Recent reviews by Fawxx

Still a great game

I absolutely love this game. I've been a part of it since release and enjoy playing casually and competitively (time trialing the maps) with both friends and random players. The latest news as of June 18th, 2021 has me VERY excited.

- New Artist joining the team
- New Programmer joining the team

Additionally, while simplistic in design - this game really does have great gameplay. Originally, once you figured out you could walk faster than 99% of the ghosts, the fear more-or-less went away. Now, with the previous updates, the fear is back and you can't outwalk Margaret Thatcher any longer.

This one-man creative team did so well, and I'm excited to watch how this game progresses in the future due to the new additions to the team!

3 of my 4 Daughters caught a life threatening illness. I married them off to my enemies who soon capitulated to disease. I took over the rotting carcasses of the disease infested domains of my fallen neighbors and ended up marrying one of my daughters.

10/10 - Would get excommunicated again.

This game got SO much better. The rating for the game will take a while to improve, but if Hello keeps it up, it will eventually go up. The game today is far different than the pre-order days, and they did a good job making up for the fact that they put out an unfinished game, that didn't deliver on the promises made.

When it was released: 3/10 - 4/10
As it stands today: 8/10

First - I love this game. It's a great time-waster. Like all Paradox games, I spend a vast majority of my first playthroughs learning and fully understanding the mechanics.

The only downside to this game, are the AI mechanics. The Cim's use of roads is pretty terrible, late game Hearse deployment during death-storms is lackluster and causes an issue when trying to pick them all up - but these can be corrected with Mods. The game itself, in a vanilla state, has a fairly commanding learning curve when it comes to roads, traffic, additional transportation methods and overall layout, but given enough trial-and-error you can soon have 90%+ traffic proficiency in a 250k+ city.

Like any Paradox game, if you don't take the time to learn the mechanics in a way that best works for you, then you will probably find this game too challenging or too complicated. There are more than a hundred ways to build your city, and plenty of extra maps available in the Workshop to peak your interest.