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Sublime puzzler Dorfromantik brings its bucolic charms to PlayStation and Xbox, and it's as irresistible as ever
I don't mind admitting it; this little write-up would have been published much sooner if I hadn't made the silly mistak…
This is a game of gorgeous bucolic sprawl, new tiles revealing tiny copses that slowly expand into sweeping picturesque forests as play goes on; isolated houses that bloom into quaint villages into bustling hubs of smoke belching chimneys; train tracks that loop around lakes that split into long, lazy rivers, sail boats and canal boats chugging endlessly back and forth along their crystal blue waters. I'll endlessly, compulsively ignore an easy win in search of the aesthetic ideal, skipping out on points just so my towns can back onto forest looking out over vast lakes where looping strands of water intertwine to form evocatively lonely islands. And given Dorfromanik also has a creative mode so you can really get stuck in and beautify those landscapes with unlockable pieces and exotic new colour palettes once a game has reached its conclusion, I suspect I'm not alone.
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