Reus 2

Item: Reus 2
Rating: 93
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-05-11

Summary

Relaxing, deep, and highly replayable strategic puzzle.
Strategic puzzle with satisfying synergies.
Roguelike elements enhance replayability.
Unintuitive UI and poor tutorial.
Lacks content, resulting in short playtime.
Repetitive, formulaic gameplay loop.

Categories

God SimulationResource ManagementPuzzle SolvingStrategyTerraformingEnvironmental SimulationTurn-based StrategySingle-player

Reviews (sample size): 1714
Helpful reviews: 83%
Unhelpful reviews: 17%
Protest reviews: 0%

93%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
7%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 3342
Negative points: 1041
Gameplay points: 766
Perf. points: 52
Rec. points: 871
Misc points: 83

Point	Description	Importance
Relaxing, deep, and replayable Description The game provides a relaxing and engaging experience with a charming art style, pleasant music, and satisfying gameplay loop. It improves upon its predecessor by removing time pressure and adding depth, making it accessible to both casual and hardcore players. The game also offers high replayability due to its depth and diversity. Importance 97%	The game provides a relaxing and engaging experience with a charming art style, pleasant music, and satisfying gameplay loop. It improves upon its predecessor by removing time pressure and adding depth, making it accessible to both casual and hardcore players. The game also offers high replayability due to its depth and diversity.	97%
Significant improvements over original Description The sequel significantly improves upon the original game by addressing its flaws, adding new features, and enhancing existing strengths. These changes result in a more balanced, strategic, and enjoyable experience, with many reviewers preferring the new turn-based structure and resource management system. Importance 17%	The sequel significantly improves upon the original game by addressing its flaws, adding new features, and enhancing existing strengths. These changes result in a more balanced, strategic, and enjoyable experience, with many reviewers preferring the new turn-based structure and resource management system.	17%
Easy to learn, hard master Description The game strikes a good balance between accessibility and challenge, offering multiple difficulty settings and a gradual learning curve. It is easy to pick up and play, but offers enough depth and complexity to keep players engaged and motivated to master its mechanics. Importance 12%	The game strikes a good balance between accessibility and challenge, offering multiple difficulty settings and a gradual learning curve. It is easy to pick up and play, but offers enough depth and complexity to keep players engaged and motivated to master its mechanics.	12%
Strategic puzzle with satisfying synergies Description The core gameplay revolves around strategic puzzle-solving and creating powerful synergies between different elements. Players are rewarded for optimizing placements and maximizing resource yields, leading to a satisfying sense of progression and accomplishment as they discover new combinations. Importance 12%	The core gameplay revolves around strategic puzzle-solving and creating powerful synergies between different elements. Players are rewarded for optimizing placements and maximizing resource yields, leading to a satisfying sense of progression and accomplishment as they discover new combinations.	12%
Unique giants shape the world Description The game features unique and well-designed giants with distinct abilities that interact with the environment. Controlling these giants to shape ecosystems and influence human development is a key selling point, offering a novel and enjoyable experience. Importance 6%	The game features unique and well-designed giants with distinct abilities that interact with the environment. Controlling these giants to shape ecosystems and influence human development is a key selling point, offering a novel and enjoyable experience.	6%
Roguelike elements enhance replayability Description The game introduces roguelike elements and new mechanics that add depth, replayability, and a sense of accomplishment. These features encourage experimentation, strategic thinking, and a desire to unlock all the game has to offer. Importance 6%	The game introduces roguelike elements and new mechanics that add depth, replayability, and a sense of accomplishment. These features encourage experimentation, strategic thinking, and a desire to unlock all the game has to offer.	6%
Active development and frequent updates Description The developers are actively supporting the game with regular updates and DLC, adding significant amounts of new content and improving the overall experience. This ongoing support demonstrates a commitment to the game and its community. Importance 5%	The developers are actively supporting the game with regular updates and DLC, adding significant amounts of new content and improving the overall experience. This ongoing support demonstrates a commitment to the game and its community.	5%
Revisit and expand created planets Description The game offers a unique blend of map and save systems, displaying created planets in the main menu and allowing players to revisit them later. The removal of the time limit and the addition of the Eon point system encourage replayability and exploration of different strategies. Importance 5%	The game offers a unique blend of map and save systems, displaying created planets in the main menu and allowing players to revisit them later. The removal of the time limit and the addition of the Eon point system encourage replayability and exploration of different strategies.	5%
Influence village and civilization development Description The game allows players to observe and influence the development of villages and civilizations, with strategic decisions directly impacting their growth and prosperity. The removal of war and improved city interaction mechanics enhance the overall experience. Importance 5%	The game allows players to observe and influence the development of villages and civilizations, with strategic decisions directly impacting their growth and prosperity. The removal of war and improved city interaction mechanics enhance the overall experience.	5%
Addictive resource management gameplay Description The game provides a satisfying dopamine rush from seeing numbers increase and resources accumulate. The resource store and the ability to create "broken builds" add to the addictive nature of the game. Importance 3%	The game provides a satisfying dopamine rush from seeing numbers increase and resources accumulate. The resource store and the ability to create "broken builds" add to the addictive nature of the game.	3%
Unique puzzle god game Description The game is a unique blend of puzzle and god game elements, offering a variety of combinations to create with the available gods. It is a spatial-puzzle god game. Importance 2%	The game is a unique blend of puzzle and god game elements, offering a variety of combinations to create with the available gods. It is a spatial-puzzle god game.	2%