Dawn of Man

Perfect example how to make a small, affordable great game. All is in its place and if you are the fan of this genre you'll be very satified. Also it has a lot room for dlcs and new content, I hope they'll add some in the future.

Regarding gameplay, Dawn of Man goes in line with titles like Banished, Foundation or Farthest Frontier, however, it has much less options, buldings, technologies, which makes it very repetitive. Basically, after you played it once, to get used to mechanics, you will play it for the second time, to build your settlement 'properly', and that's it. After that there's nothing new you can make differently. There are multiple features that have potential, but were apparently abandond during the development process, e. g. people and animals can get sick, but there's no way to cure them, no herbs, no medicines or technologies linked to 'medicine'; there are storms that slow down your gameplay speed as if something dangerous is approaching, but the only thing they can do is hit one of your people with lightning (killing them instantly), but there's nothing you can do against it... Neither order people to hide in their homes nor build lightning rods... You just speed the gampleay up and keep playing. From more technical point of view, you have flour in granaries, ovens filled with fuel and idle villagers, yet nobody is baking bread, and soon the villagers will be starving. I'm not sure if path settings are incorrect and a villager very far away is being chosen to bring the flour to the oven, or there's a cooldown in the oven... I had a feeling that 90% of the time the oven was out of use even when there was flour in the granary. I can recommend to buy it, chek, and return within 2 days (you're not gonna need more time than that), or buy on a sale for maximum of 5€, but there's no point of paying full price.

I enjoyed my first outing with the game, but it felt much too tame. If a predator comes into your village you fight it or run - you don't carry on with what you were doing before it showed up! The domesticated dogs were useless - it would be much more fun if they could be taken on hunting trips. Caveats aside, the mechanics largely worked well, but the game's pacing needs improving - there were long periods once the initial industries were established where you waited for the next tech points to be awarded and it got a bit boring. Overall, though, a good game and would be even better with randomly created maps like Banished.

hunt wooly mammoths, guide your humans through their early years. this game is a must. loading time used to be a drawback, but that has been rectified. There is an editor, but a few more maps would keep it fresh, also no way to prioritse repairs. And, why not let humans battle dinosuars? not histoical, but could be fun. this is a great game, very relaxing

Even with somethings that i would love to see changed, i still love the game