Great post and insights.
These sorts of games are great, but I'm certain that I am going to be too time poor to delve into this in any depth at all.
The dev team are an amazingly skilled bunch behind this project, and I definitely agree with you that they have paid attention and are not repeating many of the mistakes the other gaming dapps have made on the steem platform.
I think games are steadily improving. Raising the bar is good especially after a few of the recent ones or the gambling ones. I don't want Steem to be known as a dice den for drug lords, lol.
These guys definitely stand out as highly capable. Also, I like how they are 100% open.