Altwaldheim: Town in Turmoil

(Follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42150626-Jarl%2527s-Game-Treasury/]my curator[/url] for more reviews like this) Altwaldheim is a simple menu-based city management game where you have to build up a town and defend it from invasions. The game only has one screen, an image of your town which gets filled with new buildings as you construct them, similar to the town screens of the Heroes of Might and Magic games. Actions are performed by going into menus and choosing them from a list. You can construct buildings, recruit soldiers, and assault dungeons. You can perform as many actions per turn as your resources allow you to, and when you end your turn you gain income based on your production. When a new turn begins, there's a chance to get an event where you have to make a decision. The core gameplay is pretty simple, but it works very well. You have to balance your construction and recruitment budgets to make sure you have a solid economy, but also enough soldiers to survive the regular enemy assaults. Events often come with choices that improve your relations with one of the town's factions, while decreasing it with another. Tax income is tied to the happiness o…

It's a niche game for a niche audience. Some minor language errors for English speakers. An amusing way to burn some hours away. Easy and Normal are the better modes to play on, the hard "ending" isn't worth the effort imo. Had a pig in my army 10/10 I did play again.

I paid a wise old man 100 gold for his sage advice. Turns out he wasn't all that wise.

Simple game. Yet rng, 5 factions, random events, riddles make it complex with deep strategy element. I love city builders and making units in general. Game is very challenging I've played 17.5 hours a few days into purchasing and even though made it to final boss twice i still have not beat the game yet. Addictive game play and replay value is high. Key to starting is focus on 1. gold 2. food 3. wood. i do not make any units until i'm attacked at the start. when i am attacked I focus on making a few units ie 20 archers maybe 10 thugs 10 militia then attack the small camps ie peasant militia and archer camps. make iron and stone mine and the remaining buidings. pick one faction to focus on and maybe have a subfaction as 2nd ary. for me i choose military and later capitalists. but there are relion freethinkers and nature ie guardians. Favoring one faction gives rewards ie more resources or more troops etc. There are 2 super units ie darius and bertha who take some rng to get but are super super super good. If you take specific dialogue options its possible to attack other dungeons ie like bandits other caves etc. For me the hard part is monk boss he is very challen…

This is a quite casual, but fun game. You have to build and defend a city in a simple window. The graphic is nice, but the UI feels amateurish sometimes. I loved the humor and the difficulty. Sometimes, the rng becomes a bit too much, leading to too easy or too hard runs, but it feels fair overall. 8/10. Worth the price imo

Such fun!