Let me start by saying that : PencilVillage is definitely worth the 4.00. It's satisfying, fun, and worth the time!

The good:

1) A clean game engine that works with intricate interactions.

2) It's an a modular city building game with rpg aspects. Huge win :)

3) It has a ton of replayable value; each play through, you can choose a different "Character" that has different aspects that almost feel like you're playing a different game.

The Okay:

1) The game includes with enough of resources to run the game multiple times, via maps and characters. However, the representation of the information is somewhat lacking.

I ended up finding the designers youtube videos, that shows you how to play the game. Without that "tutorial" of sorts, I doubt I would've even been able to play it.

2) Beyond requiring a tutorial (For what it's worth, I watch videos the first time I play a new game anyway, so that's not really a negative.) the maps/environments have some issues. There isn't anything wrong-functionally speaking-but it is difficult to really read.

In short, the maps including difficult to work with; the grids and lines are super fine, and not discernable. Additionally, the tile icons are the same. Once again functional, but lacking in differentiation.

Potential areas of improvement

1) The Rules. And once again, it's not the rules themselves, the engine is sound. My issue with the rules is that they're not explicit; that is to say that it requires some implicit jumps from having "information dump" to "I understand how this game works."

I think the thought was to have the entire game to be "small" (page count I mean). Due to the fact that the game has a small page count (under 10), the presentation of the information is, or could be rather, a barrier to play. I watched entire 1 hour tutorial, and even then had some questions.

I supposed the most explicit example lacking from the rules, is the "Turn Order." From the Video they are:

1) Tick the round tracker up 1.

2) Roll Event

3) You get 3 actions (unless modified by event).

It's sort of important to include what's supposed to be going on each turn, and in what order, inside rules.

TL;DR It's a good game. Pick it up, watch the tutorial video by the published, and have some run. Rating 4/5

Maybe PencilTown might have more instruction (which is my next game to pick up).

Score: 10/10 would buy again and I bought one for my GM.

Fever Dreams takes an already dark and gritty horror role-playing game and transforms it into an even grittier nightmare. It expeands upon the disease rules (from sample page) and even includes rules for wounds that are left untreated. I've picked up most of the poisoned pages and if you're really looking to make a horror game that much darker, then the $2 for this expansion is well spent.

Score: 10/10 would buy again and I bought one for my GM.

Woo! So this is my first review and I'm not gonna write a novel. A lot of the SotDL stuff hasn't been reviewed yet so I'll try and give a paraphrased glimpse of whats in store. For Dark Passages "You can create a book of... any size by moving through the tables," and boy does it deliver. Within the 4 pages there are more than a handful of tables which, if my math is correct, gives over a billion different combinations through flavorful/physical description as well as content of the books.