The second game I'm playing is Terrascape, a "cozy City-puzzler". In this game, you buy boosters of random cards from decks you unlock over time. Each card corresponds to a building, and placing a building on the hex map gives you points. Placing certain buildings together in specific configurations results in merged buildings, which give you some bonus. Gaining more points from a deck unlocks further cards in that deck, and getting more points in general allows you to unlock new decks. Points are then also used to buy those boosters. The puzzle is to deal with the randomness of cards and place buildings in a way that gives you enough points to keep buying more cards. But personally I prefer to play this in scenario mode, where only some decks are unlocked, and you need to fulfill a series of tasks to finish the scenario successfully and unlock the next one.

I currently have 5 hours played of Golden Idol, and 6 of Terrascape. In Golden Idol I am already on chapter 4 out of 5, and in Terrascape I finished the first half of the currently available scenarios. So, these aren't terribly long games. I picked them up for cheap at the Steam Winter Sale, which unfortunately is over now, but even at full price they both are below $20. I'll probably finish both games over the weekend, and that is fine by me. Not every game has to be a lifestyle game.