Warning

Imagine that you're a total Shut-in, a failure in the eyes of society, you are on bad terms with your family and you haven't walked out of the house for almost 2 years now... you always try to win online giveaways so you get deliveries quite often, one day a weird package comes to you with an CD titled "Village of Fate"

Besides the CD is a Note which tells you the following :

"You have been chosen to participate in our alpha test. Congratulations!"
"This game has the latest AI built-in..."

The game you received basically has characters that behave like normal beings, and you will be basically a deity for them, sounds weird and unrealistic right?

That's what our MC though too at first, to be fair who wouldn't think that this is a scam/virus?

The Note continues :

"Please do not share the specifics of this game with anyone else."
"Please do not share any of the details even online"
"If you break this agreement, your privilege will be revoked and the game will be taken from you."

Great... so apparently this is a revolutionary game, and you can't even share anything with anyone about it... now it sounds even more like a cheap scam.

So the MC basically receives a Village builder game, but there is one twist added to it... if all of your villagers die, you can't play it anymore.

Even though this all sounds a bit fishy, our MC still tries the game on his old PC and is surprised when he founds out that the game looks almost real, the Villagers are very advanced (when it comes to Intelligence) and understand his commands, which he can give them once per day.

After a while our MC gets really attached to the Villagers in the game and does everything he can to help them out, thanks to it he also begins to change for the better...

This was a brief summary of the first 1-2 chapters of the Manga, I really think that the Story and the idea is a very interesting one, It's something that I've seen for the first time, I really like the twist of him being a deity for the Villagers in "Village of Fate" and that he can only communicate with them once per day through a prophecy in a Bible, the MC can also perform miracles by using miracle points which he gets by the Villagers believing in him, and yes this game has microtransactions, and also yes the MC uses his money to help the Village, which I also like, by helping the Village he gets to know them better and thanks to that he also begins to understand himself, and what he has done wrong in this life, I mean he's a 30 year old man still living with his Parents.

Art & Characters

To be completely honest the art is nothing special, just your usual Manga art style, which is by no means a bad one, It's just an art style that is often used in Manga.

I would give it a decent 8/10 for the Art, because I like it, the Manga so far is well paced and there isn't too much text so you can get through the first 16 chapters in about half an hour.

The Characters are basic, but I like their personalities, they really fit the Story, and it helps the MC (and the readers) get attached to them and want them to succeed.

I don't really think you should read this for the art, but for the very interesting story, about a Shut-in becoming a deity for a group of runaway Villagers just trying to survive with their gods blessing.

Closing Words

Although this Manga isn't too long for now, and isn't updated that often, I would still recommend it to you dear viewer, the Story is full of potential and character development for the MC.

I really think this Manga deserves a 90/100 just for its great story, and I really await further chapters so I can also update this review in the future.