We played at Circadian City, the new life simulator di Nowhere Studios e Way Down Deep, poised between the world of dreams and the real / virtual one. Let's find out all the features of Circadian City in our review.
Our Circadian City review
The game, currently in Early Access, gives players the ability to create an avatar and manage their career, social interactions, and even what happens while sleeping. Our new virtual life therefore begins with the character creation. The customization possibilities are, at the moment, very limited, also thanks to the classic pixel graphic style which does not guarantee a great deal of detail.
Our character has recently left the family nest and is ready to start a new job away from home in the renowned Circadian City. A train from us, the city offers everything a new adult (even virtual) could want: a new home, new acquaintances, a real job and lots of opportunities. The city of our dreams.
And it is in dreams that the game gives its best. Going to sleep after a long day of work will not only restore our energy. In dream world we will be able to further develop the personality and skills of the protagonist by having many elements to collect and missions to carry out. Here we will also find many new and bizarre characters who are part of our past and our psyche but we will only have a few minutes a night to carry out our missions and get the best out of this double life.
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Circadian City
Developer:
Nowhere Studios
Price:
9,99 €
Between life ...
The lavoro will occupy us for most of the day, but thanks now we will have the opportunity to improve our home, go out with friends, take courses to improve ours ability and of course, eat. We will indeed have 4 primary needs to be satisfied: hunger, sleep, sociability e fun. Each action we carry out will consume a certain number of hours of the day some of which will depend on our will. In fact, we can choose whether to work only 4 hours or spend the whole day in the office. Clearly this action will change the values of the money earned and our remaining energy.
In the early stages of the game, as in life, the amount of income will not be very high and we will have to make sacrifices to try to spend as little as possible and be able to "get by" and improve our skills. More we will develop skills and relationships with other citizens of Circadian City, the higher our chances of being successful. We will also have the opportunity to improve our studio and make it more suitable for our interests. In the moment of character creation, in addition to beard, hair and clothes, we will be able to select the our interests.
These will influence the protagonist's tastes and hobbies as well as the way he relates to others. It will be much easier to become friends with those who share our same interests and relationships in Circadian City are everything. Thanks to the other people we will in fact have a way to learn new recipes, know more secrets of the city or even start a romantic relationship with any non-player character.
There are many things you can and must do but luckily, when night comes, it's time to go to sleep.
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… And dreams
Although sleeping will increase our model citizen's amount of energy, the world of dreams we have a series of missions to carry out. Placing our head on the pillow will in fact plunge us into a new world in which we will have to deal with bizarre characters and items to collect and farm. The city does not allow for a personal garden, so we will have to rely on our dreams.
And this is where the game shows typical farm simulator elements in which you have to create fertile clods of earth to grow fruit and vegetables and all the fantastic plants that grow this way. A Simple and intuitive craft system allows us to make tools and constructions for gather resources and help the dwellers of dreams. The latter will provide us with missions to unlock new areas and other items. Thanks to some of these, we can enhance our personality with a tree of buffs and abilities (it's really a tree!) that will work in the real world as well.
Therefore, the two realities are not mutually exclusive and we will have to give our best in both to obtain useful advantages, make strong friends and have a successful life.
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Existence in Pixel
The game features a very simple graphics in Pixel Art style extremely colorful and lively that best reflects the funny and light atmosphere of the game. Each setting has its own identity pixellous, from the gray areas of the city, to the green of the central park up to the colorful dream world. Thanks to the simplicity and lightness of the game and graphics, fluidity is king. Likewise the soundtrack follows the rhythm of the game even if we have not listened to particularly engaging tracks.
Circadian City review: in conclusion…
Circadian City represents another life simulator that differs from the others from this double identity between the real world and that of dreams. If the former gives us a slower and sometimes monotonous pace, the world of dreams gives us mechanics of Farmvillian memory that fit well into these types of video games. What does not flow well is the static nature of non-player characters that regardless of the day or time they are constantly in the same place without interacting with the protagonist unless we want to.
This small but important detail makes up for this not very lively and engaging life simulator. We hope that the bugs and gaps in the game can be resolved during Early Access to make this simple game more complete with new gameplay elements and greater versatility.
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