Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder

The combination of rouge-like and city builder was blended excellently, took me about 38 hours to 100% the game and I imagine you could rush it faster but I enjoyed trying everything out at my own pace. Between the unlocks, challenges and finding all the combos I was very satisfied with my time spent. My only criticism is that the Farm and Crops feel to reliant on removal archetypes and you usually have to set up something to win while you try to get them to work. A dedicated repeatable mechanic within the faction to make it feel worth trying would be nice. Hopefully we get new factions in a DLC (Fingers Crossed) but until then ill be happy to stop by every once in a while to try out something new.

Cut from the same cloth as games like "Balatro". You start with a set of cards - buildings in this case, instead of playing cards - and place them down on a map. Points are scored by their effects; some buildings simply get points for nearby other things (Such as a berry gatherer near berry bushes) while, more importantly, other buildings generate more esoteric resources - some generate nearby features (such as a forester making forests) or interact with other nearby buildings in specific ways (such as a well making "Crop" type buildings grow faster, or a Granary resetting crops so they can grow again.) Then you start thinking of ways to make your buildings interact with each other; some buildings trigger other types of buildings, which might not naturally trigger at all, or only trigger under specific circumstances. These buildings can have knock-on effects that collide with other buildings, which all start a massive combo to score massive points. For example, a building can make a rock appear every few turns - then a building can remove this rock for points. But another building will detect that something has been removed nearby, and its effect is to trigger a nearby building - which triggers a building that scores based on how many nearby empty tiles there are AND generates a pile of manure... which, is promptly removed by another nearby building, which buffs all nearby farms with a multiplier. But... you just removed a building, didnt you? So theres that building that triggers when something nearby is removed.... When a good run gets going, the steadily accelerating "Ping... Ping.... Ping... Ping, Ping, Ping, Ping PingPingPingPing PINGPINGPINGPING" sound effect and hundreds of your tiny pixel houses firing off all at once is immensley satifying. I dont think its quite as balanced or well thought out as Balatro is - but Balatro is a once in a century kind of game. This scratches the same itch.