![]() ![]() Unfortunately the game is marred with so many issues and problems it's almost impossible to find anything remotely resembling a good game here. The game revolves around starting your own community of Gnomes, much in a style similar to Dwarf Fortress, but with better graphics. The game revolves I don't get where everyone is calling it a "masterpiece", it's a piece of something and you know what I am alluding to. I don't get where everyone is calling it a "masterpiece", it's a piece of something and you know what I am alluding to. So go for it, your city is in your hands. Resizeable windows, extra options and settings on your resources for prioritisation and stock forwarding. And the UI is being worked on all the time. There are action bars and a right click menu, both letting you do anything. The UI takes a short while to learn, but is pretty intuitive. And everything can be viewed where appropriate. This is helped by the flexibility of the UI. But the game does it's best to make anything sensible visible to you. The level of detail behind the scenes is staggering. Will you live in isolation in a walled off and sealed city forgoing trade and immigration? Will you have a small force of elite troops? A larger but less focused military? No military at all but have every citizen able to join the armed militia if the need arises? Will you use traps and mechanics to fight for you? The options are there for you to use. ![]() The military side of things has not been forgotten either. Yes, the game is 3D, didn't I mention that? You can build up or down as well as outwards. Yesterday I ventured into 3D and my machines gained a whole level of complexity. Working purely in 2D I have so far made 1 way doors which can be locked from both directions, drawbridges, goblin crushers (a cunning combination of a mechanical wall and a roof.) and pitfalls. There are all sorts of switches and power sources you can use from hand cranks to engines and levers to pressure plates, but put them together and you can do some awesome things. So far, while the game is in beta there are 3 devices, hatches which close holes when powered, mechanical walls which block passages when powered and pumps which move liquid from one place to another. A solid addition to the tech research trees (you gain access to more mechanical do-hickeys as you complete research), you can build machines limited only by your imagination, and I guess to an extent by the tools available. The other aspect of this game that shines is the mechanics system. And there are a good variety of industries to get involved in. From improvements to efficiency made simply by giving your population access to bags, wheelbarrows and buckets to complex production lines where the forge produces metal which is worked by machine shops to be used by the engineers to build the devices you invented. As a result, no play through is the same, your city/fortress will always look different. This combines to give you a huge variety of things to do in your sandbox, but lets you learn the mechanics relatively easily. The economy is deep and varied, but based on a common and simple set of principles. Where this game truly shines is the depth. ![]() The graphics are basic but perfectly adequate, but don't let that put you off. Give your gnomes smart commands and see your efficiency sore. Careful use of commands and doing things in order can avoid all this trouble. They will try to do things they can't, seal themselves in rooms they built, dig themselves into pits. Oh, and they all have names, so get them killed and you may feel guilty. It almost gives your gnomes a personality. You control a band of gnomes, and the level of stats and attributes is impressive. You can also further choose to vary what enemies attack you on a type by type basis. The frequency, size and strength of enemy attacks can be varied anywhere from "Off"/(x 0.5) to "Double"/(x 2). First off, a bit of appreciation for the games difficulty settings. I picked this game up 10 days ago and have already clocked up around 120 hours. I picked this game up 10 days ago and If you enjoy city/resource management sims and strategy games, this is one you really should pick up. If you enjoy city/resource management sims and strategy games, this is one you really should pick up. ![]()
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