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THE DEVELOPER IS A GIGANTIC SPERG AND IS MORE THAN WILLING TO DEFRAUD YOU FOR MONEY! THE WEBPAGE OF STEAM CLAIMS "deep simulation" THERE IS NO SIMULATION! THIS IS A LIE! THAT IS FRAUD! THEY ARE LYING ON THE WEBPAGE AND THEREBY COMMITING FRAUD!
 
Im sorry to repost a steam review but this user put in words all of the complaints i had. It reads:

"I think this game needs to seriously consider why it wants to be a roguelike.

It simulates a static continent, with the same quests and main story each time, meaning each run isn't a joyful plunge into randomness, but a rehash of last time. The range of items is pretty modest, meaning you're not playing an RNG lotto for interesting combos or basing your build off of a run-specific item. And you play pretty similar each time. (Sure, there are different classes or stat builds, but lots of games do that without wanting to be a roguelike.)

Worse, runs are LONG. In the beginning, it's fun. It forces you to learn the system. But when you hit take-off, you go four, eight, hours, and then die suddenly. What is the purpose of having to restart here when you die? That's a long way to retread through similar content. It all reminds me of Sunless Seas, where it was like a fossil from early development that it wanted to be a permadeath 20+ hour game, when what the game really cared about was art and story and ambiance.

This world is perfectly capable of having a lives system based on cloning, having more intentional blockers that encourage (fun) restarting, or allowing one save per hour. Why does this game want to default be a roguelike?

The best part of this game is the weird Dark Tower-like ambiance and auteur-like writing and UI and visual design. The worst part is that it's strapped onto permadeath gameplay, when the game clearly isn't interesting in being subservient to making that fun or respecting my time as a mortal human being.

I'm aware you can turn off permadeath -- that's not the point."

THE GAME WILL NOT RESPECT YOU. THE GAME IS GOING TO SHIT ON YOU BECAUSE THE DEVELOPER ENJOYS SHITTING ON PEOPLE. THE GAME WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE FUN. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS FUCKING GIGANTIC PIECE OF SHIT.
 
LatinasAreTheFuture said:
BUYERS BEWARE
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I already bewared a long time ago.

Bro I saw Sseth's video too, and for just a second, only a moment, I thought to myself "That seems like it might be interesting".
Then I processed for another second and realized there is no fun to be had playing a game like this. Unless you've got some very specific form of aspergers that will make you willing to ignore an endless stream of absurd, infuriating nonsense in order to play for the sake of it instead of doing something else, it's pointless.

Some people seem to have that bizarre form of autism, but personally I'm not really into cuckoldry so instead I forgot this game existed.
 
Im sorry to make such a big deal out of this but htis product and its marketplace advertisement is straight up fucking fraud. It is advertising something that it does not contain.

Look at the provided image.


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The store page, which has been written by the games developer, claims that the game has "deep simulation". Not just any normal simulation mind you but a deep simulation. Now i just dropped 50 hours in dwarf fortress so i kind of know what simulation looks like. Its when the game can run with no player interaction. THIS GAME CANNOT RUN WITHOUT PLAYER INTERACTION. EVERY SINGLE THING THAT HAPPENS IN THE GAME WILL BE BECAUSE THE PLAYER CAUSED IT. THERE IS NO SIMULATION.

Now, does this constitute fraud. I was defrauded of 20$. I purchased the product under the false pretense that i was going to receive a "deep simulation". i have received the product and it does not contain the claimed features.



ITS FRAUD! ITS FRAUD! OKAY ITS FUCKING FRAUD!
 
I absolutely cannot find the librarian in the six day stilt. I have gone in circles looking for it. I spent an hour doing that. thats really fun, looking for something that might not exist. THIS "GAME" IS A GIANT PILE OF SHIT. I CANT FIND THE THING IM LOOKING FOR BECAUSE OF THE PSEUDO RANDOM RNG. THIS IS BULLSHIT.
 
LatinasAreTheFuture said:
I absolutely cannot find the librarian in the six day stilt. I have gone in circles looking for it. I spent an hour doing that. thats really fun, looking for something that might not exist. THIS "GAME" IS A GIANT PILE OF SHIT. I CANT FIND THE THING IM LOOKING FOR BECAUSE OF THE PSEUDO RANDOM RNG. THIS IS BULLSHIT.
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tell us all about why the game is bad in depth please
 
LatinasAreTheFuture said:
I absolutely cannot find the librarian in the six day stilt. I have gone in circles looking for it. I spent an hour doing that. thats really fun, looking for something that might not exist. THIS "GAME" IS A GIANT PILE OF SHIT. I CANT FIND THE THING IM LOOKING FOR BECAUSE OF THE PSEUDO RANDOM RNG. THIS IS BULLSHIT.
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She is right inside the temple. A little side hallway before the main chamber. She will always spawn as a female, a species that can speak, and wears glasses.
 
LatinasAreTheFuture said:
Im sorry to make such a big deal out of this
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No you're not. We get it, you want to hatefuck the devs. You're not even sperging out in an amusing enough manner to justify quintupleposting.
It's clear you're not enjoying the game. Just put the tranny dick down and walk away.
 
Mooger Meng said:
No you're not. We get it, you want to hatefuck the devs. You're not even sperging out in an amusing enough manner to justify quintupleposting.
It's clear you're not enjoying the game. Just put the tranny dick down and walk away.
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Theres no trannies in the goddamn game, what the fuck are you talking about?
 
Someone in the Sseth comment section called this game an "SFW version of Corruption of Champions" under the reasoning that both of the races are built around the mechanic of transforming yourself to get stronger. I'm skeptical that it's a fetish since mutation mechanics are popular with post apocalyptic RPGs, and with text based roguelikes, and especially with post apocalyptic text based roguelikes. But I am noticing that this gameplay is... focused on splattering you with grody organic liquids. And I remembered from the review that there is a permanent transformation that is [typing into wiki] called "cloaca surprise", that's the name for the recipe that turns you into a slug monster by mixing multiple kinds of sewage, so that you can start shooting mountains of sewage from your "bilge sphincter".
I hope that this will stay my worst mixture of being proven right and wrong for this month. Anyway, I'm uninstalling the TF scat roguelike. Very happy to live up to its developer's ideals.
 
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