I’m in Love

I absolutely love this game. It’s exactly what I was looking for in a medieval sim and to all the people complaining about the difficulty...just do the tutorials. I like the difficulty because I’m sick of these simple tap and collect micro transaction cash grabs that act like complex simulators. This game does have micro transactions but I don’t really find them too annoying, though I wish they didn’t exist tbh. Please keep adding to the complexity of this game because I’m absolutely hooked and would love to see this continue to evolve with more and more production chains and types of resources to produce.

I absolutely love this game!

However, your constant pestering is annoying AF. I totally support developers earning pay for their work (I’m a game dev myself), and I’m happy to give you my money for this great game. BUT when I pay to download something ad-free, I expect a hassle-free gameplay experience. I bought unlimited speed-up too, because it’s a feature I wanted, and I don’t mind the price. BUT I don’t want double XP, and I really do NOT want you to beg me to buy it every two freaking minutes. Take NO for an answer, please. Same with asking for reviews. Take no for an answer and don’t constantly harass your paying customers by not giving them a ‘never’ option. I want to play the game without interruption. And why show ads when opening the game first thing when you sold me an ad-free game? You took my money and didn’t deliver your promise. It doesn’t make it ok just because your advertising your own games. This game is great enough to make plenty of money on its own merits, without you tarnishing it was cheesy used car-salesman tactics. You are great devs, and you are better than this.

Almost perfect!

This game reminds me a lot of Heritage of the Kings where you have to wisely manage your city and resources, and I love that about this. I am also a developer, and I truly appreciate the time and effort that went into this. However, I don't appreciate the following things: - I paid for the ad-free version of this game, yet it always boots with an ad. - There's a bug in the election campaign where you're supposed to build marketplace stands, yet no matter which type and how many you build, the quest counter stays at zero. You cannot complete this quest. Frustrating, to say the least. [EDIT: This is not a bug, you have to hit the arrows until you see the flashing stall in order for it to count toward the quest. Leaving this in case it helps someone else.]

Fun!

I downloaded this when I was laid up in the hospital and it definitely kept me entertained. It’s a lot of fun! My one wish would be that there was a blank slate option without any previous buildings other than the main castle. I really enjoy designing the layout of the towns but don’t even bother with the ones that have a lot of buildings already. I also wish their were more big or huge layouts that weren’t stuck in permanent winter. The permanent winters I don’t bother with. Also, the timed challenges (ex: 5 minutes to produce x amount of x) is pointless and impossible unless you’re already a well established town. Otherwise it’s a fun game but plan to pay $ to get the most out of it.

Premium isn’t ideal

Fun strategy game, great time sink, but many of the scenarios require you to have a significant stock of quest reward currency to succeed. This reward currency can also be bought of course, as well as the ability to fast forward indefinitely, improper use of either without purchasing something results in certain scenarios becoming either automatic fails or endless slogs made worse by somewhat repetitive music. Like I said at the beginning, I still enjoy this game, helps scratch that Anno/Banished/Factorio itch I have when I’m not at home. Don’t think it could even compete with the aforementioned, just something in a similar-lite vein.

Great balance of challenge and fun but beware…

It is addictive! The game is great if looking for a challenge, that is not frustrating. The game has great playing mechanics without throwing much money at it. I paid for the premium version to get rid of ads and purchased the unlimited fast forward. So for less than $10 I have already played over 40 hrs accumulative over many days.

The Word Premium Could Be Better

Ok it’s the paid version. No ads that’s awesome. But I feel there should be way more decorations than what there is now. Another thing the prestige is out of control. You don’t gain coin fast enough from taxes without spending the coin you don’t have. I watched the ad videos that give you 10 prestige each time but after my 5th time it just sits there with a loading circle allowing me not to view ads for prestige no longer. It’s a great game but I think sense we have paid for it it should offer way more.

Sick of microtransactions

Get these %#*?ing in-app purchases out of here man! We paid for the game!! So greedy and obtrusive. I really wanted to like this game but the devs are too pushy. I paid for no ads, and infinite speed, and double xp, yet STILL — really can’t progress through a sandbox game without buying their in-game currency. Also, there are some interface issues like finicky roadbuilding, not being able to get info on existing decorations, buildings getting in the way of each other, etc. I haven’t been this frustrated by shady dev practices in a long time. I thought I was buying a whole game but it was too late.

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