Cataclismo

The game is fun and will definitely play again! The game has good repeatable content, However I agree with the reviews that base building is very tedious at times. Having to make sure your walls meet height requirements to have good level of integrity, and troops are able to traverse up and down the walls to make sure they are able to be placed in position. Still overall a solid game. 8/10.

Cataclismo is a very athmospheric horde fighter/city builder game and one of the most unique and interesting RTS games I've ever played. Interestingly enough, the builder aspect gives you nearly compelte control over how you build your city and their defenses, similar to building blocks or legos, you could stack houses on top of houses, and it is encouraged to build walls higher so that they're harder to take down. Different units fare better in different scenarios (AoE, CC, single target...) and you can customize your units both with the defenses (Some buildings change their attack types), with ingame upgrades or in the skill tree. Furthermore, you create blueprints of the structures, so you have fast access to your favourite user-made buildings, such as resource gathering outlets, fire towers, different types of walls or traps. You can also share them with your friends and download their blueprints. Don't be fooled, this game is more than meets the eye and I cannot recommend it enough.

A pretty great tower-defence-city-builder-horde-fighter game. Provides adequate amount of playtime for the price, and is highly replayable, while also featuring a level designer. It's pretty hard to get the macro right though, and I feel like from the POV of RTS genre it's more of a heavily macro focused game, so you have to keep it in mind. The story is alright, but feels kind of short with several filler missions lacking any substantial gameplay, which is disappointing, but other than that it's pretty solid. Additional info after a replay Actually, on a replay I found the wall building -- a core selling point of the game and a core mechanic -- a lot more tedious and annoying, compared to the other horde-defence-RTS games. And while at first it's quite interesting, it wears its welcome thin I feel on consecutive playthroughs. The fact that walls only get better with the growth of their height is a bit limiting. For this reason some ways of building walls are more beneficial than the others. For example, putting vertical 3 x 1 blocks at the bottom of the wall is almost necessary on higher difficulties, since they have the most amount of health and occupy just one tile, minimizing the amount of cells that lose support in case of its destruction. In fact I feel like this is a problem that a lot of games like this have, where wall layering and not using entrances like gates is a more advantageous strategy than building the walls the way they were kind of intended to be built and simply having fun. Instead you find yourself just piling stone blocks on top of each other as quickly as possible and trying to build an equally high and expensive wooden staircases to house your troops and mods for them. Paradoxically, this core mechanic sours the game for me now, where instead of playing the game I spend hours in pause trying to figure out how to build the highest possible wall with limited resources, and this is not that much fun. I still would recommend this game if this sounds right up your alley, but be aware of these shortcomings on top of a very short and narratively not that exciting campaign.

Я поиграл на данный момент 54 минуты и даже за такое короткое время я понял насколько это игра приятно хорошо продумана, незамудренная экономика и защита поселения. Очень хорошо. Если тебе нравится такие жанры то это хороший выбор с гибкой растоновкой обороны

A pretty great and competent wave survival zombie RTS. The voxel building is very fun and engaging. And even though wall & defense building ends up the same, there is still little variations that keep you on your toe; you can't just plop one of you or community's blueprints and call it a night. They also have constraints and limitation to your instant building, which makes proper defense planning a must and hording up resources a good strategy. However, the unit controls are rather bad. Starting at the least, the hero unit doesn't seem to have any way to bind her abilities. Then there's the fact that your unit spaz out when you try to micro them, if you manually order your units to attack these targets, they spaz out and stop attacking until you reposition them and break them from their glitch. Yet the game commits the worst sin against the player: forcing us to watch an unskippable and [spoiler]where you lose no matter what you do! It's not sin to have you lose, they can tell it like that. However, they made me watch for a LONG-ASS-TIME as these unkillable invincible weak horrors rip thru my layers of near impregnable defenses. Just because I got really good at this game I was punished![/spoiler] For playing very well, it felt like they punished me and I had to wait for over 15 minutes for this cutscene; that mission completes in a slow and agonizing end. Atleast, it's only in the campaign but makes it annoying to replay. What am I suppose to do, rip out my entire defense just before the boss dies...

O jogo tem pontos positivos e negativos. Gostei do sistema de construções, mas logo ele perde a graça e o jogador vai acabar fazendo sempre as construções básicas que dão resultado. Por outro lado, a economia do jogo me incomoda bastante. Sempre falta madeira, mesmo trocando oxigênio por madeira nunca é suficiente. A mecânica de chuva, que exige a construção de telhados, não tem graça nenhuma, é só pra incomodar o jogador. É um bom jogo pra quem gosta de construção de bases e defesa contra hordas de inimigos, vale a pena pegar em promoção.

Highly, highly recommend. Been playing on the hardest difficulty as I've had a ton of hours into various RTS and TDs. They do a great job of merging the genres. You build through a light tech tree to make it to the night to face hordes instead of going to kill a base. To keep you from being bored with the same gameplay repeatedly, they also have two other modes. One is reminiscent of Starcraft where you control your hero and some units, with no base building. Another is totally optional, and forces you into a tower defense with no base. You can't block the enemies and you must beat theme as they traverse the equivalent of a river you can't enter or build on. All of this is in the story mode. The units are creative. The are some that benefit from being low vs high. You can't just put everyone high up and away for maximum damage. I'm sure you need to take advantage on the hardest difficulty as they are narrow wins. You also have to prioritize what to sacrifice, and when, to survive. The solution is never obvious, but it's there. I have yet to touch the other games modes - but even if they were horrible - the campaign is worth all of the above.