Hardcore Gamer: Stonehearth‘s alpha was released today, squeaking in just under the wire to make its Kickstarter-promised December 2013 deadline. The game is alpha in every sense of the word in that it’s buggy, fairly empty of features, and obviously a first step on a very long road to completion. It’s also charming to the core and already has the tutorial in place for the features that work, which goes a long way to creating faith that the game that will emerge will be a properly thought-0ut city builder. A lot of effort has already gone into usability, so despite Stonehearth’s ultra-early state it’s impossible not to like it.
Joanna Mueller writes: "Radiant doesn’t want to commit to Mac and Linux support while Stonehearth is still in development. This means that not only are the ports not currently being worked on, the devs can’t even give backers an idea of when they will start on them."
DualShockers: "StoneHearth is an indie simulation game by Radiant Entertainment that has been on Steam Early Access for a while, and I don’t get to write about it nearly as much as I’d like."
Stonehearth is definitely enjoyable at the moment, but you should go into this expecting a few bugs.
That is pretty darn adorable.