Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt

This is one of my favorite village building games ever! I have both the PC version (Steam) and the tablet version (Android). I bought the premium version (there's also a free to play) for my tablet - you can buy prestige and other features to speed up some aspects of the game on the tablet, but I never needed them. There are many ways to earn prestige in-game (through king's requests for products, etc.) so you don't ever need to buy it with real money. It started out as a mobile game, but its game mechanics always made it fun to play and I never paid extra money after the initial purchase. I've had the tablet version for many years and the developer always added more maps/scenarios and features to it throughout the years - and is still doing so even now! The developer still looks to find ways to improve his game for both the PC and mobile versions, so you can always give him feedback and suggestions. So having a developer who cares about his game and continues to improve it is an added plus. The PC version has different maps and enhanced features for the PC - also it has NO micro-transactions. The campaign teaches you how to play the game and once finished with that, you'll be able to play the plentiful scenarios and sandbox villages like a boss! It's really enjoyable and the graphics are cute and pleasant to look at. I also like it because it's not a memory or CPU hog. So yeah, I highly recommend the PC version! (Also recommend the tablet version too to play on the go.) It's really fun and has great gameplay!

This looks good and plays well, but I found it dull overall. Played for a few hours and thought 'meh'. It's not that it's unplayable, or has faults, it just didn't grab me. I normally like this sort of thing, but there's nothing new, nothing that stands out, no humourous asides. Maybe it was the mood I was in on the couple of days I played it, but there was nothing that stood out. It's certainly worth a try and you may well find that it's right up your alley, but it's not for me.

I find this game to be really strange as the difficulty level for initially building up a town is far more difficult, and as the game progress the whole town becomes much easier to manage as money no longer become a problem. Perhaps it's a balancing problem? The shortage of both tools and money is very detrimental to early level town. Regardless, this is a fun city building game that perhaps have successfully created a miniature version of my favorite past games such as Settlers, Anno, Knights and Merchant and Caesar.

Building rules sucks, you need to leave extra empty spaces around the building as waste of space even though the building has only one entance. Buildings are blocking other buildings behind them, so plan wisely or you might need to destroy that beautiful Cathedral just to finish the building behind it. STUPID!!! Also decoration might give you the same problem. Trees blocking building site of the house, luckily you can just wait for winter for the tree to loose leaves, than you might get lucky. And god forbid, if the pranks loving authors, put some trees behind your castle. That tree might become untuchable divine presence in your city. You cannot see it, but you know it is there. Ther`s more issues with the game, but they just don`t give a s..t anymore, as was politely explained to me wia e-mail.