Thirteen unique islands await your guiding hand in this beautiful and engrossing real-time strategy game, unlike anything you have experienced before!
The game tasks you with guiding and managing a group of adorable creatures called "Peeps" across 13 unique floating islands. You must constantly observe and direct the Peeps to perform various tasks like gathering resources, constructing buildings, and defending against nighttime threats.
Efficiently managing your limited supply of resources - wood, stone, ore, food, and crystals - is crucial. You must ensure your Peeps steadily collect and deliver these to the central Totem. Managing these resources allows you to unlock new buildings, upgrade Peep abilities, and ultimately gather the required "Spirit Energy" to complete each island.
The primary method of interacting with and directing the Peeps is through the "tether" mechanic. You select individual Peeps and "tether" them to resources, buildings, or locations you want them to interact with. As the Peep population grows, efficiently managing and directing them becomes increasingly challenging. You must carefully balance the Peeps' various tasks to maintain a thriving community.
Each island operates on a day/night cycle. During the day, you focus on building infrastructure, gathering resources, and preparing for nightfall. When night arrives, dangerous "Critters" emerge and attempt to attack the Peeps and consume your resources. You must quickly mobilize your Peeps to defend against these threats, using combat-focused Peeps and defensive structures. Successfully fending off the Critters allows you to reap valuable Spirit Energy.
You can also interact with and manipulate the environment's elemental forces. By directing various cloud formations, you can summon weather effects like rain, snow, and thunderstorms to assist your Peeps or hinder the enemy Critters.
Reviewers praise the game's addictive, engrossing loop of resource gathering, Peep management, and environmental manipulation. They highlight the charming, polished presentation and the satisfying feeling of guiding the Peeps to prosperity. The VR implementation is widely praised, with players noting the god-like perspective and direct interaction is a perfect fit. Some critiques surround the need for more complex building and upgrade mechanics, as well as occasional difficulty in precisely controlling individual Peeps. However, these do not significantly detract from the core enjoyment of the gameplay loop.