Cubesis

Cubesis is a simple 2D retro pixel turn based city building strategy game made with GameMaker Studio. It's like a somewhat dumbed down version of Populous from the 1990's as you move your "cubie" units around, build cities, manipulate the terrain and so on. While gameplay is richer than a lazy 2D retro pixel platformer, it's shallow in comparison to the many hundreds of professionally made strategy games on Steam like Cities Skylines and Civilization. The somewhat unique ideas in the game are also let down by a very poor quality, lazy technical implementation. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. The control…

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Can't recommend.

Temperamental micro management with less controls.

TLDR is good concept but doesn't quite deliver.

A nice, simple strategy game. Not complicated, but very simple.