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Your word is gospel in this god sim set in Sub-Saharan Africa. Influence and try to control your followers using commandments but beware, free will leaves these open to interpretation. Will you create a flourishing civilization or lead them to death and destruction?
Crest - an indirect god sim is a god game, simulation and indie game
developed and published by Eat Create Sleep.
Released on March 08th 2018 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 373 reviews of which 245 were positive and 128 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.3 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 9.89€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows Vista SP1 or newer
- Processor: 3 GHz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1 GB VRAM and shader model 4.0 compatible
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 1 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: Mac OS X 10.9 or newer
- Processor: 3 GHz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1 GB VRAM and shader model 4.0 compatible
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or newer
- Processor: 3 GHz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1 GB VRAM and shader model 4.0 compatible
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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Its... Okay... Thats kinda the problem. You start off with a single location with followers and the ability to use 2 commands. That tends to be "gather food" and "make babies". Make babies is important as you get screwed over very easily early on. Note that even in easy mode, this game is hard at times and if you can't gather metal, you might as well start again, it leads to a dead end. Once your first town is 4/4 big at least, you need to push migration, finding a new town. The trouble is the command will result in followers following between the two towns. Once the new town is at 4/4 and the old town is at 4/4, with each having babies available, you then got to push to create another town. And you have little choice... At 2 towns it can go wrong. By the time you have 5 towns... Everything falls apart. Expect at least two locations to start fighting - you really can't stop it unless you get lucky and their towns with chilled factors towards other. But it sadly takes only 1 and you might as well start groaning. Old towns can be repopulated so a destroyed town isn't the end of the world, you just have to let nature take its course. If you can get at least 2 towns on your faith, great. But chances are, by the time 5 towns are at play you will find it impossible to not get at least 1 that refuses to comply to your will. In addition, the followers will be constantly misunderstanding your commands, making it impossible to give out good advice for them to follow. "Make babies", could easily change to "eat followers with babies" for example. So you have to constantly either re-issue the command and pry it lasts long enough, or save up to get rid of the reasoning the followers are changing the command to. Pushing followers to find towns on other islands takes a while and several wars... Not there yet, mostly because no matter what by the time I've gotten to a certain point, my rivers dry up and I loose my jungles and 9/10 the terraforming command is useless. Choose your teachings wisely as well. focusing on food and baby making seems to be the best over walk speed and building speed. The followers will *eventually* do everything, but you get royally screwed over by a lack of young followers if not careful. This is particularly true when the cities go to war and towns are slowly wiped out. So far my worst play was a game wherein all I could produce was two cities and nether was near metal... So I got stuck at 2 towns unable to produce anymore. This is how important metal is and you can't "win" without it. You only need a single town and your in luck, the metal will be traded to all other towns. Encourage trading, alliences, etc. Your starting town also needs to be cool with migration and making babies, otherwise prepare for a long wait. A town that doesn't care much for reproduction almost always kills itself. Especially if hit by a double whammy of "we refuse to migrate/trust anyone". A town with refusal of both will produce it if you command it, but you risk loosing faith and thats bad. ultimately, every island becomes a wasteland and the jungle dies so... Don't feel bad, the games odds is against you. If the river doesn't dry up, it just dies anyway.
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Context: I've followed this game from Early Access, and only bought/played it after release. This is a difficult review for me, because whilst I do like this game, I don't like playing it after a while. And I can't for the life of me figure out if it's the game or myself. So I'll put this game as a tentative 'reocmmend', write my thoughts down, and hopefully they can help someone else. So, the good things: The concept is pretty new and fresh, with the idea of giving commandments to your followers to do things, and it being up to them how to follow it, and what associations they make from it. The AI appears to be capable enough to look after itself without your intervention, and only rarely does things that seem out of the left field (even when they decide terraforming's a great idea for some reason, you can kinda see the logic there). The aesthetic is gorgeous, and really needs to be seen in motion to be appreciated. It's low-poly, but not in a bad way, and visual cues are fairly obvious. The music and sound is also excellent, and one of the few games I didn't want to play a Youtube video in the background. Now, unfortunately, to my issues with the game. I don't know whether I'm missing the point, or I don't actually like playing indirect sims, but the lack of information the game gives me is actually rather frustrating. There are options to turn on help with making your commandments (such as telling you the effect a completed one would have), but there is little to no information with city/follower needs in regards to how I affect them. I know I can raise 'esteem' by building momuments and stuff, but there's no information on how. This especially noticeable with the expertise building for construction - how do I increase its level? Is it through more metal mining, because all that does is increase the mining expertise building. Or do I have to wait until that's fully upgraded before my followers pay attention to the other building? And I have no idea how to begin to build a granary. There's no 'help' system ingame like a codex that can help you figure anything out or outright tell you. The tutorial does give you the basics of what to do, but I still felt rather lost after it was done. This also feeds into an overrall 'goal' of the game - I don't know what I'm striving for. The tutorial mentioned 'spreading my followers around', but nothing ingame or the UI reinforces this as something I have to do. Unlocking more words seems the most concrete objective I've seen, but once I have most of the animal words, I see no rhyme or reason to want to unlock anything else. My 'best' game was when I restricted myself to one city, gave basic commandments for my followers to feed themselves/mine stuff, and then pretty much left them be (influence gain also feels very slow to me, which doesn't help). Maybe I'm missing the point. Maybe it's supposed to be a sandbox where I'm just a god messing about with my followers, discovering things by trial and error (and maybe making them eat other because I'm a terrible person). The thing is, there feels like there's a progression system under the hood, yet I don't know how to progress, and as a result, I feel like; 'well, what's the point?' In Black & White, you knew you had to take over the land by crushing/converting other tribes under your sway. Since you are the only human presence in Crest's world...there's no pushing need to do anything. Heck, as I said, you might as well just stay as a single city and be just fine. I restarted my game several times, trying to find something to grab me, or do it 'right' this time, but each time I disengaged because I just didn't have an overarching goal I needed to hit, and therefore I hit my 'well what's the point' wall, and honestly, it's heart-breaking. I'm fairly sure this game is good, and I can deifnitely feel the time and effort and love poured into this game, but I just can't get into it. In conclusion, if you like indirect sims, you can't really go wrong at this price point. It's definitely worth a good look, and it is charming. If you prefer more control in your games (like you can't abide the city builder Pharaoh because of the lack of control over citizens), I would tell you to give this a miss.
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I really like the concepts used to model this game from the ground up. As a casual player that put a lot (maybe too much) hype in this kind of games, I've to admit that Crest is a bold and proud attempt to create something really original instead of the usual Roundabout Remakes we were so often used to. Since Crest's description is pretty accurate and self-explanatory, I don't want to remark what you, playing as a God without superpowers, are supposed to do. Instead I will warn you: this game was announced in 2015. Still, at the dusk of 2017, this game is lacking depth and contents. But the students \ workers behind this project proved their hard will - even with a somewhat little community, they continue to work and sweat under the hood. I'm glad to support this kind of devs, and honored to be a backer of this brilliant ensemble of philosophy, art and - of course - fun. Maybe one day my words will decay in the dust of an another orphaned promising game, but in the while I'm going to come back in this vivid virtual world populated by shapes and sounds to become again, one more time, an indirect God that give goofy Commandments attempting to counsel well his chosen people.
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My largest city starved to death despite producing a ton of food because its high priest decided to interpret the command "Give food to the hungry" as "Sail out to the sea and throw all of our food to the fish to please our god." and I didn't have the influence to stop it until it was already too late. 10/10
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I'm recommending this game not because I think you should buy it, but because I think you wishlist it and check back in a year. This isn't a game in its current state, its a simulation and not a very entertaining one at that. First, I think this is supposed to be a critique of religion? I couldn't find any way to have positive interaction with my followers. If you leave your people to their own devices, they will flourish - farming, hunting, mining, and making new babies and founding new cities. If you do try to send out a commandment (the only way to "play"), one of three things will happen: The most likely outcome will be that your followers completely ignore you. This is the most frustrating, but its not as if the entire Bible isn't filled with similar stories. Of course in the Bible, God would punish the people in some way, while here there is nothing you can do except repeat the commandment. The second most likely outcome is that the command will be "reinterpreted". So if I said, "The hungry should eat", the people will somehow come to the conclusion that I meant "The hungry should mine.", which is annoying, but is kind of the crux of game. But the very worst outcome, in my opinion, is when the people actually listen to what you say... because they will suddenly forget all their needs and focus 110% on whatever the command was. So if you say "the young must mine", they will start mining...and will only stop once they have starved to death. My greatest frustration, however, isn't with the fickle nature of my people, but with their lack of true culture or religion. Your proclamations aren't entered into some holy book or impressed upon a leader - they are either immediately implemented or immediately ignored, and no matter what, are erased from your "list of commandments" (and your followers memories), after a minute or two. The next generation will not be influenced by the orders you gave the previous one, except in how much food and metal your commands ultimately generated for them. The developers have promised futher development for a city/culture system, as well as an ancestral link system, so hopefully that will work out.
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Crest - an indirect god sim is currently priced at 9.89€ on Steam.
Crest - an indirect god sim is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.89€ on Steam.
Crest - an indirect god sim received 245 positive votes out of a total of 373 achieving a rating of 6.30.
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Crest - an indirect god sim was developed and published by Eat Create Sleep.
Crest - an indirect god sim is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Crest - an indirect god sim is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Crest - an indirect god sim is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Crest - an indirect god sim is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for Crest - an indirect god sim. Explore additional content available for Crest - an indirect god sim on Steam.
Crest - an indirect god sim does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Crest - an indirect god sim does not support Steam Remote Play.
Crest - an indirect god sim is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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08 Mar 2018
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