Settlement Survival

For YEARS I have been searching for something close to the incredible town building game Banished and this is it with more! An upgradeble skill tree on top of upgrading your city gives me goals to work towards while deciding what to place where. It’s great! I have had some tech issues that hopefully be fixed and we need a save now button. I can not find how to save progress and I lost an hour of progress on a random crash. Great overall game 4/5 for now.

I loved the pc iteration when it released a few years ago. I’ve probably clocked like 150 hours or so developing my settlements in sandbox mode. Unfortunately, commitments to my work and other circumstances have piled to my “reasons I cannot game more than 7 hours a week anymore.” Because of this, I have been particularly stingy with my gaming time. Interestingly, my interest in mobile gaming has increased, due to accessibility and ease of weaving gaming time throughout my day. When I came across the app on the store it was an instant buy for me because of the memories I had no lifing settlement survival on PC for a whole week, regardless of its technical performance, I had faith. Barring one particular painful crash, I had a wonderful experience so far. I’ve developed my settlement with my prior experience bolstering my enthusiasm whenever I had the chance. Granted, I’m using the newest hardware so that could factor into my experience. Being on mobile has really been great for a player like me who values mobile titles for my quick gaming fix. The game is missing features, suitably considering it being the mobile counterpart to a pc game, but it is enough for me to get enjoyment out of it.

This game definitely scratches the itch for a great town builder game. However I would like to provide some feedback to the developers: 1 - The interface does not fit on the iPad Mini (Latest Gen). The interface also has problems with pinch zoom and rotate gestures, along with being unable to bring up tooltips reliably. 2 - Certain port-to-mobile aspects were overlooked, such as “Press F to change style” text on houses. My iPad does not have an “F” key. 3 - Certain bugs are interesting, such as when placing a Forester’s Hut, the simulation of cut trees does not disappear unless you toggle the “Tree View” button off and on with a different building. It’s definitely incomplete and has unique frustrating parts of the mobile version, but I’m very hopeful the developers will work hard to eliminate the bugs. Would be 5 stars.