Nova Patria

Excellent and challenging game. I've been hooked ever since I downloaded the demo on a whim last fall. It can seem pretty difficult at first, but once you get the hang of the mechanics and supply/consumption chains, it feels more comfortable. I appreciate how there is continuous "friction" and little tweaks/changes to make to expand and optimize your cities. It keeps the game interesting and engaging. The graphics are one of my favorite features--the style is neat, vibrant, and functional. It's neat to zoom in and see the tiny machinations going on as time passes and tech evolves. I've still got a lot to learn about successfully building out a large civilization across the in-game world and I'm totally fine with that. I look forward to figuring things out as I play.

Absolutely excellent minimalist city builder / supply chain manager. Surprising depth and difficulty hide behind its delightful animations, catchy and thematic music, and simple controls. Well worth a purchase if you enjoy any of those things! :)

A procedural city builder about how well you can do, not how long you can survive. The timed goals for later rewards creating a score attack like game feel is especially enjoyable.

While the graphics are minimalist, there is surprising depth and uniqueness to this game. Players can choose to build a wide empire by sprawling across the map to capture freshwater sources, or build tall by strategically placing structures to maximize adjacency bonuses. Either way, as a playtester, I have one crucial piece of advice for your colonies: "THE FISH MUST FLOW!"

Roman city-builder-puzzle. Ancient roman railway is extremely based.

Takes a little bit to get the hang of it and is reminiscent in some ways of puzzle games (even if is feasible to softlock yourself the couple first tries, moreso due to inexperience than the games fault). Do note the technology tree is really important to open up the game and lessen the limits of your expansion(which you will really feel early game). I do however think that the early game could use to be hastened a little bit more, or at least have a little bit less tight of an optimisation requirement, particularly the early game fish sourcing issue, where i'd say adding some river delta to expand the watered area and therefor the amount of tiles you can fish on early in the starting coastline could be a good solution as currently lakes feel like better fish sources rather than a more secondary source, even if i suspect a particularly experienced player would more likely manage to avoid such issues in the first place so this could be some useless rambling. And most surprising today; it's very close to being bug-free and i only encountered a (minor) bug once! So i'd call it a good game overall and i congratulate the Developer on their good work.

Great cozy little city builder with caesar/pharaoh vibes. I hope that developers will continue to improve this little masterpiece. Ready to buy DLCs if there will be any some time later

It's more of puzzle game than a straight city builder. The game mechanics are simple, the challenge comes from building placement, adjacencies, how to get resources where you need them, access to water and how to bridge the gap to next settlement location. Doing the challenges unlocks perks for next runs that will makes it easier to hit the harder challenges in good time. The challenges are quite challenging you need to figure out a good strategy to get 3 stars so there's replayability there.