The game has quite a number of nice jokes for people who have played D&D and the like. The story is also fun, and the game does not require a lot of intelectual capacity – meaning, you can easily play it for a couple of minutes after work to relax. Then again, for the very same reason it is not the game to fill your weekend with.

There is also a drawback: The game is not fully balanced towards the end, i.e., I spent quite some time in boring battles to level-up my characters so they could take on the final quests.

Craft the world reminds allows you to build your own dwarf fortress. However, as with most games that combine creating a building/city/empire with fighting, most of your efforts will have to go into preparations for those fights.

Most of the time, you will give general orders (mine here, craft that item, build a door here), and then one of your around 12 dwarfs will come and do the job. However, you can also control dwarfs individually.

The crafting system reminds quite a bit of Minecraft, although with less freedom. And it is a bit annoying sometimes (go to the raw materials page and draw the wood button to the crafting field, go to the gear page and draw the axe button to the crafting field - since one has to do quite a bit of item crafting, this can really become annoying in the long run).

A second problem is that the job distribution among the dwarfs is not really optimal, especially when you explore a larger part of the map and have more than a couple of dwarfs. E.g. you order to mine a coal field and a dwarf is standing idly next to it, yet a dwarf from the other end of the map is given the task. Admittedly, Craft the World is not the only game with such job management problems.

And finally, it can take quite long to progress, as there are regular tasks you have to fulfill (mainly, getting sufficient food for the dwarfs and fending of the occasional monster wave). Nothing against such regular tasks to keep the fortress running, but I don't think it was properly balanced.

However, although there are a couple of drawbacks, the game is still quite a bit of fun, and since you will spend most of the time giving tasks without micromanaging the dwarfs, it can also be quite relaxing.

Tropico puts you in the position of the ruler of a small Banana Republic. The main aspect is the management of its economy.

Tropico is probably best played to relax. It does not demand too much management, the player can also just watch the events and only do little things himself. The soundtrack of some pseudo-Carribean music adds to this.

Ufortunately, the game has a major drawback: If the economy runs well, everyone is happy, if it is not, you are screwed. Anything else in the game is unimportant, rebells or political opponents do not matter much. Whilst this might be realistic, it is not really adding to the fun. For the same reason, the campaign mode is not really interesting: Each scenario is simply won by getting the economy running, and although the starting conditions are supposed to be different, one always needs the same strategy.

So, whilst it might be fun to play it a bit from time to time, it gets rather boring when playing it a couple of days in a row.