Slightly than activity gamers with developing and managing lifelike cities, as in video games like SimCity 4 and Cities Skylines 2, Scorchlands takes a extra fantastical method. It, like Towards the Storm and Timberborn, takes place in a world populated by anthropomorphic animals, providing up a setting the place bipedal birds use magical expertise to construct houses and extract sources from a moon. If this premise sounds compelling, there’s even higher information: the sport has simply left Early Entry on Steam, is at the moment accessible for simply $6, and has garnered constructive opinions from gamers.
Scorchlands is a metropolis constructing recreation the place the animal individuals talked about above, the “birdfolk of Giwi,” have come to an inhospitable moon known as Helia on a analysis journey. To outlive on Helia, the participant must information the birdfolk in terraforming the land, combating enemies by an deliberately easy fight system, extracting sources by using magical expertise, managing these sources by way of transportation and processing logistics, and constructing cities by a hex grid primarily based system. All of that is introduced in a colourful, instantly eye catching visible type that additional helps the sport stand out from different metropolis builders.
Made by Ringland, which is comprised solely of solo creator Jakub Rogalski, Scorchlands is now hitting 1.0 after spending greater than a 12 months in Early Entry. It at the moment boasts a 95% or Very Optimistic ranking on Steam primarily based on 60 person opinions to date.
Scorchlands is 50% off ($5.99 USD / £4.99) on Steam from now till August 8 to have fun the launch of its 1.0 model. Seize a replica or obtain its demo proper right here.
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