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Reception

Lakeburg Legacies offers beautiful graphics and soundtrack, the gameplay cannot hold up though. After a few hours, gameplay becomes a mix of frustrating and boring.

Having experimented the demo version some months ago and the supposedly final product now, it's evident that Lakeburg Legacies unfortunately didn't manage to be molded into a consistent product, lacking polish to the point sometimes it doesn't even feel finalized. This is a curious simulator with a really interesting concept but it doesn't live up to...

A town management sim with some good design ideas, but despite trying to make Love a key resource it has somehow pushed me to becoming a joyless optimiser.

Lakeburg Legacies is an open-ended sort of city management simulation where people come first, and its easy to get invested in it.

Despite the promising combination of dating sim and resource management mechanics, Lakeburg Legacies doesn't lean hard enough in either direction, resulting in a wishy-washy game that's charming in looks but lacking in substance. The bones of a good game are here, but it just doesn't come together into something memorable.