Forebearers

This game has the potential to be very enjoyable like the game Banished, but with a military aspect. Unfortunately, in its current state, it is entirely too buggy. Simple things, for instance with just the wall mechanics, has problems with properly enclosing, walls meeting up with nature barriers, and just wall placement has major issues. In its current state, I just can't enjoy this game. I hope they resolve their issues in the future.

Relaxing village builder with a chilled pace and decent graphics Some graphical bugs as to be expected in EA (such as guardians sticking in rocks, trees sprouting just into the water and, most annoyingly, the camera rotation often stopping working) but by and large a nicely put together effort In my first 2 games I haven't found it particularly challenging to balance resources and grow basically as fast as I can find new colonists and build houses, but hopefully this will be enhanced as the game is tweaked. Certainly it is a lot less challenging to manage the population that many other games I've played recently in this genre, but on the other hand this does make for a relaxing experience. No mechanic around children to grow the population makes it feel a little contrived (you have to go into the world and find refugees to join you) but maybe this will be added later The mechanics with the guardians (soldiers) do need some work though - they are very awkward to control in any sort ...

This game is nearly unplayable due to the bugs and, as far as I can tell, has been abandoned by it's developers! Do not waste your money.

Missing a lot of the user interface needed to manage unit effectively.

Not even a minute in and I'm encountering game breaking bugs. The control scheme is also sub-par, the tutorial non-existent, the graphics unoptimized and laggy, and the settings menu broken. Refunding immediately.

This game is terribly unfinished, even for an early access game. It is still full of bugs, some of which really can make the gameplay annoying. I was hesitating for a while, if I should rate it up or down. If the devs don't stop the development, it could turn out to be a nice piece of work, but some of it should have been done before releasing the game even in the early access phase. However, if the develpment doesn't stop, I should reconsider my review. Pros: - some nice ideas about crafting; - military (although a little bit underdeveloped yet) - development potential Cons: - terrible bugs - for example: a) the plague spreads between the villagers, but they don't visit the healer, which results in half of your settlement whiped out, even though you could easily heal them; b) new settlers sometimes spawn in unreachable places c) fighters draw back in the midst of the fight to satisfy their needs, which often ends up in them being killed d) many, many more - poorly thought system of ...

Not enough instructions. Have farms, water and farmers. How do I get seeds??? no info. See items that look like mines but no idea what they are and nothing works on them. Some things have info when you click, some do not. All my people dies of starvation although I had lots of farms and hunters and fishing.

How did this even get out of early access??

Can't recommend it in it's current state. 1. Military and moving units is really janky. First of all there's no multi selection through the mouse. I.e. you can't drag a box around units to select them. You have to select unit groups from flags next to the minimap. Secondly, you can't really just click to move units somewhere. You have to give them an order to do something at a specific location, which is a lot of extra clicking over time (once on the ground where you want to put the order, then again to select the type of order). And unless it's the "defend" order, they'll reset and go back to base whenever they finish said order. This is made extra annoying by the fact that a group doesn't stay together which means you are forced to use defend orders to ensure they stay together (or they'll individually return to base when they reach a certain point). Scouting is also kind of annoying. When you give a scout order and the unit arrives there, they magically scout out a radius around t...

This is a game to have on our watchlist or in our library. Think Banished 2.0. In current state there is no mod support, hope the dev will add that, and this game will be even better. The game itsef is a mix of various games such as Banished, Universim, age of empires. Is this a bad thing? In my opinion, no. The game is in EA, so the future will tell if it was a good call or not. If you like the games mention above. Give this one go. I fell in love right from the start. Although, the game has some flaws. One, that I don't like is that you have to find ppl to come to our village. I prefer the Banished way over this.