Kingdoms and Castles

[MediantSamuel]

Kingdoms and Castles is a game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle.

Your kingdom must survive a living and dangerous world. Do the viking raiders make off with your villagers? Or are they stopped, full of arrows, at the castle gates? Does a dragon torch your granary, your people dying of starvation in the winter, or are you able to turn the beast back? The success of your kingdom depends solely on your skill as a city and castle planner.



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Looks cute, but I'm thinking the price and the cutesy aesthetic suggest a shallow experience.

Anyone played this?

 

[Hoaxmetal]

Oversaturated eye cancer, I'll pass.

 

[Burning Bridges]

optimized for piece of shit TN displays

 

[Heresiarch]

Looks even worse than shitty mobile city building games

 

[Burning Bridges]

Built with Unity Mobile

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Almost a week after launch and it has 2 reviews, I guess this is Fig's marketing arm in action.

 

[J_C]

86% percent on Steam. Proves that Fig produces quality materials. Suck it down Codex.

 

[Burning Bridges]

524 people have eye cancer.

 

[Perkel]

Playing it currently. So far it is pretty good. Kind of like Banished

 

[Janise]

Almost a week after launch and it has 2 reviews, I guess this is Fig's marketing arm in action.

60k owners

 

[Perkel]

Played it some more.

I like balance of it. It plays like banished but with Anno setup. Meaning it looks and feels like Anno but it is pretty hard like banished (compared to anno).

 

[Janise]

i wonder if one could use those post effect shaders on this to desaturated the colors

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

It has excellent reviews on Steam for what it's worth. By all accounts it only looks cutesy-patsy, but is actually quite hard.

 

[Janise]

steam reviews are on par with reddit comments

 

[Perkel]

i wonder if one could use those post effect shaders on this to desaturated the colors

colors are fine. I also did think that this was indie garbage looking but art style grew on me fast.

What i like the most about it is that every single resource is somewhere stored and doesn't go into magical infinite teleporting pool. So when you play your city you need to take into account that one greenary won't be able to satisfy your whole city even if has place theoritically. Same with stockpiles. One big stockpile will cause looooong work loop.

Stockpile management reminds me of Dwarf Fortress

 

[hellbent]

Looking forward to trying it soon. It being available on GOG right away is a big plus. If the dev notes are to be believed, they will be continuing to release enhancements and increase depth in the future.

 

[Janise]

My Organically Grown Residential District.
Well, Bar, Library, Church, Market. First attempt on Easy setting.

Holland

All the buildings in the game.

Army!

Diffrent view.

I dont even wanna try Hard. Dragons fly by and bandits but eh.

Game is much simpler than even Banished.

Wood and Stone are basic unlimited resources.
Food comes from fields or trees. Trees always deliver but not as much and require better ground.
Charcoal needed for best houses which gives best taxes.
Gold pays for happiness, ie libraries, hospitals etc
Iron is for the army
Tools is for better resource gathering and army.

And thats it.

Doesnt have Banished aesthetics or soundtrack.

Clocked in less than 2 hours. Returned.

 

[J1M]

This game is slow and shallow. Don't feel bad if you don't like it, developers clearly have lots of friends to leave positive reviews for them.

 

[J_C]

This game is slow and shallow. Don't feel bad if you don't like it, developers clearly have lots of friends to leave positive reviews for them.

Yep, I'm sure they bought those 1200 positive reviews.

 

[Burning Bridges]

You don't even need to buy them, often game developes appeal for abuse of the review system and 100s of people will prostitute themselves.

 

[Perkel]

Game isn't bad. It is shallow a bit but creating huge city takes about 10-15 hours each time.
Main challenge comes from hard mode and planning city to well divide resources.

 

[Catacombs]

I don't know. Seems like I'd rather save the money and play Banished instead.

 

[Destroid]

Banished is terrible and easy.

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

This keeps catching my eye on steam, looks fun. I like these simple kind of builders; relaxing and graphics are cute.

Would pay $2 but no more, waiting for sale.

 

[Turisas]

Looks like they forgot to add textures to everything.