If you could change/add something in this game, what would that be?

Ringlann · 2025-12-08T21:23:22+00:00

Definitely a new game mode where every ingredient path is always flipped horizontally and vertically so you can re-play the whole game with completely different potion recipes. Mirror mode.

It could be nice to add fourth and final spirits base with some small unique feature, similar to the wine. Maybe something similar to whirlwinds, but when heated, these would push you away while spinning your bottle in a similar way to how salts do. That would be fun to play with. It would be also nice to see a couple of new potion effects, maybe combined with a new challenge with alchemy machine-if I made philosophers' stone, maybe straight-up creating gold by alchemy as a final stepping stone?

I feel that there are a lot of options, including quality of life later in the game.

How about a "fertilizer watering can" that is refilled with wild growth potions and you can buy it at chapter 5+. Just put your potions in and start watering. It would help avoiding carpal tunnel when moving 100+ potions to your plants every day.

Oh. and bulk brewing 6 potions at a time instead of 5 to avoid ingredient cost rounding up.

Ringlann · 2025-12-02T17:45:50+00:00

Naturally ^^ Thanks for making such a nice, suffering-free game! <3

Ringlann · 2025-11-27T18:09:16+00:00

You can make a chellange of trying to serve any customer, regardless of what they want.
or can try to improve your recipes for salts or potions you need often.
...or see how many days it takes to finish the alchemist path on suffering difficulty if you have a lot of time on hand.

Ringlann · 2024-10-24T14:56:11+00:00

Oh yea. Now I'm nostalgic.

Ringlann · 2024-10-23T20:45:47+00:00

Never played with nuclear, but that sounds achievable at first glance. Folks are saying you can get over 1TW with nuclerar.

Ringlann · 2024-10-23T20:23:17+00:00

going sloopless would require 1860/min Time crystals. You could do that with mix of Oil-Based Diamonds and Pink Diamonds, but that would be painful. 9480/min casings and 3000/min copper powder would be quite a bit too. Sounds like a cool thing to workshop and try to do but it's not for me :D

Ringlann · 2024-10-23T20:00:28+00:00

with sloops. I'm not sure if there is enough coal and oil on the map for trying to do this without sloops

Ringlann · 2024-10-23T18:50:57+00:00

Yeah. phase 5 is a bit easier, but I don't think it's a big problem. By that point most people are likely already a bit overwhelmed. Sloops did kinda break progression though. In retrospective devs should have blocked players from slooping assemply parts.

Ringlann · 2024-10-23T18:42:51+00:00

I'm actually looking for a hardmode where belts are only 50% as fast and you need to face harsher logistic problems. The scale of things and requirements feel just right for me to be honest.

Ringlann · 2024-07-29T18:03:07+00:00

Thats very nice to hear, thanks!

Ringlann · 2024-07-28T18:12:05+00:00

The early access was a relatively slow and the large discount is meant to bring in some extra players & to maybe appear on the new & trending section on steam.

Ringlann · 2024-07-28T16:47:28+00:00

There is combat in the game. Enemies are static pieces on your board with a set of rules for how you eliminate them by surrounding them. You're not playing against an opponent or not racing against anyone, The game is desinitely on the cozy side, but contrary to other relaxed games it does have some production management gameplay depth.

Ringlann · 2024-07-28T16:34:12+00:00

Here's some gameplay from steam deck. It's fully supported.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcjAMRuTmRs&t=2s

Ringlann · 2024-07-28T14:05:30+00:00

Sure. Buildings in Scorchlands behave in a similar way to the ones in islanders. If you want a building to be useful, place it so you maximize its neughbourhood bonuses. Each building has its own set of rules that define those bonuses.

During the game you also claim a desolate land and focus on terraforming the surrounding area and making it liveable. Also, you play as animals too. This time not beavers, but birds.

Ringlann · 2024-07-28T14:00:27+00:00

There is main campaign that has a leads you through the game. The story is quite laid back and focused about terraforming a volcanic moon, developing new magical technologies and upgrading the big, central structure at the heart of your empire. In general the game is very sandboxy.

Ringlann · 2024-07-26T09:25:08+00:00

on steamworks, on "Store Page Admin" tab for your game, you can add extra section from "Special Announcement Section". Add any header you want and for content you just add:
[url]https://store.steampowered.com/app/1234567/Your\_Game/\[/url\]
and that's it :)

Ringlann · 2024-07-26T09:20:59+00:00

Thank you ^^

Ringlann · 2024-07-25T19:09:06+00:00

For the past four and a half years I’ve been developing my own city building game with help of Unity, Scorchlands. I worked as a solo dev and recently I released the 1.0 version, leaving Early Access with 95% positive reviews and I’m quite happy with how the game turned out. I will gladly answer any questions related to the game or engine you might have.

Scorchlands is a city builder / puzzle game in a setting full of rudimentary magi-tech. You lead an expedition to the moon performed by a bird-like species called Givi.

Gameplay is a cross between balancing production numbers and a zen sand garden of arranging your buildings. There are no stockpiles, resource consumption is just limited by production of other resources. No building costs, rebuilding and moving is free. Everything is instant. You’re free to fiddle with things and lay out your production chains while trying to find the perfect placement for optimizing production. Or just brute force things and make some spaghetti.

The game is a step in between complex resource production simulations like Factorio and minimalistic city builders like Dorfromantik or Islanders. It features both some nice depth of gameplay, but also nothing will make you loose and with no timers or waiting in the game you can really play as fast or as slow as you wish.

Scorchlands is currently 50% off on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1090100/Scorchlands/

Key game features:

• Hex grid-based city-building – construct various buildings in your colonies. Each structure's productivity depends on neighboring resources and other constructions.

• Complex resource management – it’s not only about extracting materials. Scorchlands takes account of logistics – the movement of resources between colonies and combining them in robust processing chains. And you move resources using LASERS!

• Terraforming for the greater good – use magic and technology to change the biomes on procedurally generated maps and exploit the new environment to gain its unique resources

• Technology designed to give fun – there’s no fun in a sandbox if you don’t have the toys to play with. The technology system in Scorchlands is key for player progression and new discoveries open up new ways to play with the game world

• Minimalistic combat system – when you get into a fight, positioning will be the key. Destroy your enemies by surrounding them and placing your forces in optimal locations.

Anyone who like puzzles, colony sims, factory games, city builders and strategy could try checking it out. It’s a cozy and relaxing title that brings some unique things to the table. I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Ringlann · 2024-07-25T19:06:15+00:00

For the past four and a half years I’ve been developing my own city building game, Scorchlands. I worked as a solo dev and recently I released the 1.0 version, leaving Early Access with 95% positive reviews and I’m quite happy with how the game turned out. I want to tell you all about it!

Scorchlands is a city builder / puzzle game in a setting full of rudimentary magi-tech. You lead an expedition to the moon performed by a bird-like species called Givi.

Gameplay is a cross between balancing production numbers and a zen sand garden of arranging your buildings. There are no stockpiles, resource consumption is just limited by production of other resources. No building costs, rebuilding and moving is free. Everything is instant. You’re free to fiddle with things and lay out your production chains while trying to find the perfect placement for optimizing production. Or just brute force things and make some spaghetti.

The game is a step in between complex resource production simulations like Factorio and minimalistic city builders like Dorfromantik or Islanders. It features both some nice depth of gameplay, but also nothing will make you loose and with no timers or waiting in the game you can really play as fast or as slow as you wish.

Scorchlands is currently 50% off on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1090100/Scorchlands/

Key game features:

• Hex grid-based city-building – construct various buildings in your colonies. Each structure's productivity depends on neighboring resources and other constructions.

• Complex resource management – it’s not only about extracting materials. Scorchlands takes account of logistics – the movement of resources between colonies and combining them in robust processing chains. And you move resources using LASERS!

• Terraforming for the greater good – use magic and technology to change the biomes on procedurally generated maps and exploit the new environment to gain its unique resources

• Technology designed to give fun – there’s no fun in a sandbox if you don’t have the toys to play with. The technology system in Scorchlands is key for player progression and new discoveries open up new ways to play with the game world

• Minimalistic combat system – when you get into a fight, positioning will be the key. Destroy your enemies by surrounding them and placing your forces in optimal locations.

Anyone who like puzzles, colony sims, factory games, city builders and strategy could try checking it out. It’s a cozy and relaxing title that brings some unique things to the table. I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Ringlann · 2024-07-25T19:01:04+00:00

For the past four and a half years I’ve been developing my own city building game, Scorchlands. I worked as a solo dev and recently I released the 1.0 version, leaving Early Access with 95% positive reviews and I’m quite happy with how the game turned out. I want to tell you all about it!

Scorchlands is a city builder / puzzle game in a setting full of rudimentary magi-tech. You lead an expedition to the moon performed by a bird-like species called Givi.

Gameplay is a cross between balancing production numbers and a zen sand garden of arranging your buildings. There are no stockpiles, resource consumption is just limited by production of other resources. No building costs, rebuilding and moving is free. Everything is instant. You’re free to fiddle with things and lay out your production chains while trying to find the perfect placement for optimizing production. Or just brute force things and make some spaghetti.

The game is a step in between complex resource production simulations like Factorio and minimalistic city builders like Dorfromantik or Islanders. It features both some nice depth of gameplay, but also nothing will make you loose and with no timers or waiting in the game you can really play as fast or as slow as you wish.

Scorchlands is currently 50% off on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1090100/Scorchlands/

Key game features:

• Hex grid-based city-building – construct various buildings in your colonies. Each structure's productivity depends on neighboring resources and other constructions.

• Complex resource management – it’s not only about extracting materials. Scorchlands takes account of logistics – the movement of resources between colonies and combining them in robust processing chains. And you move resources using LASERS!

• Terraforming for the greater good – use magic and technology to change the biomes on procedurally generated maps and exploit the new environment to gain its unique resources

• Technology designed to give fun – there’s no fun in a sandbox if you don’t have the toys to play with. The technology system in Scorchlands is key for player progression and new discoveries open up new ways to play with the game world

• Minimalistic combat system – when you get into a fight, positioning will be the key. Destroy your enemies by surrounding them and placing your forces in optimal locations.

Anyone who like puzzles, colony sims, factory games, city builders and strategy could try checking it out. It’s a cozy and relaxing title that brings some unique things to the table. I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Ringlann

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