Laysara: Summit Kingdom

The game is well made and balanced. It gets a bit too complex for me once a colony becomes massive, but still enjoyable.

Fun game, took me an hour to really get the hang of it. Only thing that is kinda annoying is that you progress through campaign, completing mountains and then after some mountains you go back to the previous one to build stuff you learned in the latest ones... Which would need you to completely rebuild the whole towns, moving everything to another location which can take a long time. Other than that very addicting and fun.

I am refunding this, but still recommending it - with a caveat. I can't claim it was advertised unfairly, but the presentation really doesn't make clear how shallow the building aspect really is - no build process, instant building, no resources needed to build (like the traditional wood/stone), people arrive in new homes instantly, nobody has to walk paths anywhere or go anywhere ... it's like what a game looks like, but once you play you realize it's missing a lot of the things you've come to expect from games like this. It is visually beautiful, and it still has an enjoyable 'puzzle' sort of gameplay. It plays very casual, and the only hard part was figuring out why a tutorial step didn't work (my road was too close to the edge, preventing me from building avalanche protecting trees). That wasn't for me, but it seems like a great game to get your feet wet and get into the genre.

Finally another really good base building game. The environment and graphics are very nice, the game is nice, the tech tree is big and different enough. I really love it. Give it a try.

In its own way, Laysara represents a renaissance of city building I have been waiting for: taking inspiration from classics without cloning them. I remember the first time playing the demo I was a little bit skeptical seeing some simplifications such as freedom to move constructed buildings at any time, or refraining from tracking every unit of resource in favour of only keeping rates of production. While consequences and complexity are challenges I long for, in exchange we get a game that combines problem solving with relaxation. It allows to tackle the infrastructural spatial puzzles and solve logistical supply chaining, without a need to have an endgame masterplan, but with a freedom to ever-adjust to upcoming needs. All dressed in spectacular visuals of vibrant colours and picturesque landscapes and accompanied with a music of lovely stylistic fusion. The performance for me was flawless. I encountered very rare functional bugs which, at worst, disappeared after demolishing the misbehaving building. There is a slight convenience issue with blending of some of the white visual guides with snow and each other causing slight inconvenience. That aside, some more positive surpris…

Fun little game. Definitely more of a puzzle game than a city builder. But the mountain side building is a nice change from the usual flat city games.