Recent reviews by BackTheNerd

Classic city builder with chronic issues.

Fantastic little city builder I've been playing on and off for the last several years. The notable thing is that as this is still very much a port of the freeware Android version as it still has many elements stuck from then, which I feel like should be updated to be more PC-friendly. On the bright side this game has a fantastic little DIY modding community that the devs have festered and supported over the years. I really with they would adopt a paid model for Android and redo the same for iOS, as currently I honestly find it frustrating to play with the bull crap gem system on those platforms.

Sadly with the reasons I already mentioned and Cities Skylines filling in the niche that I was looking for when discovered this game (I was literally a thirteen year old at the time) I don't really play it that much anymore, and when I would (on the go) it is frustrating to deal with.

A fantastic game that I've played on and off since October 2019. I originally pirated the game and didn't actually buy it until a few weeks ago, which I feel pretty guilty about. After the vanilla game grows stale mods infinitely improve the game and in many cases adds far more depth to it as well. I would recommend most of the Vanilla Expanded and Vanilla Factions Expanded mods, as it adds everything from new events, new clothes, to new factions and storytellers.

Something to note about the DLC's is that when a new one comes out I've noticed it's usually best to hold off for a few weeks, because they often get very little in the way of bug fixes at launch. I would I hope we see this problem addressed, perhaps by putting new DLC under community bug testing as well. Though even with that, it is clear that even post-launch Ludeon tries to improve it as much as possible (which is really nice).

Overall going back to my original point I highly recommend this game, which I've sunk numerous hours into.