UPDATE 17/09/2022

I've been spamming the devs and the community about the fact that the SLEEP SCHEDULE is not being respected.
I've built bedrooms everywhere and they still decide to skip sleep and work until they exhaust themselves and then go rebel.
I have even REMOVED all work from their schedule and only leave "Anything" and "sleep".
They still decide to not sleep at night. And it is not just one, sometimes there are even 4.

Devs still want to add new stuff and skip fixing this massive issue that makes gameplay a chore.
The AI still decide to get stuck while building/mining on 1 block.
They have no intelligent pathing so that when they build or mine they can still leave the area.
- If they get stuck mining, you won't be able to dig the block underneath them
- If they get stuck building, deconstruct and waste resources or risk collapsing what's above if it was an important building (or use a different settler while the stuck one falls asleep/gets hungry)

I tried to give praise to the devs, but they seem to only want to do what they want.
The game is fiddled with Bugs: refuse to barter/trade, floating animals, animals do not haul food first( they even decreased the amount of hauling capabilities , also goats cannot haul )

They do 1 update GOOD fixing stuff, then revert and make 5 Updates ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up everything they fixed.

It's actually such a shame, because the game is super fun and you can make some amazing civilizations. Because the devs refuse or are too lazy to make QoL updates and fix fundamental bugs I cannot recommend this game anymore.

Shame, shame, shame.


UPDATE 09/07/2022

The game is in a much much better state.

The AI has been tweeked over and over and the Settlers are more responsive to doing their work.
However,I do have to add that going to sleep for some it's still a challenge.
They made it that if you add "Anything" before sleep they would go to sleep earlier. However it's not always the case. 1-2 settlers almost always prefer to keep on working and skip sleep, unless you manually send them

But that's one tiny slope.
The AI is more effective working, animals, especially goats, are used for Hauling now, making your base much cleaner and work smoother.
Settlers still get themselves stuck, so you still have to put them to digging in a smarter manner.

The lag bug when they were mining is gone, game is optimized now and I can finally RECOMMEND the game.
The devs are listening ( as far as I can see ) and they prioritize (usually) recent game breaking bugs.
I personally mentioned the bugs below and they fixed them. Some slower, some faster.

But an honest congratulations to them. :)
Buy the game and support the devs. They deserve it.

UPDATE 27/04/2022

Devs made some updates without any significant successful changes.
I can say that the AI seems to be a bit more tweaked, but the settlers STILL refuse to go to sleep when the sleep schedule is on. So you still have to baby monitor them and when they refuse .. press Y twice to draft/undraft and it will, most of the time, take them to the sleep schedule.
I don't WHY the developers still refuse to simply ENFORCE them to go to sleep, or add a rule to ignore any other activity and force sleep, eve on the ground of necessary.

Game has been made more grindy. Because why not?
Now you no longer can make underground farms because "it doesn't make sense".
But for a settler to block itself between walls and starve himself to death makes total sense.

HOWEVER, now you have to find seeds yourself or, highly recommend, buy them from merchants. And then you have to plant them wisely to either:
1. Get more seeds less food;
2 Get more food, same seeds;

At the same time they added BLIGHT, a new event to destroy your crops. While the AI still has a lot of issues deciding what job to make. And there is no quick way to remove the blight, except to manually take ONE settler and remove the blighted crops because the illness actually spreads pretty fast. So you cannot make a job for "Cure" for instance and put 2-3 settlers. So, if you have a big farm, you might be ♥♥♥♥♥♥ as the blight might destroy your farm by the time you get rid of it.
And you need to constantly press SPACE(pause) right click Cut and then press 3 for fast time. On and on to get rid of the Blight. Because that's what's fun about a City Builder game - MANUAL LABOR . Who care about automation, right?

By the way, at the same time, the AI STILL is completely broken in Hauling stuff from the ground. They still prefer to leave the food on the ground after you farmed it and just let it there rot. Unless you baby sit them and manually put them to pick them.
People been crying over and over that the solution would simply be a "Haul options" to simple categorize your Haul settlers to pick certain stuff that need to be urgent:
- Food for instance, because it rots faster on the ground comparing to Clay;
And yes, you cannot prioritize perishable over mats;

There are still times when basically you put jobs as ( 1 ) and they go for jobs underneath the 1st one. For instance you put "Digging" , you got 10x10 to dig, for some reason he prefer to go and cook something. Dude has some Ramsay in his code.

The sheer amount of disrespect towards the community from the arrogant developers it's outstanding.
The game is still extremely laggy after certain amount of buildings or settlers have been made.
Most of my saves have stopped either at 19-20 Settlers, because they lag too much the screen or the building is too spread and it lag the ♥♥♥♥ out of it. And after 1/2 of year making this review, they still have yet to do anything about it!

My specs are i7 6700k, GTX 1080 and 32 GB. It's not high end, but if I can run Rust on high and still get 60 FPS, why would I get random freezes every 2-3 seconds when I speed time in this game again?

Game is still fun, until it gets to end game when it is unplayable ... and I am serious. It is unplayable. Even now, I got a new save on the highest difficulty and I had a cool design for my kingdom . I had to stop because the only way to play is with the game in the background. And even in the background it still freezes on NORMAL TIME SPEED every 5-10 seconds. If you go on 3x speed it freezes every second. It is so so poorly optimized it's unbelievable people still buy the game.

And I do not think that this game will see the light of day of being decent unless someone competent buy it and makes it something great.

At this stage I highly recommend : DO NOT BUY it .Unless you want to see your saves rot and become unplayable, go ahead. But right now, the game is way too unstable even for 1/2 of its price.
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UPDATE 17/09/2022 I've been spamming the devs and the community about the fact that the SLEEP SCHEDULE is not being respected. I've built bedrooms everywhere and they still decide to skip sleep and work until they exhaust themselves and then go rebel. I have even REMOVED all work from their schedule and only leave "Anything" and "sleep". They still decide to not sleep at night. And it is not just one, sometimes there are even 4. Devs still want to add new stuff and skip fixing this massive issue that makes gameplay a chore. The AI still decide to get stuck while building/mining on 1 block. They have no intelligent pathing so that when they build or mine they can still leave the area. - If they get stuck mining, you won't be able to dig the block underneath them - If they get stuck building, deconstruct and waste resources or risk collapsing what's above if it was an important building (or use a different settler while the stuck one falls asleep/gets hungry) I tried to give praise to the devs, but they seem to only want to do what they want. The game is fiddled with Bugs: refuse to barter/trade, floating animals, animals do not haul food first( they even decreased the amount of hauling capabilities , also goats cannot haul ) They do 1 update GOOD fixing stuff, then revert and make 5 Updates fucking up everything they fixed. It's actually such a shame, because the game is super fun and you can make some amazing civilizations. Because the devs refuse or are too lazy to make QoL updates and fix fundamental bugs I cannot recommend this game anymore. Shame, shame, shame. UPDATE 09/07/2022 The game is in a much much better state. The AI has been tweeked over and over and the Settlers are more responsive to doing their work. However,I do have to add that going to sleep for some it's still a challenge. They made it that if you add "Anything" before sleep they would go to sleep earlier. However it's not always the case. 1-2 settlers almost always prefer to keep on working and skip sleep, unless you manually send them But that's one tiny slope. The AI is more effective working, animals, especially goats, are used for Hauling now, making your base much cleaner and work smoother. Settlers still get themselves stuck, so you still have to put them to digging in a smarter manner. The lag bug when they were mining is gone, game is optimized now and I can finally RECOMMEND the game. The devs are listening ( as far as I can see ) and they prioritize (usually) recent game breaking bugs. I personally mentioned the bugs below and they fixed them. Some slower, some faster. But an honest congratulations to them. :) Buy the game and support the devs. They deserve it. UPDATE 27/04/2022 Devs made some updates without any significant successful changes. I can say that the AI seems to be a bit more tweaked, but the settlers STILL refuse to go to sleep when the sleep schedule is on. So you still have to baby monitor them and when they refuse .. press Y twice to draft/undraft and it will, most of the time, take them to the sleep schedule. I don't WHY the developers still refuse to simply ENFORCE them to go to sleep, or add a rule to ignore any other activity and force sleep, eve on the ground of necessary. Game has been made more grindy. Because why not? Now you no longer can make underground farms because "it doesn't make sense". But for a settler to block itself between walls and starve himself to death makes total sense. HOWEVER, now you have to find seeds yourself or, highly recommend, buy them from merchants. And then you have to plant them wisely to either: 1. Get more seeds less food; 2 Get more food, same seeds; At the same time they added BLIGHT, a new event to destroy your crops. While the AI still has a lot of issues deciding what job to make. And there is no quick way to remove the blight, except to manually take ONE settler and remove the blighted crops because the illness actually spreads pretty fast. So you cannot make a job for "Cure" for instance and put 2-3 settlers. So, if you have a big farm, you might be fucked as the blight might destroy your farm by the time you get rid of it. And you need to constantly press SPACE(pause) right click Cut and then press 3 for fast time. On and on to get rid of the Blight. Because that's what's fun about a City Builder game - MANUAL LABOR . Who care about automation, right? By the way, at the same time, the AI STILL is completely broken in Hauling stuff from the ground. They still prefer to leave the food on the ground after you farmed it and just let it there rot. Unless you baby sit them and manually put them to pick them. People been crying over and over that the solution would simply be a "Haul options" to simple categorize your Haul settlers to pick certain stuff that need to be urgent: - Food for instance, because it rots faster on the ground comparing to Clay; And yes, you cannot prioritize perishable over mats; There are still times when basically you put jobs as ( 1 ) and they go for jobs underneath the 1st one. For instance you put "Digging" , you got 10x10 to dig, for some reason he prefer to go and cook something. Dude has some Ramsay in his code. The sheer amount of disrespect towards the community from the arrogant developers it's outstanding. The game is still extremely laggy after certain amount of buildings or settlers have been made. Most of my saves have stopped either at 19-20 Settlers, because they lag too much the screen or the building is too spread and it lag the shit out of it. And after 1/2 of year making this review, they still have yet to do anything about it! My specs are i7 6700k, GTX 1080 and 32 GB. It's not high end, but if I can run Rust on high and still get 60 FPS, why would I get random freezes every 2-3 seconds when I speed time in this game again? Game is still fun, until it gets to end game when it is unplayable ... and I am serious. It is unplayable. Even now, I got a new save on the highest difficulty and I had a cool design for my kingdom . I had to stop because the only way to play is with the game in the background. And even in the background it still freezes on NORMAL TIME SPEED every 5-10 seconds. If you go on 3x speed it freezes every second. It is so so poorly optimized it's unbelievable people still buy the game. And I do not think that this game will see the light of day of being decent unless someone competent buy it and makes it something great. At this stage I highly recommend : DO NOT BUY it .Unless you want to see your saves rot and become unplayable, go ahead. But right now, the game is way too unstable even for 1/2 of its price. -------------------------------------------------------