Union Of Rivals

After finishing the content in this game, I can't in the current state recommend it to anyone. The idea could be good, and I think that's why I bought it in the first place. They simply have more work to do even for an early access game for this to be fun. The logistics and scripted missions are overly simple and trivialize the game. You don't need much tech at all to build a track to the destination in the one map you have access to right now, and most buildings are simply unnecessary. The characters you recruit have stats and traits, but even that doesn't matter because at the end of the day its just another person costing X dollars a day. Any micromanagement in this game feels mostly tedious, like at some point you could just lay down the plans for a track to the destination and mostly forget the game is running while it builds. Nearly all of your attention goes to buying things off the market you are low on in any given moment, occasionally doing missions which pay out all of your money. Anyway, I really do hope over time they figure out how to make everything feel actually fun and still stick within their original concept and vision.

+12 hours in the demo People saying confusing ui and hard economy? All i have to say git gud. Seriously, i encountered zero problems in economy and ui confusion, i hit a minor snag when i wanted to cancel a building construction (one would expect to be able to cancel construction from click on said construction and clicking cancel) and was looking for the demolition button for about 2 minutes. Economy wise? I simply sold excess of what the game told me to build up and was making money, selling coffins, planks, later bread and animals. PROS: A lot of resources and production chains, 3 modes of hauling (by hand, by cart, by train). EPIC SOUNDTRACK ++++ Responsive developer. Live economy, supply/demand, very good foundation People live their lives - they are fully simulated with systems ripe to expand. The baseline is there for some deep level "dwarf fortress" like behaviors of your agents workers and citizens. NEGATIVES AND NEUTRALS: -Graphical fidelity has a way to go, a visual update in a far future would help for sure, cleaning out repeating textures, weird models etc. Nothing major in my book. The menus and UI graphics, style etc. is fine. It's just some assets are weir…

Good premise, but this game needs to cook hard. It's a softcore version of anno, if you want. The music and atmosphere are nice, the game moves OK. The maps are procedural and cute. It is confusing at first but soon enough you snowball and swim in cash. The UI needs improvement. I personally need better control to hauls and wagons and quicker and better access to summaries, data and statistics. I would also create a building of workers that specializes in BUILDING, otherwise at some point I got stuck with having plenty of resources but nobody coming to build what I put down, because I would lose old citizens and new ones would get allocated to other jobs + get quickly discouraged to stay from not having houses... vicious circle. The content is a long way to go: the tech tree needs some better progression that gives some incentive to do some things and not others. I've moved from one map to another and there doesn't seem to be any difference. Giving it a thumbs up for the time being, for encouragement, but I'll change it to thumbs down if the game doesn't get significantly better.

I like the idea of putting railroad tycoon but a city builder in wild west setting. Haven't played anything like it before. I hope they can add like promotions for marshals for the agents you have and an organization structure with promotions to lieutenants to captain or 1st person duels if it is possible.

Its interesting from the start. However, the UI controls need to be tweaked. Great Graphics and interesting storyline.

Don't buy. I think this has been abandoned