Clans to Kingdoms

Really nice somewhat casual 4x game with nice micromanagemtn of resource production and buildings. Could use some UI design and fix bugs with the UI as well. Has great potential with some aditional enhancements on map generation and enemy AI!

Dev claims the game is finished but it still has a lot of issues in the late game. For instance, it takes forever to load a game, and many times the game will freeze on the very next turn forcing you to spend forever yet again trying to load the game. Alliances in late game tend to freeze the game also. Overall, I wouldn't recommend this game at it's current price. It feels more like a game you would play off an app store for a few bucks just to kill time. Will be putting in a refund for this "game".

A little english review on the end. Deutsch: Schreibe sonst keine Reviews, aber ich finde es schade, dass dieses gute Spiel so wenig gekauft wird. Es erinnert mich sehr an Call to Power oder an die frühen Civilizations. Es hat definitiv den "noch eine Runde" Effekt. Klar muss man sich ein wenig reinfinden und wer des Englischen nicht mächtig ist, wird es etwas schwierig haben, aber es macht echt Laune. Die Zeitalter gehen bis ins Hochmittelalter und soweit hab ich es noch gar nicht geschafft. Nach etwa 300 Runden hat man noch nicht mal die Hälfte des Spiels entdeckt und es kann wirklich riesig werden. Toll wäre noch, wenn es Erweiterungen geben sollte und eine deutsche Version wäre natürlich auch Klasse, aber wie gesagt, man findet sich hinein :) Das Spiel ist den Preis definitiv wert. English: Normaly i don´t whrite reviews and my english is not very well. But this game need more gamers. The feeling is like Call to Power or the early Civilization. Just one more turn. Just one more turn. Just one more turn. You understand? I had so much fun in this short time. I just played 300 turns and I don´t see all. The game starts in the early beginning of the mankind and you will grow to the high middleage. I think, I am in first quarter after my 300 turns :D. I hope they want expand this game, would be great. And it is definitly not overpriced. Maybe it needs a better totorial :)

Its a pretty boring game so far, just get any of the civ games this is just a basic version of that series without any animations. But if you still get the game then this is what you can expect, limited space to build on as you territory grows with your population and tech level, limited expansions that are counted as outposts and not villages locked to your tech level. You are constantly harrased by a bandit clan and if you dont know how to play you will fall behind in size and forced to restart until you figure out how to best grow while managing your resources. There is supposed to be other ai in this game but i have yet to encounter any over 200 turns on the bigest map size. So far this feels like a unfinished game.

I didn't like this game, I think it still needs some more work.

Attempted to play and there are multiple performance issues. No support or help online. 01/15/21 - Update, I was hoping that after almost a year that patches would've resolved the issues. The issues remain. The most annoying is the poor mouse response and control. A developer had sent me a graphics help guide that didn't help. Still an unplayable game.

カジュアルな4X　町の発展が主で戦闘関連はかなり簡素。 人口、資源、建築などの制限が割と厳しく建築位置、開発順番などしっかり考えて発展させないとと詰むので序盤は結構きつめでやりがいはある。 システムデザインもグラフィックも80年代～90年代並みとかなり古臭く、レトロ物好きな世代にとってはたまらんだろうがそうでないにユーザーはきついかも。

Requested a refund (Edit: Steam denied a refund, claiming game has "no evidence that the product has a major defect as defined under law", despite my experience below} CtK is buggy and may trash your display setup, especially it seems if you have integrated Intel chips and/or I guess dual GPUs. I never got to play a single second of the game, but i hope what I say here helps someone else who may encounter the same issues I had. I have spent hours trying to repair the damage this game did to my PC display setup. I had the game auto-setup the graphics, and then went into the game, but the mouse cursor was moving like it was in treacle. So I got out to check internet/forums for a solution - only to find my screen was still the right resolution but shrunk into the center of my monitor, so small it was hard to read. I could write a lot on all the testing and checking, nVidia adjustments, full restarts, only for nothing to change. I think all up I wasted 3 hours, And it was only that short due to a bit of luck. I saw an article mention unrelated but similar screen issue with Intel integrated chipsets, I have an nVidia GPU and checked to my config to realise i had the Intel integrated GPU on the motherboard as well. So I checked my Intel control panel I saw that the scaling setting was set to "Scale Fullscreen". Which I thought sounded normal. But I changed it to "Maintain Aspect Ratio" and voila, my monitor returned to normal fullscreen desktop. So I did a test, and despite CtK using nVidia, it also modified the Intel chipset setting in your registry and trashed the screen, and doesn't return the setting back! I kept the Intel control panel open while i went in and out of Clans, and I literally watched it change it back to the wrong setting. So even though it doesn't use the Intel chip for the game, it modifies its setting and forgets to change it back. Talk about a bug. I will never ever play this game again in this clearly bugged state, and seeing it was written in 2019 with no bug fixes since, its obviously abandoned by developer. So my advice is to steer clear. And I never did or will get an answer to the "mouse cursor in treacle" problem... ======================================================== in answer to the developer's supposed "answers" to my problems June 23, 2025: 1. Why would I need to use the demo first to verify your game WORKS before buying it? Demo's are for seeing if you LIKE the game, not to verify the thing even works! A game that works is simply expected. 2. I did. What did you think "and despite CtK using nVidia" meant? 3. So, because you say "As is" that's some sort of get-out clause to allow you to sell anything whether it works or not, and NOT offer any refund? If you think what you said is a reasonable rationale for the problems this game has, explains a lot about the type of devloper you are. I don't expect every game I buy to work perfectly. I do expect when a developer takes your money, they have some responsibility to help make it work, or accept the problem and offer a refund. You did neither. Enjoy my money.

So, this game kinda wrecked some important settings on my laptop and I STILL don't know what all happened! I did not see the warning review until it was too late and happened to me. But basically the game was taking forever to load a tutorial, then it completely froze, and then a black screen that forced me to hold the power button of my laptop to reset it! And this NEVER happens to me, it's a pretty much brand new gaming laptop that has been great for every other game other than this one! Afterwards, I saw that somehow my refresh rate was turned down to 30! I switched it back to 240 where it should be. I also notice my mouse is 'choppy' now! And I have NO IDEA what exactly this game wrecked in terms of settings that would make my mouse choppy! If anyone has any tips on this please respond to this review! I still can't figure it out and I tried all the basic and advanced mouse settings. I have a Logitech MX Master 4, brand new mouse plus a 4090 Nvidia GPU. Any tips greatly appreciated! And stay the heck away from this "game" !! Edit - Not only that, now my laptop is SLOW and CHOPPY!! It was running beautifully before I tried this "game"! I hope I can fix this because it's a totally different laptop now after this fiasco...

Good game cant understand negative views,its ok,just knowin n learning how too play