So its Anno?

[aljowen]

Does it do anything different? I stopped playing the demo because mechanically it felt identical, but with slightly awkward dialogue. Does this change?

[Jimmy]

In the 2nd tier you unlock the mines which is like if you replaced the New World in Anno with a dungeon keeper style game. But the overworld is extremely Anno.

[Joe]

yeah..... its anno....

[Jack]

demo is also missing the enemy defence part of the game shown in the trailers, so not just a supply chain builder

[Narcissistic Cannibal]

Unfortunately, yes. Plus something like Dungeon Keeper/Dungeons/Evil Genius 2 in the underground.

I can understand the wish to fit essentially two games in one, but the demo alone felt overwhelming. Anno's system of citizen classes in simply obsolete in 2023. If the game consisted only from the underground excavating section I'd be more enthusiastic (most likely, I just need SteamWorld Dig 3).

I really appeciate and admire the developers' ability to make games in the same universe, yet in so different genres (although as I understand, this one's not made by Image&Form), but it's simply not my cup of tea this time.

The graphics and animations are cute and nice, the atmosphere really fits the previous games. I wish the devs all the best with this and next projects, and keep waiting for Headhunter.

[BigV]

Originally posted by Narcissistic Cannibal:

Anno's system of citizen classes in simply obsolete in 2023.

I've never played Anno but I didn't find that to be an issue in this game. I thought it was a fun little mechanic to add engineers and then have to replace them with more workers to keep everything running at full efficiency. If you could just upgrade all the workers and make them do everything it would have made the city building a lot less interesting IMO.

[Mendacious Calamity]

You stopped playing the demo because you didn't think the gameplay would evolve but now you want other people to let you know if the demo gameplay evolves?

Play the demo bro.

[Ambushbob]

Originally posted by Narcissistic Cannibal:

Anno's system of citizen classes in simply obsolete in 2023.

in what way?

[aljowen]

Originally posted by Mendacious Calamity:

You stopped playing the demo because you didn't think the gameplay would evolve but now you want other people to let you know if the demo gameplay evolves?

Play the demo bro.

I felt I had seen enough and didn't feel it was worth it to continue. But I wanted to know if I had judged it unfairly. So I called upon the internet to see if other people felt the same or got further.

[vandalism]

yes and i love it, anno is great and this demo is very promising

[raffletime]

It probably took you longer to make this post than it would take to finish the demo and have found out for yourself. It's not JUST Anno.

[MrGowdy]

It might not be "just" Anno... but the entire first part of the demo and city building (on the surface) is 100% ripped from Anno. It's exactly the same game with a different set of visuals.

I'm not saying this is necessarily bad? But to have completely ripped the EXACT Anno formula down to every detail... feels like a very lazy approach.

[Bueno Stainz]

Yeah this game seems like itll be fantastic, I really liked the demo.

[Narcissistic Cannibal]

Originally posted by Ambushbob:

Originally posted by Narcissistic Cannibal:

Anno's system of citizen classes in simply obsolete in 2023.

in what way?

It's 20+ years old and it's time to move on. Forcing the player to upgrade one citizen class into another adds nothing of value but padded "play"-time.
Funny enough, the underground section uses a simpler and faster system of different classes that do not substitute each other. The town, on the other hand, is generic Anno.

[LotusBlade]

Originally posted by Narcissistic Cannibal:

It's 20+ years old and it's time to move on. Forcing the player to upgrade one citizen class into another adds nothing of value but padded "play"-time.

There are no Anno clones which i know about, so saying it's obsolete is just wrong. If some game did it better, please, enlighten us with atleast two modern examples, which ARE NOT smaller in content compared to Anno 2205.

Originally posted by Narcissistic Cannibal:

Funny enough, the underground section uses a simpler and faster system of different classes that do not substitute each other

Different worker types on surface are required by different buildings on surface. Feels like you trying to make up flaws for a game while there are none, atleast not of which you listed.

[Ambushbob]

Originally posted by Narcissistic Cannibal:

Originally posted by Ambushbob:

in what way?

It's 20+ years old and it's time to move on. Forcing the player to upgrade one citizen class into another adds nothing of value but padded "play"-time.
Funny enough, the underground section uses a simpler and faster system of different classes that do not substitute each other. The town, on the other hand, is generic Anno.

First no one is "forcing" players to do anything, you can just not play the game. Second how old a mechanic is, is irrelevant to if the game is good hell dice in games are very common in games still and that game mechanic is a few millennium old. so whats your point?