Dull fun! (No TL;DR)
After having given the game a solid try, it does captivate me with the simplistic graphics and the fun of designing your castle can be enough for a certain type. Sadly i am not that type, five and a half hours through my first gameplay. On (admittedly) normal difficulty i have done everything i can, there's no real threat to the city, no "death" so to say. Yes a large amount of your populace can die, but thats a temporary issue.
So! What does it have? Well if you're the type of person to make goals for yourself, like "build X amount of this type" or any of the sorts, i would think you could have great fun. If you're like me that likes to build something that is self sustainable, well then there really isn't a lot of replayabillity. When i got bored i tried seeing how tall you could build your walls, apparently there's no limit to height, which resulted in me having 10 tall towers with ballistae. Resulting in no real threat from any enemy, since the ones that can actually destroy my walls. Are dead before they even get near the city - so i got a "Thriving City" that is more or less self sustainable - which in my eyes is the end goal of all city builders. Achieved in 5 hours - on a single map yes, but i will argument that the difficulty doesn't increase gameplay - just extends it.
So with all that taken into account, it's a solid 3 from me. With room for improvements.
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