Design automated workshops for your odd and adorable Sparks to carry and craft everything, including more of themselves! Lead your squad of Sparks into combat. Explore a strange fantasy world, in single player or online co-op. Unearth the ancient mystery of the Sparks!
I was getting annoyed with the game for a while but tried getting through it out of pure spite.
Don't get me wrong the game is not without charm or promise, but it just doesn't work properly.
Progression is pretty arbitrary and stops giving you relevant or useful things, at some point it's just unlocking a bunch of nonsense for no real purpose.
A lot...
Oddsparks is a promising game that unfortunately falls short just when you expect it to get really good.
The initial experience is genuinely fantastic. Exploring the world, discovering new Sparks, and figuring out how to put them to work is a lot of fun. There's a wonderful sense of adventure and progression as you uncover new possibilities and slowly...
This game is very charming and I really enjoyed my first 10-15 hours or so, but somewhere in there, it doesn't do enough to mitigate the drudgery, and getting anything done just starts to feel onerous. Which then gets you to a point where you don't want to play anymore, even if you were excited to see more progression.
Some examples:
- You have to run...
Some design choices make this less than enjoyable for me. First many factory machines can only be built on specific bases found throughout the map severely limiting your ability to design and build an efficient production line. Second, resources are not well distributed, they are all restricted to specific regions making long distance transport necessary....
an automation adventure where the automation is fighting with you all the way.
