Reasonably than job gamers with setting up and managing life like 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 sources 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 opinions from gamers.
Scorchlands is a metropolis constructing sport 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 an deliberately easy fight system, extracting sources by the usage of magical expertise, managing these sources through transportation and processing logistics, and constructing cities by a hex grid based mostly 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 yr in Early Entry. It presently boasts a 95% or Very Optimistic score on Steam based mostly on 60 consumer opinions thus far.
Scorchlands is 50% off ($5.99 USD / £4.99) on Steam from now till August 8 to have a good time the launch of its 1.0 model. Seize a replica or obtain its demo proper right here.
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