Is this game worth getting as it's on sale

[sam.pidgeon]

Is the game worth buying as it's on sale or is it full of loads of bugs and should wait for abit for it to be developed more and is it very hard to get hang of it?

[robz]

Origineel geplaatst door Clovis Sangrail:

It's probably not going to get any cheaper, and if you buy it now, you don't have to pay for it again later when it's more expensive.

Yes, there's bugs, and yes, it ain't finished, but it's playable.

Does having to start over because of an update get your panties all in a bind? Be aware that it is EA, and that will happen.

plenty of places selling it for £16

[Antonius]

I hope that developer will gift me this game <3

[zuliaahmad]

i just wanna play this game right now, so i buy it on sale. i don't want to wait until this game release

[mrxak]

Origineel geplaatst door God of War:

Origineel geplaatst door mrxak:

I picked it up last night and it's been a lot of fun so far. It's not like some super stressful game where you're needing to play at the best of your ability. It's pretty chill. Build up your economy and design your settlements. If that sort of thing sounds like fun then buy it. If it doesn't, then don't.

Be aware that you have to prepare for war early on (depending on the mode you chose).
So, being too slow may result in problems later on.

I did change a setting when creating the game to delay raiders a bit. Still was a problem, I wasn't ready. But ultimately I realized it was better to let them burn down half my village than try to fight them. And next time I'll be ready. My militia is now twice the size and much better equipped.

[arcticfire]

After playing this for a while I'm now starting to really enjoy it a lot more.

Whilst there are certainly some bugs, I also think some of it is just not understanding the game mechanics properly and I'm gradually learning it all with lots of help on here.

Hopefully more depth with come. One thing is for sure, this game really does drain your free time fast!

[Dherian]

Origineel geplaatst door Antonius:

Origineel geplaatst door Clovis Sangrail:

It's probably not going to get any cheaper, and if you buy it now, you don't have to pay for it again later when it's more expensive.

Yes, there's bugs, and yes, it ain't finished, but it's playable.

Does having to start over because of an update get your panties all in a bind? Be aware that it is EA, and that will happen.

No it won't be more expensive. This is not how it works...

This is simply incorrect.

The Majority of EA -Games rise in price once they go v1.0gold.
That´s because the risks of EA are no longer an issue, and they can call full price, because many people have tested the features and bugs.

EA is literally "Pay a little less, but expect less,also!"

Now, then there is the other side; SALES!
Every year there is:
- Spring Sale
- Chinese New year´s sale
- Spring Break Sale
- Summer Sale
- Single´s Day Sale
- Halloween Sale
- Black Week Sale
- Holiday Sale

Holiday Sale and Black Week, are usually the most hefty ones in Discounts, 50%-70%+ are to be expected on the majority of genres.

Spring Sale usually targets "Happy landscape games", with up to 33%+
Chinese New Year Sale targets the Asian market, so whatever they like will be 25%-50%+ off.
Spring Break Sale most often targets Party Games and Multiplayer with 30%+
Summer Sale is the first broad Genre Sale, where everything is around 30%-50% off.
Single´s Day is mostly romance games, couple´s games, and Multiplayer with 20%-30% off.
Halloween Sale aims at Horror and Gore games with the highest discounts next to Black Friday.
And that´s it.

Of all of those Black Week usually sports the highest discounts in any genre, followed by the Holiday sale, and Summer Sale.
Now, you can pretty much calculate, where you can buy this game on sale, which is right now at 25%.

Some other rules of thumb from a 15+ years Steam user:
Most Gold Games don´t go on true sale in their first year.
Most Gold Games do their first big sale on Anniversary.
After two years the latest, they appear somewhere in the Bundles
After three years the latest, they appear on Humble Choice, and Epic Giveaways, IF they are not platform bound.

[LV90]

IMHO: this game has already more feature than any fully released competitors. True, there are still bugs, balancing issues, and much variety to add: nantheless, I bought it full price and do not regret it one bit.

[ToxyJohn]

Origineel geplaatst door sam.pidgeon:

I may wait actually for it to be developed but more

You can play the game with xbox game pass and, if I remember correctly, there is also a discount for first time subscribers.

I don't know if the gamepass version has gotten the recent patches, but you can still try the main gameplay loop. Might be a bit more buggy than the current steam version tho.

[sam.pidgeon]

i do not have xbox game pass

[Jabberwocky]

Origineel geplaatst door sam.pidgeon:

Is the game worth buying as it's on sale or is it full of loads of bugs and should wait for abit for it to be developed more and is it very hard to get hang of it?

I have played 181 hours, and the only bug that I consistently encounter every playthrough is the AI glitching out and pathfinding breaking down once I hit a global population of 1000+ on the map.

I have learned to stay below 1000 citizens in a playthrough by minimizing my secondary villages, in order to avoid this glitch, which will be patched in the future, I am sure, because the developer Greg has put out ads for AI programmers he wants to hire as part of his development team.

Every other bug I have ever encountered was either an imbalance introduced via a recent patch (which is going to be fixed at some point, and lots of it already has been fixed) or wasn't a bug at all, but simply my own fault for not understanding the game mechanics correctly.

I've had only a handful of crashes so far, and I was able to immediately restart the game and continue playing from my last autosave.

For a game that is still in the alpha stage, I find this quite satisfactory. I had more problems with "Dawn of Man" when it went into Early Access.

[sam.pidgeon]

ok i may hold back purchasing until its developed a little more

[sam.pidgeon]

not played a city builder game for while as i am trying to make a submod for attila

[Spiffy]

I find it's a great game and very easy to get the hang of. Unless you want to build a really big city with thousands of people and test farming to its limits, you won't run into any bugs - the first patch saw to that.