Unexpectedly good. This is a city builder with walkers similar to the old Impressions games. Zone out housing, provide food, beer, medicine, and manufactured goods to make them evolve. Evolved houses send out cosmetic walkers dressed up in better and better clothes. More citizens means more money, which you need to upkeep your troops. You need troops to defend your city against on map monsters, and periodic invasions from neighbors. Send yours squads of archers and war pigs out against other cities to vassalize them and obtain tribute. Efficient supply chain management is a must. I only can eke out wins on the normal difficulty, but some have optimized it to be able to defeat it on the hardest difficulty. Don't be put off by the kiddy graphics. This is not a easy, kids game. This is a hard core city builder, probably on par with the harder provinces in the Impression city builder games. You will be well rewarded with a deep and exciting game. I like fights in my city builder, and this provides it in spades. For added bonus and replayability, the maps are randomly generated, rivals as well. You also get to play as 4 different cultures, each which play very differently. My favourite are the Russian themed Easterners, who eat sausages, drink cider, and breed war pigs for war pig rider mounted archers. They also get more labor out of their citizens. Northerners are Viking themed, Southerners seem Greek or Byzantine (wine drinkers), westerners get Wizards and eat Bread. Also any game with pigs gets a plus from me. These are some cute pink cartoon pigs from the farms. In short, don't let the kiddy graphics fool you, this is a challenging and rewarding city builder with a lot of fights. Closest similar game would be Knights and Merchants (also has pigs!), although the spell nuking seems similar to the nukes in Majesty.
