Spice Trade

Игра 'Spice Trade' - это прекрасный образец экономической стратегии с элегантными механиками. Простая в освоении, но предоставляющая множество путей к победе, она увлекает с первых ходов. Сбор и доставка специй, развитие торговых маршрутов, выгодные контракты - всё это заставляет постоянно думать и адаптироваться к действиям соперников. Графическое оформление хоть и лаконичное, но приятное глазу, а партии не затягиваются, что делает игру идеальной для вечеров в компании друзей или семьи. Особенно радует отсутствие прямого конфликта: победа достигается за счет более эффективной торговли, а не агрессии. Рекомендую всем любителям экономических стратегий!

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A very detailed and immersive game about the Middle East, religion, and the overall territorial outlook on the world in the 14th century.

"Spice Trade" is an ancient 2D "tycoon" simulator game... at best this is kind of a glorified knockoff of primitive personal computer games like Oregon Trail or Lemonade Stand (BBC Micro users represent... or don't, there's no shame). And ancient is the word, this has been dug up and is being shuffled around like something out of Weekend at Bernies. It's dead, let it go. What do you do in the game? You pretend to be a medieval eastern merchant and click through various menu screens to do a bit of tycoon business. It's an old, dead format that you still see propped up sometimes as a browser game, but overall, it's obsolete. For gameplay purposes, because the user interface for this game is mostly just 2D static text/images... it might as well be a web page. It's functionally no different from a browser game. And we all know, Steam isn't here to compete with Chrome and Firefox. If the game can be done in a web browser, it's just not rich or compelling enough to appeal to serious gamers on PC. This wasn't designed for typical widescreen monitors, it's locked to a deprecated 4:3 aspect ratio (they put some "wings" on but that's not fooling anyone). It won't look right on modern PCs as a result of this bizarre decision to publish a PC game that doesn't conform to the standard display form factors. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at [b]only 3 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Given that this free title won't increase your game collector count, is it worth your time to add it to your library? This is a "nope". While it won't necessarily cost you money, the time and hard drive space it requires could be better invested in one of the many higher-quality alternatives on Steam.

富有地域风情、文化特色的一款游戏，音乐很好听，画面很华丽繁复。但是宗教意味浓厚，且交互部分不够灵敏，会出现接触没有反应的情况。游戏引导不足，可以互动的部分不明显。我没有什么耐心，这是一款需要静心来玩的游戏。

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Some legit oriental vibes in this point and click game. By the way, Abu is awesome!