My hesitation is just my personal hesitation as it seems like a game I'll play for an hour and then never touch again.
I'm still playing it, but I can definitely see it being a 'play and forget' sort of game. Still, the hour you play for is pretty fun!
Honestly, if I hadn't bought Rimworld I'm pretty sure I'd still be playing this. A lot. It's great fun.
I'm annoyed that downloading it requires me to sign up to a newsletter
Yep, fuck that noise.
...Seriously?
You guys are upset about signing up for a
newsletter? You realise this is delivered via e-mail, right? You don't have to give your postal address or condemn any innocent trees to death. Where's the problem? Even if you're really that worried about a tiny bit of clutter in your inbox, surely in this day and age everyone has plenty of throwaway email accounts?
That articulates my main problem with the game - 'walk in and punch everyone' is too often the best solution.
Nah mang, comedian FTW.
This will...
probably wind up being patched out, but as it is you can just tell a joke and drag people around the map as they follow you, waiting to hear the punchline. So you have people with a sense of humour defending you from threats, easily-offended types aggro'ing you, and the resulting riot is more than likely to end in the deaths of whoever you were supposed to kill/steal from in the first place.
My favourite self-challenge is seeing how far I can get without killing anyone... directly.
Gives you plenty of bonus XP, too.