Dorfromantik is an exceptional Strategy/Simulation that raises the bar for the genre.
90
Verdict
96%
Steam
80
IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam (96% positive from 29K reviews)
Healthy player count of 591 concurrent
Critically acclaimed (80/100 critic average)
Engaging multiplayer/co-op experience
Still in Early Access — content may be incomplete
Dorfromantik is a 2022 strategy puzzle video game developed and published by Toukana Interactive. In it, the player places a series of hexagonal tiles containing elements of a pastoral environment to create a landscape. They earn points and additional tiles by connecting like sides of the tiles together, closing off fields, forests, and villages, and completing quests to make areas of contiguous regions. An additional creative mode allows the player to create their own landscapes.
Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 20d ago
I swear the devs put crack in this game, I literally cannot stop playing, 10/10
Nice and relaxing puzzle game. Easy to learn, harder to master. Placing a piece perfectly is so, so good. (WHY! WON'T! IT! FIT?! WHY does that FIELD HAVE to be THERE? AARGH!) The music fits the chill mood really well and the team has been adding different themes to avoid aesthetic fatigue. Even a nighttime mode which is just lovely. Seeing all the houses light up is oddly... 'romantik'? The small details add a lot of charm; the little trains, the boats, the bear, the windmills and so on. It gives the impression of life without making you feel guilty about placing a lone house in the middle of the forrest, far from fields and towns but right next to... the bear and the haunted (?) ruins... They'll be fine... Right?
Neat concept; cathartic in a way. As I get older I realize that good games and worthwhile games don't have to be games that feel like a blockbuster, but games that make you feel good, or provide some utility to a troubled mind, or that feel like a small peaceful endeavor in a world that always seems to be setting a new low or falling apart at the seams. I appreciate this.
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