Siege Survival: Gloria Victis

Essentially 2 game types. during the night you scavenge for supply’s in a stealth game, during the day you build/upgrade/feed the castle in a RTS style minigame. Visually quite nice looking and branching storyline ads some replay options. There are extra game modes. standard, simplified day mode focusing on night-time stealth and simplified night-time more resources less guards, focusing more on the day. This was something I wish I had known as I struggled on standard finding enough supplies having made some bad choices early on. I see 2 issues with gameplay. 1 If you get detected in stealth game you might as well reload but you only get a save at the start of each day so have to repeat the 1st mini game to have another go at night. Guards always patrol the same path. And supplies always sporn in the same place so each night sort of gets a perfect run.

I was searching for a Banished like game and I found this game. Not quite the same thing, but I totally recommend it! I bought it with a bit of skepticism, but I was very pleasantly surprised. It has a nice accompanying story, it contains 2 game mechanics in one - the scavenging and exploring by night and the base building / resource management by day. The game is in my opinion very well polished for what seems to be an indie title. The game aspects are well balanced and I got hooked in this wonderful siege survival / scarce resource management atmosphere.

Medieval version of "this war of mine" If you enjoy both of those things, this is certainly the game for you, It does not bring the heavyness or bleakness of TWOM but similar in tone.

During the day you build and organise your city resources and at night you scavenge the streets. The daytime city build could use a clearer flow chart on what are the buildings and what it costs to make and what they produce. They have it in a list form; from which my feeble brain couldn't bring it all together. At night, I struggled with camera controls early on in scavenging, but that just made it even more challenging and atmospheric. I like the way you can easily get disorientated and lose your way in the dark alleys. Five stars because it was challenging. It didn't waste my time and it was tons of fun. Great atmospherics and a really nice story element. I loved the ending how they retold all the critical events including the shameful and unscrupulous actions I'd chosen to save the castle. :{ I've only played the first scenario and looking forward to indulging more in the wider gamer and editor available. I had to write a review as I literally couldn't stop playing this once I worked out what I was doing.