current existing icon on top of the beavers so the player can't miss them.
- Tutorial feels useless. I don't understand the point of each task I finish for the tutorial that much. The quest box is also so plain and easy to ignore which is not good. It is not as severe as another UX problems I face above though.
- Misleading visual cues and inconsistent design. Some unclickable buttons are grayed out which is what we can see normally. However, there are inconsistent in design. For example, the locked buildings button is actually clickable. We can click to spend science points to unlock them. But the design is hard to understand for me. I spent like 10 minutes just finding where could I unlock the buildings after I build Inventor.
- The screen in general does not tell me as a beginner player what to focus on too. When I stare at the screen, I have no idea what is my current capability and what are things I could do in the future. Bad foreshadowing and informative UI design.

I still feel like the game could be very enjoyable once I'm familiar with the system. Know my way around, understand what to focus on and have some decent in-game knowledge. However, with the current design problems as stated, I don't feel the urge to play anymore. I had been following the game's development since last year. Watch the other's stream and it looks really great. Did not expect to request a refund like this.

Other than these UI/UX design flaws, the other aspects look fine. I may write this as a negative review, but for anyone reading this and ok with all those problems I state so far, it may be worth a try !
Thank you !

I never expected it to be this amazing ! I can feel the devs' effort in well-thought UX and gameplay design. It is imperfect sure, but the flaws in core gameplay are stuff like resources balancing which is already playable at the current stage. I don't know why, but I feel like the direction the development and gameplay design is moving towards are giving me confidence the devs know what they are doing. They know what are needed to deliver the intent gameplay experience.

There are still some bugs like
- Electricity does not work properly somehow (Looks like the generator suddenly stops moving and getting back on alternately)
- UI exceeds the screen including clickable buttons when the info text is long on building's info.

Gameplay problems like
- Cannot transfer area between our own cities possibly creating bugs when we expand the border over 7 tiles in case we allot the new district into the city already at limit. We can merge them, but then the adjacent tiles could end up not connecting to our closer city which also makes it impossible to further expand... (I can only fix it by reloading the save, maybe it will be fixed later)
- Demographics / Stats look really inaccurate. I cannot get overall understanding especially when I have more than one city. For me, multi cities game is currently unplayable.

Given that it is still in Early Access, I'm already satisfied and waiting for the updates.
Even with all the aforementioned problems and others I did not mention here, it may seem like the game has a lot of flaws. But one thing I can feel from my experience so far is my belief in the dev team. What they have done so far and what I feel they are working on all give me confidence I would not regret buying this game at full price and can hopefully wait for the game to fully release. Hope my intuition is accurate !

Eagerly waiting ! Thank you very much for amazing work so far !

Beautiful game ! Amazing Art ! Cozy and relaxing atmosphere.
The plot is a bit confusing at the end, but it is fine.
TIME WORTH SPENT

I don't play roguelike much normally, but the game is approachable.
Good story UwU (crying)

Amazing novel relaxing RTS !
Traditional RTS games are very complex and give intense experience which is on another spectrum of this game.
I also play ranked games in Northgard
,but I personally love PvE mode so much that I think it is a strong point of the game rather than the competitive one.
Co-op mode provides the feeling that I really work with my friends to plan and executes things together which I feel a very strong point of the game.

Amazing RTS !

Nice concept, Good level design, a bit plain story but it is decent.
The clues and objectives are very easy but it is fine as it is.
Don't expect challenging brain race / Satisfaction from "Aha" moment though.
Recommend for anyone who would like to try something fresh and relaxing investigation.

Good Game !

I just finished the story line and it makes me speechless ! This game is amazing and very underrated !
Recommend to everyone who wants something new (Gameplay) with impressive story !
I list my opinion on the pros and cons below

Pros :
- Impressive story writing which makes me get very attached to the characters.
- Dynamic story which allows the player to dictate the outcome from interactions and results from the matches whether they are the winning or losing matches.
- Innovative gameplay !
- Amazing art ! I'm loss for words to describe this. The arts and animations are so beautiful !
- Immersive BGM, sound, voice.
- Interesting way to deal with Snowballing effect and gameplay progress.
Cons :
- A little bug makes me can't fly over to the next map, but it happened only twice through the entire playthrough.
- No convenient way to rewatch a specific scenario or story. Which I would really like to have especially in this kind of game that let player takes dynamic route for their own story. It is very hard to manually keep track and play to see all the storyline the game provides.

DON'T EVEN REGISTER !!!!
SERIOUSLY
THEY DON'T EVEN ENCODE YOUR PASSWORD.
SHOULD BE SUED.
IF YOU STILL LOVE YOUR PRIVACY, DON'T EVEN REGISTER.

This is so unprofessional and I never expect any system ever deployed like this...

As a fan of the series who has been playing since the first game (years ago), I would say this is satisfying ending game of the series. The story is quite impressive, but I feel it is a bit loose on some aspects (Overall story, Motives in some cases, Background story) (It maybe intentional though). The case plots themselves are TERRIFIC !

The cases are very amazing, a lot of plot twisted. I had been expecting them before the trials, but most of the ideas i came up with ended up as one of the fake plans that the devteam put in there (Great job !).

Still recommend the game for those who has been following the series as this one wraps up the series.

For those who never tried Danganronpa, I strongly suggest trying the first game first.
I think familiarity with the series play a big part in immersion here (also, I don't think i would want to go back and play the first game because of the gameplay design and things are improved in this version. I would clearly miss a lot of them lol).

Also to the dev team, I'm really grateful to the devteam and thank you for an amazing work you guys have been working ! (I honestly enjoy the typical VN postgame mode with this ultimate students theme since the first game though, maybe even more than the main game. Unfortunately, it is not the main gameplay here lol)
Thank you ! xD

heart throbbing story full of dirty jokes. LOL