Ancient Cities

[paperfist]

Not coming out till 2018, but whoa it's like Pre-Civilization before Civilization:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=854046403

 

[sandorski]

Looks promising. Reminds me of Banished more than Civ.

 

[shortylickens]

WOW! Thats spooky! I was just sitting in front of a wikipedia article yesterday thinking I needed a game exactly like this.

Glory hallelujah!

 

[XavierMace]

Yeah, I'm getting definite Banished vibes from it. Maybe a bit of Caesar as well.

 

[KMFJD]

Looks good, thx for the heads up!

 

[paperfist]

Looks promising. Reminds me of Banished more than Civ.

Yeah you're right it's got that banished look to it.

With Civ I meant it seems to take place before Civ does with a more primitive feel. It sounds like the game will progress through later periods like Civ does.

 

[JSt0rm]

is there fighting in this? I loved banished but at a point I needed some violence.

 

[Rifter]

Looks like it may be too much sim and not enough fighting/events to deal with but will keep my eye on it.

 

[paperfist]

is there fighting in this? I loved banished but at a point I needed some violence.

They said there would be raid style fighting and combat which you can also enable or disable. I read a post where it's both real time and turn based which is a little confusing.

Here's the features from their kickstarter page:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/uncasualgames/ancient-cities

Current Features
The game is a city/world simulation where you can change time progression from normal speed to several time-lapse velocities.

This is what we already have, but still to be polished:

• In house 3D render technology and UI.
• Procedural world generation.
• Simulated day and night cycles.
• Simulated seasonal cycles.
• Weather simulation based on real data.
• Wild animal life and plants cycle of life.
• Farming system.
• Step-by-step structure building and effects.
• Resource collection and storage.
• Family tree for citizens.
• Character attributes.
• AI to some extent, including path finding, job selection...
• Citizen basic needs like eat, drink, sleep or rest.
• Tech system.
• Some items of each type to test the tech ( plants, animals, buildings... )
• Decay of resources and buildings.

Final Release Features
Configure your gameplay enabling combat and natural disasters or simply relax building your beautiful city.

The world

• Discover the lands around you sending out exploring parties.
• Factions: oher tribes competing for resources, power and alliances.
• Cities: Populated places where you can trade or raid, with their own religion, culture and economy.
• Migrations due to famine or sickness will spread religion, tech and culture.
• Hunter parties will explore the map searching for hunting.
• World events can change the course of history.

The city

• Survive the unforgiving nature building structures to live and to defend against raiders and predators.
• Receive migration parties while taking care of your citizens.
• Mine, Chop, Crop, Gather, Hunt and Fish for resources, but be aware they are finite.
• Craft tools, weapons, food and other manufactured resources if you know how to do it.
• Plant, seed, crop and storage for the winter. But remember that nothing lasts forever.
• Take care of your animals and protect them from predators.
• Fight back your enemies, trade, hunt and explore beyond your city walls. Or wait for others AI factions to come to you.
• Praise your gods for faith and political power, fight against other religions. spread your faith...
• Politics.
• Lots of more building types, clothes, animals, etc...

The citizens

• Citizen traits, religion and culture.
• Sickness can decimate your people.
  
  

 

[clamum]

Dang, looks like it might be pretty impressive. I'm looking forward to it coming out!

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Neat. Rimworld + Graphics.

 

[paperfist]

Neat. Rimworld + Graphics.

Have you played that recently? I think it's been a year for me and wondered if they made any big improvements?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Have you played that recently? I think it's been a year for me and wondered if they made any big improvements?

I've played the latest version, but it's been a few months for me too.

Being able to juggle multiple colonies and the convoy system makes for some interesting mechanics, but there's not a lot to do with them yet.

Unfortunately, the last blog post is from June, so maybe things have stalled a bit. :-(

 

[paperfist]

They have a website and twitter:
https://www.ancient-cities.com/index.php
https://twitter.com/_ancientcities?lang=en

I know there clouds, but they look amazing:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1015746308508876801

Here's some stuff from a somewhat unlistenable streamer:

 

[Zenoth]

Literally the first time I'm reading and hearing about this one.

Looks interesting, I'll keep an eye on it.

 

[KMFJD]

Nice find, looks very interesting

 

[StinkyPinky]

Certainly impressive visuals. Which engine are they using?

 

[paperfist]

Certainly impressive visuals. Which engine are they using?

They built their own engine from scratch.

 

[mooncancook]

Looks like Dawn of Man a lot

 

[paperfist]

Looks like Dawn of Man a lot

Did you play it? I was thinking of buying it, but after watching a stream it didn’t seem so deep. Though it wasn’t terribly expensive.

 

[mooncancook]

Did you play it? I was thinking of buying it, but after watching a stream it didn’t seem so deep. Though it wasn’t terribly expensive.

I had the exact same feeling after watching some reviews and game streaming. I have a soft spot for this kind of games, but with my huge backlog I'll wait for it to drop to around $10 or see if the dev would make a major content update.

 

[paperfist]

https://twitter.com/_AncientCities

Well it's not dead and actually in beta.

Maybe in a few billion years it'll be ready