Hard to recommend this game at the moment. It is so similar to Banished, and adds so little, with problems that are long fixed in Banished.

Firstly this does have better graphics, and the first person mode is useful to use.

Problems and Issues:

1) There is a woeful lack of decorations, placables, clutter objects, whatever you want to call them. No decorative trees, gardens, dock items like crates or nets, fountains. There is some walls, arches, signs and light posts, that's it.

2) There are no couples. People will move to the closest house to their job. This can mean houses full of only women or men or even only young children. Women seem to magically get pregnant, based on the house they live in.

3) The people are work units. They never get bored, which is good because there is literally only the tavern, which isn't that useful. No games or recreations or festivals or even idle chatter.

OK these three problems mean the game has a massive lack of personality. You get food, have houses, make tools and clothes. Grats you are done.

4) Farming is based on temerature. This forces the gameplay around a winter mechanic that drops temperature to stop farming. Longer winters = less farming time. Crops don't have a planting season, they have a planting temperature. You can usually do 2 harvests in a field. Game seems balanced for this. Breaks immersion a bit and also means the game is impossible to have a hot climate option, since it would be year round farming = too easy. Hot climate have it's own challenges. Australian here, want winter planting and early summer harvesting :(

5) Map generator makes janky maps. Needs a loooot of work. All maps are island that centre is high ground. No lakes, no rivers, no plains.


Unlike banished which had every food item be it's own item (gather collected mushrooms, onions, blueberries, etc, same for each field crop, etc, etc). This game simplifies those to fruit and vegetables.


To be honest everything the devs seem to have done is to have the game be mechanically functioning while making it easy to code. Having each crop have it's own growing time and storage icon is a lot of work, having people live as couples in the same house, that's more work. I want more work. This game could be great, but it needs the hard work to make it great. Right now it's Banished with better graphics and less personality or gameplay.

Hard to recommend this game at the moment. It is so similar to Banished, and adds so little, with problems that are long fixed in Banished. Firstly this does have better graphics, and the first person mode is useful to use. Problems and Issues: 1) There is a woeful lack of decorations, placables, clutter objects, whatever you want to call them. No decorative trees, gardens, dock items like crates or nets, fountains. There is some walls, arches, signs and light posts, that's it. 2) There are no couples. People will move to the closest house to their job. This can mean houses full of only women or men or even only young children. Women seem to magically get pregnant, based on the house they live in. 3) The people are work units. They never get bored, which is good because there is literally only the tavern, which isn't that useful. No games or recreations or festivals or even idle chatter. OK these three problems mean the game has a massive lack of personality. You get food, have houses, make tools and clothes. Grats you are done. 4) Farming is based on temerature. This forces the gameplay around a winter mechanic that drops temperature to stop farming. Longer winters = less farming time. Crops don't have a planting season, they have a planting temperature. You can usually do 2 harvests in a field. Game seems balanced for this. Breaks immersion a bit and also means the game is impossible to have a hot climate option, since it would be year round farming = too easy. Hot climate have it's own challenges. Australian here, want winter planting and early summer harvesting :( 5) Map generator makes janky maps. Needs a loooot of work. All maps are island that centre is high ground. No lakes, no rivers, no plains. Unlike banished which had every food item be it's own item (gather collected mushrooms, onions, blueberries, etc, same for each field crop, etc, etc). This game simplifies those to fruit and vegetables. To be honest everything the devs seem to have done is to have the game be mechanically functioning while making it easy to code. Having each crop have it's own growing time and storage icon is a lot of work, having people live as couples in the same house, that's more work. I want more work. This game could be great, but it needs the hard work to make it great. Right now it's Banished with better graphics and less personality or gameplay.