Разработчик: Prey Interactive
Описание
The game pits you against a changing and challenging world of countless possibilities, with bountiful forests, deserts and wastelands; each world is creatable by you in the map editor and changes the challenge ahead. Explore worlds laid with ruins and enemy camps; as you discover, research, and fight to improve and protect your people as you grow.
Spiritlands is a game about progression, automation and survival. The goal is to take over the map, founding new settlements, destroying barbarian camps, exploring every ruin and befriending or fighting against the local colonies.
Every settlement is designed to be as unique as you want it to be. You can have settlements dedicated to gathering faith points, or settlements geared around collecting a specific resource and distributing to your other towns and cities. You can found multiple cities, or layer your world with villages.
Your lands are yours to build up as you please.
Your people need 5 things:
- Water
- Power
- Happiness
- Food
- Shelter
Your people are your explorers, workers and soldiers- they fuel your growth and are specific to the settlement they are in.
You can build them schools, taverns, create more nature or lay more flooring. Your people love to live in pleasant looking areas to call home! All power and water is natural too- with wind-farms and water-towers. Building is also super quick with the easy to use on-tile system.
The people are also vulnerable to fires and infections which require emergency services and health centres to be created to combat them.
Resources are the cornerstone for each settlement that you control. They fuel buildings and your people, from feeding them to training them to keeping the machines running. You can utilise your idle workers as resource collectors in the wilds. Soon after your resource collection becomes automated as you create farms, lumberyards, quarries, mines, and fishing areas and assign your people to work them.
There are four main resources:
- Food
- Wood
- Stone
- Coal
There are also special items such as diamonds, silver, and even flower to collect! They are used to trade, build, or buy off barbarians.
Spiritlands definitely isn't a game about staying in one area with one settlement. You're encouraged to explore; placing campfires to break through the fog, uncovering old ruins that to explore for loot chests (not loot boxes). You can also uncover colonies that you can trade or fight with.
There are also enemy encampments of different sizes, who will attack your settlements. You can also attack them and try and destroy them first, or give them some special items to keep them happy.
There are 4 colonies across each land:
- The Port Keepers
- The Woodlanders
- The Stonecutters
- The Miners.
Each colony can be traded with at your markets. Once discovered you can befriend them by trading with them the resources that they need, so that they can build and eventually provide you with freebies! Or anger them through attacks and they will raid you for food.
Whether you are fighting encampments or waging wars on colonies- combat is a likely part of expanding. By building attack barracks, you can create an army. Whenever barbarians are nearby you will frequently come under attack, so you need to fortify settlements with defence barracks, water towers and walls. Even nature such as mountains make for great defences.
There are 30 upgrades that fall into 5 routes: Discoverer, Scientist, Evolutionist, Dictator, and Conqueror.
Upgrades range from unlocking buildings to altering resource costs. Everything can be unlocked.
The Map Editor is the first thing you see after entering your name and the name of your civilisation. On the screen are 3 different sized paintbrushes, as well as a tile selection panel so you can paint tiles. You can also adjust sliders to adjust the resource amounts in your land- as well as paste in seeds you might get from the forum for example.
The Editor is really easy to use, allowing you to create beautiful hand-made landscapes. The default areas are perfectly usable and randomly generated for a little variance. You can also quickly select presets on the side such as Wasteland and Desert which change the difficulty as resources become harder to find.
Check out the second video at the top to see!
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7+
- Processor: 1.7 GHz Dual Core
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, ATI Radeon 4870 HD, or equivalent card
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 400 MB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card
Mac
- OS: Version 10.8: "Mountain Lion" or later
- Processor: Intel Core Duo
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4850, NVIDIA GeForce GT 120, or equivalent card with at least 512 MB VRAM
- Storage: 400 MB available space
- Additional Notes: May also work with versions under 10.8.
Отзывы пользователей
This would be a pretty cool game if someone invested more in polishing it but it's been abandoned by the developer so definitely a NO BUY.
Game concept is casual and fun - as a lover of 4X like civ and humankind, I would enjoy playing it a lot if not for the huge UI problems:
- settlement info supposed to appear for the settlement you are looking at but a huge number of times the game just doesn't identify this correctly and you have to fiddle around with the camera until the interface windows update
- a simple zoom out causes a lot of movement lag for some reason
- buildings do not render after loading a save
- clicks on buttons to increase workers are kinda sketchy, almost feels like sometimes the game does not register the click properly.
Appears to have been ABANDONED as the last update was in March 2018.
I played for about 1.5 hours.
Game 1 - The graphics for buildings were disappearing making the spots look like empty areas. I was constantly clicking to find out what was there if anything. Pretty annoying.
- Building that you can build are either colored or greyed out, making you guess what you can or can't build.
Game 2 - Same as above. Also the population panel went blank at which point I could no longer add more people to the city (game breaking bug).
Game 3 - Kept getting attacked, over and over and over. Read that once you get 10 buildings built, you'll start getting attacked. Bugs from the first game started cropping up as well. I had enough.
The game has a small map, this is the only size you get.
The tutorial and hints tell you to put in roads and decorations, but I was never able to find them in the menus.
I spent atleast 30 minutes trying to figure out how to get into the research panel. Good luck ever being able to research anything. You need research points but the only way to get them is by exploring ruins with explorers. You start with one, takes about an hour to get another. Ruins typically take 6+ explorers.
The game has a tutorial but you have to read thru it, I started dozing off. Game doesn't keep settings. I turned off music, my next game had music on again. You constantly get popup hints even though you don't want them and I didn't see any way of turning them off..
If you turn off the music, there's no sound what so ever!
I suppose there could have been a good game in there somewhere. But with all the bugs in my short play time, it wasn't enjoyable. And since no update in over a year, it's doubtful that anything will ever get fixed.
Refunded.
UI needs major upgrade, perhaps have most of the windows static especially the main menu. Also game engine needs to be optimized, it shouldn't run this slow.
Lastly the menu text needs an overhaul, maybe get someone new on the team that knows english better.
Well im not sure why the harshness on the reviews, I've definetly payed more for games that were alot more broken. This one is a fun little relaxing game. You do have to keep an eye on your resources, and if your using your little guy that represents all the unassigned workers to work a tile you definetly have to keep an eye on the tile they are working. Oh and never ever add more people to your city while you have the little guy working a tile, because they all instantly go to work on that tile, and you will damage destroy the tile befor you can get him moved off it (grrrrr lol)
Other than that and the desperate need for a pause button (if there is one i could never find it, I recomend the Space Bar, works great in most other games,) Ive really enjoyed spending 20 or 30 mins here or there playing this when im too tired to be bothered with actively playing anything else. thats what sims are for right?
A note on the graphics, they are definetly old school, a flash to the past before 2d side scrollers came out and were all the rage for a while. Since there's been a recent flood of those side scroll games hitting the markets again over the last year or two, i dont see why anyone would be upset with. Its 2d Top down with your usual 4 cardnial points. The tile set does change with 1. seasons 2. buildings and upgrades and 3. ughhhhh tile damage and over use.
I really tried, I tried....it is...no. I have lost one hour of my life and $6.99. I'm sorry I have no energy left to devote to this review.
This game is no.
Great little time killer of a game. It's more of a relaxing type of game, no rushing needed. The game has a nice retro style to it, kind of like the first Civ, very crude and pixely (i like it though). It's got no story or direction, other than expanding your lands borders. If you want to though, you could rush through this game in about 2-3 hours easily, but that's not what it's about.
The game DOES come with a bunch of problems though..
First of all, once you reach mid-late game the game just feels sluggish as hell, and the fps drops tremendeously.. Yeah, you heard me right, the fps.. You'd think you can run this simple little game on your casio digital watch from the late 80's, but this game actually drags to a halt once you progress "too far". I don't know exactly why, it might be some bad coding in the backend, but it surely can't be the graphics..
The GUI is somewhat bad at first glance, and some might say simplistic. I do know it's been improved upon though, so it's not all bad. Once you get the hang of it, you know where to find anything.
The menu.. Oh lord, the menu.. Nothing works like it's supposed to! At first it might seem fine, but once the game reaches a certain point (just about when it starts to lagg) nothing you tick off in the menu stays ticked off.
You can turn down the music or sounds, you can turn of the day/night cycling, you can disable weather effects.. Anything you do seems to reset. And it seems to have something to do with zooming in and out. Yeah, zooming in and out resets your menu choices..
All in all though, this is a game for the patient. It's got a place in my library, even with all it's flaws.
A simplistic city builder, micromanagement, clicker, soothing experience with great potential.
Just fix the damn bug, please :P for now, it's a 5/10
I've had fun with it so far, but won't be touching it again until some significant updates. I would reccomend waiting on it and keeping it on your wishlist unless you REALLY like the positives I detail here. My overall review is positive just for potential factor.
Spiritlands is at it's core, a city building/simple strategy game like Settlers, where you start as a small tribe and build housing, resource collection buildings, and military buildings, and set out into the unexplored regions of the map. What makes it nice is that it's relatively slow-paced, so people who feel like they need time to think everything out should enjoy the premise, but it's also got the ability to deal with threats in a few different ways (you can pay them off, fight them, defend against them, or just avoid them).
A few more positives that I found despite some other people's criticism: I find the price pretty fair, especially considering the overpriced nature of some people's early access games. Also there's been a lot of complaints about the UI and the lack of intuituiveness, but I found it easy to more or less beat the first map I made without having to go to any help outside the game.
The resource system is a bit overcomplicated for what it does (in my opinion it has too many resources that have no real unique use yet), but works fine. You can terraform the land and really have a lot of freedom to build however you like. In addition, the creation of "zones" centered on your town center means you don't necessarily have to optimize your town's build strategy in order to be defensible: there's a bit of room for aesthetic pleasures, and that's really nice. Unfortunately, the graphics are pretty ugly, but there's not a lot of prettiness to be expected from small developers.
Like most Early Access games, it needs a lot more content to be fun, but there's nothing much more to be said about that.
It's got a few annoying bugs that force your view to scroll into odd places when enemies attack. In addition, there's a bug where attacking soldiers you send off vacate their barracks and never return to them even after they win the battle (they just seem to become static bonuses to your attack score).
In general, once you've gotten your resource values high enough, the game ceases to have any meaningful challenge at all in it's current state.
In order for this game to really shine, it has to have a military/religious challenge in the late game that scales up even as you conquer most of the map, as well as unique and meaningful ways to make your settlements look cool or have a special flavor so the citybuilding aspect doesn't get boring.
Game starts lagging horribly when you get to mid game. Lack of end game content. Mind that it's still in greenlight, but the game lags when you haven't even filled out 10% of the map.
This is a very fun casual clicker which makes creating your world extremely easy and thus far the dev has been excellent with keeping updates coming and taking input from the community about things that need help and to be changed. this is not a game you buy thinking that it has a massive amount of depth but more than some clickers I've played.
One thing I will say is that if you do not enjoy creating your own narrative and story or enjoy world building either literally the world or designing your own city layout then this game is not for you. there is little hand holding and no exact goal that I see and that is a good thing for a casual game like this. For the price and the entertainment I've gotten out of it I'd say it's definitely worth a look
really interesting mechanics and works a treat, i did have a negative review a while ago but everything has been fixed and improved. well worth the small asking price. if you like clicker/idle/strategy/building then get this. =)
So i've bought the game and it's really fun. Despite the "you have just to click for resources", in my first five minutes i had to think how to keep my population feed and resources on a plus rate. To be honest, i was attracted only to those pixeled graphics, and i have to admit that economy is challanging from the start :-P Of course nothing is perfect and the interface is confusing at first, but i've got used to it. Maybe a tooltip on each icon would help. Also i didn't understand when my "area" will expand and i guess it's all about my population number. Overall, from my point of view, i'm impressed and you've done a good job. Keep it that way :-)
I seriously cannot believe that this game is priced at £6.29. It's a clicker game with literally zero animation, zero effort and a wall of text of a UI that make you feel like you're looking at a pedantic ancient tablet that makes little to no sense. Click a tile? Get coal. Click a tile? Get wood. Rinse, repeat, sell on Steam. Outrageous.
Cannot recomend, at least not in its current state. Its a clicker game, a slow one at that, and it costs too much for what it is. The UI is horrid, the game does not explain it self too well, the graphics are not clear, and outright ugly at times. More importantly though, there is no original music in the game, making it feel incredibly cheap.
Started playing the game yesterday and about 20m into it I realized I had already made a mistake. I mined the crap out of everything around my little campsite and was screwed. LOL Start game #2, doing better, forgot to grow food - crap. Game #3, planning ahead a lot more, I placed my starting area myself and am taking it a bit more strategical this time and I honestly have to say...I'm addicted. I love games where you can build cities up and such and that's what this is. You have to be patient, logical, and plan ahead; just like with chess. I can't wait to see the future updates the developer addese for this. She's put a LOT of work into it and I know she has a lot of amazing plans ahead.
ABSOLUTELY recommend. 100%
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Update as of Feb 14 2018. The game is no longer a clicker, but for me with border line apocalyptic carpel tunnel syndrome, that's good. LOL It still has the same relaxing flow to it and the developer has added a literal SHIT ton of content to it.
I still recommend it!
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Prey Interactive |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 01.02.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 50% положительных (14) |