This is close to being a really good game. If only there were fewer glitches, and a few little tweaks to game play that are always mentioned in the comments here (like selecting a worker by their desk).
A few tips to cover some FAQs from the comments and chat:
1. Yes, assimilating resets happiness and perseverance. It is how you progress through the game and gives bonuses to help you build faster next time. There is no reason to continue building once you can assimilate
2. There is severe lag in the assimilation bonus screen. This disappears if you set a quick-save
3. Bought a Master's House and can't find the staff? Tabs appear at the top of the window as you unlock new things, including one entitled 'magic'
4. As you unlock more buildings/spells/creatures, scroll up and down to see them with either the arrow keys, W/A/S/D 'arrows', or right click and drag. Left/right arrows will change between tabs within the game, or just click on the tab title
5. [AK] in the forest is an auto-kill button which appears next to a creature after killing 10 of them. Hold down to rapidly kill as many of that creature as you can afford based on your B/P
6. The 'Gifts of the Forest' bonus (no gold for Forest buildings) won’t apply to a building type you have already bought on that run. If you build a Tree of Fairies before choosing the bonus then upgrades to the Tree will still cost gold
7. Slow food production is a drag but that's the challenge. There are ways to substantially increase food production as you progress
8. With that in mind, horses go into the well
9. When buying the first building on a new tier the click ALSO selects the button appearing under your mouse after the 'build' button disappears. In tiers with 2 or 3 building options the 'build' button for the 2nd/middle building half covers the 'Hire 1' button; no big deal. Selecting the third (right most) building, however, will generally hire 'Max'. To avoid spending all of your gold, click the left end of the build button which will 'Hire 1' instead
--> TLDR: Buying Meadows? Click the far left side of the button.
10. Anything else, ask in chat
+1 to all the comments reporting major lag issues after the recent update. I do appreciate the fact that you're actively updating the game though, so thank you!
I'll check in again tomorrow and see if it's playable again.
Not a bad game, but could do with some more puzzles, I was just getting into it when it finished! I agree with the comments suggesting it would be useful to have a way to move a group of pieces together, but it's not essential and I guess is part of the challenge. Cheers!
I'm having trouble with not being able to click a card in multiplayer. Seems to happen every so often when I can still speak in the chat, but it just won't let me click a card. Annoying!
It's ok, the controls could stand to be a bit more reactive though, they feel sluggish to me. Doesn't help when such fine movements are required at times.
Finally got the hard and impossible badges! With the instructions below, it works starting in Australia too, I started there twice in a row, nearly got it the first time and DID get it the second time.
Pretty fun game. Can get a bit glitchy when there are too many knights going in opposite directions, they end up just walking around each other on the spot until you manually unplug whichever ones are blocking the path. Could perhaps have a 'load' option on the screen where you equip your knights? Thanks for the game.
Good fun, finally beat it. I had a bit of a moment when I was trying to do the bit with the trees circle, they didn't change to let me 'select' them, it took about 10 tries walking on and off the screen and looking around before it decided to let me do it, anyone else had that problem?
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