Like many reviewers have said, it's an easy game and once your town reaches a decent size with plenty of resources and money, there is not much else to do! Still for $7 it's well worth playing and relaxing for several hours.
This is a heavy sequel-story to "The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav" PC game, which of course I could not play first on my MAC. So I was a little lost in the continued story, but with lots of great dialogue and pretty illustrated scenes, I could ignore that and plowed through it just fine. By the end however, the conclusion of the story still didn't make total sense, haha, but it really doesn't matter. It's a point-and-click game and you have mini puzzles to solve on each scene before you can progress to the next. As far as I can tell too, you can't choose any route that leads to dying. The game is relaxing and fun as you flip back and forth in time and tale between two main characters. I'll admit that in a few spots I had to cheat and look up how to get through the puzzle to the next scene (later in game). Anyway, hours of fun and the game ran fine downloaded on OS Yosmite (10.10.5).
I loved this game as a teen... I love builder games in general and this one has a great sense of humor. Plus, you can slow it down to really examine the details and address problems before they get too out of control. Why are all the doctors to hire so horrible?? Haha. Quirky and fun stuff!
This was a PC classic, just like Day of the Tentacle. You have to love Sam & Max's humor and the silliness of the storyline. A few bumpy puzzles to figure out, but overall a fun game to tackle in a weekend!
I played all the Monkey Island games on a PC as a kid. The story of Guybrush Threepwood was just funny and endearing to me but I don't remember the puzzles being so difficult! Maybe they were but my dad was there to help me through them because this time around I had to cheat in a few spots where I could not figure out what to do next! Using walkthroughs is always a bummer but I was able to then cruise through the rest of the game to the end, which did feel a little short coming, but for $10 what do you expect?
Absolutely impressed by the quality and detail of this game! It's relaxing while still being strategic, fun and even educational. I only wish it went beyond the Iron Age because frankly toward the final levels it does become stagnant -- with no real improves available for your city or its people. I was hoping for more advanced roads/paths, fortifications, clothing, etc. However, the game is still worth the $$ and no glitches running on a Yosemite OS Mac, which is fantastic!
I recommend Dawn of Man over Planetbase. The graphics and premise are attractive in Planetbase but even on the novice level your colony is ridiculously vulnerable to death. Death will be most likely be from starvation despite having plenty of bio-domes and biologists to care for them. It just doesn't make sense! It takes too long to mine and produce precious resources (and then expand your colony) while cascades of disasters make it impossible to keep up basic survival. To make matters worse, once things start going south it is impossible to recover. You are then counting down the clock until everyone is dead with absolutely no means to stop it. After hours of cultivating what you THINK is a strong and thriving colony only to have it ripped away for no good reason within a few turns makes this game extremely frustrating. Dawn of Man is much more forgiving in its game play, making it fun, relaxing and rewarding.
