Settlement Survival Reviews

I shifted from Banished, when I had a mac. But now I have a proper PC and I still play it I recommend for anyone who wanted a more updated banished as there are so many more features. ENJOY!!!!

~ GAMEPLAY ~ 🔲 Boring 🔲 Rock Paper Scissors 🔲 Fun 🔲 there is something ✅ Entertaining 🔲 Ace 🔲 Godlike ~ DIFFICULTY ~ 🔲 My grandma could play it 🔲 Easy ✅ Normal 🔲 Hard 🔲 A challenge to be reckoned ~ GRAPHICS ~ 🔲 MS Paint 🔲 Bad 🔲 Meh 🔲 Normal ✅ Very Good 🔲 An original artistic direction 🔲 Beautiful 🔲 Masterpiece ~ STORY ~ 🔲 This game has no story 🔲 Some lore ✅ It's there for people who want it 🔲 Well written 🔲 Leading to more in-depth researches/thoughts 🔲 A model to get inspired by ~ LENGTH ~ 🔲 0 (No story) 🔲 Short 🔲 Average 🔲 Long ✅ To infinity and beyond ~ MUSIC ~ 🔲 Just filling noises/No music 🔲 Trivial and uneventful ✅ Good and/or fitting the game's artistic dispositions 🔲 Memorable 🔲 Transcending whispers of a forgotten world ~ INTEREST ~ 🔲 I would rather watch paint dry 🔲 Hard to enjoy 🔲 Repetitive and/or uninspired 🔲 A good moment 🔲 Sticking out of the pack ✅ You will remember it long after ~ REPLAYABILITY ~ 🔲 A one-time experience 🔲 Only for achievements 🔲 If you wait a few months/years (or with mods) 🔲 Definitely ✅ Infinitely replayable (or almost)

I had high hopes for this game. As someone that has played many Sim games over my life, I had thought I'd found a replacement for Banished. It has great bones and at first glance it is amazing. But it is like a great piece of art that some one has thrown raw sewage over. It has been ruined by ridiculous deaths of your citizens, but worse still is the inability to turn off limited time events like Xmas and Lunar New Year. This completely ruins the immersive joy of playing this game. It ruins the need to worry about food supplies that are needed to keep your people alive. I have no problem with developers adding these events to a game for fun. But at least, in the case of Simulations, have an option to turn it off. Don't butcher a great idea with silly gimmicks.

I play medieval settlement builders almost exclusively. I'd recommend this if you were trying to get someone sttarted out playing the genre, a kid maybe or someone who's not tech savvy. Two reasons. The first is that the interface is all very much more city skylines than banished. Not medievally at all and it's a bit jarring. The second is that the tech trees don't seem to make any sense and I think it'd be less frustrating to someone who didn't know the genre. It's a nice little Banished clone, I salute the effort it took to remake the game, but compared to something like Kingdoms and Castles or Foundation, it's just... not there.

Somewhat good intentions of a game, really buggy and somewhat unfriendly gameplay. It feels like an early access game with a bunch of features that are unrefined. I ran into a bug where after an earthquake destroyed all of my houses (not some as implied) when they were rebuilt they remained at 100% built but could not be finished or deleted, I finally removed them after trying a bunch of different methods. Another similar bug that was irritating was putting earthquake flooring under buildings, most of the time it just wouldn't. You have the materials you select the area and nothing happens, or it will built it under 2 houses but not the other 6. Regarding the gameplay, you need to research a bunch of features that should be available from the beginning. If you want to repair a bunch of buildings it's a tech at the end of a tech tree. Until then you have to individually click every separate building. Another design that annoyed me was it would tell you what you were about to place right over where you are placing it, making it difficult to see where it's going. And finally the biggest issue, I had to keep searching for what things are or how to do them as there is minimal guidance in the game. Overall, would not recommend. Needs polish and considering it isn't in early access I doubt it's going to get it.

Don't let the vibrant cartoony art style fool you. This game can be just as brutal as Banished. Definitely coming back the next time I need a colony survival fix.

It's a lovely city builder. Don't look too long at the graphics though. And the language is...weird, to say the least. It really feels like the text is written by a non-english speaker, and not even checked for mistakes. I believe this game is rather successful, so I don't understand this level of sloppiness - it's bad. It's not just 1 or 2 typos, it's really bad. I like all the statistics, the variety of buildings and ressources you can get, and the quite large technology tree. At the end of the day, it's an entertaining, chill game, but I think it's not polished enough to be worth 15 bucks. Special shoutout to the music. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☑ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

It is nice game, but very similiar to banished, with some addtional stuff