izigame.me

This game has the potential to be mind-blowing, but it's not there yet.


The core foundation of the game is amazing.
The way building feels, how seamless it all is, how literally anything you slap together looks beautiful, it's insane and will hook you in as soon as you build your first wall or tower.
But at the moment it's very bare-bones and needs more time.
I know it's called 'tiny' glade but the world size is way too small to make anything beyond a single castle or hamlet. The trailers make it seem like you can make sprawling cities and towns but that's not really the case. A larger world that lets you build multiple large towns and cities connected with long, winding roads with small hamlets and farming areas in between is what this game should and could be, but that's not the case right now.
The building pieces themselves are also very limited. You can make quite detailed houses and castles by stitching pieces together at different sizes and angles, the colour wheel gives a nice variety of options but there really needs to be more especially in terms of ambient and environmental stuff to fill space. There's flowers, but they're only one type that often doesn't fit with a style you're going for. Why not add more varieties of flowers, or crop fields with different varieties, or small rocks and boulders you can place to make the terrain look more varied, or more control over what trees you can place, these are just a few examples of many things that could and should be added to make the great truly great.
It might seem nit-picky and I know the game literally just launched and will probably get updates adding a lot of this stuff but I wanted to make it clear in this review that the game is very bare-bones right now. I only have just over an hour in it but I can already see where it is heading; I fill up the (very small) space available to me, have my fun and then move on. I doubt I'd want to create a new glade and start over because the build pieces aren't varied enough and whatever I built next would look very similar to what I built before. This isn't a lack of my own creativity, I've played many games like this before. It's the game itself that is restrictive on creativity in many ways at the moment.
Expand the space available to me, add more variety to build pieces and more stuff I can place down to make it look nice and the game will become an all-time great as I can see the immense potential with the core way the game functions and how nice building feels. But at the moment it's not something I can see myself spending more than a dozen hours in without exhausting everything it has available to me. If you're fine with that at this price point, then by all means pick the game up and support the devs so they can continue future updates. But it's something you should at least know before buying.
Still positive review though because of the amazing potential and I imagine it will be fun for at least a while.