Kingdom Builders
Kingdom Builders
Kingdom Builders is a brand-new casual, light-hearted city builder with a kid-friendly tone and great visuals. The game revolves around an outcast prince who is trying his best to set up a safe city for his people.
Throughout the review, I’ll be bearing in mind that this is an early access title with limited features currently in place, but from where I stand the game base is good.
*– [Real player with 26.5 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198329404521)*
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Barely any content, no real goals or way to beat the game, repetitive, and the challenge of surviving can be eliminated entirely. The only good things about this game are its art style and sound design. Wait until one year or so until it is out of early access to purchase this game. In my opinion this is a little more than a tech demo.
As of August 6, 2021 here are the pros and cons of this game:
Pros
-Cute art style and excellent sound design and subtle background music.
-Few but interesting enemy types with unique attack patterns.
*– [Real player with 7.1 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198399138966)*
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## Cutthroat Cove
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME! There are way too many bugs, the major one is that you cannot craft water jars, which is a necessity, if you want to live. I have also attempted to contact the Developer with no success. I am wondering if the Dev has abandoned this game. I enjoyed playing the Demo, so I bought the game. I can tell you that it does NOT play like the Demo, it plays like an early Alpha. Do yourself a favor and avoid this fiasco. I tried to get a refund from Steam, but evidently I played for more than 2 hours, which is the limit. I have 550 games on Steam, and this is the first time I have left a bad review.
*– [Real player with 6.5 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198034602540)*
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So to start the game you grab a bunch of loose stone and wood from the ground. If you grab all of the loose stone and then die of fall damage (which is easier then you would think) and can't get to your inventory again you pretty much can't get more.
*– [Real player with 1.0 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197995608155)*
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## Metaverse: Origins
Good start to a survival game. Not much here yet, but the potential is there and that's what matters.
*– [Real player with 2.0 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198072890358)*
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It's a nice start for an early development game, but I can't really experience it because it runs so slow on my computer… My pc configuration is i7 + GTX1070 + 32G RAM, hope it can be optimized better in the future
*– [Real player with 0.1 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198392040318)*
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## Destroy It
##### "Destroy it" is like a developer test room with only one function: Ragdoll collision. Choose from two houses and a satellite to destroy, click and drag your mannequin, then realize the money spent was a waste. I'd consider this at risk of removal for being some sort of potential asset flip.
Lacking any sort of features or customization, the application opens to a menu with three structures to choose from. Once selected, the said structure spins wildly next to a limp dummy you're intended to control. No on-screen instructions explain how to do this, but it's not difficult to discover that the mouse serves to anchor and pull him into the building. There is no environment to speak of, just a large void atop an infinite plane. You can control the camera with WASD keys and rotate with the right mouse button. And that's about it.
*– [Real player with 0.2 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198219343843)*
Great game, besides the repetetive music and way to simple gameplay and bugs and only 3 very badly designed levels it was great. 11,5/10
*– [Real player with 0.1 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198026570157)*
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## Veil of the Volcano
Discover the mysteries of the island and form a tribe to survive the impending volcano eruption. Gather everything you will need to survive after the disaster. Soon the island will be full of life again and you can rebuild.
In Veil of the Volcano you will be born into a tribe living in the shadow of a devastating volcano. You will learn about the world around you and build a tribe that can work together to survive. Once the volcano blows its top you'll want to run and hide, because it could cause the entire island to burn to the ground. It won't grow back until the Spring, so be sure to think ahead. You only get one chance to build up your knowledge, teach others in your group and collect the supplies needed to last through the hardship.
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## Dungeons and Kingdoms
The Dwarven Sons of Ivaldi have reclaimed the mountain and begun their quest to forge masterpieces for the Gods.
When you learned of this, you struck out with your family, leaving the safety of the human kingdom to venture into the wilds to settle and establish trade with the Dwarves.
There you begin to grow your community from a tiny village into your own mighty Kingdom.
Assemble a party of heroes and begin your adventure into the unknown seeking treasure, fortune, and fame.
**Dungeons and Kingdoms is a combination of city building and small party questing adventures.**
#### Build
* Modular building - Hundreds of modular building pieces available, build entirely custom structures and layouts piece by piece
* Build Plans - You act as the build planner by placing all the pieces and build up modular buildings, then begin construction. Those build plans pass to the job system to be constructed by your workers. You can have many build plans in construction at the same time.
* Full Preview - Build plans allow you to see what your buildings will look like fully connected and rendered in game. Your workers will only act on them when you start construction. You can cancel construction at no cost, so you can attempt endless Build Plans until you like what you see.
* Edit buildings - Once placed and built, all building pieces can be removed or added allowing no end to how you customize and evolve your world
* Assign Builder - Assign anyone for basic construction (fire pits, wood fencing etc) up to master builders for epic monuments and castles
* Decorate - Hundreds of items available to decorate and furnish your kingdom
#### Blueprints
* Save Build Plan as Blueprint - Start placing items as a build plan. When you have a collection of pieces you want to re-use (like a small house, or a smith) you can save the current build plan as a Blueprint. This allows you to place the entire Blueprint as a single building piece later, over and over.
* Everything with Blueprints - You can use the Build Plan feature simply as a way to make many different Blueprints. Make a Build Plan, save as a new Blueprint, then Cancel the original Build Plan.
#### Tera forming
* Excavate - Dig trenches and moats
* Tunnel - Mine deep underground, building networks of mining cart tracks setting up functional production lines
* Landscaping - Lower, raise or flatten the ground to customize the terrain for your kingdom
#### Grow Your Kingdom
* Attract People - Either through increased wealth and prosperity, or great deeds by your heroes
* Hire Specialists - Send word back to the neighboring kingdoms about specialty positions you need to hire
* Trading - Negotiate trade with the local Dwarven city. Focus your early growth on what they need, trade for what you need, or what you can trade with other Kingdoms.
#### Manage Your Kingdom
* Production - From peasants gathering mushrooms and berries to master masons sculpting great statues, assign your population to jobs to increase their skill.
* Training - People will learn and improve at whatever job you assign them to, or send them off to other Kingdoms to learn special skills to bring back to your city.
* Smart AI - While some of your people may not be geniuses, they are smart enough to go to work when something needs to be done. In other words, you don't have to worry about getting bogged down micro managing everyone. You can be as involved as you want to be, but the more work you put in to managing your Kingdom, the more effective your population will be.
#### Survive
* Risk - Outside the safety of city walls, the world is dangerous. From wild animals and other creatures, to bandits, and tribes of Orcs… or worse!
* Economy and Production - Starting small, balance your growth with the available resources and trading partners to ensure your people survive
* Defend - The more you have, the more others will want to take it. Building and maintaining defenses may make the difference between life and death.
#### Questing
* Heroes - While most of your population will be regular people with jobs, you may attract, hire, or train up legendary heroes. Take your party of heroes on adventures and quests while leaving your kingdom to be run by the local council, or send your heroes out on their own.
* Encounter Areas - The main map is for building your sprawling kingdom. Learn through rumors about quests where you assemble a party of heroes to adventure out into the wild including dungeons, over-world swamps and forests, crypts and other deadly lairs.
#### Play as Anyone
* Perspective - All play modes are in either First or Third person
* Variety - Your main character is the leader of your town, with the goal of eventually becoming a great ruler. You can also switch between any character in your Kingdom. Each character has their own unique skills and traits, training level, and inventory.
* Skill - When you directly control a character, you may be able to increase that character's production beyond their automated skill level by doing jobs manually
* Automation - Perhaps you leave control of your city to your people and focus on adventures as one of your Kingdoms great heroes.
#### Combat
* Weapons - Many different weapons to craft, buy, or loot, including swords, maces, hammers, axes, bows, crossbows, and several specialized weapons with many custom animations and sounds.
* Custom Smithing - Either attract or train a smith of high enough skill, and build your own custom weapons with unique stats
* Enemies - From neighboring enemy tribes of Orcs, to many different creatures and monsters ensures a diverse range of combat tactics and experience.
#### Sandbox Mode
Sandbox mode available - build anything you want without restriction or having to worry about resources, money, or dangers.
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## Battle for Sea 3D
Battle for Sea 3D is an overpriced game. The controls in the game are terrible, the graphics in the game are terrible. I do not advise anyone to buy this game ..
*– [Real player with 0.3 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198016547862)*
##### If you're looking for a battleship clone, look elsewhere: While the gameplay is true to the original, the bland visuals, uncooperative camera, and sluggish pace provide–at most--one to two rounds of enjoyment.
Upon starting the game, you're greeted by a fullscreen window with only one option: Place your ships. Through quick trial and error, you're probably figure out that you click once to anchor, then once more to rotate the angle, but nowhere is this shown. Speaking of which, there doesn't appear to be any settings menu, or exit button.
*– [Real player with 0.2 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198219343843)*
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## Monkey vs Dino
Fighting games are one of the oldest pillars of video games that have been published for many years in various forms and shapes. From violent and bloody Mortal Kombat to Tekken and Street Fighter. But the issue in all fighting games is they are very slow to progress. Yes, the main thing in fighting games is to choose two characters and fight with each other. But the content of all these games would soon be boring for players who did not follow the game professionally. Another area that most fighting games didn't take seriously was the story or single section, which in most games was not so strong that it could be considered a strong point…
*– [Real player with 5.2 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198272345369)*
Stars received: 0.2/10 _ Note: v.5 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions
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Game description key-points: game from a prankster kid
*– [Real player with 1.0 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199094146993)*
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## Bird by Example
#### What is Bird by Example?
Bird by Example is — and I say this with great passion — an RPG sandbox where all the occupying NPCs are grotesque birds who mimic your behavior with deep learning algorithms. Nothing is scripted! Everything is emergent! Be the bird you want to see in the world!
Steam has asked me to be more explicit with the game's features:
* world
* objects
* jump
* crawl
* punch
* squawk
* bite
* physics objects
* other*
* stories??**
**It's an artificial intelligence sandbox acted out by birds with concerning musculature!** Help them see, help them love, help them eat a big fat bug! Right now at this very second, the metaphysical bounds of this game hold a throng of hungry birds who wish nothing more than to be like you! Like Mama!
_*: Imprint psuedo-neurologically upon independent bird agents, using recurrent neural networks, gradient descent, and a custom-built system of semiotic metadata evocation (to afford transferrable behavior between distinct objects and agents which share characteristics along an n-dimensional space).
**: Isn't life a story? Aren't we all little stories, flying on this crazy rock?_
#### You said this was a game? Who's Mama? I'm Mama? Who are you again?
Please pay attention. **These birds are equipped with artificial neural networks that optimize themselves against your own actions!** Using trendy deep learning algorithms found in a black box at the bottom of the sea, and something called 'gradient descent', they will try to become mathematically perfect distillations of you! It's very computationally expensive and very math!
#### But what do you actually do?
Explore, follow self-imposed rules, and cultivate your flock! Tutor a bird to act just like you! By simply doing things, they will learn from you by witnessing your play! Bite an orange and you may start to see other birds doing similarly! Squawk at a another bird and watch your flock erupt into squawkage!
#### Oh! That's interesting. So they have brains!?
Woah, strong word! Let's avoid that word!
Have you ever played a game, and thought: "This is fun, but I live in such fear that I cannot enjoy it…"
#### Yes, I do live a life of fear! And thank you for blowing off my silly and ethically challenging question!
Yes, you do live in fear! You're like any brain-wielding creature! But in Bird by Example there will be nothing to be afraid of! In bird world there is nothing to be afraid of! Nothing to be afraid of! Turn that brain off!
#### Okay. And the game is fun? It's a game?
You must teach the rest of the birds basic life skills! If not, they will all starve to death!
#### Wait, you coded these birds to feel hungry but didn't teach them how to eat?
That feature was out of scope! Please!!! Hungry!!!
#### Hold on... What's a bird?
A bird is a fictional creature which came to me in a dream on a particularly cold night in February. I woke up in a sweat the next morning and quickly tried to recreate the apparition from memory. The results? Remarkable.
_Earliest known footage of a "Bird" from that morning._
They were perfect. All they needed was a name.
The word 'Bird' is a mix of the word 'word' and the letter 'b' This is because I needed a word — or "wird" — to describe the birds. Sadly, a word using 'a' was already taken. It's like gamertags!
_I experimented for many weeks with flight, but no matter how much I stretched out their arms they would not._
_Whatever. Doesn't matter._
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## Regions of Ruin 2
Enter a vibrant open world as a Dwarven hero to take on the task of reclaiming forgotten lands and ruins. Conquer the over-world of its rich resources and delve into the depths to uncover the secrets behind your ancient past.
In this sequel you'll find a vast improvement to the landscapes and ambience of the game's environments as well as a more versatile combat and skills system. Regions of Ruin offers a unique side scroller experience in that you have the freedom to roam an open world similar to Elder Scrolls' classics _Oblivion_ or _Skyrim_. Explore, loot and discover hundreds of unique areas and quests at your pace.
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