What’s Left Behind
This is a very unique and quite enjoyable simulated city builder game. While there are a few bugs that are being resolved, the developer is quite responsive and most engaged in improving the game. I recommend giving it a chance, particularly if City Building Simulators are a preferred genre. I’ve really enjoyed getting the hang of how the settlements develop, particularly as Research unlocks new abilities and improvements as the game progresses.
Overall, I believe this game has great potential and that it’s one I look forward to enjoying. While there are only 5 cities to choose from currently, each map can be replayed with very different outcomes.
– Real player with 22.0 hrs in game
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At this point I wouldn’t recommend this game, even though it is early access.
1. The game doesn’t look finished at all. The most simple things aren’t working. If you demolish any building you won’t get all the mentioned resources added in your inventory.
2. If a building gets attacked by a zombie the notification is visible so shortly that you can’t react at all, which probably cost a building. It seems to be useless to have any defensive stuff standing around.
3. If buildings get destroyed by a zombie the number of jobs and employed citizens are updated. This looks like you still have ‘open’ jobs, but actually you don’t.
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
Industries of Titan
There are already a lot of excellent (constructive) reviews here already for the 21 June 2021 Steam release but I’ll add my 2 cents here to talk more about the side elements of the game and offer some advice for potential players who are still sitting on the fence.
What do you get when you combine the macro-management aspects of SimCity 2013, with FTL-like micro-management in factory management and combat, then slap on a UI that’s reminiscent of grand strategy games? You get the absolutely fascinating city builder that is Industries of Titan (IoT for short).
– Real player with 115.3 hrs in game
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My first impression of the game:
The beginning is a bit confusing. You have different management levels:
1. Production
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Collect raw materials (initially from ruins, later in mines)
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Collect artifacts (also from ruins)
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Produce fuel and electricity
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manage garbage (a lot)
2. Citizens and workers
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Buy and house citizens
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Earn money from citizens watching advertisements
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convert some citizens into 24/7 workers (who then stop watching ads)
3. Build on two different levels
- Inside buildings on a square grid (reminiscent of Tetris blocks :D )
– Real player with 54.8 hrs in game
IXION
IXION combines city building, survival elements and exploration, into a thrilling space opera as you explore the stars. Propelled onwards into a perilous journey, you are the Administrator of the Tiqqun space station, charged with the task to find a new home for humanity after the Earth can no longer provide.
Keeping the station sound and flying will require a deft hand and strategic thinking, as you are constantly pulled between maintaining the hull integrity, bringing in new resources and managing power consumption.
What choices will you make when confronted with impending disaster? What will you discover out there in the dark?
IN DOLOS WE TRUST
A population to manage, not all willing crew, not all from the initial launch, some fresh out of cryo… Maintain trust in the corporation that started this venture or face failure and mutiny. Six sectors can be unlocked within the station, each able to house more population, support new jobs, provide opportunities to monitor the crew with the Data Listening Service. Will you bring hope to the people?
CHOICES IN THE DARK
Who said you were the only ones to escape the fate of the Earth? Brush up against other pockets of survivors, navigate on from the failures and wrecks of others… IXION will lead the player through gripping chapters of story, where new threats and opportunities are presented, all in aid of reaching the final destination, a new home.
FRONTIER ACADEMIA
DOLOS are famed for their innovative technology, their scientists, but the Tiqqun now finds itself cut off. Find what resources you can, research what you do not have. Find new ways to provide for your settlement, construct new buildings to create what’s needed. Modify the Tiqqun station, improve it, forge ahead in this odyssey.
OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS
Space is a dangerous place. Hull breaches, overloaded power supplies, electrical fires… It is up to you to manage these risks, deal with emergencies, create backup power solutions, and enable Extra Vehicular Activity…
STELLAR EXPLORATION
There are whole new stellar maps to explore. Send out probes to reveal what’s hidden, create mining and cargo ships to find resources and trade, commission science expeditions to discover the secrets and threats you’ll find out there in space. Encounter other survivors and bring them into the fold of your mission, objective - survive.
Read More: Best City Builder Survival Games.
Dynasty of the Sands
Dynasty of the Sands
An Ancient Egyptian City Builder – focusing on Survival, Expansion and Creativity.
From humble beginnings, build a paradise along the banks of the Nile and let your people prosper. To achieve such a feat, a grand city, abundant resources and careful planning will be required.
You start from humble beginnings, a collection of mud and straw huts, from which you will develop a grand city.
Dynasty of the Sands takes place in an open world environment, with seasons, a day/night cycle, weather, wildlife, disease and more. These systems challenge the player as they develop a city to sustain a growing population.
The gods pose an ever present threat, and appeasing them is the only way to avoid their wrath. Building statues, shrines, temples and giving sacrifices are just some of the ways to pacify them.
Constructing your city is a balancing act. The needs of your villagers, the environmental pressures and the gods make this a challenging experience. However perseverance will be rewarded with a golden city of riches.
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Villagers must be provided with Water Sources, Food, Shelter and Entertainment to ensure they remain happy and healthy.
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Resources will be required in abundance. Primary resources like Mud and Flax can be grown and extracted. Secondary and Tertiary resources like Mud Brick and Pottery must be crafted within a series of production buildings.
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Vast amounts of quarried rock are required to construct your Pyramid. Sandstone blocks and limestone casing become a valuable commodity as you expand your monument. Completion of Pyramid levels grants power from the gods, used to unlock technologies and avoid the gods wrath.
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In-depth environment, day/night cycle, weather, wildlife, disease and many more systems are constantly changing and evolving to create a dynamic and engaging game experience.
NecroCity
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1108750/Timerunner/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1489310/NecroCity/
NecroCity is a place that differs from any other place. This is a place where you will meet various creatures, ranging from small to giant ones. In NecroCity you can meet skeletons, werewolves, goblins, zombies, ghosts, and other ugly monsters. NecroCity is a city-building economic strategy game, in which the action takes place in a secret land, whose residents are divided into two basic classes: people and monsters. In the game, you will play the role of the governor of a dark city. Your main task will be to build and manage the city, starting with a network of roads, buildings, and fortifications.
Due to an extensive system of building improvements, you will be able to create your own amazing NecroCity. Remember that each building will be important for the world presented in the game. Gain the necessary skills that will allow you to control the inhabitants, and will also attract new categories of monsters. Make your city self-sufficient and go with your army to conquer another land!
Building the dark city
One of the main mechanics in NecroCity is building and managing the available space. Start your NecoCity adventure with basic buildings, such as Tomb or Crypt. Each building has its own unique task and is essential for the development of your NecroCity. Some of them increase your maximum population, others generate the resources you need. As you progress in the game, you will gain access to much more expensive, but also much more powerful buildings, such as the Necromancer Mansion or Undead Sanctuary.
To expand your city, you will need to extract and obtain resources from nearby mines and old tombs. Some of the resources may be available outside your city walls. To get them, send your units for this task. Use the obtained materials and resources to develop your NecroCity, thanks to them you will be able to expand your army or improve fortifications. Each of the buildings in the city will be an extremely important role in the functioning of the entire community. Thanks to the extensive system of building improvements, with the acquired experience, you will be able to improve the defensive wall around your city, add defense turrets and traps.
Defense of the city
The development and management of the city are not the only duties you have to take care of. NecroCity is located in a land that is also occupied by living creatures, mainly humans. Unfortunately, coexistence is not possible, people cannot accept the fact that these disgusting beasts live in their land. As a governor of NecroCity, you will have to provide the residents with peace and security. Defend your city against enemy attacks and take care of the safety of its residents. Create advanced defense systems around your city, including defense turrets, various types of traps, and many other available city defense mechanisms.
Conquest
Management and defense are not the only aspects that await you at NecroCity. To fully ensure the safety and prosperity of your city, you will have to face the human kingdoms and conquer their lands. At the beginning of the game, your skeletons and werewolves will be perfect in combat. However, when the time comes you will have to face more powerful opponents - mounted and heavily armored knights, call your best units to fight. Regardless of whether you choose, the Necromancer or the army of the Undead to fight, your opponents will flee full of fear. It’s time for monsters to take over the world!
Take control of your NecroCity
Manage your city as best you can, develop it, and make sure that each class of monsters is satisfied with their position in the city. Manage your city as best as you can, develop it, and make sure that each faction of monsters is satisfied with their position in the city. Meeting the needs of all residents will be one of the key features for a good prospering city. Keep an eye on the satisfaction status bar of each monster category, thanks to which you will avoid internal conflict between them. The internal dispute between the monsters is the last thing you need in the ongoing war.
Creature classes and their abilities
In the game world, you will have access to many categories of monsters with different skills. Each of these classes will have a unique set of skills. Make the monsters feel good in your city because this will allow you to create class leaders, such as the Werewolf Alpha. An extremely important aspect of the game is the book in which all the behaviors, habits, and skills of the monsters are written. Thanks to the book, you will be able to plan appropriate space management and learn about the strengths and weaknesses of your community. Developing your character and gaining new skill levels will allow you to discover new secrets of these amazing creatures.
When you hear angry shouts at your gates, be ready. Here comes the doom.
The world of NecroCity is waiting just for you!
Frostpunk
Dear God, yes I recommend. I’m fucking obsessed with this game. It dominates my every goddamn thought nowadays. I don’t think I’ve ever been so obsessed with a game before in my life. If you’re reading this, buy the game. Buy the DLC’s. And somehow contain your excitement for Frostpunk 2.
– Real player with 329.4 hrs in game
The Good:
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Special and creative gameplay will make just enough to enjoy the game in Easy and Normal mode but also very very difficult and hardcore in Hard, Extreme, Survival mode.
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Detailed images, map design make you really feel the “frost” of the game
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Each map has its own story and gameplay.
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Nice background music.
The Bad:
- The gameplay is hard to get used to for newbies (I gave up 3 times because I couldn’t understand the game, but it wasn’t until the 4th time that I felt the fun of it because I believe 11 bit studios can always make a good one).
– Real player with 152.1 hrs in game
Infection Free Zone
“The Mad Virus” has spread throughout the world with the speed of jet planes. The infected are highly aggressive, fast and strong.
In a couple of weeks, society collapsed. Cities are empty. There is no electricity, no water, and no food. Yet, there are a few survivors…
Type in the name of the city or town, download the map and start playing! Thanks to OpenStreetMap’s real-world data you can choose any place in the world for your survivors.
Establish a new “Infection Free Zone” wherever you choose. Set up shelters and production facilities. Adapt existing buildings to new needs. Build new farms and power houses. Establish defenses with walls, gates and towers.
Utilize your knowledge of the city. What is the best place to defend? Where were the grocery stores, where were the pharmacies? Where would you look for weapons?
Remember that it’s dangerous to search the old buildings, there might be some infected lurking in the dark!
Each night your settlement might be attacked by large hordes of the infected. Fight them off with every tool available - melee and ranged weapons, vehicles, walls and light. Research a vaccine or a cure for ultimate victory, or just enjoy rebuilding entire cities!
Your Zone is not the only one that exists. Your survivors will surely find other surviving groups. Some will be friendly and willing to trade, but others will be extremely hostile. There might be some fighting involved!
Park Life - Circuit of Happiness -
Be the Jissouseki in the Park!!
Survive in the Park and make your own Family.
Build Your own House, army, and Find your enemy that take your families life.
Be Clever. Human’s are Dangerous.
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Every Body say,
" Just Breed Again!"
In Their Life, Babies are Just Emergency Food or Something….somethings!
Use Your Babies to Money, Food, And Slave!.
It an Nature of Jissouseki!
Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition
First let me state I am presenting a general view of this game. Inevitably, while I will strive to be objective, subjective elements can not be eliminated. Kingdom Wars 2 Definitive Edition is that very rare beast, a Fantasy, Real Time Strategy War game. There are 3 main races Humans, Elves, Orcs and arguably a fourth, namely the Dwarfs, who are embedded within the rosters of the Humans and the Elves.
The races play very differently as they have very different economic dependencies and structures. These differences imposes concomitantly different strategies on the player depending on race choice. More complexity is added due to the Rock, Paper, Scissors characteristic of the units. Each unit is very effective against certain opposing units and similarly very vulnerable or mediocre in relation to others. In addition there is a quite extensive Tech-tree and considerably crafting possibilities. There is a learning curve, but once comprehended, the game is easily accessible. I prefer to play Skirmish games, either alone, or with a computer partner. I have just played my first skirmish game at hard level and won. In addition, over the last 2 weeks I have tried the Zombie Survival Challenge and found it to be very exciting. I only wish that it was possible to discover their spawning points and destroy them. I am only now using the Crypt building to spawn undead units and the Dragon Menagerie building to spawn dragons. The use of these facilities have greatly aided my strategic options and contributed to my victory at hard level. I do not consider myself to be a proficient player but after a slow start I began to enjoy the game more and more after each play session.
– Real player with 189.3 hrs in game
I’ve been a fan of RTS games from a super young age. Started playing Age of empires on that old white windows 98 pc with a thick CRT monitor. Eventually moving up to that sweet new Dell xp that could run Stronghold, the Warcrafts, Empire Earth, etc. This game brings back those good ole days for me. It has similar mechanics to those staple real time strategy games except it does everything on a massive scale. It tickles that fancy I always had for base building and commanding a large amount of troops.
– Real player with 185.3 hrs in game
ArmaCulture
It’s a great game,i really love the characters and the music (oh man i can just let the game run in the background to listen to the menu music and chill out),the story is very interesting if i say so myself,also the gameplay was a bit confusing for me at the start but after learning it,it’s very fun,i’m looking forward to the full release.
(please add a pause button on full release)
(sry for the bad english)
10/10 would spend my time more on this game.
– Real player with 41.6 hrs in game
It has a lot of promise.
I talked to the developer in the forums, and they’re actively working on making improvements according to their posts albeit I don’t know how steady they are or how consistent they are at actually updating the game and correcting underlying flaws, of which there are many.
It’s a lot like Factorio, but if it was simplified, put into a Visual Novel game that has surprisingly good writing, and given a vaguely predictable “economy” built around the war for shits and giggles.
– Real player with 36.7 hrs in game