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Simbiat
Simbiat

Have you ever wanted to be able to finish a mobile game? Like, completely. Like, it has an end in the first place. Well, this one is for you then. At least, if you are ok with cheating.

I first learnt about the mobile version of the game, and I really liked the concept. It was extremely grindy, but the way you were "building" the world around you felt very satisfying to me. The concept is really simple: there are hexagons on a globe, those hexagons have objects, that you destroy with tools to gather resources, and then you spend those resources to create ne hexagons, where you can gather some more resources or some special items, that are used to progress "the story" (it's not really a story in general, though).

Again, hella grindy. But the art, the animation, the feedback from your actions... It all makes this game very satisfying and addicting. I spent hours in it on my mobile, probably killed the batter of my Samsung S20, that I used at the time. But at some point it became too grindy for me. So when I learnt that there is a PC version... I knew, I need to buy it, so that I can finish it, but using cheats for easy resources, because I am a sane person, and I do not have time to manually collect 404k coal for an achievement, let alone thousands more of other resources.

I do not regret buying it and spending 16 hours on it. It's great. And as you move from planet to planet you can see how the team was growing, because little changes that are introduced on new planets can make a huge difference in how the game feels. The core loop is still the same, of course, but the environments feel different, even though some areas may look mostly same due to simplistic design. But level design, the way (and the order) things get unlocked, and how later planets add some semblance of an actual story per planet and even some proper "cutscenes"... They all add up to a really good experience.

Again, if you have tolerance for infinite gathering or using cheats to cheese it. But I would definitely love to see this team do something more RPG or "adventure" like.  Something where pieces of environment get unlocked with progression. I am sure they can pull this off. So support them either by buying PC version of buying stuff in the mobile version (which do have significant differences, BTW).