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1 person found this review helpful
0.6 hrs on record
dumbed down, launcher login locked trash that doesn't deserve to be on Steam, oh wait, Steam has fallen so far from what it was, a AAA game socializing system that allowed you to play and buy good games, to a scam platform where 80% of the things (not games) for sale, is junkware, so I suppose this steaming (see what I did there) pile of doo-doo, quite fits in.

If you want to play a trade empire game.... buy Patrician III...

Don't buy this thing!
Posted January 10.
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21 people found this review helpful
55.4 hrs on record
At first it seems like a great game, but it quite quickly becomes tedious and repetitive.

The AI cheats, even at the easiest settings, even at custom-cheat settings where you hobble the AI, it just ignores your settings, how do I know? - well you get a fixed amount of science per turn, but the AI manages to get techs it shouldn't have access to based on the number of tech points available at that point.

You can build your supply as much as you want, the AI will just magically get the late game "steal supplies" ability, and you have nothing...

But even so, defense is so bloody easy, you don't really need much supplies anyway, that is pretty much the only thing this game gets right, defender nearly always wins...

You end up just doing the same thing over and over, especially when on defense, start battle, speed up, wait til the battle is over...

I love strategy games, but there isn't much strategy about this, just watch where the AI moves it's troops, counter that, end turn, watch where AI moves troops, counter that, end turn... that is what this game boils down to.

Winning the game is very easy too, because it has this function near the end where it just deducts 30 national will per turn, so defend until then, then within a few turns, you win.
Posted January 10. Last edited January 10.
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4 people found this review helpful
465.5 hrs on record (65.1 hrs at review time)
Definitely better than Motorsport Manager!

Setups are a bit bothersome and unrealistic, apparently, changing everything in setups takes the same time as changing a bit on the front wing, It would be nice if there was cumulative time for changing multiple parts of the setup and that it was a bit clearer on how much the different options change each setup.

Also, when starting practice, you should have somewhat of an idea of what setup you need to use, you are managing a professional Formula 1 team, but each race you start with about as much of an idea of the setup to use as the average person would have, none! It is like you are running a team of people who at the start of practice think that you could technically have the same setup for Monaco as for Monza.

You either have to choose to ignore track Acclimatization or choose to drive 20 laps per practice more than all the other teams which means you wear down your parts much more than all other teams.
It would be nice if the race simulator actually give you some base acclimatization as the drivers would have practiced the track in advance, the higher level of race sim, the higher base acclimatization.
Posted October 22, 2023.
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17.1 hrs on record (3.6 hrs at review time)
buy it!
Posted June 22, 2023.
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74.2 hrs on record (40.5 hrs at review time)
If you like managing a ton of AI with no brain, it's great.

If you'd wished for a bit less micromanaging everything with no useful stats or help, not so great.

The game doesn't tell you some of the most important things, there is no pop up information, but there damn sure is a lot of broken tools and logging...

This is like medieval-rust, only instead of hostile AI-zombies you get peasant AI-zombies.

They don't know where to live, they don't know what to do for work.
And the game forces you to do everything for them, even decorating their homes.

Even if you give them a job, the building is set to produce NOTHING, and there is no help to tell you HOW to get the building to produce anything, and you better remember to equip them with the tools needed.

Farming is even worse, the icons for each type of grain are very similar, well of course, they are grain symbols! bu there is again no pop up info giving you the name of the crop... you have to memorize each icon
to know what you are looking at.

The game has shared storage, just not shared with you! So YOU have to pick up stuff, carry it to where you wanna use it, then go back for more... If the storage is shared, let me use the stuff!

The skills are easy except diplomacy, you get diplomacy xp for doing quests, but you get so little, you end up having to do 10000 side quests to max your diplomacy.

the thing is, there are 8 villages on the map, with one side quest in each, that repeats....
you have to do the same quests 1200 times or so to get your diplomacy up...

while chopping down more trees than the Amazon looses in a year!

If only the game would automatically have a standard setup of production you could then modify, rather than you have to set it up for each building.

If only the settlers would actually do stuff to their own homes rather than have me chose their freaking curtains and where the lamp hangs for them!

I have in 40 hours built a 33 settler big settlement, with everything I have unlocked built.
And completed the main storyline, which includes waiting to next seasons just to prolong the time the game takes...

It is on the surface pretty, the combat is not impressive but what you would expect,
and as long as you can be bothered being bombarded with meaningless notifications about a building not working due to "16" or "24". Whatever that is supposed to mean, because yeah, there is no information on what is wrong with your building, there is an icon of the building type, and a number...

I have no clue what the numbers mean... Almost like in Lost...
Posted November 6, 2022.
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133.5 hrs on record (106.1 hrs at review time)
Although I like the story, I like the game play and most of the world, and the graphics.
the quests are great, even side quests are not boring.

But some things do annoy me. Fast travel for some reason can only happen from certain posts to posts...

NPC's go around yelling random annoying stuff in an infinite loop, and it irks me, yes it is to bring life to the world... but when I walk down the street, there has never been a madman going around repeatedly yelling
"Hello you, Yeah You, have you got water on the brain?!"

I get it is impossible to make unique dialogues and voices for everyone, but. Sometimes it is just better and more realistic, when people mind their own... everyone else has their own life, but in games it seems everyone is just waiting around for you to pass by so they can say their line at you.

also, you can only track one quest at the time, so if two quests are in the same corner of the map, you have to remember which of the 40 quests you have it was you were also going somewhere for.

but otherwise for the most part a great game to play, there are sections you can't avoid that are annoying coz they break your rythm, but I guess they felt cutscenes weren't enough for those parts.
Posted January 16, 2022.
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1 person found this review helpful
1,961.6 hrs on record (311.7 hrs at review time)
although they are immortal and will re spawn, I feel sorry every time I get my Kerbals blown up, retry and retry for hours on end to finish a mission! I refuse to let them fail :P

and their happy stupid faces, it is hard not to love them too!

in general the gameplay isn't very complicated, but it isn't very easy to figure out either, but unlocking the mysteries of Kerbal Engineering, like landing gear, don't use it! Just use an I-beam or a strutted box.

now go to distand worlds and explore!

Posted October 16, 2021.
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1 person found this review helpful
1,347.8 hrs on record (135.7 hrs at review time)
although a lot of things are great from the previous game, not a lot of improvements has been made, and some are really obvious improvements, and not hard to implement:

1: raising specific units (men at arms regiments) at specific rally points.
2: setting up a specific raiding army (when playing norse) rather than summoning everyone and waiting for 3 weeks for them to gather, then telling 75% of them to go back home because you can only bring so many to a less developed region without massive desertion or deaths. so when you "raise local raiders" you only raise what you set up in advance.

3: an easier way to manage marriage, just like in CK2 etc. remembering to marry off relatives when you have 60 of them, becomes not only the primary thing you do, but it also becomes extremely tedious. Having some sort of options (which I believe actually existed in CK2) as to who you want to control the marriage of in general would be awesome.

4: although some of the historical events are awesome, not all pan out realistically when looking at the specific game and how it panned out until the event.

Ie. I love playing Viking and Norse. So I actually started a game on Iceland, raided my way through Britain down to France and back up again over and over, I became big enough to hold the Faroe Islands and the Scottish Isles region, I decided to create Island as a nation of those 3 duchies and then when I died 2 of my sons holding the Faroe Islands and Scottish Isles declared independence wars at the same time...

I decided that rather than hauling my army that then just landed in Constantinople for a massive raid prize of 230gold, all the way back in the hopes of making it in time, to let the 2 duchies go and keep the king title of just 4 counties in 1 duchy. Turned out to be a good idea, because my two brothers (as they were now)

Decided to make unfriendly relations with just about everybody in the world and got destroyed rather quickly. I escaped and kept my cool up in the frigid region of Iceland, where noone dared to venture as I had developed the lands so much I was making enough to have the biggest army in the world despite my massive land loss.

Now, what was my big sad was, that the Asa faith had taken all of Ireland, Northern Britain, The Tengri was attacking Catholicism in the East north of the Orthodox world, north of Macedonia.

A massive Lollard heresy outbreak persisted in Spain.

Naples went Adamite and Muslims held Sicily.

Catholicism was in a real bad state, and the Norse faith had pushed its way up to being very strong.
In fact Catholicism was still recovering from a failed crusade against the Slovianskan faith in Prussia.
and their overall fervor was down to 55% despite being the largest faith in the world... and Asatru was at 100%... But somehow, the strongest Asatru nation (Denmark) at the time, just converted to Catholicism...

And Although I know it is historically accurate for the year, the conditions that lead up to it, weren't present in the game...

Let me explain, I am Danish and know the history of the Danish conversion to Christianity.

The reason Denmark converted wasn't religious, it was political. At the time, the region we now know as Germany, had just converted to Christianity (in this game, it hadn't, the crusade failed remember...)
in fact, asatru had almost reached Paderborn and Sloviansk was also ingressing into Catholic regions.

Furthermore back then (historically) Germany had allied itself with France and Britain to put pressure on Denmark... In this game, there is no Germany, there is no France and there is no Britain, I started a shattered world and they have yet to form...

There is literally no pressure, no reason and no rationale behind this conversion... So in this game, there should have been some sort of "prevention" from the Danish conversion.
Posted May 3, 2021.
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6 people found this review helpful
67.7 hrs on record (44.2 hrs at review time)
40 hours in, enjoyed every moment, but now there is nothing much to do.

pro's :

Easy to get the hang off, difficult to master.
Not too punishing when you make mistakes, you can come back from them most of the time.

cons :
Lacking in long term gameplay and replayability.
after 44 hours, I've done it all, and the other scenario's are just the same on different maps.
too little visual variation in buildings, only few have different skins/looks and it is only 1 or 2 extra.

I would get it on a sale.
Posted February 10, 2021.
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287.2 hrs on record (65.6 hrs at review time)
It seem's that Attila was a coward, I've played 3 games. Whenever he shows up, he lets his other generals attack, then just wait out till the place surrenders, only taking on battles if forced to.

Not really the experience I expected, the AI just runs away and basically ends up nomadic, starved and easy pickings.

All you gotta do, is make sure you keep your military close together, or try and get the huns at sea, their cav is useless there, I played the Danr. I ended up just resettling most of northern and eastern europe after killing off the Huns, as everything was destroyed and nobody was nearby, I could just expand and expand forever, which made for the most boring lategame ever...
Posted January 8, 2021.
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