Banished

only 2 issues i have with this game is that medicine seems to be a little hard to find / locate and if you alt + tab out for any reason, you have to quit and reload the game due to a graphical glitch. out side of that... 4 days straight playing and counting :D

Meaningless and boring.

There are many aspects of this game that I really enjoyed, such as the atmosphere, music and overall gameplay and managerial system, but there are a lot of things that I found extremely frustrating. Here's a list of things that I think need to be improved: - Stone/Iron/Wood collectors should pick up the load they just gathered instead of just walking away. - There should be a better system for expanding the population of your town. So far, every game that I've played ends in my population decreasing to the point of no return, despite having plenty of housing. It's also frustrating to spend so much time and energy building the town hall, but you rarely ever get any nomads visiting the town in order to help increase your population. - The characters always seem to be cold, despite the fact that they live in stone houses, with firewood, wearing warm clothing, in the middle of summer. I don't get it. - The command system seems to pick and chose which tasks to perform, despite specifically telling your workers to perform a certain task. Sometimes you have to wait endlessly for a worker to move one simple piece or iron from the stockpile to your building project. That being said, I would recommend giving this game a try if you enjoy a good building sim.

This is not a very deep sim. Everything is buildable almost immediately with things you find lying around, and there's aren't really any goals worth putting in time for. There are only a couple kinds of raw resource, only a few things that can be made from them, and no intermediate resources. The AI also leaves somewhat to be desired. Units take strange paths even with faster roads (there are only 2 kinds, bare dirt and stone). Another weird AI behavior is if you designate a building that takes logs (almost all of them do) and it requires trees to be cleared for its footprint, units won't stop delivering logs until the logs you just chopped down are hauled away to a stockpile. So units will haul the logs away from the build site (which could be quite far from the nearest stockpile) only to haul them right back. Overall, the game is probably not worth your time or money.

9 minutes in, the tutorial breaks. This is apparently due to changes made in path-building that weren't tested in the tutorial. What a mess. Last patch was in 2017.