Airborne Kingdom

I play my games on MAC. After playing it for a while, I can't access it anymore because now all of a sudden the game is only supported on Windows. Waste of money and time. First time I encounter such a thing. Big thumbs down!

Relaxing little city builder with the twist of the city being airborne. Basic and slow-moving, so I would only recommend it when one is going for maximum chill.

For the record, I feel guilty giving this game a thumbs down. This is a where I wish there was an option for "Neutral." The fundamental twist on the classic "city-builder" is that it's tricky to balance (quite literally) a flying city. Placement of units (and moving existing units) is incredibly important. Unfortunately, it's not a twist that interested me, as I discovered playing the game. I want to play a city builder, not a city balancer. Also, the pace is really leisurely. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. However, because your city gets resources from the ground, you need to fly from place to place to get the resources, and you spend a lot of time watching your city to move to the next resource location. This gets old! I way prefer the classic city builder where you build a resource (like a farm) and don't need to worry about that specific resource thereafter. That being said, I suspect mid-late game there are quality of life improvements. I just got too bored to keep going.

A game I'd give a maybe? On a hard discount, I think. There's nothing wrong with the game, but it's nothing really special. The concept is interesting and the story is nice, but the gameplay didn't really stick the landing. The balancing of resource management, especially on hard mode, is particularly sadistic, especially if you are thinking of tackling the DLC. Again, a hard maybe.

This is a very good looking game, with a relaxed vibe and forgiving mechanics, but it wasn't really for me. At 8 hours I've played through about 2/3rds of the game (not entirely certain, but I had allied with 2/3rds of the required city states) and while it has a relaxed vibe to it, at the point I stopped, it was asking me to do more with my flying town with fewer resources to do it with, which put me off. It's one thing to either ask the player to do more as the game progresses or to ask the player to do the same but restrict their resources, but to do both at the same time was frustrating. Further, the game was simply becoming harder without any easily accessible methods of either mitigating that difficulty; you could do research but the research was slow, agonizingly so, and your flying town couldn't really stay in one place for long stretches of time (in the 1st area, the skies were mostly clear, but by the 2nd area, it's like you're flying above smog, seeing only the immediate vicinity of your flying town or where your cursor was; you lose a lot of scenery as a result and I dread what the 3rd area would cut off). Allying with the various city states gives you a regular resource feed, but there's plenty of overlap, so you're getting lots of a handful of resources, but not enough of the ones you need; there's no option to ask them for X instead of Y. The facilities you build on your flying town can't keep up with demand, only taking the edge off. Like I said, it's a good looking game, with a very relaxed vibe, but it presented me with a sharpening knife of difficulty that I wasn't interested in pursuing.

got really boring really fast

Fun game, unique building aspect. Good for about 15ish hours of gameplay. There is a NG+ but I didn't bother. Worthwhile to get if it's on sale IMO!