UPDATED REVIEW
Small Complex 3.0
I downloaded it again after not having played it in almost two years. I wanted to see what has changed. I didn't lag. So that's good. But I found the game to be annoying to the point where I did not want to play it. Just endless screens of dialog with no way to fast skip through it and no way to rewind. Just click click click a billion times. Way too many loading screens. The loading screens are black too. I always felt that black loading screens were not a good design choice. When I am in the 3D portion of the game, the mouse sensitivity is like a billion. It is easy to get lost because moving your mouse will cause you to spin around a billion miles per second. There is also no compass to tell you where to go. You just have to wander around and hope you find the right direction. Graphics are nothing to get excited about. Just cartoony, low quality detail. If you can bear these annoyances, you could give the game a try. Oh, no way to change mouse sensitivity in the Settings. You are stuck with it. Going to uninstall now. But before I do, I'll generously bump it from 1 star to 2 star to be nice.
PREVIOUS REVIEW
The game was unplayable for me. At startup, I tried resizing the window to my desired size. This broke the UI where my mouse pointer and the actual mouse location in the game window were not matched up right. So I restarted the game a few more times, trying to play the game at its default window size. Unfortunately, anytime that the game was in windowed mode (Alt + Enter) it was off screen. If it was in what I think was fullscreen, it still showed the title bar. So it didn't feel like fullscreen. The game was so unbearably laggy that just pressing a button like Enter or Esc or an arrow key to navigate the menu was difficult. And even if fullscreen, the mouse pointer did not match up with the menu right. I have a GTX 1650, so I am bewildered on why it was so laggy. I had used the "other engine" top menu to disable some stuff like bloom and vignette and a few others, but that didn't improve the lagy any. The controls were not intuitive. I tried caming around and I just couldn't do it. Too laggy. Graphics are bad. I don't know why I downloaded this game. In the game, the 3d models look bad. In game preview pictures, they look bad. I must have been in a hurry and just downloaded it without giving it a good preview look. If you have a newest generation GPU and CPU, maybe you can play this game. But I couldn't. And even if my laptop could handle it, I don't think I would enjoy it.
Small Complex 3.0
I downloaded it again after not having played it in almost two years. I wanted to see what has changed. I didn't lag. So that's good. But I found the game to be annoying to the point where I did not want to play it. Just endless screens of dialog with no way to fast skip through it and no way to rewind. Just click click click a billion times. Way too many loading screens. The loading screens are black too. I always felt that black loading screens were not a good design choice. When I am in the 3D portion of the game, the mouse sensitivity is like a billion. It is easy to get lost because moving your mouse will cause you to spin around a billion miles per second. There is also no compass to tell you where to go. You just have to wander around and hope you find the right direction. Graphics are nothing to get excited about. Just cartoony, low quality detail. If you can bear these annoyances, you could give the game a try. Oh, no way to change mouse sensitivity in the Settings. You are stuck with it. Going to uninstall now. But before I do, I'll generously bump it from 1 star to 2 star to be nice.
PREVIOUS REVIEW
The game was unplayable for me. At startup, I tried resizing the window to my desired size. This broke the UI where my mouse pointer and the actual mouse location in the game window were not matched up right. So I restarted the game a few more times, trying to play the game at its default window size. Unfortunately, anytime that the game was in windowed mode (Alt + Enter) it was off screen. If it was in what I think was fullscreen, it still showed the title bar. So it didn't feel like fullscreen. The game was so unbearably laggy that just pressing a button like Enter or Esc or an arrow key to navigate the menu was difficult. And even if fullscreen, the mouse pointer did not match up with the menu right. I have a GTX 1650, so I am bewildered on why it was so laggy. I had used the "other engine" top menu to disable some stuff like bloom and vignette and a few others, but that didn't improve the lagy any. The controls were not intuitive. I tried caming around and I just couldn't do it. Too laggy. Graphics are bad. I don't know why I downloaded this game. In the game, the 3d models look bad. In game preview pictures, they look bad. I must have been in a hurry and just downloaded it without giving it a good preview look. If you have a newest generation GPU and CPU, maybe you can play this game. But I couldn't. And even if my laptop could handle it, I don't think I would enjoy it.