On weekends I struggle to find things to do. I can't do what I'd normally be doing at the moment -- writing -- and I don't feel capable of immersing myself in heavier games.

Today I went from being determined to start a new Skyrim story, to creating a new Dragon Age tapestry and new character in DA:Inquisition, to immediately closing that and staring at Stardew Valley for all of five minutes, and then trying the Guild 2 for some nostalgia's sake, for another two whole minutes...

It was just one of those days.

To be honest, I feel like I'm wasting time that I should be spending writing, but you try writing emotionally overwhelming characters with a seven year old lurking over your shoulder, farting, and listening to weird-arse Baldi's Basics songs on Youtube. 😉

In the end, I went through the Steam store hoping to find something cheap, casual, but interesting enough to hold my Hyperactive Squirrel Attention Span for longer than a minute. And I chose ISLANDERS.

It's a fairly basic game. I guess it could be referred to as a city-builder, but I personally wouldn't go that far. It's more a build-build-build get-enough-points get-to-the-next-island go-go-go do-it-again.

The cities aren't there to be cared for and nurtured, they're there to get you enough points to migrate onward.

I did enjoy it enough to lose a few hours to it though. And apparently completed almost all of the achievements without even trying. Just need to get a couple of the more up-there ones that involve getting fairly high scores. Higher than what I was getting.

The main thing for me, I think, is that there's an online leaderboard system embedded in it. So you want to keep playing to get a higher score to prove to random people you've never met that HAH! I'm Number One! (or, in my case, number 109,334)

But high scores can get a bit painful to actually get, especially when you get bestowed a horror archipelago like the one RNG gave me above.

There's also a Sandbox mode if you want to build a nice, aesthetic city with no restrictions. I tried it out to get the above screenshot but didn't find it particularly compelling enough to keep on playing it.

Didn't see the point.

The normal game-mode is far more appealing. If I'm going to be wasting my time, I don't want to actually feel as though I'm wasting my time. 😆

I want to see numbers, I want to see progress, I want to see my score rise ever upward!!

NUMBERS!!!!!!!

Anywho. I thought it was decent for an $8.50AUD Weekend Time-Killer. Will probably be spending my Sunday in it too.

Ahhhhhh, bring on Monday. The Day of Being Able to DO.

I know, I know; I'm perverse. Everyone else dreams of weekends; I dream of weekdays.

You can find ISLANDERS on the Steam Store behind these blue words.
I recommend it if you get Indecisive Gamer ADD like I do and just need to CLICK SOMETHING.

 

Until next time,

Thank you for stopping by! 🙃

 

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_{All screenshots in the post courtesy of me, Hive account@kaelci, from the game: ISLANDERS.}