Settler's Domain

Charming and with surprising depth

Fun game. Pretty challenging. Will play this for a long time I think. Addicting already.

It's cozy at the start, enjoyable. However once your population rises above 5 and you begin diplomacy it seems like you have to permanently lose one ally at all times to stave off annihilation (sent off on a diplomacy mission). I got into my first combat situation and my entire populace was killed by 2 enemies, and I see no way to improve my odds. I'm struggling to see the vision of where the dev wants to go. - The videos show walled towns and all this interconnected countryside, but I just find myself waiting idly while my townfolk farm 200 stone from a quarry over 3 ingame months. - Revealing the fog of war feels like an awkward chore, rather than exploration. A relatively high expense early on, which ultimately shows my neighbors have choked me off into a peninsula. - The game doesn't build up quick enough to keep our attention early on. Some tuning is needed. - The tutorial gets in the way of many of the games menus, blocking you off from picking things that are meant to advance the tutorial. I found myself having to turn off the tutorial just so I could do the very thing it was asking. I'm optimistic... But that's the only reason I recommend right now.

This game is great ! I've been playing Dot Age this year and I kind of find the same game mechanics here, even though it is in real-time which honestly is a really good idea. Survival is hard for the first winter and that's great. However I wish some things were adressed. First, non-player settlements can have more settlers than the housing available in it, which I think is bad because it kind of breaks realism and forces you to build a lot of house to accomodate for annexing a settlement. Same thing for the gathering sites in settlements. Also, I wish there was a way to see how much ressources your settlement has gathered on a given time period. It would make for easier visualization of how well you're doing. But overall, this game is a great one which I hope I'll play a lot more of, and that it will be updated throughout the year !

Игра очень залипательная, но контента на релизе пока мало. (прошел за 10 часов). Из огромных плюсов лично для меня это графика (обожаю пиксельный стиль), процедурная генерация ландшафта, живо выглядящий мир (генерация дорожек в самых проходимых местах просто умопомрачительно), интересный экспириенс в градострое. Из минусов малое количество контента (понятно что это релиз, но надеюсь создатель не забросит игру как создатели Stonehearth), при 250 и больше жителей на моем компе начались фризы при смене дня и сезона, игру можно пройти ни разу не напав на поселение (функция видимо является опциональной), крафт стали и железа не могут производится одновременно и не являются взаимозаменяемыми ресурсами (постоянно приходится переключаться между ними двумя из-за чего не хватает ни того ни другого) В заключении хотелось бы сказать огромное спасибо автору за столь замечательный проект и надеюсь увидеть в будущем его развития. Для тех кто думает покупать или не покупать скажу что игра стоит своих денег. У самого автора хотелось бы попросить чтобы добавил в игру возможность ставить дорожки под строения и так же посмотреть что можно сделать с железом и сталью, очень не удобно когда приходится выключать и включать печки чтобы сменить ресурс, так же надеюсь что в будущем будет добавлен русский язык и еще маленькая просьба, добавьте функцию чтобы можно было убирать ненужные пашни, иногда очень мешаются. Всем желаю добра и позитива!

The game is pleasant, but after my first playthrough it left a slight aftertaste that it isn’t more expanded – there’s a bit of… I guess, further gameplay missing. I’ll definitely play it again, though. I’m not really sold on the economy: sure, it’s a kind of idle game, but the cost of individual buildings feels borderline insane. Maybe instead of that, there could be more production diversity, so constructing a given building was cheaper, but logistically more challenging?

I think the base of this game is good, but I think needs more time to cook or requires more testing. It's a fun game, but I think towards mid-game it becomes unfun because villagers become less efficient and require a lot of resources to keep going at a reasonable rate. I think there needs to be some adjustments to the balance/numbers of things when you're around 50 villagers just so that it's a bit more enjoyable to watch things grow. Maybe even a cheapter/more efficient way to clean up spaces/the areas you own. At this time, I don't think I can recommend but I hope the single dev can make some adjustments!