Recent reviews by starmarx

Simply delightful.

AtS has truly original ideas while delivering the thrill of settlement building I first had with old classics like Ceasar.

The UI and rate of progression shows real forethought and testing by the team. You can feel the care put into every piece of it.....even now in Early Access! That's really a breath of fresh air.

Strategy enthusiast ( well accustomed to turn-based and realtime gaming with menus upon menus) disappointed and bored by Massive Chalice

Like many of you I was intrigued by the mechanics of breeding help/harm traits and compounding experience. I was hoping for a variety of possible playstyles, long-term consequences to decisions, and emergent character classes/behaviors and AI behaviors as they adapt to each other's strategies over 300 years.

Instead, I had the same hide and seek fight for 26 hours with the same playstyle generation to generation. There was no reward for creativity in breeding and selecting for positive traits in breeders necessarily removed my favorite units from play.

Each encounter was incredibly one-sided: stick to the formula, and hunters would triumph untouched; experiment, and all caberjacks and alchemists die horrible deaths to soulless, malevolent squash-beings.

TLDR:
Clumsy
Slow Learner
Sluggish