Aztecs: The Last Sun

Devs have officially abandoned it. No further updates. Don't buy it.

I wanted to like this game so much more. The mechanic of sacrificing citizens and captives in order to form your blood zone sounds super unique! But in practice you just get a influx of captives every few days from trade, and it becomes nothing more than a afterthought. There are only 2 nightly random events, making the day night cycle feel repetitive. Unless you know what city to rush with explorers you WILL lose. This first discovery is required to start your only source of slave income. The game wants you to replay over and over to learn the mechanics, but there is no map or world randomization. This leads to an AWFUL replayability experience as you feel like you are building the same colony 30 times rather than having unique geographical challenges to conquor. The tech tree is a glorified 2 tier upgrade system. You don't progress through the stages in any meaningful way, and effectively have access to end game research from the start of the game. Additionally the tech tree is bloated with upgrades that all boil down to (make more resources) while only 1/4th of the upgrades actually unlock a new structure. For a city building game it is very bare bones The game has potential, …

Devs abandoned this game. It's an unfinished bug mess.

The overall premise of the game is solid: a fallen Aztec society, struggling to rebuild with oppressive outside forces holding you back. If that were actually the game, that'd be great, but the real game feels like: click the right buttons in the right order to win. Let me give a very simple example: the very beginning of the game tells you "evil is coming, we have to defend" but, as it turns out, you can just ignore that entirely and build as much as you want (really: as much as you can) because there is not actually any pressure. This may be the only point in the game you get to decide what you, the player, want to do. You have a limited resource that only begins generating after the early setup phase, but before that you actually have a good bit of freedom to think and build your city the way you want. After that, you have a bunch of things that will happen to you, mostly without your input, and be forced to deal with in an extremely linear way. Research "choices" feel like a facade: you have to research things in a specific order otherwise you run into a cascade of failure conditions. Maybe you want more food - that's sensible, but you don't have the resources (or popu…

Four game progress stopping bugs in 8 hours played for campaign stuck in act one. Sometimes gold workers get stuck working all day and come back empty handed. restarting fixed this but only from wherever id like to set forward missed progress. Sometimes while the waters poison campaign event happens the cookhouses will not cook anything even if you have 200 raw food. readjusting my production and storage connections fixed this but only from wherever id like to set forward missed progress. since this is a race against time and resource loss... Two events are considered complete on map but incomplete in quest so I cannot progress at all. and am counting up time getting more difficult. very unbecoming of a 1.0 release.

Played a couple of hours. I want to love the game but it is bugged. The mud mines are not working, pathing has issues too, and land reappears once you reload the save game. I have no clue if they are still working on the game or if it is abandonware