Land and Castles - RTS

I made a review previously and I was quite aggravated so here is a better and more constructive review. The tutorial doesn’t explain the controls or game very well, and buttons need labels. The troop rallying isn’t explained very well so it ends up that all troops converge on one point. When this happens it makes it impossible to fight on multiple fronts. By the time I move from one front to the other, the first fronts troops are already walking across the map to get to the rally point. If it was better explained on how to make specific troops rally at specific points, that would be very helpful. I’m on the last few levels and still haven’t figured out how that works. The game is very enjoyable, I just can’t figure everything out which makes the game frustrating. I love the idea of allowing the rest of the game unlocked with the option of free with ads or paid. It’s nice to have access to the first half ad free and the second half paid for or with ads. Overall, I enjoy this game a lot and would love to see it expanded and improved. Thanks so much!

(Original post)”The game is simple and fun... but has a lot of issues. Enemy, ally and your own troops have terrible pathfinding and get stuck on each other, not being able to pass through allied troops. The game starts off easily enough and slowly gets more difficult, until you hit the paywall. Once you hit the paywall and have to watch ads, the games difficulty ramps up considerably. You can merge troops up to for times, to have an four star army. Yet, I’ve seen numerous times where your own four star troops get wrecked by one star enemies! Play for a few stages and then delete.” Updated Review: Game balance has been fixed and you don’t get stomped by inferior army. Pathfinding has improved, but still has some issues. Chests randomly spawning in the world add a welcomed randomness and exploration incentive. I deleted this game and forgot about it. The dev actually responded to me very first review and I decided to give it a second look and I’m glad I did. Thank you to the dev and I even bought the game instead of playing free. Good job and keep up the work, you have something special that can get even grander.

Very simple which I think is fun only thing I would want to change is for there to be an option to turn off holding to mark a point that screws me over. Something I would like to see is for people to have capitals with different look exc. and allowing more cpu in skirmishes. Maybe more levels, level 10 is ridiculous I can’t seem to beat it. Walls would be cool to build around your cities maybe if that’s jus for capitals. I think little add ins and updates every so often would keep me interested if there’s something new. Great game tho! Quick add on as I’ve been playing I’ve realized I would really like the option to make multiple points it’s really hard to micromanage the entire map at once trying to keep people in place.

I really like the concept of this game and I really want to see how it grows but, there are a lot of things that I find frustrating and somewhat annoying for example: the navigation system, I like that there’s a zoom which allows you to see more of the map but I find it very annoying that all to controls disappear the game lets us see too little of the of the map which makes it harder to play and the controls seem like they are all Cramed together which makes it even harder to see and when you try to zoom out all the controls disappear and you can’t see how many recourses you have. I think that one way to resolve this issue is to allow the player to “pinch” to zoom in and out while still keeping the resource indicator. This is one of the biggest issues. To sum it all up I think that this game will be a lot more fun if these issues get fixed and I hope that my opinion is helpful and if you actually read through all that great job :) (it ended up being a lot longer than I was thinking sry).

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Pros 1. Simple and easy to understand most of the time. 2. Game art is pleasant to look at. Cons 1. No information or feedback regarding how soldiers win battles against other soldiers. (e.g. how does my level 3 soldier lose against a level 1 enemy soldier?) A stat sheet of some sort would be helpful. 2. Upgrading forts doesn’t seem to affect its strength against enemy soldiers (e.g. my level 4 fort somehow was taken over by a level 1 enemy soldier.) 3. Soldier movements are clunky: Allied soldiers can’t pass through one another, soldiers unintentionally merge with one another, and sometimes soldiers won’t enter my own fort to defend it. 4. After a certain number of my own soldiers had spawned on the map, the game froze. Could not load my file after restarting. 5. Certain button and icon functions are unclear. Despite not being mentioned in the tutorial, I figured out what the red button with the crosshairs did. However, when you select a fort, the soldier training progress bar on the bottom right sometimes has an exclamation mark next to it. What does this mean? Final Thoughts I like RTS games, even if they’re super simple, which is why this game appealed to me. This has potential but needs attention to the cons I listed. Until then, I could not justify spending money on this.