pyramida

One of those games where you have to minmax obsessively in order to have even a chance of continuing. You kinda have to know exactly what you are doing and how to do it, while micromanaging your colonists carefully. Aside from the aesthetics its everything I despise about the genre.

Wuv it

Were you ever a nine-year-old with an Age of Empires II CD and absolutely no idea what you were supposed to be doing? pyramidia gave me the barest taste of what the cute, pastel-coloured, resource-focused survival game I was trying to force out of it would look like, which has now cemented it in my mind forever. The fact that it was essentially meant to be a game-jam style prototype and will never be expanded upon deeply pains me, as though I was at the gates of heaven but found they were locked. $4.50AUD is certainly cheap enough for me to reccommend for people to play it so I can then tell them "dude but imagine tho" CAVEAT 1: I am a very strange person who loves boring and grindy games. CAVEAT 2: There is a [u]LOT[/u] of jank. All of the negative reviews are telling the truth. If frustration with bad pathfinding, micromanaging, or single mistakes collapsing your entire resource system so you have to watch the village you've been building for an hour die slowly and painfully has been a dealbreaker before, then it will be for this one too, guaranteed. CAVEAT 3: [u][b]Read a guide before you start.[/b][/u] There are many things that are just straight up unfair, mostly to do with the skeletons, but also some strange developer decisions such as the lack of tutorial and ability to pause. There isn't much satisfaction in figuring these out for yourself, and the game is quite slow so failure feels extremely costly. Treat it as a proper RTS - seeing if you have the skill to pull off a strategy you already know - and not as a roguelike or a puzzle game.