Egypt Frontiers

Hours played at review time, across 44 reviews with recorded playtime.

positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up

My feelings about this game are mixed. I really like the concept. Egypt is a great setting and the building reminds me a little of Medieval Dynasty. And I'd say overall, it was enjoyable to play, so there is definitely potential. HOWEVER, I got two issues with it: - There's definitely some noticeable bugs, forcing to reload previous saves, etc. Nothing hugely game breaking, but definitely often enough that it becomes bothersome. - It is way too linear and simplistic. Maybe it's a difference in what it intends to be, but I feel the "homebase" and production set up there was very lacking, and the Pyramid building was mostly just spamming your workers to do things. A single tent for rest and canteen is somehow enough, and food is entirely optional anyway. On top of that, the game is taking your hand for every single step of building the structures. So in my opinion, if the game is supposed to be more educational, it should include more dialogue, history, maybe voice-overs etc. to add depth like that. If it isn't, I would love to see more freedom of choice and more depth in terms of worker & resource management. For example, creating your own settlement, including lodging for workers, farming and processing food, actually having to take care of worker needs, etc. Examples for bugs I encountered: - If you lift a stone block with the crane and it reaches into the ground, letting go of it makes it fall through the ground - Opening the canteen for the first time did not open my inventory, so I had to reload the game to actually assign food to it - The worst one: The stone transports for the pyramid are extremely finnicky, I had to pick up and move them multiple times for the workers to actually take the resources - The cooking achievement (10 meals) seems to only count meals cooked after building the canteen - One collectible in the Sun Temple area doesn't spawn. However I somehow got the achievement by going back there after the pyramid, and picking up one of the old ones again.