Wilderness with Tomboy

A textbook "serviceable" game. Writing is dumb at a lot of points but still gets the job done. Mechanics are just an excuse to pace things out and get too grindy by the end but aren't terrible. Scenes are kinda sparse for being AI but good enough. A very weak 3 stars but still manages to squeak by because it's complete and doesn't overstay its welcome.

The writing is passable, and the scenes are fun. The art is AI so -1, and what little game play there is, are mini-games with 0 risk and gathering resources from said mini-games or replaying a scene (-2).

The gameplay loop is very tedious and there's no benefit to performing well in the minigames. You basically will either succeed or fail, there's no way to speed up the progress just do the same thing over and over again until you progress. The art is fine, the model stays consistent from what I saw and it looked reasonably polished, but there are very few scenes overall. Giving it a 2.5 or 3/5 because the game functions as you expect it to and the only things that were actively "wrong" with the game is that some of the food claims it will be "slightly" or "medium" increase to a stat and then it turns out that it's "vastly" or some other descriptor. So while the game does what it intended to do (aside from the aforementioned grammar errors), what it does is just okay/fine. It'll take you about 15 minutes to finish if you skip all the text, and most of those minutes will be playing through the minigames because you can't skip them or speed them up in any way.