A good successor to Banished, especially now that people disinterested in raiders can turn them off independent of turning off hostile animals, since I'm more often ok with the latter in a game, even when not in the mood at all for army combat.

The crop rotation system is nicely robust, and the industry chain is satisfying.

It's a game that feels less about sprawling across the map, compared to upgrading the environment around house so the houses themselves get upgraded to higher population capacity, many of the non residential buildings upgrade as well, based on availability of resources or population, rather than relying on building more individual structures for every bump up in production.

The graphics are quite nice, and on my somewhat middle-of-the-road gaming computer, I don't have performance issues, even having bumped population cap up to 1000. Maybe not my absolute favorite city builder/resource management game I've been watching and playing for the past few years, but it's definitely up there and I feel it was worth the purchase as I keep it in my game rotation.

A good successor to Banished, especially now that people disinterested in raiders can turn them off independent of turning off hostile animals, since I'm more often ok with the latter in a game, even when not in the mood at all for army combat. The crop rotation system is nicely robust, and the industry chain is satisfying. It's a game that feels less about sprawling across the map, compared to upgrading the environment around house so the houses themselves get upgraded to higher population capacity, many of the non residential buildings upgrade as well, based on availability of resources or population, rather than relying on building more individual structures for every bump up in production. The graphics are quite nice, and on my somewhat middle-of-the-road gaming computer, I don't have performance issues, even having bumped population cap up to 1000. Maybe not my absolute favorite city builder/resource management game I've been watching and playing for the past few years, but it's definitely up there and I feel it was worth the purchase as I keep it in my game rotation.