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❌ A Broken, Soft-Locked Disaster (DO NOT BUY) DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. It looks like a clever corporate/medieval satire on the surface, but underneath it is an completely broken, unplayable mess that the developers have abandoned in a half-baked alpha state. The game is riddled with game-breaking event flag bugs. If you don't do tasks in a highly specific, linear order, the engine completely deadlocks your save file. I have hit multiple permanent soft-locks where the UI freezes entirely—restricting the main menu to just "Status" and "Item"—and crucial progression markers like the advanced lectures completely break and say "not available." Worse, the quest lines are fundamentally unfinished. I am currently trapped in an infinite dialogue time loop with the weapons dealer's kid during the Heroes' Guild storyline. The game endlessly repeats the quest trigger, cancels out the next step, and completely locks down the inputs so you can't even save or quit normally. The developers do not care and are not fixing these issues. They took the Early Access cash and left the game's code completely scrambled. I spent my first two hours just trying to troubleshoot basic technical issues, pushing me past the automatic Steam refund window. Save your money and your sanity. Do not support developers who abandon broken products.

Originally I wasn't going to get this game. Even though I play many rpgmaker games, this one isn't really the type of thing I look for, but in the end I tried it on a whim. Needless to say I can't really recommend it at the moment. The most positive thing I can say is that it looks nice. The tiles are well-used and while I did notice a couple overlay issues there wasn't anything major to concern the developer with considering the other problems the game has. And I have a lot of problems. Perhaps the most significant one is, as many other reviewers have stated, there's just ton of bugs, big and small. I've run across a few of the ones that don't explicitly stop your progress but do massively hamper it. For example, I'm currently being taxed for a townhouse I don't own, a bug that still exists in my game file even though it was supposedly fixed, so I guess I may be stuck with that forever, maybe. But others have mentioned some that completely halt progress, so it's hard to justify playing the game in its current state - as such, it's impossible to earnestly recommend it for $10, even though it really needs a lot more testing as an early access title. Quite a catch-22 there. But putting the bugs aside, I have some other problems too. The game has a sluggish pace amplified by frustrating game systems. I realize that this is the intent since this is satire based on the woes and hardship of a college graduate(I'll get to this a bit later), and that the point is to break out of the cycle via any number of means, but there are simply better ways to express this than dragging you with unavoidable shenanigans that may not have even been funny the first time it happened. The flyer girls, which are 95% of the NPC makeup outside of buildings, harass you constantly. Having to carry 10 swords instead of one, lowering your walking speed. Having to wait at the door for a minute for the lady to return from her break(happened several days in a row for me!). Getting your wallet stolen. Having a tax reaper directly take your money each and every time you get paid. All of this is stuff that is funny exactly one time, it is not something that is worth repeating over and over again. And the text is always the same, requiring you to click through it each and every time and there really should be an option to let you skip it. Perhaps the worst thing of all is eating, which isn't even a part of the satire. It just takes forever, and you need to do it a lot. I realize you are meant to break away from all this and find an escape, and that's fine, but you can express that without belaboring the point, and really, this is more or less just a lead-in to discuss the real problem with this. The satire. It's... odd. It feels out of time and place. It's a fantasy world, but if I was to take a look at this from the perspective of the 40-something year old man from the USA that I am(and America is even mentioned in-game at some point, so perhaps I can assume that the developer is also from here?), I really don't think it's effective. I too remember people standing around carrying fliers and being really annoying about it - in like the 90s when I was 12. But there's ATMs and cellphones and presumably the internet because there's cellphones so it'd be more believable to let me look at my email and see tons of junk ads and job app rejections. Stuff like carrying 10 swords at once misses the opportunity to commentate on health code violations. The coffee break lady would have like 10000 negative reviews on fantasy Google and the game should let you leave one. You should be able to lay a trap for the pickpocket, or just let me have a damn checking account instead of just a stock portfolio which no poor student actually has. Hell, let me fight the tax reaper and die. Even the whole tone of getting a college degree feels off, there's not even a horrific loan for you to have to fight and pay down, even though this is perhaps one of the most timely and easy targets fo