Spice Road
Aartform Games · 2014 · Strategy, Simulation, Indie, Economy, Management
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About Spice Road
Strategy, trade and empire building on the old Silk Road. Spice Road is a town building, social and economic simulation game full of original challenges.
"Deep in the mountains and deserts of central Asia, where life is hard and death is sudden, thin trails of gold, silk and spice trace a web between the industrial forges of the West and the exotic climes of the East."
You are a colonial governor in the 18th Century, building a town on the Spice Road in a time of war and discovery. More than spice travels your roads – musket armies, philosophies, and power plays that span the globe are at your control. From palace to monastry, trade post to smugglers den – your town is worthless without the nobles, monks, merchants and rogues that chose to live in it – and keeping them all happy at the same time is never simple.
Spice Road uses the StormRaid™ engine to deliver a beautiful fully 3D rendered world on high-end DirectX® graphics cards.
Features:
Player Comments:
"I think it's genuinely fantastic. I play many strategy games, and it's hard to find a mid-level title that is as solid as Spice Road in terms of gameplay." - Colin
"This must be one of the best indie titles I've ever played. I really love it how new features that you unlock bring new challenges... the deep gameplay is something that I enjoyed most in Spice Road!" - Pawel
"An excellent game... Having TONS of fun" - Unchayned
"Deep in the mountains and deserts of central Asia, where life is hard and death is sudden, thin trails of gold, silk and spice trace a web between the industrial forges of the West and the exotic climes of the East."
You are a colonial governor in the 18th Century, building a town on the Spice Road in a time of war and discovery. More than spice travels your roads – musket armies, philosophies, and power plays that span the globe are at your control. From palace to monastry, trade post to smugglers den – your town is worthless without the nobles, monks, merchants and rogues that chose to live in it – and keeping them all happy at the same time is never simple.
Spice Road uses the StormRaid™ engine to deliver a beautiful fully 3D rendered world on high-end DirectX® graphics cards.
Features:
- Advanced economic and trading simulation. 3 tiers of industry provide goods and services for populations of citizens, slaves and nobles with full control over wages and taxation.
- Build a network of farms, mines and caravan routes. Scout the map to find rare and exotic goods to export to distant lands.
- Defeat Bandit raiders, or pay them tribute to keep your routes peaceful.
- Compete against cunning corporate rivals. Choose diplomacy or raid their caravans and wage war on their cities.
- Meet your citizen's social and religious needs. Attract visiting explorers or pilgrims by developing the entertainment or spiritual side of your town.
- 20 Campaign Missions + generate new maps in Sandbox mode.
Player Comments:
"I think it's genuinely fantastic. I play many strategy games, and it's hard to find a mid-level title that is as solid as Spice Road in terms of gameplay." - Colin
"This must be one of the best indie titles I've ever played. I really love it how new features that you unlock bring new challenges... the deep gameplay is something that I enjoyed most in Spice Road!" - Pawel
"An excellent game... Having TONS of fun" - Unchayned
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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One of my favorite games on steam, it's not super amazing or anything but for some reason I really liked it and have fond memories of playing it.1 found this helpful
A game where you explore new regions to exploit and build trade routes between your settlements and the outside world. It's not bad but I think the game's biggest flaw is the citybuilding. Every settlement needs to have its buildings individually placed, but the game would be so much smoother if you just had a button to click to build the desired building for each town. This is because you will build the same buildings for the same settlements dozens and dozens of times by the time they game ends. Eventually clicking into each town to individually place the buildings or check the towns stats becomes cumbersome. I really wish this was handled in an outliner or something because the game is pretty solid, but this aspect made it unbearable.
A qwerky little eco management game that i gave a shot. I would say get it on sale regardless if you are heavily interested or not, as it might not be your thing at all from the get go. Copying from Roboczar as he summed it up nicely and its worth repeating "First things first: This game mainly caters to the kind of player that is interested in logistics and supply chain economics and is only really a city-builder or Civ style game in the loosest sense. You are building a network of trade nodes and attempting to meet various scenario goals or self-created goals (in the sandbox mode) as opposed to fighting battles or growing population. The main challenge is building an efficient and profitable network of trade cities given the resources on the map." Id recommend watching a few videos before buying. However, i enjoyed my 10-17hrs of game time with it and i mainly played it as my study break game as its not an emotionally investing game.
Looks simple but it is quite a complicated and interesting economic strategy game under the hood, definitely worth it for the price. Gameloop consists mostly of analysing prices, scouting,settling near resources and trading between the settlements and outside world for a profit.
A bare-bones city builder/economy game with some elements of warfare. Also, it's got opium dens and slavery, so that's different. And if you're not yet convinced, you can level up the wells where your people get their water. Yeah, [i]the wells[/i].
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