Hearthlands

Only did the tutorial but it seems like a solid game. Will come back for it next time.

Nice little gem for a boomer like me.

It's a fun game! It almost has the feel of a factory game with how you have to restrict workers before they go sprinting to the other side of the map for some planks.

Cute game, nothing flashy but very enjoyable.

Solid game. The campaign starts easy but gets increasingly harder, took me a while to finish. Custom games make it really worth it.

Great game!!! Hope there is a DLC or Hearthlands 2 one day.

Kleines cooles Aufbauspiel, was in seiner Mechanik an Cäsar 3 erinnert.

A city building game that I got as part of a charity bundle. It’s okay, but that’s it. There are some real problems that hold it back, including a very sensitive levelling system for the houses. You need food to get to level 2, then alcohol to get to level 3, then furniture to get to level 4, etc. However, if there’s a hiccup in the production chain and your food isn’t getting to the houses, they will devolve at the end of the month. Suddenly you can lose a third of your population and now you don’t have enough workers to keep up the full production and you are spiralling down. And you can’t just build a lot of storage so you have enough food, booze, luxury goods, etc. to keep your population happy for a few months, because each storage plot needs 8 workers and can only store 48 units. Storage plots are both essential and worthless. You either have to have a sizable chunk of your population babysitting storage plots or your production chains are one pathing error away from collapsing your population. Make the houses stay at the highest level unless they are missing a good for three or more months and then have them drop only one level a month after that. Also, have storage plot require no workers, but have dedicated buildings for haulers whose job it is to move goods from the places that produce them to storage and then from storage to where they are needed. That wouldn’t fix all of the problems. For example, the diplomacy is shallow and combat is lackluster. However, it would be enough that I would stick around and try to get all of the achievements. I would still give the game a positive review, except it costs $26 Canadian. That’s way too much to ask for this level of quality.

Good enough? Despite its weak moments. Sadly, suffers from some of the same issues other city builders ail.

Might not feel like the "best" implementation of any one aspect or mechanic, but certainly a fun city builder regardless.