TaxingTiles

another islanders-like. place various buildings, terrain modifiers and whatnot with cards to best suit your interests. this one is 2d, grid-based and pixely but same general idea. the king gave you some land and you have until the start of year 5 to settle your taxes and keep it. that's also when endless mode unlocks. there's limited energy per turn and taxes are due at the end of each year. gold comes in after every turn/month based on the current lay of the land.

mouse wheel zooms, wheel click to pan. orange keywords on cards provide tooltips with an annoying and unnecessary animated delay, but additional info is only available in the card history screen in the top right. achievements unlock more cards, also for future runs, and unleash way too much confetti on the screen. they're like challenges but not much info on how to go about them and some are simply random. there's a half-assed guide somebody made, needs work. the undo button is not undo. just like right click, it simply drops the currently held card.

minimalist pixely graphics, good enough, okay music, sfx is mostly beeping. the main menu is quiet and lacks settings. didn't expect that, as a save & exit option was patched in almost immediately after requesting it. once a game starts, settings become accessible in the corner. esc doesn't only bring up the menu but triggers windowed mode, very annoying. separate volumes (not saved between sessions), animation speed (always nice but here it's all the way to the left to speed things up, unlike any slider ever, and it doesn't get saved between sessions either), 'readable mode' for a non-pixely font (I had no problem with the default one), windowed mode and touch mode, plus an in-game achievements screen. there's also an embarrassing amount of typos, makes the whole thing look lazy as ♥♥♥♥.

I don't like time limits in any form, not even sure if I was aware of it when I bought the game, but to me randomized luck-based games are mostly fluff to play between other titles, so it didn't bother me. the store page is definitely overselling it and it has absolutely nothing to do with slay the spire or luck be a landlord. there are cards and it's random, but stop misleading people by name-dropping unrelated popular ♥♥♥♥. not too expensive at 3 eur but it seriously lacks polish despite all the patching, so best wait for a big discount or more work to be done.

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Love this game so far. After 4 hours of playing, I finally unlocked the endless mode for the first time, and only unlocked half of the achievements?

Wow, so many hidden secrets to be discovered!

I remember there was a card that creates the tools, I unlocked it but haven't even tried it yet.
Looks like unlocking the endless mode is just a beginning of the journey, just like Balatro.

We need more guides on this game, especially achievement guides, anyone? 💗

Nice little game worthy of a few hours, looking forward to more content & other enrichment.

Simple yet moreish tile placement game