Which city builders do you play and like the most?

[Lord kagami (Grandchild of Luck)]

Name a few. For me, I like Against the Storm, Patron, Kingdom Reborn, Anno 1404, and a few others. What about you?

[garthurbrown]

The only ones I played for any length of time were Banished and Farthest Frontier.

[Lord kagami (Grandchild of Luck)]

Originally posted by garthurbrown:

The only ones I played for any length of time were Banished and Farthest Frontier.

Isn't banished basically Patron? Or is Patron the Spiritual Sequel to Banished?

[garthurbrown]

I've never played Patron but they get a lot of comparisons. Banished is very similar in the interface to FF.

[Lord kagami (Grandchild of Luck)]

Originally posted by garthurbrown:

I've never played Patron but they get a lot of comparisons. Banished is very similar in the interface to FF.

Oh. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Were there other city builders that you were potentially interested in playing in the future?

[ladicken]

I've played a lot of Banished and Anno 2070. I played Ancient Cities when it was in pre-release, but eventually that one got really messed up as they neared release and I gave up on it.

[garthurbrown]

Originally posted by Lord kagami:

Originally posted by garthurbrown:

I've never played Patron but they get a lot of comparisons. Banished is very similar in the interface to FF.

Oh. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Were there other city builders that you were potentially interested in playing in the future?

I've played a few others that are more of based builders and I didn't like them, North Guard and another viking game.

[MedeaFleecestealer]

Older ones for me: Zeus: Master of Olympus, Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom and Children of the Nile.

[Lord kagami (Grandchild of Luck)]

Originally posted by MedeaFleecestealer:

Older ones for me: Zeus: Master of Olympus, Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom and Children of the Nile.

I'm honestly curious though. How are they? How do they differ from other modern city builders? Do they have just a unique touch to them?

[Lord kagami (Grandchild of Luck)]

Originally posted by ladicken:

I've played a lot of Banished and Anno 2070. I played Ancient Cities when it was in pre-release, but eventually that one got really messed up as they neared release and I gave up on it.

Oh! Do you still play Anno 2070? How do you prefer it from other Anno games? And do you still like playing Banished?

[Lord kagami (Grandchild of Luck)]

Originally posted by garthurbrown:

Originally posted by Lord kagami:

Oh. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Were there other city builders that you were potentially interested in playing in the future?

I've played a few others that are more of based builders and I didn't like them, North Guard and another viking game.

What kind of viking game was it?

[ladicken]

Originally posted by Lord kagami:

Originally posted by ladicken:

I've played a lot of Banished and Anno 2070. I played Ancient Cities when it was in pre-release, but eventually that one got really messed up as they neared release and I gave up on it.

Oh! Do you still play Anno 2070? How do you prefer it from other Anno games? And do you still like playing Banished?

I still occasionally play Anno 2070, it's my favorite out of the Anno series. All the later ones didn't catch on with me that well. I like city builders that are easy, relaxing but yet just complicated enough to keep your attention. Which is what Farthest Frontier on pacifist mode is right now. While it's not a city builder, I still fire up a Civ V game now and then when I feel a need for a challenge and some killing of enemies. LOL

[MedeaFleecestealer]

Originally posted by Lord kagami:

Originally posted by MedeaFleecestealer:

Older ones for me: Zeus: Master of Olympus, Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom and Children of the Nile.

I'm honestly curious though. How are they? How do they differ from other modern city builders? Do they have just a unique touch to them?

Well, I haven't played any "modern" builders so difficult to say. They have missions you accomplish to move on to the next one, but you can also just build as a sandbox if you want to.

You can see Zeus here to give you an idea.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/566050/Zeus__Poseidon/

[RMPyro]

Beasts and bumpkins has its charm. :p Its like 90s version of this game.

[C-zom]

Timberborn had me for a bit, but when I recognized it was more scenario based than I hoped, I bounced off it. Charming, fun problem solver though but it has clear "puzzles" in only a handful of maps usually around rerouting water into a suggested reservoir and growing your colony in that direction.

Anno 1800 is amazing -- it has an unreal amount of content, albeit locked behind a hefty DLC lineup. Although the resource and tech tree is extremely daunting, you can take as long as you like so long as you didn't pick tons of hostile modifiers. I can lose hours just tidying up my islands, decorating and filling in from tons of cool props, and then going down into first person view and walking the streets like a citizen. Graphics hold up zoomed in surprisingly well.

Without more ranting, I also liked Endzone, Against The Storm, and Songs of Syx recently.

[Lord kagami (Grandchild of Luck)]

Originally posted by C-zom:

Timberborn had me for a bit, but when I recognized it was more scenario based than I hoped, I bounced off it. Charming, fun problem solver though but it has clear "puzzles" in only a handful of maps usually around rerouting water into a suggested reservoir and growing your colony in that direction.

Anno 1800 is amazing -- it has an unreal amount of content, albeit locked behind a hefty DLC lineup. Although the resource and tech tree is extremely daunting, you can take as long as you like so long as you didn't pick tons of hostile modifiers. I can lose hours just tidying up my islands, decorating and filling in from tons of cool props, and then going down into first person view and walking the streets like a citizen. Graphics hold up zoomed in surprisingly well.

Without more ranting, I also liked Endzone, Against The Storm, and Songs of Syx recently.

I love Against the storm too!