“Dorfromantik activates what I think of as my meditative lizard brain, thanks to the tiny thrill of getting those hexes to fit together. It’s well-suited to casual engagement, and challenging enough for the score obsessed (myself included) to play it over and over.”

Vice

Nicole Clark

“Life is hard. Sometimes games are hard, and that just reminds me that life is hard, and then everything feels too damn hard. Not early access city-builder Dorfromantik, though. That game is just the right amount of chill.”

Kotaku

Riley MacLeod

"Dorfromantik is a state of mind. Playing Dorfromantik is relaxing. You could even say it is aesthetically cleansing. "

Polygon

Oli Welsh

"Playing Dorfromantik is like lounging back on a pillow in the sunlight, it's a lovely place to be. There are few games I'd rather see in everyone's life."

Eurogamer

Robert Purchese

"And that brings us to the crux of Dorfromantik, because it's a downright Zen game: relaxed, near-meditative, and at the same time tricky enough to become deeply absorbed for hours and immediately start over when a plan goes wrong."

Gamestar

Michael Graf

"Others have called it "zen-like" and "chill" and "meditative" and I am going one further to call this game megachill. Megachill is, of course, when a game is so chill you completely lose track of time and play it over and over. So casual that it becomes completely absorbing. Dorfromantik is megachill."

PCGamer

Jon Bolding

“Dorfromantik is like Zen-Gaming for Landscape-artists.”

4Players

Jörg Luibl