Cataclismo

Liked the concept but found the realisation of it a little dry. The city management gives you very little to work with but keeps bottlenecking so I only found it frustrating. Didn't enjoy the building - you have to make walls and towers accessible for units and then you need to consider height and protection from the rain so I spent a lot of time realising I'd messed up the design and having to tear it down and as hordes just pile at you the layout of your defences only matters so much - you can't build channels or killing zones as meaningfully as you can in other tower defence games.

你说的对，但是这是一个造墙模拟器，最主要的问题是主线你只要守三波，但我每一波都得暂停好久好久去规划那个城墙和建筑群，结果就三波，打完我什么都没有了，辛辛苦苦规划的墙就为了抗几波攻势是最逆天的，直接跳过给你爽的那一个部分。一个游戏超过3/4的时间在建墙，你必须要在下一波攻势前按那个暂停把所有东西都准备好。游戏节奏本身就出了问题，开发者不会真觉得建那个逼墙很轻松吧？最后即使是你废了几十分钟建出来的墙，boss战时墙更是跟纸一样几个大风车就没了，只能就是把小怪拉扯着杀完，所有人就站在地上打。有意思吗？这种游戏就不应该做成短线。

I like the combination of defense building and city management. Custom community controls work well on the Steam Deck. Building large wall sections is a little tedious.

Such an odd game. On the one hand, a nice premise around building your base, which can be destroyed brick by brick, and the usual TD-style defence. On the other, it has you trapsing around maps Diablo style, building bridges and performing basic actions. Overall it just doesn't stick the landing. It's too fiddly, the real-time aspects cause more aggravation than they should, enemy variety isn't good either. If they'd just focused on the TD part of the design and fleshed that way out, around the build-your-base approach, it could have been much better. Can't recommend.

Finally... A game that surpassed castle story! I love this type of strategy/survival/tower defense, one of my favourite games.

This game is missing something. It's got a lot of ideas that are fundamentally interesting and which drew me in, but it also feels like most of them are in some way mishandled. It commits that RTS sin where you're building your way up the same tedious tech tree every mission, so the economic aspect feels extremely repetitive. The detailed options for building fortifications are cool, but ultimately the most "effective" fortifications also tend to be incredibly hideous and disjointed, as you're also paying for aesthetics and symmetry, so you really want to just make some sort of stripped down monstrosity that *performs*. You are also, once again, rebuilding basically the same fortifications over and over except when there are unremovable pre-existing fortifications you have to build around in which case you're building the same fortifications but being really annoyed while doing so. The game is also bad at communicating certain things, like it'll tell you that a thing is an improved version of another thing, but not by how much it is improved, for instance, until you actually build the improved thing. Your fort being damaged and destroyed block-by-block(unless, of course, a block gets taken out that collapses other blocks...) and with no end-of-fight insta rebuild option(that I found), means rebuilding something damaged is also desperately tedious. The scarce resources also contribute to a very rich-get-richer thing where if you breeze through early waves and don't need to make repairs or replace guys, later waves get effortless, while if you barely scrape through a non-final wave, you may as well restart the entire mission. I also really disliked the voice acting. Some lines are just delivered... badly(like the world's most unconcerned mortally wounded bowman who just doesn't give a damn that he's dying, apparently), but the way most of it is spoken in unaccented English, until suddenly there's a Proper Noun that needs an accent(but not even consistently, do you pronounce the H in Hogar or not?!) and is largely borrowed from French/Spanish/Italian, just feels super awkward and like a native English speaker trying to write someone with a Hispanic background very poorly. I really wish the game was better because a block-by-block building game where my buildings actually got put to the test against some sort of challenge deeply appeals to me on a fundamental level, but it feels like Cataclismo is detailed in all the wrong places, in a way that makes the details get in the way of the actual gameplay.

Initially when I played this game I stopped shortly after playing the tutorial thinking this was not for me . I'm super glad I revisited this game though and gave it another shot. If you like strategic RTS games with the ability to pause ( think they are billions or maybe end zone) you will love this . The art style and voice acting are great . I enjoyed the story though it was not the selling point. This game shines in it's design. Its great fun and surprisingly complex with its spin on traditional tower defense RTS with it's building mechanic. I had one small bug with an achievement unlocking but it was easily fixed. ( if you want to beat the game on expert achievement make sure not to skip the tutorial even when prompted ) but the dev support was friendly, helpful and punctual when contacted. Definitely worth a buy . Loved my time with this game and you can tell it was made with passion by a talented team.

Das Konzept ist grundsätzlich sehr interessant - aber leider nicht gut umgesetzt. Das gesamte Spiel fühlt sich extrem zäh an. Lasst die Spieler doch einfach bauen, sich auf die nächste Welle vorbereiten, die Wirtschaft aufrüsten und Einheiten ausbilden. Aber nein, alles ist extrem limitiert, langsam, anstrengend und damit einfach wenig befriedigend. Das Spiel hätte so viel mehr und deutlich besser sein können, scheitert aber am eigenen Anspruch das Szenario so bedrohlich wie möglich und damit "realistisch" darzustellen. Statt dem erhofften Gefühl für die gefährliche Welt stellt sich allerdings eher Frust ein.