Is it worth it?

[Azuwi]

Or should I wait until steam summer sale / other sale or try a different strategy game?

[[BLK] Telu]

Wait for sales. It's ok for a city builder. But there is not much to do outside the sandbox thingy.

And new content start to dry out. Looks like devs have no funds anymore or than they run out of ideas.

You have few maps (not much) of three different size (big, medium, small). Two nations who have different way to be played (with special building for each of them, same as in a game like Age of Empire where some nations have special building or special needs/behaviors). The goal is to build everything and building dams to use water for making stuff.

There is no red line or big goal on the map, you just need to build stuff.

[EleventhStar]

sale will almost certainly be 20%, so you save $5.

if you want to play right now $5 isn't that much extra to pay, but if it's all the same to you then yeah just wait?

[Summersong]

If you like city builders, you'll enjoy Timberborn a lot, it's a great example of the genre. Waiting or not is down to your finances, you're getting a good game either way.

[[BLK] Telu]

I suggest to watch a let's play before buying.

[stonelock99]

very much worth playing and buying
When I first bought it, I played no other computer games for 18 months.

[Ericus1]

I'd echo [BLK} Telu here: watch a lets play and wait for a sale.

It's an okay city builder, that's all. I found it cute and fun for one playthrough, but relatively shallow and micromanagement heavy, with little replayability, and so quickly bored of it.

[Fall2YrDoom]

Game is worth every penny, I think the price is fair. I would pay upwards of 60-100$ for this, I have spent many many hrs playing this.. There is still a little work that need's to be done but I am happy with everything so far. One could spent months and months playing this and still be happy. This is one of those games that can played over and over again with many options on how you would like to play.. IMO it is worth every penny on sale or not..

[Fall2YrDoom]

(Ericus1) is wrong, this game repeatability is endless.. If you have a imagination to build then this is for you.

[Ericus1]

Originally posted by Fall2YrDoom:

(Ericus1) is wrong, this game repeatability is endless.. If you have a imagination to build then this is for you.

How can my opinion be "wrong". It's my opinion. You are free to have your own.

But there is next to nothing to distinguish one colony from another. They all follow the exact same pattern, using the exact same buildings, and exact same goals - other than the minor differences between Folktails and Ironteeth.

So, no, I don't think it has "endless" replayability.

[Puppy Cat Underfoot]

I've gotten more than my money's worth out of this game. Some colonies crash and burn, others thrive for a while.

Yes, occasionally I get bored, waiting to unlock a building, or I'm just not feeling it. However, every failure gives me ideas on how to run my colony better next time.

I'm going to age myself here, but I grew up when video games used the pinball method. That is good play was rewarded with more play. Endings? There were no endings, you played until you lost or got bored.

[EleventhStar]

Originally posted by Fall2YrDoom:

(Ericus1) is wrong, this game repeatability is endless.. If you have a imagination to build then this is for you.

a lot of things are endless or last a lifetime.

yet people buy new ones all the time because they get bored of the ones they have.

though honestly it's a bit hard to see what is endless about this game, usually games that make that claim at least have randomly generated maps.

[[BLK] Telu]

Originally posted by Ericus1:

I'd echo [BLK} Telu here: watch a lets play and wait for a sale.

It's an okay city builder, that's all. I found it cute and fun for one playthrough, but relatively shallow and micromanagement heavy, with little replayability, and so quickly bored of it.

I prefer warn a potential buyer because if there was ambition at the launch of the EA, this ambition start to flat out since the last update.

There was plenty of stuff added to the game concerning both races of beavers. Bad tides and bad watern stuff. But apart from that, there is not much more ...

Looks like the dev dry out of money or ideas. You choose.

So, be aware than it is not as shiny than it was at launch. So, i suggest you to watch the overall gameplay before buying, you could be disappointed by the end product.

And the replayability depend of the size of the map. You have not much reason to expand (apart looking for metal or managing water and getting more lands)

[Hazuki-chan]

The game does still lack some quality of life features (copy building, move building at cost, keybinds for common actions; that kind of thing) and is pretty annoying in the beginning. There's a lot to figure out, and then you still have to make a lot of things happen before you get to a place where you can just smoothly progress with more ambitious and productive projects, like new reservoir areas, better diversion of polluted water, and of course the giant tall-stacked beaver metropolis of your dreams.

There's a lot to do in the game, but it's mostly for its own sake, as it were; the game won't tell you "get 500 beavers with an average happiness of X to win the map", you kind of have to decide for yourself when to call it quits or try a different map.

There are cool water flow mechanics and cool building mechanics, as well as serious issues with gameplay flow and quality of life. I'm hoping at least the latter get addressed at some point, but it's been a long time and the devs seem a tiny bit goofy when it comes to streamlining.
Still, they've made some progress from their initial, terrible implementation of "City Districts" for instance, to the current, relatively tolerable and kind of helpful version.

[[BLK] Telu]

Yep. There is no milestone, no story, no campaign, no end game (apart for the next update where you can build a giant monument like in pharaoh).

[Resolute]

Engineering the water and creating farmland is what makes it more interesting then other games in the genre. The built in end game for a map is just whenever the colony can permanently survive all seasons without any micromanagement. That is a fun goal and on some maps a challenge, but there is no specific endgame besides that.