Spice Road

A game where you explore new regions to exploit and build trade routes between your settlements and the outside world. It's not bad but I think the game's biggest flaw is the citybuilding. Every settlement needs to have its buildings individually placed, but the game would be so much smoother if you just had a button to click to build the desired building for each town. This is because you will build the same buildings for the same settlements dozens and dozens of times by the time they game ends. Eventually clicking into each town to individually place the buildings or check the towns stats becomes cumbersome. I really wish this was handled in an outliner or something because the game is pretty solid, but this aspect made it unbearable.

A qwerky little eco management game that i gave a shot. I would say get it on sale regardless if you are heavily interested or not, as it might not be your thing at all from the get go. Copying from Roboczar as he summed it up nicely and its worth repeating "First things first: This game mainly caters to the kind of player that is interested in logistics and supply chain economics and is only really a city-builder or Civ style game in the loosest sense. You are building a network of trade nodes and attempting to meet various scenario goals or self-created goals (in the sandbox mode) as opposed to fighting battles or growing population. The main challenge is building an efficient and profitable network of trade cities given the resources on the map." Id recommend watching a few videos before buying. However, i enjoyed my 10-17hrs of game time with it and i mainly played it as my study break game as its not an emotionally investing game.