Posted on: July 11, 2013

PanzerAzelSaturn

Gry: 609 Opinie: 7

Over a decade and still fun

Knights and Merchants is a 2D real time town building/strategy game much like the more well known Settlers games. I have not played the newer Settlers installments, but of those I have played I have always preferred K&M's gameplay. Setting up a good economy with efficient production chains is the goal of the game and it also has a surprisingly robust battle engine as well. This package includes the original 20 campaign mission plus the 14 campaigns added in the expansion. Some missions are battle only, but most involve plenty of town building. Overall I'd say mission average 2 hours, with some taking upwards of 6 hours for me, so plenty of play time here. Graphically this game is beautiful... if you like bright well animated 2d, which I do. When the game first released I was floored by the graphics, lol. Aurally it fairs just as well. The original release was better with its CD music, but the mp3's sound great and get the job done. The music is super fun and catchy and never seems to get old. Overall the game does have a few flaws, the GOG version tends to crash a lot on my XP system for instance... grr. Despite this I continue to launch the game attempting to finally compete the expansion campaign! I recommend this game to fans of the genre who are willing to play a slower paced game and who love city planning and building. There is a demo available on the internet, so give it a try!

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Posted on: July 22, 2015

cristims

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Gry: 591 Opinie: 21

One of the best games I ever played!

I start this review with this statement: "Knights and Merchants is not a regular RTS game"! This is extremely important, and it will change the way you will see and play this game. Why this game is not a RTS? Because is far slower than any RTS games I know, and is focused on resource management, base building and economy rather than combat and expansion. This game is more like Settlers or the later Cultures, than a real time game like Red Alert or even Stronghold. The battle is there, together with a complete unit list, from militia men to knights and even catapults in the expansion. You got formations, you got various units that can be mixed depending on the enemy forces making you feel like a real general, but the combat is not what you will do for the most part of the game, far from it. In most missions you start with a hand full of workers, couple of serfs and a storage house. From this you must build everything you need. And I mean everything! Basic resources like stone and wood are the backbone of your small village, then comes the farming sector with grain farms, pig farms, mills, bakeries, butchery, and even whine makers, all are interconnected and need a constant flow of resources between them so they can deliver the most important resource of the game: The Food! Yes, in this game everyone needs food! Serfs need food, builders need food, farmers, lumberjacks, stonemasons, and of course, the soldiers need food! You don't feed them, they starve. You let them starve too much, they DIE! Imagine your mighty knights that cost a huge amount of time and resources to build, starving away because your farms cannot deliver enough grain to the mills that cannot make enough flour for the bakeries., and they DIE of hunger! Everyone can die of hunger. If the builders die, you cannot build until you recruit more, if the serfs die the entire transport routes get slower, and if the army dies you're defenseless! Yes, it is this complex, and yes, I love it!

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Posted on: February 8, 2024

LvDogman

Gry: 26 Opinie: 6

It Might Not Be Beginer Friendly

Knights and Merchants might not be beginer friendly for geting into real time strategy (RTS) games or I just don't have patience for this game and I don't like RTS games anymore even though I play J2ME version of some other RTS game in the past. At first I thought tutorial would give all the info (which wouldn't be enough) to make player figure out what to do, but turns out, player needs to manualy open tips or whatever they are called to learn about what to do and games gives those one by one, which I figured out after attempting first mission. So I tried tutorial again. Which seemed too long and thought I learned enough, so I didn't finish it. Then there's situation where I thought I don't have resources nor a way to get those resources to get knights in the first mision. In The Shattered Kingdom that is. The Peasants Rebellion - Didn't know where to start. So with this more or less I thinking it isn't beginer friendly to get into RTS games. Or I just don't have patience, well at least it probably plays in part but it isn't only the reasons. I only found out about fast forwarding out of the game, there's no control option or help in the game. Plus even if I would manage to finish even first mission, after some time I probably would get burnout of RTS game, at least when binge play it, or whatever the term is. Well at least who are already into RTS games than they most likely would like it so they can get it. Maybe having open mind about RTS games beginers would like it.

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Posted on: March 29, 2013

tigartar

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Gry: 193 Opinie: 1

A game worth spending a childhood on

When i was younger this game was my all time favorite(it still is) i played it day in day out until i broke my cd then i got a new one but now having it work perfectly fine(no screwed up colors due to the game only allowing 32 and 256 colors) thanks to these guys here for fixing that made this game even more amazing then it used to be. If you love building medieval cities and fighting army vs army this game is for you

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Posted on: January 27, 2023

esabria

Gry: 483 Opinie: 1

Brilliant game

It has always been one of my favourites. If you can get to grips with how the system works (production chain, layouts, orientation anf feeding of the troops...) you will definately enjoy it if you like city building games with combat. My main complaint about it (I had it with the original as well) is that there is no option for just free building, to just get a random map and do your thing as a single player. Which is a shame because I don't tend to favour multiplayer much...

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