Zeus + Poseidon
One of my favorite childhood games to play, though I’m not quite certain it works as intended, be it because of steam or windows 10. The game launches in fullscreen by default and messes up my screen resolution when doing so. It does feature an in-game windowed mode that fixes this…but this renders the user interface on the right (through which the game is played) mostly unreadable, and it also squishes the text to make it difficult to read.
Additionally, I am uncertain the gods are properly rendered. I remember them when I played the game on disk them appearing instantly; it can take them over a minute to appear now and their animations for anything (be it attack, curse, or blessing) are equally as slowed.
– Real player with 179.9 hrs in game
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Oh boy, oh boy…
It finally happened. One of my top 5 games of all time recently got released on Steam. I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve spent playing the main Zeus & Poseidon campaigns, let alone the custom-made ones.
The pinnacle of city builders that started with Sierra and ended with Impressions Games: The Caesar series, Pharaoh (& Cleopatra), Zeus (& Poseidon), Emperor - Rise of the Middle Kingdom, and even Children of the Nile (even though I never quite got into it). Pharaoh is also available in Steam now, so make sure you check it out, too!
– Real player with 94.5 hrs in game
Mythos: Slavic Builder
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1732910/Photography_Simulator/
Before the missionaries came to the Slavic lands to start writing down the known history, there was the Age of Mythos:
Forests, valleys and fields are full of creatures from Slavic beliefs. Even though they may look like monsters, you don’t have to fight them all. Make proper offerings to them and you will gain powerful allies.
Give your workers a roof over their heads and a good supper and they will build a thriving settlement for you. Do not disappoint your subjects, because dissatisfied people may leave you.
A long spear and a sharp sword will always be useful - your settlement is threatened by monsters, other tribes, Vikings or even demons from distant lands.
Follow Slavic traditions to earn points that you may spend on special blessings from the gods - the warlike Perun, the generous Mokosh and the mysterious Veles.
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Builders of Greece
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1573590/Colonize/
Builders of Greece is a city management game which lets you display your strategic and economic mastery. If you’ve made it all the way here, then the grace of gods is with us. Have your builders and craftsmen raise magnificent structures and monuments in your name. As for yourself, look closely into all the nuances of planning, politics, and economics. Make your city expand beyond the horizons and let the word of its splendour reach the furthest corners of this land. Builders of Greece grants you the opportunity to witness the greatness of Hellenic metropolises before the time of Roman conquests.
_Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
– Aristotle_
Plan out your city with great precision by creating efficient infrastructure between buildings and establishing unabated production chains. Select your advisors wisely to create the cradle of liberty and sciences or unite Greece by force – as you prefer. Compare your accomplishments with historic figures among Greek constructors in an epic campaign or achieve the highest rank in competitive mode.
_He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
– Socrates_
Even the most well-designed city is never fully self-sufficient – maintain good relations with your neighbours to reap the lucrative benefits of trade. Supply your city with resources crucial to its proper functioning as it expands ever further. Eventually, the prestige of your urban wonder may attract esteemed philosophers to its doorstep. This task may prove to be quite a challenge but offer wealth and enlightenment as rewards.
_It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
– Aristotle_
A city is not only brick and marble but foremost its citizens, and their needs have to be met – from the most basic ones, such as food and security, to sophisticated demands of luxury goods and access to bathhouses or the announcement of the Dionysia. Fulfilling one need may risk disrupting another. For example, locating your buildings so that they don’t conflict with one another may take careful planning but will certainly pay off in the end. Should your city attain the required splendour, it may strive for constructing a major temple dedicated to the deities of the Hellenic pantheon.
_One should attend to one’s enemies, for they are the first persons to detect one’s errors.
– Antisthenes of Athens_
The fame you attain as the designer of cities will not be to everyone’s liking. At some point you will need to decide whether peace is to be maintained with coin, blood or intrigue weaved to set your rivals against each other. No, differently than the favour of the gods, having a reliable ally may prove indispensable, as your opponents bide their time for your next mistake.
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Valhalla Hills
First of all, I always considered myself as Funatics fan. Their Cultures series always had a special place in my heart, while ZanZarah was a pure magic (still feel sad about the fact that the Xbox version never happened). In other words, I was pretty excited about Valhalla Hills. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a huge disappointment. Valhalla Hills is yet another one of those Early Access games where developers lost their interest in working on the game just because it was already selling fine enough. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
– Real player with 240.2 hrs in game
Alright, only about 2 hours in on this so take this with a grain of salt.
[Positives]
I like it. Why I don’t say love is because I am still only at the beginning but can definitely say it’s making a great start.
To start the Ai in this game is a lot better then most I see of similar genre. While in other games you must single out each individual unit to give them a task and actually get them working in this game the vikings just get up and do it. Want a new tent built? Great all the units that were standing by the fire get up grab some timber from the woodcutter and get on it. Another great thing about the Ai is that there are specific jobs and they immediately fill those jobs and get to work as soon as the building is up. Now does that make the game easier? No, it just means there is a lot less time consumption on simple tasks. You still have a capacity of vikings to feed, arm, and shelter.
– Real player with 34.9 hrs in game
Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition
Children of the Nile is the more modern version of the old citybuilders like Pharaoh And Zeus, allowing you to build a city in ancient Egypt. Some of the more modern things are, aside from the obvious graphics being different, that you no longer need to worry about intersections sending your supply and maintenance people entirely the wrong direction. You can now actually focus on building a city, rather than having to puzzle out the most efficient way to place buildings without them collapsing, catching fire, and starving because the food vendor doesn’t show up there.
– Real player with 115.4 hrs in game
So it crashes at regular intervals. It lags occasionally when a city gets really big, aside from lagging at every autosave. The AI can be infuriating at times: If you like micromanaging, be prepared to sit back and pull your hair at your laborers who will go across the Nile and over 2 mountains to haul limestone, while an overseer stands by himself overseeing no one in a site right next to their houses. Transporting heavy loads, like statues and obelisks across the Nile is also a well known problem, annoyingly time consuming at best, unsolvable at worse (unless you’re willing to delve into the editor). It shows its age in a lot of ways, the graphics included, though they still hold their own fine enough.
– Real player with 70.9 hrs in game
Mind the Vikings
I loved this game at first, and even gave it an excellent review but now its dead. One developer lout of the 2 working on it left. I wasted my money for a broken, buggy, incomplete game. First time I’ve been burned by early access. I hope the remaining dev is able to sell the title to a different studio that can complete it, but no one should waste their money on this. You can get other games with the same concept that are complete. If i could, I would return it. I was unfortunate enough to play it for an extended period of time.
– Real player with 14.7 hrs in game
PROS:
Great art style
Simple gameplay but still very fun
Actual people who interact with eachother
Factions
Personality
CONS:
Kinda unfinished
Overflow of bugs (see in comments how many bugs)
People cannot interact with relics
SUGGESTIONS:
Add a map, with different islands. Make people fight for the islands. Also add a “peacefull” gamemode with no other vikings.
Make people interact with relics, like climbing the relics.
See people actually coming by boat to the island.
Please dont make the suggestions a DLC.
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
Exodus Borealis
I feel like it is important to point that this game this is made by solo dev, who has been great at interacting with everyone in discord and is willing to listen. Now those of us that have dipped into the early access games will know that this is something to cherish lol.
Also the Gameplay well let me go into more detail about that, but it is important to remember that it is early access so may change after i write this review but what i have found so far is:
Tower defence - The towers have this kinda Age of Empires feel to them this brings back that old nostalgia i love that! There also is an Arachnophobia mode this is something i recommend you play i wont tell you why, just trust me it is worth it! The enemy ramp up nicely giving a good amount of failure and felt to me like fun Gameplay
– Real player with 84.1 hrs in game
This game is excellent for civ building and tower defense gamers. I am a seasoned (72 years old) player of both. The combo of both makes the game intriguing and challenging. It has depth without drudgery. Folks who do not play either of these genres may like this one just for that reason. To me there is a third aspect included - research. Which path should you choose first. There is no formula - one choice may be the best this go round but not in the same sequence the next time. And there will be a next time as you progress from map to map. Deciding how to allocate workers is another juggling complexity. The Dev’s UI design is a thing of beauty. Easy to use, informative info tips and an effective warning/informing system. Whatever your gaming proclivity I encourage you to give this one a try. It is just that unique.
– Real player with 63.1 hrs in game
Northgard
There aren’t many RTS game nowadays. So, this one is like… a rare gem. One of the most brilliant contemporary RTS out there.
The objective is simply to win, by which means though is entirely up to you. You can choose a mercantile clan and obliterate your enemies from the map or a war-mongering one and wins the wisdom victory, for example. It’s possible, but not ideal, but again we have to make do with what we have. The game offers like so many clans to choose from (many of which are DLCs though). Your town hall, the main building, regularly generates your population. One at a time. You construct a building and assign a worker to it. You explore the map, each zone in tile with designated resource(s). You colonize a tile and construct a building you see fit. During winter each year, you suffer production penalty. And everything moves along the passage of time until one clan rises to supremacy, or everyone else falls. Oh, and all the while some special events occur: Kraken attacks, abnormally harsh winter, annoying earthquake, etc. One of the best things about this game is that you don’t have to micromanage your resources and workers so meticulously. The town hall only produces one person at a time and each production building can hold but a few assigned workers, so everything is easy to put under control.
– Real player with 636.7 hrs in game
gave 250 hours of my life to get an extra chromosome very worth
– Real player with 263.0 hrs in game
Actraiser Renaissance
First of all, this is a QUINTET remaster. The mere fact that this game exists is a tremendous blessing for a certain cult fanbase.
The obvious bias aside, is the game good?
Short answer: Yes. Long answer: IT COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH MORE
It’s obvious that a lot of faithful effort was put into remastering this game. From including Yuzo Koshiro’s amazing soundtrack and accompaniment to the astounding artwork given to the many characters, menus and intro cutscene. People put their sweat and tears into this, and it shows in that regard.
– Real player with 54.0 hrs in game
A great example on how to make a remake. Renaissance does an excellent job of bring the original SNES games action and town sim into a modern era with new graphics, classic and remixed soundtrack, and expanded story that makes you feel more immersed in what was a somewhat bare-bones world before.
The new artwork is great and the story telling is actually quite deep. Everything reads like a positive psalm with the writing really showing some great character development and overall storytelling. Which is good as all the new characters do little gameplay wise. The story is the only way you will interact and learn about the characters and their backstories.
– Real player with 40.9 hrs in game
Viking City Builder
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1443980/Roman_Empire_Wars/
The Viking age - uncertain times for Europeans when the Norsemen started a large-scale conquest campaign throughout the Europe to broaden their territories. Become one of the leaders of one such group and after pillaging a small village, you and your Viking brothers decided to settle down and build your own settlement on top of the ashes.
Viking City Builder is a classical city building game with elements of a real-time strategy sparked on top! Make a new place to live for your Viking brothers and sisters, build homes, longhouses, boating houses, ritual houses and many more constructions from the era. Send your people to work or hunt for food in the wilderness!
And don’t forget about the Viking fortresses, as you may need a sturdy army to follow your orders when the Europeans come to take back what’s originally theirs! Your fierce warriors will also come in handy when your settlement will run low on resources. You can send them to pilliage some more, prey on the weak and steal their goods!
The game features stellar graphics powered by the Unreal Engine. It’s also first strategy game that uses Ray Tracing to enhance the visuals! The Northern Fjords were never before as gorgeous!
Game features:
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Fortify your settlement and battle the Europeans, who want to take back their territories
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Pilliage neighbouring villiages for valuable resources
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Build real-life structures, taken out straight from Viking history
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Manage the settlement, assign tasks and various professions and build a strong economy
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Take on an adventure and sail through the seas and rivers
Contact:
I am the only creator of this title, so if you have any questions or suggestions, please contact me via mail - roslagen796@gmail.com