Fantasy World / 幻想世界

I love building in games, and this one really hits the spot for me. Basically, it’s about farming and building while raising troops to fight. You start with just a few poor survivors and nothing else. First, chop trees, mine stones, then slowly open up farmland and build workshops. Watching resources pile up bit by bit, and seeing a shabby little camp turn into a town with walls and arrow towers—that sense of solid progress really gets me. Then there’s the training. Heroes can swap gear and learn skills, and soldiers can be trained to get stronger. You run all over the map to find materials, come back to craft equipment—the higher your level, the better stuff you can make. Forging a good weapon with your own hands and equipping it to your hero gives you a great sense of accomplishment when their combat power goes up.

Lacking in basic features and generally feels horrid to play. For the triple size wall, the one that your soldiers can walk on and archers can shoot off, there is the rounded OUTER piece, as seen in all trailers. But no CORNER piece. So if your wall does not need an outward curve, and instead needs a small turn somewhere to get around the terrain, you're out of luck. It also has 5k hp, the single size wall, in addition to not allowing archers atop, has 1k hp, so you're massive incentivized to use it. Walls are also 3 wide by default when placed. So if you go to a map edge, IE build next to water, you better space it perfectly, or you'll leave a hole that the bugs will gladly waltz right into. No single space piece to fill in the gaps, further making the main point, defense, clunky and counter intuitive. Gates don't close. So enemies can just run in and destroy all your stuff. Feels terrible to watch the constantly attacking bugs just waltz past the open door and come destroy your stuff. Lack of tutorial does this game no favors. Equipping units is tedious and all done manually. So yes, you have to give each individual guy a melee weapon. Only one race, and it's a bunc…

So far, I've been really enjoying it. The town building is really solid, and i love being able to find and recruit the different heroes. Be prepared for the Zerg rush that happens right around the hour mark. I haven't been able to make it past that yet (which is frustrating). You can really feel the love put in this game, and i hope the developer continues support. definitely worth picking up. there's no tutorial to speak of atm, but everything's fairly straightforward enough if you're willing to put in the effort to learn it. -edit- I'm unsure if it was a spat of bad luck, or one of the updates released by the dev, but the zerg rushing seems to have abated for me. I'm having an absolute blast! the ranged combat is extremely satisfying, especially once you move into large group combat. The optimization seems good as well, I've had several hundred combatants on screen simultaneously, and haven't experienced any performance issues. I freaking love this game!