Dungeon Settlers

Great premise, love when people get away from the status quo to make something original. If you're looking for a cookie cutter "streamer bait" game, this probably isn't for you. The system on the surface is fairly straightforward but there is some depth hidden with in its walls. I myself was getting frustrated with wiping a party then feeling like I needed to start over because I couldn't hire a whole new party. I had built my settlement up enough so that I had some options after my last wipe. I could only afford 1 member. I made some decisions and went for it. I've built up to where now I have 3 members and they are sturdy. This game does not reward blitz playing or zerging through. Your decisions need to be deliberate and methodical for success. There is definitely room for growth and I'm excited to see where it goes.

Wanted to love this game. Characters don't feel unique and lack personality, it's hard to tell what's happening in combat, "colony" is a stretch. It just comes up short over all, unfortunately.

Please let me make my original 4 with pointbuy I want to make a fire-sword-shield

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Think Rimworld meets Battle Brothers. There's a lot of potential here - the core gameplay loop is good and every level-up feels impactful (though could do without the RNG element). That said, this is an early access game. There's quite a lot of jank and quite a lot of minor pain points that add up over time. The worst for me is how obscure information is. Sure, there are nested tooltips, but it doesn't help when every nested tooltip opens up another five nested tooltips. The tutorial could also use a touch-up - you're bombarded with information at the start, but nowhere did I see that certain rooms (especially the Merchant Room) had requirements. All in all, pretty fun right now, but if you're on the fence, I'd say give it time to cook.

"An early access game at the cusp of greatness" -- For anyone used to the "Rimworld" or "Dwarf fortress" style of gameplay this is an interesting addition to the genre adding some interesting twists. First is the separation of base-building in one expandable land with a separate phase of gameplay in which you guide a party through procedural dungeons to obtain resources and loot. It's a great idea and adds a much greater sense of RPG gameplay into the genre. Guiding your semi-autonomous characters is pretty straightforward and each has RPG like progression that has real impact on gameplay. There is a lot of useful in-game help but it took a couple of hours to get comfortable with gameplay and feel like I really understood what I was doing... not uncommon in this genre where there's a lot of options to manage. I'm finding it quicker to get into and enjoy than Rimworld and really the only thing it lacks from being an example of the best in this genre of game is greater depth: the procedural dungeons are fairly repetitive and the actual procedural generation is pretty basic, the research tree needs filling out, later gameplay additions and more "stuff" in general. Opening this game…