Although I see potential and really like the concept of floating cities, the games take a while to get going and get repetitive rather fast, meaning the window of actually having fun is not very long. Though a lot could possibly be fixed with tweaking mechanics and rebalancing the early game, I'm not yet convinced the core combat is any fun. With the painfully slow pace of the game I just can't bring myself to finish the story mode and unlock the other 2 modes, so if those end up being surprisingly great they shouldn't be locked behind the story. Besides that there's a lot of room for improvement in things like UX, graphics, city building mechanics and a couple bug fixes.

I can probably see this becoming a pretty nice game in a year or two from now, but that means paying for a dream and not for the product as it currently is.

Fun game to play for few hours. There are 3 "nations" to play - each have some different parameters, but more less are the same. I have a feeling that game is repetitive and there are not many variations to a general strategy. Fun, but not worth a full price - 5-10$ price would be adequate for the amount of a gameplay.

More a kin to a tower defense game than a true 4X. The pacing is a little too bit too fast for my personal taste.

Would Only recommend at a significant discount. Fun to play through once. No Replayability. Construction area is heavily limited thus you pretty much build always build the same stuff in the same order.

I recommend everyone to test the game's demo if you're uncertain about the game. I really enjoyed it, and was looking forward to play the full game. It's really fun and challenging to play, without stretching too much. After a couple of tries, I beat the game after around 7h ingame and a little something under 300 rounds. I think its a really nice complement to those really long hours and complex games of this genre for those not holding as much time on their hands. Sure thing, the build up is the same each time (as all of these games), but with changing maps and modes its a little new every time. Also, the devs are very active in here, answering questions really quick and throughoutly. Only downside is the missing translation into other languages.

A solid combination of 4x and city building strategy, despite a short campaign and lack of any meaningful faction variety
https://youtu.be/NsNR4Nz2UL0
TLDR in case you don't want to watch the video:

1. The 4x elements should be familiar to fans of Civ6 and the like, and you can expect more or less the same things here.

2. What’s interesting is the ‘island building’ and city building elements, which were a lot of fun to try and balance and optimise along with the overworld 4x map

3. The progression and delicate balance between resources and expansion is also well doine and definitely had a lot of fun / tension

4. Unfortunately, don’t expect a huge variety of factions or map types - aside from 3 different game modes (which add some replayability in the short term), the default campaign is, at best, 3 hours long.

I wish this had more in the way of content and faction variety; but for now, its best to get this on a sale, or try out the free demo to see if you might enjoy it or not!

It is fun to figure out how to min-max your turns. However, I've found that there is not much replayability. While the production of this game is good, I think I overpaid.

Played the free demo to check it out, but only 60 turns sucks. It's a nice concept in a steam-punk kinda way with their airships. interesting city build. wish it wasn't limited in shards or to make larger maps. wiped the map to all blue in just over 300 turns.

[Myriads: Renaissance] is one of those titles that desperately needs a "On Sale Only/Borderline" rating instead of Recommend/Do Not Recommend.

The developers asked on Twitter "Why didn't we sell well despite being hugely wishlisted?" The reason is quite simple:

You run out of content too quickly. What you see in Splattercat's video is basically it. The city building portion is by far Myriad's best point with good emergent complexity and interactions with the strategic layer, but even that is limited and gets mastered in 1-2 playthroughs.

Compared to a title like [Airships: Conquer the Skies] with it's simple yet deep unit/structure designer, multifaction strategic layer, gigantic mod library, all at a similar price point and it's clear why Myriads didn't meet the public's expectations.

Perhaps I'm being too harsh. The game is gorgeous, the city builder is exciting, and there's a certain charm to it's no-frills mechanics. I do wish [Myriads: Renaissance] didn't force such an insane amount of grinding (primarily via early-mid game upkeep costs) to extend the playtime, add multiple competing factions as an option, and of course a map/scenario editor would be great, along with mod support.

it's clear Sleeping Eight Studios has the talent to create something amazing, and I look forward to their next title.

They have a really neat concept going, and I definitely had fun with the game for an evening. It definitely is a bit content-light for the asking price though. You're going to end up seeing pretty much everything the game has to offer in the first few hours, and there honestly isn't all that much replayability value once you've gotten the gameplay loop down enough.

I recommend it, but only at a significant discount.