Pioneers of Pagonia

awesome chill strategic game

Un jeu fluide, agréable, sans prise de tête.

Ich liebe dieses Spiel. Man merkt, dass es sich an den alten SIedlerspielen orientiert, gleichzeitig aber auch ein komplett eigenes Spiel ist. Leider gehen mir am Anfang häufig die freien Träger aus. Auch wenn eine Meldung kommt, dass das Spiel auf Linux nicht gut laufen könnte, habe ich keine Probleme, Ruckler oder Abstürze feststellen können.

Pioneers of Pagonia (PC) — quick review A relaxed city-builder focused on supply chains and logistics Feels like a modern version of classic Settlers games Deep systems are satisfying once you understand them Can be a bit slow, repetitive, and light on variety, but well worth the money still Best for players who enjoy calm, thoughtful strategy games

I definitely enjoying this games very much!

The complexity is high compared to The Settlers 2 and the Remake, but it is worth getting into it. It felt completely alien in the beginning, but in the mid of the third campaign level (where you'll still learn some basics), it clicked for me. Happy to see it back in this shape. Very well done. What I do not like too much is the UI. You cannot drag windows, everything is weirdly hard positioned. The layouts within the windows feel arbitrary. But what annoys me the most is the resource overview. You have diagrams lasting only one hour back, you cannot switch between the time intervals anymore. And I find it hard to find anything in the top bar. I would prefer a small window like in the old settler 2 that I can drag and have by my side, in a bit more modern fashion (filtering & search/selection). I guess people may be used by that experience from other strategy games, but it just does not work very well for my. The road system also changed. Which makes it more realistic, but it is harder to understand how the stuff is transported and where you can optimize. Roads were a good way to get a feeling for your resource flow, and unfortunately there is not a good replacement for that. The productivity percentage of buildings is also quite hidden, and you do not seem to be able to enable it on the map to get a quick impression. There is more micro management than in the old games, where you defined mostly global rules. For example, you set priorities for buildings, where you had in the old games a global priority list for transport. It changes the gameplay, making some things easier. But I am missing the challenge to create a globally working ecosystem a bit. Still: You are probably not getting anything similar to this. Like in the old games, every resource is fully simulated and the way you increase your land is very similar, giving you a very familiar feeling over some time.

Itch, firmly scratched. If you're a fan of The Settlers, and I mean proper Settlers (anything between 1-4), then you ought to love this. It's hard to not look at Pioneers as a Settlers instalment, especially given the development team, but I had to constantly remind myself that I wasn't playing one and that it was a completely independent title. It's like a happy blend of 2 and 3. Fantastic economy management, which you have to get right in order to successfully recruit your military units. Unlike a lot of newer games where once you unlock a higher tier building you're sorted, you're still dependant on those starter buildings to make them work. The pacing is brilliant, I happily spent on average somewhere between 5-7 hours, sometimes more, sometimes less, on each map during the main campaign and there's enough urgency in the missions to not allow you to fully relax. Graphically, it's not trying to be ultra realistic, it has a high saturated colour palette and it works very well. The animations of all the characters is doing very well, you can watch all your folk go about doing their jobs. Aside from the main campaign, there are official scenario maps to play as well as the facility to custom generate a seeded level to your liking, meaning that you'll never exhaust the ability to replay the game if you need a fix. It's been a long time since I played a game like this and genuinely fell in love. Recommended!