Recensioni recenti di Klingenmeister

Half my game time is "joining Server"

Edit: Matchmaking is getting worse by the day. You will find a lobby no problem, but the game never fills the 3rd spot and the game is literally unplayable with AI teammates.

As a solo dev project the game is...ok...for a low budget elder scrolls clone.
The combat is pretty good.
The crafting is good but falls completly off on max level. Cooking is an amazing idea on paper but the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ interface ruins it.
The open world is interesting and has a lot of variations in locations.
All dungeons have their own unique twist in gameplay.
The skill tree is enormous but like all indie games of this time balance is non existant and some skills are just utterly superior and some dont do damage at all.

The biggest problem is the writing, which is just unbearably awful, the main quest is literally a joke and the voice actors are either AI generated or are so bad that they sound AI generated. Take a note from Kenshi and remove story and quests entirely. Games like this can work without it just fine.

The game currently has some balancing issues, but it has the potential to finally be a worthy successor to They are Billions. It already has more content and meta progression to keep you interested.

For a single dev project this game is extremly good

"Ah, hello Dr. Freeman"

This is one of the better early access releases Ive played in the last 10 years. It works on release day, its interface is not terrible and it has content for more than a single weekend. Lets see if they can deliver.

The Editor will be released early next year

This is really not looking good for you. Releasing a sequel with less features than the current game? Not good. Releasing a sequel with less features than the release version of your last game? Thats really bad.

Edit:
Someone will complain, that this review is low effort (irony) so here is more:

- cars getting stuck forever without despawning, stopping all traffic in your city
- public transport getting stuck in stations for minutes, halting all traffic
- performance even on lowest setting (on a 1080ti)
- import and export is completly out of your hand and has no rhyme or reason
- industry and offices ignore available ressource production and city ressource demands and build random stuff (90% of my city production was electronics for some reason, instead of producing stuff i actually desperatly need like food)
90% of your school goers are elementary students
- citizens demand more hospitals and police, even if your hospital and police are completly idle and no patrol cars are moving
- water sources + terraforming tool = restart an earlier save or start a new map
- industry going bankrupt by raising the land value under their own feet

Alot more but i dont care anymore. There is a solid game under there and I am impressed seeing hundred thousands of citizens and cars moving at the same time, but those bugs should have been noticed while bugtesting. It is impossible to play this game without running into these issues.

Fix the industry, fix the traffic, give us the editor and this game is worth its price.

But I fear that it might be too late and next year everyone will have moved on and the modding scene will be dead on arrival.

Creating a problem and then selling the solution? I wish ♥♥♥♥ like this was illegal.
(with the release of this DLC leaders got a severe limit, but got significantly stronger ONLY IF you own this DLC)

This game died even faster than I expected

Even though I hate isometric games with a passion this is one of the most amazing games Ive ever played. It has the most satisfying destructive terrain Ive ever experienced. I wish the dev team had more manpower to make a 3d game, or make it coop, or give it more progression for replayability. I need more!

Also military weapons feel like actual military weapons. Artillery can level whole city blocks and 20mm cannons go through buildings like paper.

I can recommend this game for the satisfying shooting and destruction mechanics alone. If you played factorio and were dissapointed with combat not being part of the gameplay loop, this game is for you. This is a shooter game first and a factory game second.

My biggest complaint is the hilariously awful map editor tho. That thing is a bad joke. Im pretty sure only the guy who made it is able to understand how to use it.