🔬 VaporLens
Positives:
Charming graphics and great music
More accessible than Dwarf Fortress
Active developer and responsive
Solid and unique colony sim
Fun and enjoyable experience
Negatives:
Lacks tutorials and unintuitive UI
Buggy, unfinished, and lacking content
Frustrating and unbalanced combat
Lacks depth of similar games
Pixel art is too small/difficult
Gameplay:
Core gameplay loop: build, farm, fight
Multiple races with unique mechanics
Unique building and workshop construction
Customizable professions and skills
Ancients: magic, no food, no reproduce
Performance:
Performance degrades over long sessions
Runs well on Apple M1
High GPU usage when idle
Manual speed control available
Recommendations:
High potential; promising future
Unpolished; wait for updates
Worth it, especially on sale
Mod support would help
Better alternatives exist
Miscellaneous:
Inspired by similar colony sims
Top-down view, limited Z-levels
Scripted events, English only
Humans and Ancient races
Developer tutorial recommended