Surviving the Aftermath

So this game is basically Endzone - A World Apart but released 6 months later and acquired by Paradox so it's pumped with DLC Given that Endzone is the exact same price, has a more tuned in amount of micro management and has a better soundtrack to backdrop your run - I'd go with Endzone

Пишу из 2024 Игра напоминает банишед. только... к концу игры багов немеренно. теплицы не работают, снести их нельзя, там пачка багов... включая пожирание дерева теплицами, невозможности нанимать в теплицах, невозможности выбора продукта (она забагованна нет реса) нельзя снести теплицу. полный провал во время пути к успеху. мерзко и обидно :( компания загубленна. перезагружался, загружался, баг оставался. Ну нафиг, обиделся я на игру ) сутки загружался, пробывал старые сейвы. 2024 теплицы - ломают игру___ ___ спустя два дня попытка игры.... откат на 4 часа по схэйвам... теплицы ((( всё ещё в лагах, даже при перезапуске. как делать медикоменты? мло????? если теплицы забагованны.

I had a detailed review on why I don't like this, but Steam ate it so my summary is just buy Endzone instead. This one is very badly thought out, with minimal focus on the fun exploration and city building parts and a heavy focus on the garbage combat. Combine that with bugs, terrible pathfinding, a duel problem of not being allowed to micromanage your people while being forced to micromanage your guards and specialists (the hero units), the almost comical 'X number of citizens must be injured or sick at all times' mechanic, and the complete lack of planning tools for the city building part, and this game fails pretty hard. It's a pity because it was kind of fun, but the fun dries up the more if forces you into combat after combat when you just want to try and build your colony.

♥♥♥♥ game launcher. Still having loading problems after many years. Don't buy.

I want to like it, but it's just boring.

This game, even on 50% difficulty, throws too much at you, without any let-up. The amount of times I have restarted it, only to have some other crisis come up 5 seconds after I put out the first problem, is ridiculous. There needs to be better balance to it. It is an unrelenting grind, and it sucks the joy out of it when you cannot progress normally, but are forced to play it to the game's high-pressure strong-arming. Each new DLC you add makes the complexity even worse, and foists more unreasonable demands on you, earlier and earlier on.

It has been a while since I played this game, but after completing many other games now, looking back at my experience with this strategic colony simulator survival game, I actually liked it... Sure there are some very minor things that didn't make sense or weren't required to be in the game (whether in the base game or in the DLCs), but overall, I loved it. Whilst playing through my campaign, I almost died three times, this game is really punishing and it is fun. I once lost half of my colony to a disease because I did not have enough resources to maintain many hospitals at the time. And many times I ran out of water and my colony came very close to extinction. I loved the strong characters that can be sent out to salvage resources, fight enemies, clear areas, or research and set up camps. Whilst I did love some of them, the game did not create much affection between me and my characters like how a masterful game like Rimworld does with its pawns. It is okay, I still cared for some of my stronger characters, but it felt less like Rimworld and more like Dwarf Fortress, where you only care about strong characters, and if they die, it is just a bummer and you quickly forget their names. The game was fun, it kept throwing more and more challenges at me, and the final battle was fun, I lose three of my most cherished characters, but as I said, I quickly recovered and dealt with the enemies that killed them. In the end, will I ever replay this game? Probably not, I have a lot of games in my inventory and there are many other games that I would consider replaying before this game, but is it good? Was it fun? Did I enjoy it? Yes, definitely. Lastly, the question about prince, was my 30 hours of enjoyment worth the price of this game and all its DLCs? If without discount, then certainly no, but with a discount, I see it as a pretty good deal. (Though thinking about it overall, I probably wouldn't buy the DLCs)

Interesting idea, but falls flat