Settler's Domain

Just perfect! As soon the tutorial is done and you understand the game you cant stop, it a lot of fun within this genre and pricetag

[u]First disclaimer :[/u] I haven't finished the game yet, but I intend to do so. It's rather addictive, but it needs a lot more polishing before I can truly recommend it. [b]The start :[/b] Careful about the first hard-look game loss in the first 2 minutes ! You'll be tempted to go for the first research presented to you : wood cabin... but don't construct any, otherwise you'll spend everything and won't have enough for a woob cabin that requires wood ! [b]Overall[/b] The game is mostly a resource management, similar to Foundation, Banished, and other in that domain. Food and medecine will be your main concern to survive, although getting an endless quarry of stone / ore will also be another priority. Diplomacy is useful but very simplistic. I've tried once combat and won't be doing that again : too much randomness in who goes to combat and how the villager attacks. [b]The polishing / bugs :[/b] The villager's pathing is buggy : sometimes they will deliberatly ignore a stone path (+150% move) and just go through dirt path (+75%) or even no path at all ! The walls are mostly to prevent exploration from your villagers and also sets "unwalkable paths", but it's very cumbersome to use, and it's usefulness in combat is questionnable at best. UI ergonomy is just horrendous, there's a lot of improvement in that domain : pop-up can't be moved, or go above more useful information, bottom menu is archaic, villager filtering works only for their name and nothing on energy / skills, ... For a game that heavily relies on stats, the basic "general stats" doesn't give you anything useful. You have to math out yourself if your food / medecine production is enough. Even worse, preview of harvesting buildings doesn't give you how many nodes are impacted. You'll have to guesswork if moving a few tiles left, right, up or down is better or not. [b]Conclusion[/b] : If it's your first game entry, I'd rather strongly recommend to start elsewhere : Banished and Foundation are excellent finished games. If you've pillaged already your fair share of village construction, then it's a rather cozy and decent enough game ... But even for 10€, I fell like it should either be on lower price, or wait for bug fixes and more polishing.