Reasonably than process gamers with developing and managing sensible cities, as in video games like SimCity 4 and Cities Skylines 2, Scorchlands takes a extra fantastical strategy. 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 expertise 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 at the moment obtainable for simply $6, and has garnered constructive evaluations 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 known as Helia on a analysis journey. To outlive on Helia, the participant must information the birdfolk in terraforming the land, combating enemies by way of an deliberately easy fight system, extracting sources by way of the usage of magical expertise, managing these sources through transportation and processing logistics, and constructing cities by way of a hex grid primarily based system. All of that is introduced 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 at the moment boasts a 95% or Very Constructive score on Steam primarily based on 60 consumer 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 duplicate or obtain its demo proper right here.
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