Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Feb 21, 2022

  Passed the hardcore portion - took a bit of experimentation. Lost just ~100 units killing 8,000+. PLAYING SUGGESTIONS: 1. AI is pretty weak, if you've played Homeworld before you can do that to most of the mobs. Think of the mobs as zerglings, don't get surrounded. just kite - u'll be ok ^^ 2. You can also use the special power that drops 5 melee guys to divert incoming waves if you're not ready yet. just lead the wave away from your base. 3. Utilize SPACEBAR or pause as much as possible ^^ 4. berries come back, so you can rotate your gatherers 5. when there is an incoming wave, save AS SOON AS SUNRISE of the DAY BEFORE (just before the timer comes out) - if the starting point of wave is hard to defend, just reload your save file. (no need to thank me - i don't like it much tho but can save you a lot in endless mode) The challenge really is just the sheer number of mobs, beyond that, the city building is ok - not much you can do here though. SOME ASKS FOR THE DEVELOPERS: 1. i'd like a multiplayer mode with like 3-4 people 2. "guard" feature for units of follow 3. public highscore table per difficulty 4. management feature for where builders are - they sometimes stop building 5. a mode where there is a randomized labyrinth I need to pass with very limited people that I can just upgrade 6. make melee or any warriors be able to help out with gathering trees or fishing/berries.. they should at least be able to do that much 7. obelisk power that makes you have like stimpacks 8. automated market 9. since there's not much magic, maybe just get some oil based fire or something for archers.. maybe poison tipped weapons? you can give poison to the royalty and fire/oil to the people so that you can have separate experience for each track. 10. moats? if that's not possible, maybe some trenches? walls are too bland 11. traps or possibly oil or rocks from the walls 12. burning the forest, or fire damage to buildings and war machines 13. let me put dead bodies in front of the waves so i get them sick - lol (yes i want this so bad) will add more if i think of any.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 10, 2022

  castle broke before my spearmen did
• gamedeal user

  Oct 31, 2022

  Pros: +Humorous campaign cut scenes +Diverse enemy types +Content that has been released is highly polished +Significant depth in city and defense planning +High Quality voice acting +Multiple game modes to keep you engaged Cons: -Game is not finished yet -Not a significant need to use melee troops when towers and archers are easier to keep alive -Updates come out slowly -Only 2 playable missions in campaign -Lack of variety to units in each enemy type -No research queue Personal Opinion: Diplomacy is Not an Option (DNO) offers thrilling real time strategy that also happens to be a tower defense and city management game. The more I learn about the game the more I want to play. It can be easy to overlook the complexity and depth of city and defense layout, but it all starts by realizing how building storage next to production increases the rate of materials harvested, and how water fountains increase the population of nearby houses, or how builder houses need to be dispersed throughout the city in order to reduce the time it takes a builder to get to a construction site, and so on. There are quite a few different enemy types like undead, peasants, royal army, but there are not a large variety of units in each type, hopefully more will be added in the future. Campaign cut scenes are very amusing and I found myself looking forward to each one, which made learning the campaign isn't complete all that much more disappointing. As it currently is DNO is a great little game, and with more features to be added it should be worth looking forward to what comes next!
• gamedeal user

  May 16, 2023

  hopefully this game will add coop
• gamedeal user

  Apr 19, 2023

  The game Isn't dead, albeit development is slow right now, but if you browse Discord or Reddit you can see they are still posting teasers for the spring update, where the game comes out of early access. It's an enjoyable and addictive game, and if you enjoy city builders with significant elements of base defense and exploration then it's a good go. Some people need to cut the dev team some slack as well with their reviews, it's a small team going what they can so from the outside looking in, it looks like the game is dead, but with a little digging it's far from it.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 13, 2022

  Excelent game +Humor +Building and economy management +Music +Battles +Difficulty -Sometimes micromanaging the builders gets stuck. Like I'm wandering why the builders won't build, but then I notice that I have unfinished piece of wall that the builders cant get to. So the whole building system is waiting for someone to go to that one wall piece to finish. Destroying that element fixes the problem, but if you don't spot it early your buildings won't finish on time -Upgrading town hall to lvl3 is bit too expensive. It will drain the whole defense budget As you can see I played 17 hours and enjoyed every moment. It was little hard to get in, but the humor helped. The challenge level is really good. I chose the peasant and challenge mode. Took me 8+ hours to finish the last battle of early access. I didn't have bugs. 1 crash, but 1 crash per 17 hours is better than average. My windows crashes more often on boot.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 27, 2022

  ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10
• gamedeal user

  Mar 16, 2023

  Overall, the game is pretty enjoyable. I didn't encounter any bugs or issues that impacted my playtime (roughly 15 hours), and everything seemed to work as intended. So why do I not recommend the game? This game has been in early access for over a year at this point and there have been basically ZERO updates. No new content, no balancing tweaks, no additional campaign missions or map changes for endless mode. As it stands now, I pushed it a bit longer than I normally would for the amount of content that is in the game by getting my 15 hours. It just doesn't have enough going for it to justify the price tag, and without seeing regular (or ANY) updates, I just don't have faith at this point that the game will continue growing. Hope they prove me wrong.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 30, 2022

  So generally sppeaking, I like this game. For an early Access Game, this game looks good, is fun and is well made (no major bugs, crashes, lags, etc.) I like to take the time though to think and speak about what improvements can be made. The first category of these Ideas would be the: "Please change that, it annoys me": 1. Placing buildings should be easy. I don't care and don't want to care about people not beeing able to reach buildings. Either lat me place them whereever I want, or automatically put streets in between. The reason is, that building castles, cities etc. should: a. result in a castle that looks good b. be realistic c. be fast, since you need to concentrate to defend your stuff. 2. Gold is wierd. It slows everything down. The only case where slowing things down with the current gold system are trebuchets because they are overpowerd. But just in technical terms: In order to get gold the user has to: a. reach castle level 3 b. build a market (which isn't that obivous todo) c. have resource availible d. click on a button in the market (why, isnt it where you build building e.g.? Why the extra click?) e. wait till the things are traded (~2min) f. Repeat the process after you only hear an indication that the market is ready again. Now the issue is: this is very inflexible and you forget about the market and therefore get out of gold very quickly. How to do it better: a. have an internal market where you can exchange all resources over gold. (e.g. Stellaris Energy credits, Stronghold gold, etc. ) b. There are better means to nerv trebuchets (just more resources, longer training times etc.) c. To get gold you take taxes from the people. Its basically whats the story about isnt it ;)? 3.Range of some buildings, like the cemetary. Although a cool idea, but if I raid the peasants I dont want to build a cemetary near it because one soldier died. Also note, that you discourage offense in favour of defense, that way. 4. The game is sometimes rather undynamic. I mean that it is slow and expensive to build armys, and with the cemetary mechanic, fights are discouraged. Compare that to Age of Empires and similar, where its encouraged to fight, and loose armys if need be. So I recommend more waves and a faster and easier way to train troops. Now the category: "That would be cool!!" 1. Train troops not soldiers. The only game that I know, does that properly would Lord of the Rings: Battle of Middle Earth 1 & 2. There you can train a troops instead of one soldier which leads to epic battles really quickly. 2. Walls: First of all: why can't I put troops on walls? Second: Why are stone walls so thin? They aren't fences. But I like them visually. The style is great. Maybe improve the visualls for diagonal walls. Here you can take inspiriation from Stronghold and Lord of the Rings: Battle of middle Earth 1 (not 2) 3. The enemy are peasants, but they bahave like zombies. I know you probably got inspired by They are Zillions, but they are still peasants. And peasants can use bows, can make leaders and most importantly: Ramms. The classical weakpoint of any castly is the gate, and therefore an an enemy would target that weakpoint and will not attack the closest point of wall. 4. Kavalary needs some love: First its very expensive and time consuming to create the predominant kind of middle aged military due to the gold mechanic. Secondly, they cannot overrun infantary. This looks somewhat wierd (like in Age of Empires where the elephant stops to hit a citizen a few times). You already let soldiers fly on catapult inpact, so I think it would be cool if the cavalary can charge the enemy. (Inspired by Lord of the Rings: Battle of Middle Earth) 5. Please let me play against an other castle. Then all the siege weaponry makes sense, and you have a more dynamic gameplay then a tower defence, against waves. 6. Castle upgrades, where you can build towers to the castle, that are pre-positoned. This would get around the current "street"-system. 7. I like the magic system, but I find it a bit overpowered. Maybe instead have a new soldier type: Magician, that has a specific range, or make them less op than the meteor. Although it looks quite cool, destroying a big wave with a meteor, I admit. 8. I find myself only building walls, when I see the direction where the wave is coming from, in order to save resources. However a castle is not a wall between 2 mountains to block braindeads that can't figure out another way around the wall. I would recommend more smaller waves, and attacks from more directions in order to force the player to build a proper castle. so that what I could think of. I only concentrated on mechanics because I think you are creative enough for story and content. I would expect more enemy types, and you could go more into fantasy if you want (trolls, dragons, demons, etc.). Generally I like the game, and I am looking forward on what you will make of it.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 10, 2022

  Soldiers drop dead mid battle due to starvation 10/10