Fairly than job gamers with establishing and managing real looking cities, as in video games like SimCity 4 and Cities Skylines 2, Scorchlands takes a extra fantastical strategy. It, like In opposition to 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 properties and extract assets from a moon. If this premise sounds compelling, there’s even higher information: the sport has simply left Early Entry on Steam, is presently out there for simply $6, and has garnered optimistic evaluations from gamers.
Scorchlands is a city building game the place the animal individuals talked about above, the “birdfolk of Giwi,” have come to an inhospitable moon referred to as Helia on a analysis journey. To outlive on Helia, the participant must information the birdfolk in terraforming the land, preventing enemies by means of an deliberately easy fight system, extracting assets by means of the usage of magical expertise, managing these assets through transportation and processing logistics, and constructing cities by means of a hex grid based mostly system. All of that is offered in a colourful, instantly eye catching visible fashion 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 presently boasts a 95% or Very Constructive ranking on Steam based mostly on 60 consumer evaluations thus far.
Scorchlands is 50% off ($5.99 USD / £4.99) on Steam from now till August 8 to rejoice the launch of its 1.0 model. Seize a duplicate or obtain its demo right here.
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