Settler's Domain

If you're looking for a super complex game like Rimworld or Dwarf Fortress, this is not it. However, this game is very much a cozy game. Fairly chill game play loop with enough complexity to not make this a basic shovelware game but easy enough to pick up and put down throughout the day or after a long day of work.

Sorry, I really wanted to like this, but the progression path just *isn't fun* to get started with at all.

I like what is here and I like the art style, however, I think the game could use more in-depth mechanics. It is pretty basic for a colony/town simulator game. That said, I'm still going to upvote because it's reasonably priced at $10 and I've had fun with it as a kind of time waster while multi-tasking. I think that this game could do much better though with a bit more polish and expansion on mechanics. For instance, I shouldn't have to manually reassign settlers from more basic forms of housing to higher forms of housing and then delete the old forms of housing. Also, I feel like there is a bit of a disconnect in having to build structures for non-respawnable resources like ore nodes only to have to deconstruct them very shortly after. The entire flow of that mechanic seems poorly thought out in my opinion. The mechanic is fine and works well with respawning resources, but I think there should be something different for the ores. It makes very little sense to have to be building and deconstructing harvesting buildings for these all the time, especially higher tier ones. This game ultimately feels like an early access game that wasn't released as early access but probably should have been. However, what is here is enjoyable and isn't really bad by any stretch. So if you do enjoy these kinds of games you will probably like this, just temper your expectations because as of the time of writing this review it is not very complex or involved (that may be what you want).

As I like games where you manage cities, this is a fun a game, that i see myself coming to chill from time to time. I really like the trait mechanic, reminds me of Rimworld. To sum it up it's a nice game where you can micromanage your villagers.

A lot of the problems people mention in other reviews are just because they haven't cared to figure out how to solve them - like progression. I don't know why you'd like a game like that if you don't find solving those problems enjoyable. I was actually surprised at how easy it is to move forward once you take the time to read up on the research tree. I got stuck on my first world because I ran out of wood. So if you're the type of player who wants everything spoon fed to you, you may not enjoy this. But once the village is up and running, I had very few issues. What is a management game if you can't fail due to mismanagement? I'm finding this game very enjoyable. Best of the "sit and watch your villagers run about while planning your next moves" genre. Very pleasant way to waste day. I'm about half way through the progression. I honestly don't care much right now if it doesn't have a satisfying ending, it's already been worth the $10. Would I say it's worth $20? no. If the devs keep working on it, could be an excellent game. I like a lot of the choices they've made. Not having to worry about goods transportation. Awesome. Villager management without getting too into the weeds and complicated. Awesome. Novel management features. Awesome. Hidden research tree. Awesome. After a while the game gets seemingly so easy that I'd like some more challenges perhaps. Maybe optional raids (maybe that already happens?), incentive to explore (relics, treasure, etc?), a little more complex neighbor relationships (it's very simple right now, you can send an envoy, get neighbors to turn friendly in a week, and then ignore all their requests). Maybe some more challenge around getting all the various resources - a reason to create different settlements far away. More breadth, depth is perfect. No system is too complicated right now. Congrats and keep up the good work devs.

It's pretty good. A bit laggy when you get to the end of the game because of the amount of stuff going on. There are a few bugs, but I expect those to get fixed in future updates. If you enjoy a civilization simulation game, this is a fun time.

For now it seems like a cute little game with no hurry in it, if you get some basics right. However, researching takes too much time in my opinion and thus slows down gameplay unnecessarily.

It's a Rimworld-Lite so to speak, I actually really liked it because colony sims e.g. Dwarf fortress & Rimworld are usually over the top complicated whereas this was easily learnable. The one thing that really bothered me & made me refund the game is the settlers don't follow at all the 'work priorities' you set them e.g. needed them to mine stone around their house and set that on the option but instead they picked fruit, I don't know if this is an error that the dev needs to fix or that's just a mechanic of the game. But it was extremely irritating because it meant I couldn't build what I needed to build for my settlers to survive the winter. If that was fixed I'd definitely give it another go and give a positive review.