when people break out the phrase "better than it has any right to be" i kind of scoff out of habit because it's usually trying to get out of having accidentally enjoyed something they consider "low art" but you know what that applies to this game why is this Basically A Clicker Game that's so full of the same things i dislike in other pastiches of the time period so good and charming? i don't know, but i have a couple weeks of obsessive play time that says this is where i fall on it, so here we are.