Разработчик: bumblebee.
Описание
Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed game where you build and nurture a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!
Gather and manage natural resources for buildings, ensure a plentiful supply of food and water to keep your villagers happy and allocate them jobs to continually improve and expand your settlement. Watch out for travelling artists who can spread illness, fierce bandits and wild animals that attack your townsfolk and extreme weather conditions that threaten their very survival!
In Story Mode you follow the journey of a group of medieval settlers living through dark times filled with war and illness. Using your town building and resource management skills you must guide them through six challenging missions that introduce the different aspects of Villagers gameplay. The campaigns guide you through building your first town, trading with merchants, food and water provision, managing the emotional wellbeing of your villagers, coping will illness and defending your townsfolk from attack!
You start your game on virgin lands and learn to build a community that allows your town to thrive. Happy villagers are more productive, form relationships and build homes. Couples living in houses will eventually have children who are delivered to your town by a stork! As these offspring grow up, they themselves become workers and help to support the growing town. Adults grow old and weak and eventually die, so you can follow the life of your villagers from birth to death.
Villagers is a lighthearted yet challenging town-building simulation game that will provide hours of engaging fun – are you up to the challenge?
Includes a Free Play mode with unlimited hours of fun across 6 varied maps with full access to all 27 buildings from the game.
Key Features:
• 2 modes of play; Story Mode and FreePlay
• Engaging and humorous storyline that illustrates medieval life
• 27 beautifully designed buildings to construct
• 16 illustrated and colourful characters
• 16 professions with their own clothing sets
• Sophisticated AI that influences happiness, relationships, families and duties
• Challenging missions; trade with merchants, manage livestock; control food and water supplies, produce and sell crops....
• Unlimited fun in FreePlay mode with over 6 maps to explore
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, italian, german, spanish - spain, russian
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows Vista/7/8/XP
- Processor: 1.2GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 512 MB available space
- OS *: Windows Vista/7/8/XP
- Processor: 2GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Mac
- OS: 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11
- Processor: 1.2GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Storage: 512 MB available space
- Processor: 2GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu; other Debianbased OS untested
- Processor: 1.2GH
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Storage: 512 MB available space
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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I was on mission 4 or 5 and the last task was to build a tavern so I did but then it says mission failed I have no idea why and it expects me to do it all again having spent over an hour trying to get the basics done.
I have encountered numerous times issues where I build houses and hunters posts but the progress doesnt move on without these the villagers would die so I have to restart and usually it will continue the mission story.
This game is just bad. It would have some potential if not for so many flaws clearly statings devs did not care to create a good game... Campaign is very short and half of it is rather annoying (and often not much sense making) story which is also hard to read if you play on 1440p. Also what the story tells is often not represented at all in the game, In gameplay itself your population just explodes, but not the wildlife, hunters are not able to hunt down bears or wolves, but would everything else, farming is clunky as hell and tools are broken so soon, that you'll run out of all iron on the map sooner than anything else... I see this game as only cash cow of the producers, not worth supporting. There are too many other games to have fun with to lose time with this one.
this game was short but fun, however... if you play any map in free mode there is a bug with the season cycle and it will kill all your villagers. This bug has been around since the game was created and they haven't fixed it.
After playing this game for a while, it feels that this was a Beta stage game, launched just to make quick bucks. Even at 75% discount, this game has minuscule value for money (if any). And the reasons are:
1. Game bugs: This game is infested with them, which is total spoil-sport. For e.g., Suppose I have three wood resource, say W1 W2 & W3. Now if I made a Sawmill & assigned two workers, then both of them would simultaneously attempt to extract the same wood resource (say W1). Both of them would then return to the sawmill but since it's only one resource (i.e. W1), the mill generates only two wooden planks instead of four. This effectively makes one worker redundant.
2. Illogical: At the start of the game (in Free Build mode), every villager is in high spirits but soon they start loosing happiness due to lack of either houses or food or water & so on. With only ten workers to start with, no matter how you prioritise your building units, one has a very narrow window to make it. The villagers become unhappy very fast & the game becomes very very slow. No option for setting the level of game play, i.e. Easy, Medium, Hard etc.
3. Absence of variety: There are approx. ten kind of maps or so. Plus the maps are very small.
4. Lack of in-game research: This is probably the only builder/strategy game which doesn't have any in-game research option. Some units just upgrade to accommodate higher villagers/units but that's it. One doesn't get to research any new technology or anything to make the villagers more efficient.
Additionally, one can't even save the game with a single file name. Suppose I want to save a particular game with the name "XYZ", I need to enter this name every time I save a file. The game doesn't overwrite file names it seems.
With the current set-up, not only is the game boring but a SCAM too. There are many games on steam which are priced lesser and offer more value for money. Hence, won't recommend this one.
P.S.: Didn't attempt to return this game because by the time I could make any sense of it, I was well past the 2 hours limit. So I request Valve/Steam to make provision for offering a Demo of such games so that gullible customers don't get cheated.
i think this game would have been worth continuing. it's a shame it's been abandoned...
i like the game, especially because it's not as hard and not as focused on endless combat as similar city building games, but more on getting your city to work (without it being regularly destroyed by enemies...)
Since it IS abandoned, i can only comment on the current status without much hope for changes:
there are bugs that are making it too frustrating to recommend, that probably won't go away if the developers have given up (like population stagnating / dying out faster than reproducing, and not being able to continue a game as free play after the campaign has ended... - both making the amount of progress you can make very limited, and all you can do is start over or keep playing without changes happening to your village...
i'm still playing this game, but mainly because i've not found a similar alternative on linux steam. (the one downside the ever-praised Banished seems to have - it's windows only.)
No paths or roads in this game...really? Why would they leave that out? Villages look like a bunch of random buildings tossed out into a clearing with no paths. It seems a bit rushed to me and the animations are just dreadful....wish I could have gotten a refund on this one but I waited too long to try it out...
Half finished, buggy and abandoned by the devs. Devs say they are sorry, but offer no explanation.
Don't buy, don't waste your money.
Theres a bug that makes it impossible to play sandbox mode and its been around since the summer last year. They never update the game anymore and they havent tried to fix the bug they even ignore people that say they have it in the steam forums so I feel this game is not worth what it costs since you can only play campaign mode and they are not even trying to fix the problems with it. I dont even see why they would still sell this game because you really cant play most of it because of the bug they havent fixed. I feel they are trying to steal money from people since they are still selling this game so dont buy this game if you dont want to waste your money its one of the worst games on steam.
I loved the campaign mode on this game. It was challenging and interesting, even with some of the bugs in the game.
It has similarities to Banished, yes, though Banished doesn't have a campaign mode which is why I picked this up!
Unfortunately, until the makers of the game actually work on fixing the bugs that appeared after the last patch, the Sandbox mode is completely unplayable. After one turn through seasons, everything starts speeding up, seasons cycle so fast and all your villagers grow old and die.
I cannot recommend this game until it has been fixed, and considering it has been months since this issue has been brought to the developers, I don't think we'll be seeing that happen anytime soon.
I'm biased as I love city builders, but the fact that the map remains so small, and the resources go quickly, with a workforce that is spread so thin so quick, It's REAL easy to be pigeonholed... Not sure I'm all about that. Hate that I had to spend 20 bucks to figure it out as well. This would be better if you could recruit a workforce from outside towns, and had a more realistic resource scale, coupled with bigger maps. What the hell is a city builder unless you can create a sprawling town? Come on...
This game might be a good intro to city building game for someone who has never played this genre before. It's easy to pick up and play with very little challenge. I can't give it a positive rating because although I didn't encounter any bugs the game itself just isn't that great. There are not really that many buildings so there isn't a complex production chain to learn and there aren't any decorative buildings and there aren't even any roads. It doesn't seem to matter to your villagers if they live on a diet of a variety of fruits vegetables bread meat milk eggs....or if they just eat fish. Might as well just have 2 fishing piers. There is an herbalist in the game who gathers wild herbs and creates medicine. But in the entire campaign playthrough I never once saw a villager get sick and need medicine. You can build a chruch and the priest will bless houses and the villagers will go to mass, but if you turn the church off for an entire year they don't seem to mind all that much. Maybe the happiness goes down a little so they work slower but it's really not noticable. Overall the price is too high for what little you get of the game. It's lacking the complexities and decision making that makes city builders fun.
This game had/has a decent initial groundwork for a game. Unfortunately they never delivered the game.
I was boggled when this went from EA to full release with pretty much no changes at all.
This game is still very buggy, has major glitches in the AI and almost no content at all.
You can see all there is to see and do everything there is to do in about 4 hours. There is a "Campaign" that consists of 6 very easy tutorial missions. THAT'S IT. The entire campaign right there. You can do a "Free play" but guess what? It's the same maps you just played just without any build restrictions.
The total amount of structures you can build is like 25. That number is TINY when you talk about city/building sims. Of those, some are just upgrades and some you really never ever need to build.
This game feels like someone's Senior project from school they just decided to toss up on Steam.
100% waste of money.
So far, I have really been enjoying this game. ALOT.
The design of this game is well done and things are easy enough to get a handle on fairly quickly.
The only issues that I have been currently having to deal with are
-Farmers just forgetting how to do their jobs ( just not farming in any season )
-Villagers falling through the map and then dying due to starvation
-Foresters not planting trees or chopping them down.
All in all though, this is a very fun game and way better than bannished.
Also I have noticed that at X8 speed ( which I have set to most of the time ) villagers tend to freak out
and just run in place looking all glitchy for about a min or 2. Then go back to what they were doing.
I give this game 2 thumbs and a big toe up.
Solid game and alot of fun to play.
P.S. The updates you guys are doing are awesome.
New Review update.
So recently got my village up to 86 villagers, had about 380 food, beer, and the church.
Then out of nowhere all of my farmers ( save 2 ) just started hanging out by the water catcher and just stood there while the entire village starved to death. This is the third time i have been at 80+ Villagers and the farmers just stopped working. I was even making them tools as well.
Please adress this issue, for I have no clue as to what is causing this.
I love builder games, so I'm always happy to see a new one. With Villagers, it seems like bumblebee was trying to create Banished with a campaign storyline, which is the main thing that Banished lacks, so that was a good goal. Unfortunately the missions are really buggy, and the pacing is off -- some are too easy and quick, and others are almost too hard to get through, partly because of bugs like merchants getting stuck in warehouses and never leaving. And all the clicking through the dialogue boxes can get seriously maddening.
Free play mode is more fun. The game mechanics are a lot like Banished: you have to be careful not to grow too fast or everyone will starve to death, but grow steadily or your population will crash as your villagers age. There are guestworkers you can hire, but they can't move in and start families, like the nomads can in Banished. The trading system is much too simple. It seems like I can only trade wood, stone, and iron, and occasionally pick up some beer. Meanwhile I've got two barns producing a surplus of farm animals, meat, milk, and eggs, and I can't unload any of it to buy the wood that I've run out of because the foresters seem to plant trees at a geologic pace.
Once bumblebee works the bugs out, Villagers should be fun to play, and especially if they can fix the campaign mode, it will hit a good middle ground between Banished and Settlers. Worth playing, but maybe wait for a few bug releases to be completed first.
If you liked Banished, Villagers is a decent alternative. I say 'decent' and not 'awesome' because Villagers appears to be somewhat unpolished, with an overly-simplistic UI. That could change with regular dev updates (see below).
There are a few hours' worth of campaign missions (read tutorial missions with a lengthy storyline), and then for those who just want to play without any interruptions, there are the freeplay maps of various sizes that do play a lot like Banished in that I-just-want-to-build-stuff-in-a-slow-and-therapeutic-fashion sort of way.
Have a look at the Community Hub though...you'll notice that the devs are constantly working on admirable improvements, and already the game has become much more user-friendly since launch. Worth it in my books, because...Banished.
Pros:
->Really impressive storyline - it makes the campaign very enjoyable, but be warned it takes quite a bit of reading
-> Promising population mechanics, I really enjoy how the villagers can have families and it is fun to watch them interact with the village
-> Challenging gameplay with production chains that are affected by weather: if winter hits before your grain is done growing...ouch. Food is tough to gather, and so is stone and iron. Water is also a resource you need to watch. The villager reproduction rate also makes it challenging because losing one villager is enough to topple the whole system. Some people think that makes it too hard, I love it.
Cons:
-> The game is buggy. Villagers do not move into houses that lose a family, so you end up with a bunch of homeless people while there's perfectly good houses sitting around.
-> Farmers do not interact with the fields very well. As far as I can tell, the 'harvest fields prematurely' button doesn't even work.
-> I had a few cases where merchants stopped showing up, I would have to build a new port or warehouse to bring them back.
-> Limited help. There's not really a 'help' program in the game and there isn't a wiki yet. The campaign will teach you a lot, but I still don't know if it is possible to demolish a building or not.
Despite the bugs, I would still recommend this game! I've logged almost 7.5 hours so far and I'm still on the campaign. It's a good, challenging game that will take you time to get through. All of my cons are bugs, and I'm banking on most of the bugs being fixed by future updates.
Finally, if you're looking at this just because it is 'like Banished', buy it with a grain of salt. Both games have you building settlements from the ground up, but Villagers focuses more on the story/campaign and less on the sandbox mode.
I didn't think it was fair that this game got mixed reviews. Therefore, I decided to write my own first review because I almost didn't buy it because of the mixed reviews. I am totally enjoying the game. In my oppinion it is not like bannished. Perhaps if you play it in sandbox mode. I am playing the campaign. The storyline is wonderful to me and easy to follow. Granted, it does get a little wordy at times and you have to read several screens. However, that's what makes it a story.
I did find one minor bug. My quest would not register that I completed them. I believe this was due to the fact that I was pausing the game ALOT during the storyline and all. Once I stoped doing that I didn't have a problem. So, you might want to watch how much you pause the game.
I think if your looking for a fun and reasonably challenging game this is for you. I really am having a good time with it.
This game looks like it has potential, but I found it to be very buggy in ways that spoiled the game play.
Problems I had include quests in the campaign mode that cannot be finished (especially timed quests; it will sometimes say "day 17 of 10" or whatever and never finish), each time that happened I had to revert to an earlier save and try again. Even more annoyingly, at one point my entire village simultaneously died "of natural causes", the seasons sped up to a blur of constantly changing, but despite the fact that everyone was dead according to the population screen, there were still people wandering around the village. Zombies, presumably. Also, I couldn't figure out why my farmers would only grow vegetables despite having a grain field as well, they never touched it. I even built a second farm house, but they all just wanted vegetables.
If you are really bored and looking for Medieval Builder then you are probably going to buy this anyways.
I really can not recommend the game unless you have low expectations. It has a really low replay value.
The story to the game pretty much follows tutorial missions. The story was somewhat interesting yet definitely one of those stories you probably do not want to hear again.
There is a lot of comparison between Villagers and Banished. The similarities are both there and not there. Seeming how they are both medeival builders there is always going to be similarities. Meanwhile most those spouting the similarities avoid the simple answer. Which would you rather play Banished or Villagers? Since I own both I would pick Banished even without mods.
So why the thumbs dumb?
1. Maps. The game does NOT have a random map generator. I mean seriously, that is the majority of the replay value of any sandbox builder game. There is no map editor either.
2. Production balance. After playing a while the production values of various buildings seem very wonky and unbalanced.
- Barn had animals that pretty much died of old age before producing enough offspring to keep the barn producing.
- Other production issues resolved.
3. Combat. They tried putting some form of combat into the game. Wild animal attacks and raiders. Honestly never should have bothered. Neither raiders or wild animals actually killed any villagers so kinda not seeing the point in investing in guards. It looks like the raiders basically ran in stole some stuff and ran off with it.
4. No refilling jobs. Anyone who played Banished knows this one. If a villager dies their job should be automatically filled from the pool of available laborers. Not having that feature in this game made it annoying once your settlers start dying off and you miss filling their job.
5. Bugs. Quite a few have been fixed however still a couple big ones that can ruin a game through population aging and starvation.
The game is getting better, there has been work on it since release. It just aint quite there yet I would recommend people to buy it. However if I knew someone that bought it, I would not make fun of them for owning a crappy game. So almost a thumbs up.
Not a bad game, but, at the end, a "copy and paste" of Banished.
They are quite... the same game!
But Banished is more polished and complex, and have a better price.
This game could be worth of playing only at the half of the current price, not more.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | bumblebee. |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 22.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 37% положительных (111) |