Dorfromantik is a relaxing strategy game where you place tiles to grow beautiful and ever-expanding landscapes with plenty of replay-ability.

Gameplay & Features
Dorfromantik (translated as the German word meaning "village romanticization")is a game that is highly relaxing, challenging, and fun where you place tiles to create ever-growing landscapes filled with villages, trains, boats, waterways, wheat fields and lush forests. You start off with a stack of procedurally generated tiles and place them down on available slots, rotating them for the best fit. In the process you create forests, villages, and bodies of water. Get bonuses as you continue to grow each landscape. Special tiles will appear that give you quests and as you complete them you will unlock new tiles with new quests.

This game is truly relaxing with no time pressure or building constraints to worry about. The only real concern is your point score, if you aim to beat the challenges in the campaign mode.

Different game modes are available in this game. Classic mode is your standard game experience, Quick mode (tasks you with 75 tiles while scoring the highest possible score), Hard mode is like Classic but harder with more complex tiles and Monthly mode that offers challenges with different custom rules and a fixed biome every month where you compete with others against an online leaderboard. Custom mode lets you design your own game and rules and share them with others.

Some of the challenges are very difficult. I am over 36 hours in and still have not achieved them all. 

The Visuals & Audio
The art style of Dorfromantik is charming, hand drawn and idyllic. When all the tiles come together they form works of art in and of themselves. You can even select which biome you wish to play in (changing the season and color of the map). Biomes that you can choose from are Standard, Fjord, Enchanted, Sakura, Lavender, Blossom and Midwinter.

The music is relaxing. I can not review the soundtrack DLC available as I have not purchased them. But it is a game that you can play and listen to your own music while you play. In-game audio is not necessary to play the game.

Overall Experience
I love this game, it is one I keep coming back to when I need to relax. There are so many game modes with different biomes you can play depending on what you're in the mood for that session. I highly recommend this game for something to pop into when you need to de-stress. For the amount of replayability this game offers, the price is great even at full price. The challenges range from easy to very hard but depending on what mode you chose it is up to you if you even want to do challenges. A game I highly recommend for everyone who enjoys puzzles and beautiful scenery. 🌄 

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