Folk Emerging

My tribe's history: I started off focusing on food. When an Ice Age showed up, I thought I'd be better off than the more aggressive tribes, but I got attacked a lot, plundered, and lost my special items. Luckily, I had only one turn of malnourishment before climate returned to normal and food was abundant again. My tribe was larger but I kept being beaten to a pulp in battles. I must have missed some early military buffs. I started to focus on military, but I had to run for the most part! Towards the end I started winning battles, but I was already far behind on victory points by then, getting notifications of the other tribes' wonderful progress. Remember to keep an eye on the top right and spend the various types of points you earn - I may have neglected this for long periods of time unknowingly, which may have been what put me so far behind. I ended joint 5th of 7 tribes when the first tribe got to 300 victory points. What a stain on my tribe / name! I should have known better, having played the demo for a bit a while ago! I remember doing much better that time around... Some thoughts: - Events can become a bit repetitive. While the tooltips show what measures the event options…

Very much digging this. Cool setting and very interesting mechanics. Not a casual game--every decision counts.

Really solid and unique 4x game!

Fun

Now that I've played this game for over 40 hrs since launch and show no sign of stopping, I think it's about time I finally recommend this game. Genuinely, truly one of the most exciting games I have had the privilege of playing. If you enjoy: 1) Mechanically unique games 2) Incredibly thematic games 3) Customizable games 4) Games which actually, truly have a multitude of pathways to win -- you will love this game, and I encourage you to try it. Outside of the game itself, the dev (yes, this is a solo dev project, all the more impressive) is incredibly reactive and receptive to feedback -- after the first few games I had just barely formulated the thought "it would be neat to allow a higher victory cap to see more of the endgame" yet before I played enough to conclusively feel that, within a week of launch this change (as well as many others, such as changes to fertility) was already made. Again, this is one of the most innovative games in the past few years (the food webs and foraging impact alone is interesting enough that any 4x player ought to consider this). Amazingly enough, there is a demo you can play, so if this review piques your interest i…

I really enjoyed my playthrough. It has very out of the box and fun mechanics and is very different from a standard civ 4x game. I really liked how settling down is a slow process as you transition from moving around and foraging to the hybrid herding to settled farming. Late game can get a bit tedious if you have more than a few tribes, and the early events can make progress very luck based (you can get 5 food/a couple morale for a turn which is basically useless or you can get 5 stone/very powerful unique items). Overall it needs more polish but it is a unique game and is fun already, so I definitely recommend.