Foundation
I love this game.The music is amazing and using your imagination to build big cities and castles is way fun 3
– Real player with 282.6 hrs in game
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Your game now sucks. I’ve never seen updates that make the game more complex and convoluted to play. Great job!
– Real player with 117.8 hrs in game
Going Medieval
Oke . So I want to stipulate that I did play this game before roughly around 100 more hours before. At this moment I have 200-250h play
This game is something pretty amazing to me. Mostly because it is an amazing concept with making your own Settlement.
Theoretically, you can put settlers to make stuff automatically, assigning them jobs, they get skilled on this, or draft them to attack raiders. Build underground, build castles above ground
A mix of RTS-Survival-Sandbox. Really cool.
HOWEVER. The game is obviously in a very Early Access state. Let me explain why this rating is negative:
– Real player with 213.5 hrs in game
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If Sims and Banished had a child, it would be Going Medieval. This game, so far, is well balanced, enjoyable and has enough sandbox elements with the right amount of warfare. I am very eager to see the progress in this game.
IDK if this was supposed to happen, but I was attacked by bandits who had two catapults and they were pretty OP, spurring me to build a massive 8 story wall, 4 layers deep around my small city. So far, they haven’t returned, and the small bands of mercs stand zero chance with all of my well trained archers.
– Real player with 151.8 hrs in game
Kingdoms and Castles
–-{Graphics}—
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ Paint.exe
—{Gameplay}—
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Starring at walls is better
☐ Just don‘t
—{Audio}—
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ Earrape
—{Audience}—
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☐ Adults
☑ Human
—{PC Requirements}—
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boiiiiii
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
—{Difficulity}—
– Real player with 110.0 hrs in game
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Extremely fun. Easy to pick up and put down AND come back to.
– Real player with 71.9 hrs in game
Knights Province
Knights Province is intended to be an old-school RTS game. Unlike many modern RTS games, which are fast-paced and often are more about tactics, KP planned to emphasize on “strategy” component. Slower-paced gameplay, base-building, resources collection and processing, in-depth strategic choices, variety of resources and units, attention to details.
Stronghold Crusader 2
Stop, dont go any further. If you were considering this game wether it is worth a purchase. Ill tell you right now, it is definitely not.
Its a piece of trash garbage game that was forcefully defacated unto the faces of its true loyal supporters and fan base, the people who brought you the orignal Stronghold that was beloved and missed were long gone during the unholy birthing of this atrocity.
I have played and deconstructed every stronghold and dozens of rts games back in the day and know what it was about each game that people adored and what it was that people despised.
– Real player with 185.6 hrs in game
The StrongHold series has always been one of my favourite ones, and this game at the end of 2018 like every other game of this series still is one of the best from FireFly Studios.
The core of the game stays the same - build castles, gather resources, control peasants as a king, keep their happiness and work going, train your troops, harvest taxes and money, and of course build tons of structures - there are really dozens of them, from the farms to churches, fortifications and army building; of course, given the desert/crusader setting of this game, you’ll have lots of weapons and armies too - both offensive and defensive.
– Real player with 142.4 hrs in game
Stronghold 3 Gold
Stronghold 3 may look like a medieval fortress simulator where feudal armies throw themselves against vast layers of fortifications with thick walls and towers that look as if they reach the skies. This is unfortunately only true if you play one of the scenarios that feature already constructed fortifications. Throughout the rest of the game you will never get to build anything more than a few haphazardly placed walls and the occasional watch tower.
The problem with Stronghold 3 is it’s speed. Everything moves at a dreadfully slow pace. Gathering resources and building structures seem to take forever and most of the game seems to take place without any interaction from you, simply waiting for something to happen. The extremely tiny maps doesn’t help either, making every town feel cramped.
– Real player with 45.6 hrs in game
Have I not reveiwed this stinker yet? Geeze, it was like… two years ago now I played (and beat) it?
Personally, I don’t care about the bugs, of which there really arn’t THAT many compared to earlier Stronghold titles. The game worked okay for me and I got through the campaign without any real serious issue.
No, where I got upset, where I feel the devs truly betrayed everything that Stronghold stood for, was thinking I was no longer smart enough to build my own castles. That’s right, its Stronghold, a castle building sim, in which you don’t build castles. On every single player map the castle is already built for you. Oh sure, you can build a wall between two incredibly obvious cliffs to seal off a supposed weak point, but I wanted to build frickin' castles. The first game let you build castles. The first game said “Here’s some land. There’s a quarry. Choose where to place your stockpile ANYWHERE on the map and, oh, by the way, you’re getting attacked in about ten minutes.” That’s what made Stronghold, Stronghold for me. Sure, they still gave you some castles in Stronghold 1, but they usually destroyed them in the first assault and made you rebuild them, often having to scrap some of the infastructure so you could pull your defenses back to a more practical postion. Stronghold 2 backed off of that, but still allowed for it, and on the missions you were given a castle to start, they were often little more than a ring wall and a single scout tower just to get you through the first attack. Stronghold 3… gives you a full castle on most maps, doesn’t want to let you decide where to place defenses (and fights you tooth and nail when you try), and on the rare occasion you don’t start with a fully loaded bastion, the places they want you to build are painfully obvious. In short, they’ve made what once was a good castle building sim into a below average Midieval RTS. For shame.
– Real player with 45.5 hrs in game
The Settlers® : Rise of an Empire - History Edition
The Settlers 6: Rise of an Empire (History Edition) is a village building game that doesn’t focus too heavy on warfare. There is some military element to it, conquest and defense definitely becomes more intense in the more advanced levels if you play the campaign adventure, but it is at heart a settlement building/management game. You can also play casual games independent of the campaign story line.
The graphics are nice and the characters and their abilities unique without being too “cutesy” or “cartoony” (one of the problems I think that the Settlers 7 has). The History Edition is just like the original edition but with slightly higher rendered graphics and Windows 10 compatibility. The Settlers 6 is one of my most well loved and well played games, I highly recommend!
– Real player with 690.9 hrs in game
My rating: A-
This is by far one of the best Castle simulations and settlers games out there. The game has a very nice immersive atmosphere, great music and little quirky animations which make it a very lively experience.
In this game used you work as a castle manager and build medieval cities promoting your knight by satisfying your settlers needs.
It is a pretty straightforward game and is more casual than other Castle sims. The game seems to emphasize Castle Management and economy over warfare. So if you’re looking for a game which is focused around large battles and strategic warfare, then you might need to look somewhere else.
– Real player with 35.0 hrs in game
The Settlers® 7 : History Edition
Strangely enough, I have had only one of the aforementioned issues (so far), where the screen randomly freezes after reloading a game. Other than that, everything is perfect. The graphics are fine and the gameplay has become out of this world. I played the original on an Amiga 1200. Settlers 7 is an awesome expansion with regards to the first ever version. It gets very complicated at points and some maps can be a real challenge,
The Victory points and Overseas trading are an awesome addition to the game but I have found myself winning when I was not ready to win. On normal, the AI had taken most of the land but I still won on victory points without having to even fight the opponent… Very strange indeed!
– Real player with 830.9 hrs in game
After many hours played and numerous crashes, I’ll share a few details. This series is amazing, (minus 5 and 6, seriously, what were you guys thinking? Can I have my money back?) After first installing, my game was constantly crashing (without an error.) After attempting to use support, and finding that they needed the MSINFO file in a format that my Win11 computer will not produce, I made a few changes and the game is playable. I no longer run it in 1080, (which you’ll read must be adjusted manually via the options.ini file) and have disabled “full screen optimization”. I do not run my browser (Microsoft Edge) in the background and I’ve minimized my tabbing out. I don’t know what fixed it, or if its just a fluke but my game has been playable for a couple days. The Settlers is a gem when it’s working, but buyer beware.
– Real player with 156.7 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
Kingdoms Reborn
I played this way too much. It was really easy to get in to, but had a LOT of depth. There’s definitely room for massive improvements around trade & AI players, but that alone isn’t big enough of an issue for me to stop playing. I found enough to keep me happy and occupied.
– Real player with 246.5 hrs in game
Kingdoms Reborn is a new take on the generic medieval city builder with a card system where you buy cards to place buildings, and a progression system to boot. This game is still in beta but once it releases don’t be supprised to see that 59 H go up. Since this is beta though I still can’t give it a rating, check it out though, if you like the genre, you (probably) won’t be disapointed
– Real player with 59.7 hrs in game