Fantasy Town Regional Manager
This game was not what I was expecting. I thought it would be something like SimCity where you endlessly expand your town. But this game isn’t meant for you to build a long term town right out of the gate. You are expected to create a town, accomplish some small goals and quests, earn upgrade points and then - when your town crashes and burns - unlock some upgrades and start over again.
I’ve played for 16 hours and have yet to fully unlock all of the upgrades. I have unlocked all of the buildings and it is starting to get a little repetitive but I can see this as a fun game to come back to after a break and play a few rounds to pass the time.
– Real player with 16.4 hrs in game
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Fun, engaging, eases you into some interesting complexities
I love how vibrant the game is, which is thanks to the music, the cute colours, the little people moving about the buildings, and the amount of story it’s able to fit in with the newspaper and your own gameplay.
That’s all drawn me in, but what’s kept me playing is seeing more new buildings appear, then deciding how their placement might affect the satisfaction of each class of adventurers. It starts off simple enough but when you’re ready, you’re able to introduce modifiers that impact the way you play even further.
– Real player with 15.3 hrs in game
Champions of Anteria™
Champions of Anteria is a sort of hybrid of genres involving real-time combat (sort of) and “puzzle”-based base building outside of combat.
Pros:
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The puzzle-based nature of the base building was amusing.
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Combat was OK.
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I like the ability to choose which battles I will do.
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Upgrade paths for characters were OK, if uninspired.
Cons:
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Uplay
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Game was way too long. By the end, I was begging for it to end. Mechanisms had become way too repetitive by end-game.
– Real player with 72.4 hrs in game
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This is an amazingly addictive game! I really enjoyed playing it and have no doubt you will enjoy it too.
Lots of funny dialogues. Fun soundtrack that always play the right music for the right moment.
Game can be played with complete relaxation and enjoyment or in a challenging way - depending on how you choose to play.
RPG style potions, magics, unique powers for each champions and completely different kinds of locations and enemies makes the game one of a kind. There’s a huge skill tree for you to upgrade a number of things for almost every item in the game.
– Real player with 61.2 hrs in game
Two Point Campus
Build your university, your way!
It’s time to spin academia on its head! Got a yearning for learning? Or just keen to build an educational masterpiece? Campus is jam-packed with new creative tools to help you build the university of your dreams.
For the first time, build in the great outdoors as you develop your own delightfully educational campus environment, housing the top teaching facilities in the land. Whether you prefer building on simple foundations, or placing every tree, you can build the university you want.
Lay down pathways with new easy-to-use tools. Plant glorious collections of outdoor flora. Place benches, fountains, sculptures, hedgerows – even picket fences. The only limit is your imagination (and your in-game bank balance).
Not the usual fare
But, of course, it wouldn’t be a Two Point game without a twist.
Rather than typical academic fare, students in Two Point County enjoy a range of wild and wonderful courses: from Knight School (hey, we all have to learn jousting at some point in our lives), to the salivatory Gastronomy, where your students will build mouth-watering concoctions like giant pizzas and enormous pies.
The academic year… is here!
Take advantage of the opportunity to spend way more time with the little people in your university. The academic year begins with a summer break, giving you enough time to get everything looking great before your students move in.
Build libraries, hire the best staff (from eccentric professors to madcap researchers), kit your campus out with the best courses and watch the academic potential of your students get unlocked!
Shaping the future
But it’s not just work hard. Get to know your students, explore their individual personalities, wants and needs. Keep them happy with clubs, societies, gigs.
Surround them with friends, help them develop relationships, furnish them with pastoral care and ensure they have the right amount of joie de vivre to develop into incredible individuals who will do the legacy of your university proud.
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Flotsam
This is a delightful game. The main challenges are to have enough food and water; currently there’s no other goal except what the player decides to accomplish. There are small hidden treasures (zoom in the first time you build a house for a drifter!) as well as small frustrations (priorities are still a bit buggy, due to early access and updates changing occasionally). I generally stay on the slowest pace to play, enjoying the atmosphere, the music, and watching my little drifters scurry and swim around.
– Real player with 60.4 hrs in game
Still very promising, but definitely not ready for Early Access. Content is extremely limited and repetitive, and for those who play games like this on a regular basis, there’s about 1.5 hours of content. Hardest part was getting stable water supply, which I achieved on take 2, and then subsequently completed the game, which restarts you with your existing city at the start of the game.
In addition to this, I went through the game and focused on building a bigger city, rather than completing areas - bad move. The game has numerous bugs, including one that locks you into the map view and requires a forced restart. Other bugs included stuck boats, workstations that villagers refuse to use until you clear their queue and restart everything, production limits that are not really followed all that well, and etc. Several flaws in the UI made me want to claw my eyes out as well - like the blocky “Exit” button that you can see sticking out behind the “Delete” button on the “Continue” screen.
– Real player with 32.2 hrs in game
BalanCity
Rise to the top or crash and burn, will your city survive your incompetence? How high can you build? Watch your hard work crash down fast. I love this game! It’s simple, clever, creative and lots of fun! You have to build a beautiful city as high as you can while balancing your creation on a platform, which is more difficult than you think. The building items have various shapes and sizes so you need a good stacking strategy.
The game has 10 missions in tutorial style that guides you to build the best city in the 2D world. There are 12 scenario’s where you have to “rebuild” existing cities like New York and Paris, that once completed, will make you “lol” at your work of comical art when you stack certain landmarks in the most crazy ways. I managed to place the statue of liberty on top of the Brooklyn Bridge, while half an island sunk, hilarious :D.
– Real player with 19.6 hrs in game
I like all sorts of building games, so I was looking forward to getting my hands on this one. Unfortunately, I am rather disappointed.
First of all, there is no grid. It makes the game harder, but not in a challenging way, but in a frustrating way. Building blocks are sometimes transformed into different sort of structure when grouped in four (or more), but if a block is a milimetre off, the grouping does not happen.
Secondly, there is no information on weights of buildings and structures, so it takes as little as a power plant set on the wrong side of the platform to throw everything off balance and ruin the level irreversibly, and there is no undo (demolishing the structure does nothing).
– Real player with 6.9 hrs in game
Parkasaurus
Okay, so I’m a huge fan of zoo-based park management games, right? I’ve spent a good portion of my childhood pretty much wasting away on them. Zoo Tycoon, Wildlife Park, Jurassic World Genesis, Zoo Empire, you name it. But I’ll be honest, when I first saw Parkasaurus, I really did not think I would enjoy this game all that much. Probably because it’s been so long since we’ve had a really good zoo management game (ZT2 Ultimate Collection is still considered the best by many zoo management fans, myself included, and that was released in ’08, so 10-11 years ago now), coupled with my own initial dislike for the ridiculously huge-eyed goofy art style and the fact that it’s solely focused on dinosaurs. Personally, I just didn’t have high expectations here.
– Real player with 319.3 hrs in game
☆The Old(est) Fashioned ‘Zoo Tycoon'☆
Parkasaurus has been on my wishlist for I dont know how long.
Right now, it’s the steam summer sale and I’ve been looking at games to distract me during the long heated summer hours.
I’ve been interested but I never really wanted to put £20 on it, like, it looked fun, but it’s…isometric? …Ehhh….
What I hadn’t realised was that the game is actually full on, low-poly style 3D! It’s not completely isometric art, and I appreciate that so much for a reason I’ll explain down below. I have played 4.5 hours so far, definitely going back for more, and this has let me play through two campaign levels (there’s loads left to do!) and the tutorial level.
– Real player with 25.6 hrs in game
Startopia
Be warned that this game is old and the interface feels all 20 years of its age.
However, if you can stomach old games, this is one of the true classics from its era. A space station management/tycoon game with a lot of heart and humor. Numerous ways to build your station, several ways to challenge yourself or just relax and mess around.
I’ve played this off and on for two decades and still own the original disc so my hours on Steam only reflect buying it again here for convenience.
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Of interest to fans: The original development company obviously went out of business, the game transferred ownership for a number of years to Square-Enix who did nothing with it and then released the game back to the care of one of the original developers.
– Real player with 91.5 hrs in game
To date, I have purchased just over 15 games on Steam. Some of them have been complete wastenados of my money - one in particular I shelled out a lot for and only got a couple of hours of semi-enjoyment out of it. Startopia is the exact opposite of that game - I paid very little for it and, so far, I’ve gotten more hours of fun out of it than any other game I’ve purchased on here.
You’re managing a space station which is being visited by nine different alien types, each with their own preferences and skills. You have to build facilities to ensure these aliens are healthy, well-rested, well-fed, entertained and other things like that, make sure any aliens who cause trouble get rehabilitated, keep the station clean, and make sure you have enough energy to keep it all running. You’re aided by this artificially intelligent being called VAL who often peppers his advice with a degree of snark and you get occasional visits from a trader named Arona who I swear is a cross between a Vogon and Moneybags from Spyro 2.
– Real player with 74.2 hrs in game
Altwaldheim: Town in Turmoil
Simple game. Yet rng, 5 factions, random events, riddles make it complex with deep strategy element.
I love city builders and making units in general. Game is very challenging I’ve played 17.5 hours a few days into purchasing and even though made it to final boss twice i still have not beat the game yet. Addictive game play and replay value is high.
Key to starting is focus on 1. gold 2. food 3. wood. i do not make any units until i’m attacked at the start. when i am attacked I focus on making a few units ie 20 archers maybe 10 thugs 10 militia then attack the small camps ie peasant militia and archer camps. make iron and stone mine and the remaining buidings. pick one faction to focus on and maybe have a subfaction as 2nd ary. for me i choose military and later capitalists. but there are relion freethinkers and nature ie guardians.
– Real player with 20.1 hrs in game
Ok folks,
I’ve been playing games from a very young age. This game will work for you if you like a chill relaxed management game that will challenge you.
Graphics are minimalist but it doesn’t matter.
I recommend the game because the developers did a really really good job in pulling this together in a way that it will keep you entertained while really focusing on you management and decision skills.
Well done, it’s a buy.
– Real player with 10.8 hrs in game
Citystate II
Don’t buy.
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Unfinished game
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Bugs
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The “realistic economics” in this game leaves a lot to be desired and calling it realistic is laughable.
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The dev has been MIA since early October (within weeks of release).
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Developer is either a huckster or lacks any sense of professionalism.
The misrepresentation that you are buying a finished game on the store page and the fact that the developer just disappeared makes me feel as if I’ve been had. The excuse on discord by some person who is not the dev is that he has a family and he takes long breaks. Make of that what you will, but I will not buy another product from this developer.
– Real player with 65.1 hrs in game
You simply can’t play more extreme ideologies anymore (Left & Right) which Is kinda where alot of the fun came from. Everything needs to be balanced. It’s okay but at some point you’ll run into bugs that remove zones not just buildings and tank everything. Tbh it gets boring after it happens a few times. Oh and after many hrs my political leaning instantly went from 47-53 to 100-0 to the left which sent everyone into a riot and the whole city was destroyed. That right there is a game breaking bug. I’d honestly say buy the first one. I’m not hating btw, I actually really wanted to like it.
– Real player with 25.3 hrs in game
I Borrow
You borrow stuff from your surroundings. Nothing more.
In the game you find yourself in situations where you need stuff but the only way to get it is borrowing it unnoticed. People around you are very tolerant, but their tolerance runs out quickly if you are caught borrowing their stuff!
Gameplay mechanics:
Pick up required objects and take them home without being noticed. If you are noticed you will lose trust and the owner will take back his stuff. Once you run out of trust points, you have failed the level. When you bring objects home, you can complete given objectives, for example collecting 3 chairs or building a house out of 4 walls.
Features:
Picking up objects
You can pick items like, a chair, lamp, wall, etc.
Building houses
Assemble your dream house with the walls you borrowed
People protect their stuff
They don’t really want you borrowing their property
Blocking people with objects
When they get annoying
More stuff to do
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Hiding from people with objects that you took
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Collecting items in the goal area
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Local multiplayer