I Am Future

This is a very mild recommendation. If you want a simple survival game that never really changes beyond some basic automation, this is the game for you. When I saw that there would be robots to command, I was enthused, but they can't do some core things, like farm for you. The game explicitly says that the robots are there to do the boring parts, but fishing and farming are hugely tedious, especially later in the game when the volume of needed items grows.

Fundamentally, you can *feel* that this was a game in Early Access. New mechanics spring out of nowhere and are poorly supported, the narrative will have dramatic cutscenes that fizzle out in the next chapter, the "twist" comes out of nowhere and is meaningless, the last chapter is unpolished, there's a huge spike in resource demand in the late game without mechanics to support generating those resources, and the late game is clearly unoptimized, with loading and running the game both being difficult even on a solid computer.

The core of the experience is mindless fun, but it's clear that the EA development cycle left noticeable scars on the game. This is a most mild thumbs up for an ok but clearly flawed experience.

It’s a solid pick for anyone who loves survival games but prefers a more relaxed pace. Whether you’re crafting, farming, scavenging, or perfecting your base design, this game delivers a refreshingly laid-back experience. The art style is charming, and the soothing soundtrack complements the overall vibe. Highly recommended for players looking to unwind while still enjoying the satisfaction of building and thriving in a survival setting.

Six hours in and I can confidently say I am happy to have bought this game and to be playing it. Some of you definitely will fall off in liking this game due to repetitive-upgrady-grindy nature, but it is well balanced and this turns out to be a strong point. Hopefully this review helps those who will love it make that leap and buy it. My excitement in the beginning turned to caution after about an hour or two of play, but I continued on, struggling to understand why I liked it so much. Finally, after seeing the title again, I realized the one word that made a difference: Cozy. This game is absolutely cozy, meant for long hours of play and enjoyment, without the rise and fall of a grand adventure. The adventure is in the journey, every hour of play, balanced with mundane coziness of seeing your roof top slowly evolve. Maybe a little grindy by nature, but only with the wrong perspective and expectation is this grind a bad thing. It is the grind that slows it down, that balances the game, makes you earn every step, and ensures you keep playing on, hour after hour. This is not a grand adventure like Baulder's Gate, nor routine peaks of excitement every 7 days till death, nor an infinitely modifiable world of mining and crafting and blocks. It contains a slowly measured and dispersed system of upgrades, exploring, and revealing of new technology. Six hours in and I'm finally seeing my rooftop space come alive with my own sense of feng shui and function. I see the store page images of how grand it can be and think, "dang, I'm so far from that!" And that is what is so exciting, it will be a while for me to scale to that level, to figure out the other mechanics, and take time and love to get it done. This a game for sitting on the couch when you have a few calm hours to chill, getting high and enjoying the scenery of nature taking over, of letting your mind build your own space in beautiful world. Now I don't want this review to be misleading over over the top positive, so I'll be real here and more straightforward:
Game elements or styles and my opinion:
-Graphics: love it, nice and campy, good colors, simple, lovely to live in
-POV or movement: 3rd person and able to zoom in or out, no issues with me, works well with WASD and cameral panning, even if I had more options like first person, I'm sure I would stick to how it is
-Grindy: a little bit, but the way the available resources forces the timing and metered delivery of upgrades as you progress is actually a strong point and I think balances the game, maybe at times annoying but then I just remember that this is a cozy couch relaxing game and not meant to be some grand adventure, but a nice game to play while high and apreciating the small things
-Rooftop home: love every aspect of this, tool upgrades are required to get access to other parts of the roof, keeping the reveal of this spaced out, and tool upgrades also required to fully clear a space, which is an awesome way to balance and drag out the space you already have access to, slowing down your ability to just clear everything at once, you have to grow with it and keeps your space evolving till mid or end game. So many more aspects to the rooftop: clearing and discovering it, moving all your built items and curating your space, slow clearing more with tool upgrades, weather and bugs, electricit, storage bins and crafting areas, etc.
-Upgrades: you are forced to explore aspects of the game due to the cost of upgrades, meaning materials vs coins vs craftable items or food. For example, a tool upgrade was needed, but the only way to get it was by crafting 5 salads, oh boy did I learn the power of lettuce leaves and wish I hadn't just eaten them, anyway this forced me to dive into cooking, which I previously had not put any effort into but was very glad to begin learning about
-Gardening: I am so excited to start a big garden, barely started this. FYI: torches attract the bugs that eat your crops, not repel... oops
-Fishing: simple enough to get the goods, I hope there are more places to fish later on, gotta find that fishing line upgrade somewhere...
-Robot helpers: just got my first one! Simple and intuitive, very excited more.
There are more aspects to this game that I haven't delved into yet and look forward to (expeditions, radio, other upgrades that expand game play), but I admittedly play games like this much much slower than most. This game allows you to do that without being punished, spend an hour re organizing your rooftop, or fish a ton for supplies and food. There is plenty of time later for more serious things like game progression... those bushes aren't going to move themselves into a cool maze. Knowing me, I won't reach end game with everything achieved or discovered until hour 30 or 40, well worth the 10 bucks on sale. I will update this review as I dally along. And of course, great cozy game to play while high. Remember, it's a "cozy" game, and hopefully my review explains more what that means, for a ton of you out there are going to LOVE it for this.
Cheers,
-AT

Just finished the game, so expect it to be kinda 20 hours long until main story finished.
If you like calm cozy games that are kinda tedious to get things done, this game is for you. I cant's say for sure if it's worth the full price tag, but definitely worths a grab on discount.
Pros
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- Cute game with nice graphics and animations.
- Cute cozy music.
- One of these games where you get to cleanup whole locations and get the satisfaction out of it!
Neutral
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- Story is okayish
- Mini games are cool but get tedious after a while due to the lack of variety and automation e.g. no fish robot or easier fishing with better rod or faster complex object dismantling
- Could use some QoL e.g. batch crafting, auto crafting, auto dismantling etc...
- Coop would have been nice since robots don't actually help that much.
- Some tiny performance especially with containers or when exiting the game.
- Would be great if you could have some more robots and make your base feel more "alive".
Cons
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- Game could have been a lot better honestly if more content existed or at least modding support!
- Although at first it's nice to progress, find new stuff and unlock new locations, after a while you see that there aren't many locations or things.
- No way to completely get rid the pest spawns (although not really a reason to)
- Plenty of foods to make, but literally 0 reason to make them apart from some of them mainly for quests or to get some advanced resources at first.
- Plenty of "defenses" but really 0 reason to use them.
- Loading screens on elevators but not when teleporting???

You start playing and just can't stop, you got things to do! Clear the mess, collect stuff, craft stuff, unlock stuff, go places!
And yet it's totally relaxed because you set your own goals and it's quite easy to NOT starve or anything, so you can go exploring and unlock new things, new tools and new places. Sometimes it feels a bit weird to have only kind of "artificial company" and sometimes the sounds those companions make get on my nerves (singing electronic voices are just not my cup of tea...) but overall it's a great game I love spending time with.
Oh, and I really like the background and menu music.
A clear recommendation!

Very very cute game, similar to Dismantle, I only wish it was multiplayer so I could play with friends, that would make it even better, but yes, cute graphics, nice buildings and quests, really enjoying it, it is very relaxing and quite funny.

It's a good survival game with depth and creativity behind it... but it's not casual as the reviews say... In the couple hours I played I felt a constant pressure to feed myself, a constant race against time before the food bar would drain, and constant anxiety dealing with overflowing inventory. It's not chill... it's anxiety ridden.

But it's well made, and different in it's own way to all the other survival games... sorta. It's just not going to be for me... I bought it to play my main genre of survival/craft/build in what was supposed to be a more relaxing environment... the feelings this gives, I might as well just stick with the games I already play that aren't telling people they are chill.

It is a good game, well worth the price and if you enjoy the genre, it's very well made... but it's a lot of anxiety. It really is.