Farlanders Prologue

I found the demo to be both quite challenging and quite enjoyable. It was fascinating enough to keep me from walking away in the middle of a scenario, rather playing out each to its end. Some aspects of the gameplay could be better explained, eg the newly added happiness mechanic in scenario 3. The first time I played it, I missed my target by 5 colonists on the last turn because I had placed some houses too close to a factory on the very first turn. The puzzling aspect of the terraforming system can be frustrating due to the rng as the kits are not all present in each scenario, but once you realise that you're just not going to get the kit you want, you do usually have enough time to rework your strategy in order to be successful. I will definitely be looking at reviews once it has fully launched, so on the wishlist it goes. PS: The fourth scenario is just the epilogue to the prologue's story - the demo has only 3 playable scenarios, but they took me plenty of hours to complete.

When I started the game it looks very promising. But the moment it reached terraforming the game crumbled and no longer fun. First of all we're given 3 weirdly shaped terraforming options that act more like a tetris piece. It's fine if the terraforming don't affect existing building but in this case, it IS messing with buildings. The game made us build a meticulous and complicated system to keep the colony running but one wrong terraforming pretty much ruined the whole system. had to restart several times even during tutorial because I can get the right terraforming pattern or the colony was planned on specific position it's pretty much a dead end because I can't destroy them or risk running out of resources in several turns.

The interface has a few issues but IMO the core mechanics are good and do not seem to me to rely all that much on the RNG. Do not think of it as a builder where you can make aesthetic choices about where to put stuff but as a puzzle game more like sudoku, although with some randomness. The writing unfortunately is quite bad, although at least you can skip most of it. There are three parts of the demo; it looks like there should be a fourth the way it is presented, but there isn't. The whole thing took me several hours. Some suggestions that are part of the tutorial but not fully obvious: check the terraforming guide to figure out exactly what terraforming does (it looks like a general help button but is just a table) and check the neighbor bonus of each building (you must make use of them to have enough resources and they apply particularly strongly to some buildings where it isn't obvious they should, check the bottom of each building info on placed buildings). There are multiple ways to do things so there should be some way that works with the terraforming options you are given. The challenge is that while everything wants to be next to each other you don't have much adjacent buildable space.

Fun and challenging turn-based strategy with randomized terrains to plan out what to build with goals every few turns, its like a much more challenging version of sim city. Can't wait for the full version to come out.