Foundation

I simply love this game - it has everything and, even though still in the development stage, is already an amazing experience to indulge in regularly. Offers a lot of strategies, (micro) management, and fun (especially when combined with your own fantasy and imagination, making up stories and events). Runs flawlessly on the highest settings (at 4K), no bugs / errors encountered. Needs a little bit of graphical polishing (occasional floating tools, boats etc.), might also benefit from some additional tools like making it more easy for the zones closely fit one another, not allowing them to overlap (unless desired), thus making it easier to create multiple adjacent zones without needing to micro-paint the corners, (removing) overlaps. I could also recommend to make the whole resource-chain easier to read/understand at glance - perhaps a separate tab - including highlighting the production buildings of the same type, making it easier to identify "broken resource chains" (inside the same separate tab; e.g. missing coal production as one of the resources to produce iron, apart from the ore, hence why this my particular iron building is not producing any). Being able to buy/sell even basic types of resources (e.g. wood), have additional ways to invest "somewhere" the surplus of money. Not allowing the buildings (both manual - production - and automatically created - houses) to overlap one another, or being too close / pushed inside the inaccessible terrain (e.g. rocks or cliffs, resource-mining areas). Being able to create your own paths and roads (optionally) for the serfs to be using these instead of them "footing" their own. But these are all cosmetic enhancements I personally would appreciate a lot; the game itself is so awesome that - even though the developers were to abandon it - I'd still not regret purchasing it because it offers almost infinite, endless fun, and well-polished experience even at its current release (January 2024). Great work!

The game is nice, but the NPCs realy struggle to carry goods where they are needed.

Even without everything being completely shiny and polished, the game-play and music are peaceful and relaxing. I find myself spending hours, just watching the little villagers doing their thing. hopefully will be finished off shortly - some bits are still in progress clearly, but doesnt detract from the fun thus far

Solid title in the city building genre. It has fully released earlier 2025 and is mostly feature complete. They just added mod support and are still working on expanding the game. It has a few balance issues, but nothing that can't be modded or patched or even played around. It has come quite far in all these years even though the development was very slow. Mod community is quite small since it has been so long it went into EA. I really hope they get some more attention as there is so much potential for this one to kill a lot of other city builders. This game has a more or less open-ended objective system which makes it a bit more interesting than just a plain sandbox. The game community kinda died/did not have good marketing so it is not that well known, but it is in my opinion one of the more satisfying builders out there and it also looks very pretty. The 4/5 score does not do it justice as they are all old reviews from back in 2019 when it just came out in EA. Worth a buy for people who like cozy builders with an organic medieval building style but do not want the drab medieval atmosphere. Imagine Settlers + Banished + its own flair of mix and match building parts to create some unique buildings/castles.

What an amazing game. Lots of depth and creative fun. Finally I can build castles again!