While I might've clocked in only one hour in the game and, while the unique visual style and much of the short-form storytelling is great and more than justifies the fundamentally simple resource management game loop, it all comes through a very stilted text filter. It's as if most of the game has been Google translated from German to English. Proper technical terms get swapped with non-technical synonyms. Even the dubbed narration sounds deeply awkward.

The effect of the incongruous prose can be summed up by one achievement: "Short Circuit - Cross an Energy and Water Pipeline"
Crossing energy and water pipelines has zero gameplay impact for something that the player will likely do by accident, so I'd hardly call it a joke, much less an achievement. In fact, when I got the achievement I thought I did something wrong, prompting me to investigate whether anything has actually short circuited. And this isn't the only achievement like this. It just doesn't fit together.

Also of note; this game works just fine on Windows 8.1 despite the minimum requirements.

While I might've clocked in only one hour in the game and, while the unique visual style and much of the short-form storytelling is great and more than justifies the fundamentally simple resource management game loop, it all comes through a very stilted text filter. It's as if most of the game has been Google translated from German to English. Proper technical terms get swapped with non-technical synonyms. Even the dubbed narration sounds deeply awkward. The effect of the incongruous prose can be summed up by one achievement: [i]"Short Circuit - Cross an Energy and Water Pipeline"[/i] Crossing energy and water pipelines has zero gameplay impact for something that the player will likely do by accident, so I'd hardly call it a joke, much less an achievement. In fact, when I got the achievement I thought I did something [u]wrong[/u], prompting me to investigate whether anything has actually short circuited. [i]And this isn't the only achievement like this.[/i] It just doesn't fit together. Also of note; this game works just fine on Windows 8.1 despite the minimum requirements.