Moderately than job gamers with setting up and managing real looking cities, as in video games like SimCity 4 and Cities Skylines 2, Scorchlands takes a extra fantastical method. It, like Towards the Storm and Timberborn, takes place in a world populated by anthropomorphic animals, providing up a setting the place bipedal birds use magical know-how to construct houses 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 obtainable for simply $6, and has garnered optimistic evaluations from gamers.
Scorchlands is a metropolis constructing recreation the place the animal folks talked about above, the “birdfolk of Giwi,” have come to an inhospitable moon known 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 sources by means of using magical know-how, managing these sources 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 yr in Early Entry. It presently boasts a 95% or Very Constructive ranking on Steam based mostly on 60 person evaluations to date.
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 replica or obtain its demo proper right here.
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