• Darkard@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I held off because I’ve been stung by early access before. A decent EA buy?

    But between this and the new KC:D I might be on a medieval theme for a while

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      8 months ago

      I bought it last night and only have a few hours in. So far it’s pretty great though. I look forward to seeing it continue to develop, and according to reviews posted by pre-release testers the developer is very open to community feedback.

      It’s definitely not a fully complete game yet, but I expect I’ll get at least a couple weekend binges out of it before I shelve it and wait for more content.

      Also, it’s working perfectly in Linux (through Proton) so extra points there.

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      8 months ago

      It’s still very much EA. There’s already a great game loop there, but it’s still janky, barebones, missing features, and unbalanced.

      Nothing wrong with waiting. I bought it to support the dev, but I’m going to shelve it for 6 months or so to let it cook more.

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      8 months ago

      Based on reviews I’ve read there are some issues but it’s a small dev team (1 man shop iirc) and it’s the best medieval city builder since Banished according to reviews.

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        8 months ago

        Banished is a low bar. It had a lot of issues. I would argue the recently released Farthest Frontier is a better comparison. It also has some flaws but is leaps and bounds better than Banished.

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          8 months ago

          Banished felt like a slightly interactive ant farm. Not a lot of stuff happened. Just everyone slowly died over the course of a decade.

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            8 months ago

            Think you just described colony builders quite accurately. Loved the idea of an ant farm when I was a kid until I put the small ones in instead of the big ones

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      8 months ago

      I played some last night going in completely blind. I enjoyed it, but there isn’t really a tutorial, just tooltips that come up periodically. Unfortunately my town died after a few hours because I didn’t understand I was supposed to be preparing food for as soon as possible (crops grow on a year cycle, so you need the seeds in ASAP). Makes logical sense, but the game doesn’t tell you and then I was stuffed.

      I think it’s totally fun as a sandbox/run-based game, but if you’re looking for something more you’ll need to wait.

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      8 months ago

      It definitely still feels like it’s in EA. There’s only one map and there are a ton of buttons that do nothing. But the game is aesthetic AF and the core gameplay is solid.