Cataclismo Steam Charts & Stats

Game is dope, i spend too much time building my defence brick by brick but think its a testament to the robust creation system. Many different gamemodes and a charismatic hero and campaign make me wish for an expansion with multiple champions

The game is fun, I really enjoy this category of base building/tower defense type of game I do have a problem with it, and its inducing some serious headache/migraine every time I play this game. I had to literally take some pills after every gaming session (this game) Firstly, I would appreciate a scale-able UI, these small build menu at bottom left is not of any help for me to find the stuff I need quickly, the hotkey works but still require considerable amount of scrolling. Especially black-ed out buildings which I haven't discovered, they're in my way for no reason. Secondly I'd appreciate a faster game mode, and a way to scrap the base speed. I'm a guy who is either on fastest speed setting, or pause. nothing in between. Thirdly, I'd appreciate if the buildings have a key feature to it, or some sort of special landmark or colour to it. Because finding my sawmill is hard, finding my shack is hard, finding my quarry is hard. finding my barracks, I have no idea where I put it. I have no idea what some buildings are until I click it. All the buildings colours blend together and I don't know whats what. Thank you. I hope you see this dev

Cool idea, great art style, fun stuff to do Here's my problem and I'll make this quick. It's already a thing of having to put Air Filters up high, but check this out... In every image the game shows you of this city and these air filters; they're damn near on every single roof top. You'll have a hard time noticing anything else about the images because they're so prevalent... But no... the game says *"you can't have em too close together."* ..uh...what...? why?? WTF? Nah dude this is an intentional handicap where there already is one. There's no other purpose than that and the first time you discover this you're likely to have the exact same reaction as I did... Get rid of this ignorant handicap, make the poopradius smaller, or make it applicable only to hard and extreme modes or something and I'll change the review. Make it make sense.

this is not a super long game but this i would considered more forgiving then they are They Are Billions. if you general like base building this one is fun

It's They Are Billions 2. Better graphics, better story, better gameplay. Same music.

This game is missing something. It's got a lot of ideas that are fundamentally interesting and which drew me in, but it also feels like most of them are in some way mishandled. It commits that RTS sin where you're building your way up the same tedious tech tree every mission, so the economic aspect feels extremely repetitive. The detailed options for building fortifications are cool, but ultimately the most "effective" fortifications also tend to be incredibly hideous and disjointed, as you're also paying for aesthetics and symmetry, so you really want to just make some sort of stripped down monstrosity that *performs*. You are also, once again, rebuilding basically the same fortifications over and over except when there are unremovable pre-existing fortifications you have to build around in which case you're building the same fortifications but being really annoyed while doing so. The game is also bad at communicating certain things, like it'll tell you that a thing is an improved version of another thing, but not by how much it is improved, for instance, until you actually build the improved thing. Your fort being damaged and destroyed block-by-block(unless, of course, a block gets taken out that collapses other blocks...) and with no end-of-fight insta rebuild option(that I found), means rebuilding something damaged is also desperately tedious. The scarce resources also contribute to a very rich-get-richer thing where if you breeze through early waves and don't need to make repairs or replace guys, later waves get effortless, while if you barely scrape through a non-final wave, you may as well restart the entire mission. I also really disliked the voice acting. Some lines are just delivered... badly(like the world's most unconcerned mortally wounded bowman who just doesn't give a damn that he's dying, apparently), but the way most of it is spoken in unaccented English, until suddenly there's a Proper Noun that needs an accent(but not even consistently, do you pronounce the H in Hogar or not?!) and is largely borrowed from French/Spanish/Italian, just feels super awkward and like a native English speaker trying to write someone with a Hispanic background very poorly. I really wish the game was better because a block-by-block building game where my buildings actually got put to the test against some sort of challenge deeply appeals to me on a fundamental level, but it feels like Cataclismo is detailed in all the wrong places, in a way that makes the details get in the way of the actual gameplay.

TL;DR : I would have absolutely recommended this game if not for the awful performance issues. devs need to stop mocking their players and the money they've invested in their gaming rig. I really like what the devs have gone for with this game, it works nicely too. if the idea of building up your defenses, rising up walls in which you'll slot your units coupled with a resource management city builder aspect appeals to you, the game delivers on this front, the gameplay loop is very enjoyable. I enjoy the artstyle too, reminds of age of empires 4. the music, i don't know how much people will enjoy it, for me it's highly appreciated. it's melancholic melodic lines played on a classical guitar, heavily rooted in hispanic sounds, if you can enjoy it it's really nice. now the AI of your troops sucks and it can be a struggle to get them in formation/where you want them to be but well, for the most part you're only going to assign them individually to locations you've built inside of your walls, so no issue there, the issue really only arises when marching with a stack of troops, which isn't that often overall. also the game badly lacks see through camera (objects becoming partially invisible when within a certain distance of your camera), it would help tremendously and would even enable additional building styles. now the performance is shameful, no other way to put it. during attacks i'm not even able to maintain 60 fps with settings on low, and i'm running this on a high end rig (cost me 3K5+) from 4 years ago. for comparison, darktide has about 10 times more detailed graphics, hordes with billions more units (in higher difficulties), is made by a company that is definitely not known for their optimization prowess, yet i'm still able to maintain about double the framerate in darktide than in this. BS. edit : finished the campaign and the last cinematic froze after a few seconds, let me tell you I am NOT replaying through the slog that the last level is just for a chance to get the cinematic again (without it freezing). mentioned this to illustrate how catastrophic the technical aspect of this game is. maybe i'll get the end of the story on youtube. so to be honest, if you're interested in this, i suggest you start saving now for the next billion dollars rig you're gonna have to buy so you can run brand new games at 20 fps, by looking for this game over the high seas.

I really wanted to like it, but the building (especially the rebuilding after a night) is more tedious than expected, while the combat is less satisfying than expected. I would rate it "meh", if I could.

It's both a good game and a bad game. I like the premise and it works without error. Problem is if you play what is basically survival mode you spend a lot of time setting up your defenses and then one turn they come from another area and everything becomes a mess because the soldiers move so slow. Second you can never get enough soldiers. So many limitations. You end getting so many resources but nothing to do with them. Don't get me started on moving to the next level. getting points takes so long. I end up playing about 12 attacks ands then pack it in. If you want a lot of frustration later in the game buy it but beware.

Review in short: "A brilliant and well-made game which features multiple modes. A bit lacking in certain aspects, but still full of quality content." Info on how I played: * Played at version 1.0.2 * Played campaign at Medium difficulty Pro: + Great gameplay mechanics + Great combination of city builder and tower defense + Good and satisfying campaign + Many different game mode, among which a "Sandbox mode" and one that allows to create stages, share them online and play other players' ones + Possibility to create blueprints of constructions and to download the ones shared by other players + Difficulty options + Possibility to make manual saves during a stage Cons: - No summary of all units or buildings, making it hard to keep track of everything, especially in terms of upgrades - Missable tutorials - No difficulty selection for Survival Mode - Cannot edit ground in Sandbox mode - A bit limited in blueprint creation - Design of units is a bit poor and they're not very differentiated - Some mechanics are not introduced or well-exposed