I liked the story origin on this, I did not realize this was a sequel so some elements in the story don't make much sense unless you play the first game. The issue I have is the save system 4 times I followed the auto save and left the game at said check point only to later see the game having not save anything and have to repeat everything again. Don't know if this is an GOG issue or the game issue but it was bad. Repeating 4 times the beginning because the game said it saved and nothing was was really disapointing
The concept is interesting and is fun seeing progression until you reach the second part of the tech tree, then the grind to check mark begins and the game starts to drag too much it becomes sooo boring. I reach the cooper age but by then I just got tired of it, I was just doing a check mark on the next thing I needed. THe issue is with how the tech tree stops progression and pace of the game for ex. to reach the cooper age once you need 20 tech points which is insane most of the time you are just fast forwarding to get the points by hunting x thing many times or building or collecting x thing many times and most of it is just 1 point. I really try to like this game but is soo boring after a few hours. My reccomendation get Banished which is better since you get fun facing challenges in that game like winter preparation, population control and resource management to grow your medieval town. Dawn of Men is very easy, the animals barely attack, raids are a joke, defenses are useles since anyone can go walk over mountains and once you get a decent population things run by itself alone. No challenge to keep engament sadly
This game looks good on paper and plays well the first turns, but it tries to mix many ideas and no coherent way to play it in a fun way. It tries to be Crusader Kings 2 with no intrigue, Total War but with no control over your armies on the battlefield, Civilizations but with no knowledge or input to change possible revolts happening and no much info or benefits coming from the buildings. You have unrest, the game tells you to check how to improve it and when you see it you find there is noting yo can do to reduce it since there is no building during my playthrough that does that, only the leaders the first and the heir do a bit of reduction, the rest is with edicts or by stoping building improvements which takes away from the only fun aspect of the game by liminting your expansion. The battles are decided by stats like crusader kings but the generals don't do much and you can't control the outcome (whoever wrote this is similiar to TW series is wrong), you don't even know a percentage of winninable or losing battle until you go in and the AI shows armored units that can kill an army 5 times bigger than their stack. Technical aspects, the game lags even on low settings in what seems to be a textures popping wehen you move around which can be anoying. Also as a side note for some reason you can't scroll the side of the screen with your mouse a must in RTS I have to get use with WASD or arrows to move the camera around. Overall this game from the pics look to be potential but is and feels imcomplete trying to be take so many ideas from other games but failing to be unique in its own way I got bored by it since it limits you in many areas. If you still want to try it wait for it in a sale
