Kingdom Builders

Sadly I can't recommend this game as it feels like there is just too much missing from the game to even call it Early Access at this point. I spent an hour in the game and feel like I've accomplished everything there is that's worth doing. I can see this becoming a great game, and I hope I will be able to change my review in the future, but for now it barely feels like a game and more a proof of concept. Some issues I encountered: - I build walls to keep my villagers safe, but the shadow enemies spawn within my walls so I don't understand why I should waste resources on walls in the first place. - One of my villagers just stopped moving or doing anything. I could only put him in the blacksmith otherwise he was just broken. - It feels extremely awful to level up myself, though I'm forced to use my own skill points to level up my villagers. I wish they had their own exp so I didn't have to waste my own skill points on them. - My carrier villagers seem to refuse to want to pick up stone to bring to a stone stockpile so I have to manually bring all the stone to my stockpiles. - The dungeon feels pointless when I can just stand still for a few seconds and regain full health while my followers fight for me. - Enemies don't drop anything besides exp so there's hardly any reason to go out of your way to fight stuff. - There's only 3 resources in the game? For a city builder style game, I was expecting much much more than just berries, wood, and stone. - I gave one of my villagers the lumberjack role, and all he seems to do is stand still until a tree in the small radius around his building is fully grown, and he quickly chops it down, so he's idle 90% of the time and feels like a complete waste of a villager. - I can build a house and destroy it, but the villager is still with me. Sucks when you accidentally place a building somewhere but can't move the plan for it (unless there's some way to do it, though I spent 5 minutes trying to figure it out with no luck so it's not that obvious if there is). Basically get stuck with a villager that can't respawn so there's no point giving them gear or levelling them up. I assume this also happens if the shadow creatures destroy a house? Haven't had it happen to me though. - The repair cost for buildings is insane. A building that only takes 15 wood to build requires 7 wood to repair 20% damage on it. What's the deal with this, it doesn't seem to make any sense. I don't mean any of this in a mean way. I'd love to see these problems get resolved and more added to the game as I can see this being a game I genuinely enjoy and could play for hours. For now I'll have to pass sadly, I wish the devs the best of luck making this game great, and I will gladly change my review if it gets better. EDIT: Checked back on this game nearly a year after first trying it to see if it has improved and it looks like the game is no longer in development and no longer for sale. Disappointed that it won't reach its true potential, but luckily no one will be able to waste their money on this game.

DO NOT BUY. Developers have abandoned the game and discontinued development, and the game is far from finished. They are ignoring their community's requests to open source the game or allow volunteers to finish the game. They also shut down the community Discord recently. To be honest, it's sickening that they are even still selling the game despite it being unfinished and development being abandoned.

Very little content and was abandoned by devs. Don't buy.

From everything currently in game, in it's current stage I'd absolutely recommend it. Sadly, and a lot of reviewers don't realize this fact, the game has been stopped due to lack of funds. It is not a scam, nor is it a matter of bad devs. This simply happens sometimes, and people don't understand that is what the risk of buying an early access game is. Early access isn't a for sure game yet. It's the early stages of the final POTENTIAL product. This of course means it can die, and you lose out on the money you spent on the game. I do not blame the devs, and I hope for them to be able to get back to it and finish the game at some point, but this game is officially dead for now. They just can't pay their team, and therefore can't ask them to finish the game. I mean it's really not fair to ask people to work for free, especially when all of you a$$ hats are complaining and shouting SCAM! It's not a scam. It's the risk of buying early access. stfu and deal with it.

REALLY ANGRY! I was excited since I don't mind early access games and it looked like it really had potential! But after playing over 3hours......... I decided to leave some ideas for the game in the Discussions. THERE I saw that the developement of the game was cancled! Since I played too long I can't get a refund and I'm really dissappointed that I now have an unfinished game, that cost me quite a bit. PUT A NOTICE ON YOUR SHOPPAGE DEVELOPERS!

Lots of promises about future content to come, just for the decision to abandon the game to come out of nowhere. Don't buy this, there's no content and it will never be finished.

This game is currently very basic, not much to do so far. You can make a couple buildings, fight off the same type of enemy every night or go into the dungeon and kill some enemies that has some vararity but not sure about the lower levels. The ai is alright tho, its nice how they can help gather resources and help build what you are currently working on. Ai combat gets a bit wonky when you get more then one follower and big groups of enemies end up easier to deal with solo then with any helper ai as they will just get them selves killed. The combat is very basic, you just swing a wooden sword at the enemy and put points you get from leveling up into damage or health, and so far it looks like you use the points you earn on your self or a follower meaning they will remain weak as there really is no point in spending any points on them as you need the damage more then you need helpers. This game so far lacks a tutorial so when you are first attacked you dont know why or how to kill it, you probelly swing your axe at them first and notice you do 0 damage, after losing or restarting you learn at some point that once you get four helpers the attacks happens. Then while taking your time you learn that you need the blacksmith to make a wooden sword to attack with, then you go to the dungeon to get xp. When ready you finish making enough houses for 6 helpers and you defend against the attacks and thats it. Some day this might be better but so far its just not enough to do and combat is to basic to be fun for me. So at the moment i cant recommend this game.

Abandoned. Don't buy.