Settler's Domain

This game is so fun! It's made by a solo dev and he has improved the game SO MUCH since I last played the demo. Hardcore recommend this to anyone interested in city builders, I think you'll really enjoy it too

Wide, but shallow. Walls of text that don't exactly clue you in at all. To this moment I've yet to understand what "efficiency" actually is. Diplomacy can be solved by sending an envoy the moment you meet them, the demands system is grating. Every building is a recolour of another and you don't feel your settlement improving, only getting wider and more cumbersome. My breaking point was unlocking dirt paths, having to manually place them even after the game promised automatic path creation then later unlocking stone paths and realising there is no upgrade system and each path has to be manually destroyed and rebuilt. I have no idea how this game is not early access but a full release, its charming but feels unfinished. It promises a lot, but delivers the base concepts of depth.

4/10. Good ideas, bad execution. The game is hard the first 30-60 minutes due to the lack of resources to build the structures and gather the mats, because you have to research almost every building to gather resources with the same currency you recruit settlers. To clear the fog you have to research the building, gather the mats and choose a spot at the edge of it (every building has an area and can delete the resource underneath, so you have to pay attention), and then your settlers have to walk the whole area before it opens up. And that area is a circle: since you never explore in circles but in lines, every exploration building wastes most of its radius on ground you already know or don't need. The Exploration background gives +50% radius, and area scales with the square, so it's really +125% coverage. Other settlements are just there, waiting. They don't grow, don't expand, they do nothing except demand or request things from you, once you have a minimum of settlers, until you reach 1k opinion, and then they stop. Below a certain point they declare war. So you start exploring and expanding, you find other settlements, they threaten you, you build and gather, and then you have enough influence to unlock production buildings, so you start producing infinite food, medicine, textiles, stone, ores... There is no real need to "build a city". You never need walls. There are no threats, there is no real danger, no enemies, nothing. It could be fun, it could be a great game, but not right now. It feels like a project instead of a game. There are systems, some deeper than others, and many layers working together, but there is no real mechanism. It's not organic. You can max diplomacy and there's nowhere for it to go. The demands/requests stop, you reach the influence to annex them, and done. Nothing in the world reacts to you. Everything that can go wrong is your own stockpile hitting zero: disease is what happens when medicine runs out, starvation is what happens when food runs out.

This is a very cool game in the city building and colony sim genre. It eases you in to growing your settlement and the menus are not complex to learn. I feel like this is a cozy Songs of Syx. I'm looking forward to playing more of this. Great job, Rick!

Settler's Domain feels like an early access game. When I bought I just assumed it was one. I refunded it because it was too early access. It wasn't till just now that I noticed this was supposed to be a full 1.0 release. It does not feel like that at all.

Cozy and Fun city builder. Great game and a lot to do. :) 10/10

Game just isn't fun. Can't generate resources fast enough. Before I had 5 settlers I had 4 other settlements around me demanding all kinds of stuff I just don't have or can't get fast enough in the first 10 minutes of the game. I refunded the game.

This game is a mile wide and an inch deep. Most of the game time is waiting for you pops to do tasks to earn a currency to unlock new buildings, then waiting on your pops to gather a new resource and then repeat the cycle. Not a bad game but not a great game either. A solid 6/10.

Vale, por partes, es un juegazo, llevo 4 horas y aun no estoy ni cerca de crear la ciudad que quiero, siempre tienes algo que hacer y pensar, a lo mejor tienes que esperar 20 segundos, pero como en cualquier citybuilder, la diplomacia, igual es un poco facil, mas que facil, sencilla, el tema construccion y apartado grafico, tiene mucho potencial, a lo unico que le pondria pega seria a que no puedes eliminar recursos del suelo, implica que crecen arboles en tus carreteras, lo cual queda muy feo, o por lo menos no he visto la opcion de hacerlo, es lo unico negativo por ahora que pondria, un parche urgente a eso, por el resto, tiene muchisimo potencial, enhorabuena a los creadores.