Whiskerwood

Good game, a little confusing to start. But once you get the hang of it it's a great city builder

I enjoyed Timberborn and was recommended Whiskerwood from Timberborn players. Chances are if you like one you will like the other. dealing with the claws hasn't been too much of an issue, but like the badwater, it is something you need to manage. I love that there are seasons, and a variety of recipes for the various industry buildings.

So much fun, and still a challenge with all the easy settings, to get used to the flow, then pump up the difficulty and build an empire!

I am not too deep into the game yet, but this already feels like diet Dwarf Fortress in the best of ways. If you're like me and when you've played DF you've always thought "I wish this was more focused and there were concrete pressures on you to accomplish stuff", well this does it in spades. It obviously isn't as deep since DF has like 20 years of development on it, but it is simply beautiful how the simple tools it provides to the player can be combined in all sorts of ways. Every building placed feels like solving a fun puzzle with no wrong solutions. Every game you start the challenges feel unique. This is probably my favorite city buildier I've ever played.

Absolutely wonderful citybuilder. plays like a mashup of anno, factorio and frostpunk while doing it's own thing where you get to build your own underground mouse metropolis and sky palaces. it manages to do all these things quite competently, which is honestly a miracle. my biggest gripe is how much time you spend managing your mines - there are no options to automate this process and underground pathways can get complicated and extremely finnicky to manage with the current tools. the layer view just isn't good enough after 10+ levels of undercity i would also like so see MUCH more complex production chains in the future.

Yes. Similar Timberborn vibes aside, decent on its own merit. 1.0 should be a treat.