City Country

City Country

City Country is a city-building game where you manage resources, population, knowledge. You control various sectors of the city like education, medicine, culture, tourism, trading.

You start at some point into the map. Citizens will equally be separated into Men/Women and Farmers/Workers. The population will be separated into 4 different categories: Farmers, Workers, Engineers, and Academics. Any population category will work on different buildings and will have a unique family house.

You have the option to produce whatever you like, and what You don’t like, you can buy it at any time, or sign a contract for a later system that automatically buys the product from another city immediately. After that, you should sell part of the production so you can take some fresh money into the city.

As a governor of the city, your job is to grow your city, improve your resource incomes, sell your resources and take fresh money, make your city better for life, and manage city sectors as best as you can.

Government Sectors

  • Trading: - Sign a contract with other cities (AI) when you have less than N amount of resource, buy M amount of that resource, and vice versa.

  • Education: - Decide what to learn, how long, and when to start people’s education.

  • Medicine: - Improve the health of the citizens, and their lives.

  • Culture: - Improve the knowledge of the citizens. And be a more attractive city for foreign peoples.

  • Tourism: - Make money when you attract tourists. Build Hotels. Some of them can decide to continue to live in your city.

Develop Your City

Knowledge (Technology)

Investigate new products for future production and unlock new buildings.

Production (Resource Management)

Choose what to produce from the Factory profile.


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City Country on Steam

Hero Park

Hero Park

Edit Weeks later, still broken steam achievements. No real improvements.

It’s okay for 8 bucks. But it gave me tendonitis in about 2 days and the Steam achievements don’t seem to be triggering? I have a level 10 Temple and a Rank 2 statue. Is there something else I need to do to get them to go off? Nothing in the Wiki about it, no google search will answer the question. Pretty pointless game if you can’t get the achievements to go off.

Also sometimes the number of heroes goes negative. -3/20 for example. Not sure how this effects anything or if it’s just a UI bug. Might be exploitable to hire heroes without paying for them till you are full up sometimes.

Real player with 36.6 hrs in game


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I love it, though it is far less ‘idle’ than I thought, but I think that’s beginning game, not later game? Since you can automate making the items needed for the shops as you level the shops.

I find the game very enjoyable! I like lots of moving parts and re-stocking shops, and I love the monsters! I’m having a lot of fun :D

EDITED FROM NEGATIVE REVIEW: Responsive developer fixed the game-breaking problem. THANKS!

Real player with 28.3 hrs in game

Hero Park on Steam

Roman Way

Roman Way

Game is very good, got given a copy to test on stream and enjoyed it alot, the game takes alot of the best mechanics from city builders and plays very well!

Real player with 2.9 hrs in game


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The game is not a very fun city builder and the slave management is not very fleshed out.

I have more details in my video review:

https://youtu.be/rUbCT8Zqxt8

Real player with 2.0 hrs in game

Roman Way on Steam

Rear of Business

Rear of Business

Far too early access, there’s nothing to do other than walk or run around lol

currently bad fps, can walk through props/objects. can also walk through walls/windows in many buildings.

not sure why you have weapons there’s nothing to shoot. i started with some grenades but not really sure why lol.

I’d be interested to see if the devs actually do anything with this game or if it’s just a failed project.

Unfortunately i’ll be after a refund..

Real player with 0.6 hrs in game

Rear of Business on Steam

Festivals - Headliners

Festivals - Headliners

Design your Event Sites, Book Artists, Build your Career as a Promotor and Produce your own Festivals in Festivals - Headliners.

Construct your Site

Build the festival site of your dreams with dozens of stages, food stalls, bars, and hundreds of decorations, billboards and lights. Put up fences and lay down paths to guide your guests in the right direction across your venue and include signing to manage any crowding. Use generators and power lines to form a temporary power grid. And most important of all, keep your fans safe.

Setup your Lineup

Every festival needs entertainment! Book bands, DJs and other talent to entertain your visitors, design awesome shows, include special effects, and make it a night your guests will never forget. And add fireworks. Lots and lots of fireworks.

As your career progresses, you make more connections, and get the option to book some very popular artists and acts for your events. Take good care of them, they’ll draw in huge crowds!

Be ready for D-Day

Start load-in early enough to be ready on time, but not too early or you’ll spend too much on rental. Don’t start too late, because you’ll never know what might happen. The event industry always has some “interesting” surprises for you along the way. Stay on schedule!

Staff Management

A festival is only as successful as the staff running it. They are your most vital asset, treat them accordingly. Hire staff in advance, so you know you have the best people on your team. Provide training and coaching to ensure they’ll stay with you for years.

During the event, provide them with good catering and plenty of breaks. As always, safety is important, so make sure everyone is wearing earplugs!

Finance

While hosting festivals is the most fun job in the world, money still has the be made to pay the bills. Not everyone is doing this for fun. You have to be careful not to overspent. As most festivals don’t make any profit in their first 3 events, don’t be to hard on yourself, but if you’re still in the red by year 4, you might want to consider a different profession. Also, not everyone is to be trusted. Watch out to make sure you’re not lured into anything illegal.

First-person / Third person

Of course you’ll want to witness the spectacle first-hand. As your the head of the event, your AAA card grants you access to every nook and cranny of the venue. Walk around among guests in first-person view, take control of the FOH booth where the lights are controlled, or join the talent on stage to wave at the crowd!

Workshop

From the early release on Steam on, you’ll be able to share your festival sites on the Steam workshop to share with your friends! Before the final release, we’ll add options to add your own assets to the game, which you’ll also be able to share on the workshop. How this exactly is going to work is still a secret, sign up as a tester to learn more first hand!

Progress

  • 2019: Initial work

  • 2020: Work on background systems

  • Now - 2021: Get frontend ready for (beta) testing by end of year

  • 2022: (Early) Release

  • 2023: Initial DLC’S

Tester Needed!

We’re currently actively looking for testers! We hope to ship a first playable version in private beta soon, sign up using this form now to make sure you’re included!

Initially we’ll be testing on windows mostly, but if you want to test on macOS or a console, please let us know through the form, once we’re ready for you, you’ll be the first to know.

Festivals - Headliners on Steam

Pharaoh: A New Era

Pharaoh: A New Era

Immerse yourself in the history of Ancient Egypt with 50 missions and over 100 gameplay hours in Pharaoh: A New Era, a remake of Pharaoh (and the expansion Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile), one of the best city builders from the golden age of Sierra Entertainment. Stone by stone, build your city and manage all aspects of its development to ensure it prospers and makes you a powerful and revered Pharaoh.

Develop your city by cultivating the fertile lands along the banks of the Nile valley. Erect the iconic monuments of Ancient Egypt, including the pyramids, the Sphinx and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Build temples and mausoleums to help manage all aspects of your city’s health and culture as well as the predominant polytheistic religion of the time.

Ensure your city is prosperous enough to deal with economic or political crises, or even plundering by enemies. A Pharaoh takes care of its people and does whatever it can to earn the favour of the gods.

Pharaoh: A New Era celebrates 20 years since the release of the famous franchise with a complete remake, including more than 50 playable missions and over 100 hours of gameplay. Rediscover the map and mission editor mode that allows you to shape your very own Egypt over thousands of years.

The “Campaign” mode teaches you the game basics while allowing you to experience a unique story in the heart of Ancient Egypt and explore all aspects of life in a thriving city.

You have everything at your disposal to build an entire city and manage all its fundamental elements to ensure it flourishes: the economy, internal and external trade, culture, health, agriculture, education, etc. To help you monitor your progress, various indicators show you the overall well-being of your city and its residents.

The journey back in time is really brought to life with this Ultra HD remake, which upgrades the gameplay mechanics to modern standards and completely redesigns the captivating soundtrack and gorgeous isometric 2D graphics.

● Rediscover the classic city builder Pharaoh and its expansion, Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile, in an all-new remake

● Explore Ancient Egypt and its 4,000 years of history across 50 missions

● Marvel at Ancient Egypt’s most iconic and beautiful monuments with completely overhauled Ultra HD graphics

● Erect the Egypt of your dreams with the map editor mode

Pharaoh: A New Era on Steam

School Owner

School Owner

Very excited about this game, but unfortunately, it’s not ready for Early Release. There is a lot of potential and the concept, to my knowledge, hasn’t been seen in a very long time. The objects and modeling looks like they were rushed but also looks like they will be more polished as development continues. Looking forward to updates.

I cannot recommend this game at this time as it’s still too early.

Real player with 12.8 hrs in game

8-20-20 EDIT: this is better/worst then before. i got pretty far and decided to save and come back later the same day. all of my teachers and staff was gone. i tried to load it one more time, and my entire school was gone. then i closed the game reopened the game, and there was no save game data….. this is still not able to be played, and still a very bad game…. I would love for this to work correctly

when is this game even going to be playable. this is a very bad Development. I wish i could refund this crap.

Real player with 5.4 hrs in game

School Owner on Steam

EndZ Village

EndZ Village

This game is a city builder that’s awkward to navigate and very confusing to play. The tutorial tries to provide some instruction, but it gets stuck on steps or doesn’t say what to do next. My villages seem to stop building and crafting. In the end i gave up playing on day 83 with 310 villages as i could not seem to get anything crafting or building. The zombies would attack but i could not fight back as my supply line has stalled. It looks like the last update this game had was in Dec 2019 so not sure if this game has been abandoned or not. I hope not as its got potential to be a good game. If your thinking about buying this game i would hold off until the game has been updated and they have fixed a few more bugs.

Real player with 8.9 hrs in game

In this video I take a look at EndZ Village, a pixel art civilisation building game.

I had a really fun time trying this title. It adds the zombie twist to colony building games. It takes some trial and error to learn all the aspects as the tutorial abruptly ended on me but that allowed me to freestyle and figure things out myself which turned out to be fun anyway. You do need to get a few things right or you will just halt your game, like processed wood will run out if you don’t build a wood processing plant early and when you run out you can no longer build a wood processing plant because it requires processed wood to build, but it all adds to the fun and gives some replay. I played some more for my own pleasure, not recorded, and ran into power problems. I wasn’t able to figure that out yet but the game is still progressing and there is always the discussion groups on Steam if you really need to figure something out. I’m sure someone will help.

Real player with 2.0 hrs in game

EndZ Village on Steam

SimCasino

SimCasino

I honestly am upset giving this game a thumbs down because as the game progressed through the early access releases, it honestly looked like the structure of this game was going to build up into something great. Sadly, the dev team have taken this project into full release much too early and I worry that everything that at first glance might seem like placeholders are, in fact, here to stay.

There is no variety in guest appearances; just the same pallet swaps of hair, skin, shirt and pants. This also includes any entertainers you hire or VIPs you invite to your casino; they all just blend together without any kind of visual differences to make looking at your casino population grow from a few dozen people to thousands all that interesting. And it just feel like a massive shame that the magician you hired to preform on stage is dressed the same as everyone in the audience.

Real player with 74.3 hrs in game

For an early release this is pretty good. It has it’s issues and needs a lot more content but it’s definitely worth giving a try if you enjoy sim tycoon style games.

That said currently (12/31/2020) there are some things that could be improved and I’m going to give a list of suggestions below in case the developers actually read these reviews:

  • My clock display is set to a 12 hour clock but peak hours are still listed in military time.

*The minimum pay out for a slot machine grand prize is 10 dollars but we default to penny slots. If they are paying a penny one dollar is a huge return, minimum payout should be based on the cost per pull. Also, why is the AI spending ten dollars a pull for a game with a 25 dollar grand prize? That’s insane.

Real player with 52.2 hrs in game

SimCasino on Steam

Star Chef 2: Cooking Game

Star Chef 2: Cooking Game

I like that it does not take long to get goodies. I like the game play and graphics. I dislike having to spend actual money to get anywhere fast. Overall however I would recommend!

Real player with 530.8 hrs in game

Very Cool Causal Game make sure you have friends to play this game the more you level up the more the wait time is for certain dishes and make sure you upgrade your storages for food and produce and magic items for the chef store all around fun game

Real player with 281.9 hrs in game

Star Chef 2: Cooking Game on Steam