A New World: Kingdoms

Very unfriendly and confusing and that was just the tutorial. This game need a LOT more time in devloment before its ready to play. Not sure WHY this is not still in early access but in open release in such a state. I'll try this again in 12 months to see how it is then.

Lol the controls menu was straight up empty and none of the onscreen buttons worked in the tutorial

A New World: Kingdoms is an unusual entity in a sea of unremarkable 2D retro pixel platformers and asset flips at the bottom end of Steam. This is a genuine attempt at making a simple 4X game, a ripoff of Civilization (only not as good). Many of the same game elements are there, but in a more simplified way. Build your cities, warriors, workers, tile improvements, and build out an empire on a procedurally generated hex map. Civ was very successful, of course, so why not this ripoff? Well, for starters... it's simplified and also a lot clunkier than Civilization. Thing is... we already have Civilization. There's a basic unwritten rule in game development... if you're going to rip off someone else's game, you have to do [b]better[/b] than the game you're ripping off. Not [b]worse[/b]. The technical implementation is also a let-down. There's no options to change the resolution for the game, despite there being a small but welcome array of 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. It's strange we…

The UI looks like someone threw up on the screen, the graphics aren't much better, and it seems incredibly limited and simplistic. I say "seems" because I can't actually get past turn 1. The game hangs right after I hit the end turn button.

Crashes upon switching to WIndows. Switches to Full Screen per level. VERY BUGGY, and abandoned. Achievements don't work either. Should be removed from Steam.

This game is ok. It doesn't have much depth though, which the style and gameplay it's using makes feel unfulfilling to me. If you really enjoy the early early game of Civ, then you'd probably enjoy it. It's a very fast playing version of that. Limited map size, limited unit options, simplified combat. If those don't sound like bad things to you, then go for it. If you want depth, probably look elsewhere. I can't recommend it, but I have... a few hours in Civ Games, so take that as you will.