TFC: The Fertile Crescent

As a very casual and brand spakin' new RTS player, I have got to say, this one hits the spot. I think an expert would definitely say its a little too simple, but for someone who wants to try their hand at RTS and not get overwhelmed I would say this one is perfect. Plus, not too many people are making Mesopotamia themed games and TFC really gets the feel right imo. If I had a few wishes they would be: 1. a pause button. In sandbox mode it really doesnt matter, but on anything other than the easiest difficulty it gets really hard to micromanage without a little pausing. Especially when your city starts getting bigger and youre trying to control more neutral settlements. 2. Better Walls and Castle features. More options mainly. it should start with dirt ditches and work up to the mudbrick walls. ALSO why can enemies attack me from outside my walls? this must have been a coding challenge for the devs because thats the only reason I could see why enemies just hit you through walls.

8/10 FOR old rts game style Before I talk about anything, if you asked "is this game worth it," I would unhesitatingly answer "yes." It is now flawless, however I think this would be a great first RTS for a newcomer to the genre, or any RTS fan who likes the setting of Age of Empire 1 but would like a more relaxing game. The pixel style is pretty good, although I don't usually play modern pixel games. The gameplay is pretty similar to Age of Empires at the outset. One unique thing is that the town center automatically generates workers, which I think was a positive design choice. your units constantly consume food, so first you will be picking redberries and hunting for food until your farming infrastructure is good enough to sustain an economy of workers and warriors. Unlike AOE there is only two stages, one as a nameless pre-civilization culture, another where you fall into the sphere of influence of a major Bronze Age Power, either Assyria, Babylon, or Egypt. I would have loved to see the Hittites in this title, but I hope it is in the next game, which I bought and installed while writing this review.

Love it, might be a little bit too simple, but is a fun casual game

A pixelated, light, softcore alternative to AoE.

As someone who loves pixel style art and recently got back into real time strategies, this is a fun little game.

За свои деньги нормально. Age of Empires на минималочках.

1.很好玩，这个机制甚至可以完全复刻到帝国时代2的编年史文明中去，强烈建议两个游戏联动一下~！ 2.期待增加更多民族，比如苏美尔、赫梯、埃兰（波斯）、迦南、海上民族等等。 3.期待增加港口与海战系统！（舰队可以设计为缓慢消耗木头，毕竟舰船需要用木头修，如果木头耗尽，舰船就会缓慢掉生命值） 4.期待加入贸易系统，包含陆上、海上商队的贸易，获得是青铜，甚至能为盟友极为缓慢地传播学识。 5.强烈建议地图上中立的神殿占领之后除了增加学识获取速度，还能招募祭司或者神谕者，可以为部队回复血量和招降敌人，设计为只能通过占领中立建筑招募，而不能自己招募（很合理呀，青铜时代宗教传承都是有数的，是垄断阶级）。 6.如果舰队系统引入，就可以新增中立建筑林场，可以增加木头获取速度。 7.占领村庄还能增加大约10-20的人口容量（具体数值看平衡性）。 8.也可以增加中立建筑天然矿山或者矿井、渔场等。 9.引入英雄系统，通过宫殿招募，有且仅有1个，各文明形象不同，技能不同，模型比一般单位略大。 10.极难模式引入灾难系统（瘟疫、虫害、暴雨洪水、干旱、火山喷发、海啸、邪神入侵等） 1. It's very fun! This mechanism can even be completely replicated into the chronicle civilization of Age of Empires 2. I strongly recommend a collaboration between the two games! 2. We look forward to adding more ethnic groups, such as Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite (Persian), Canaanite, Sea Peoples, and so on. 3. Looking forward to adding a port and naval combat system! (The fleet can be designed to consume wood slowly, as ships need wood for repairs. If the wood runs out, the ships will slowly lose health points) 4. Looking forward to joining the trade system, which includes trade via land and sea caravans, gaining access to bronze, and even being able to disseminate knowledge to allies at a very slow pace. 5. It is strongly recommended that after occupying neutral temples on the map, in addition to increasing the speed of acquiring knowledge, players can also recruit priests or oracles, who can heal troops and recruit enemies. The design should be such that only by occupying neutral buildings can players recruit these characters, rather than being able to recruit them themselves (this makes sense, as religious traditions in the Bronze Age were limited and monopolized by certain classes). 6. If the fleet system is introduced, a neutral building, the forest farm, can be added to increase the speed of wood acquisition. 7. Occupying a village can also increase the population capacity by approximately 10-20 (specific numbers subject to balance). 8. Neutral buildings such as natural mines, mines, and fishing grounds can also be added. 9. Introduce a hero system, recruitable through palaces, with only one available, each having a distinct civilization image and unique skills, and featuring a slightly larger model compared to regular units. 10. Extreme difficulty mode introduces a disaster system (plague, pest infestation, rainstorm floods, drought, volcanic eruption, tsunami, invasion of evil gods, etc.)

It's a fun little rts while it lasts. You can fly through the story mode within a few hours and skirmishes get dull fairly quickly. Hordes is a good concept though I wish they had some way to modify it so you're able to actually build up a base and see how many waves you can truly hold out. As it is, you have to survive at most 15 waves on the hardest mode, which I have not yet beaten, but you don't really get a chance to build defenses, you are basically trying to manage your population to withstand the waves without everyone dying. It's a good challenge but a mode where you actually have time to build a proper base and hold out for an unlimited number of waves would really lend itself to more replayability. As it is, I'm already getting kind of bored with it after 20 or so hours. Given it was only like $10 I'm not sour about it and am still happy I gave it a go but I think they had a good bit of squandered potential. Put a little more into the development of different modes and you have a proper game worth $25+. Perhaps with their sequel game they will do so, fingers crossed.