NEW RELEASE - Ancient Cities | Hardcore Realistic Ancient City Building Sim & Civilization Maker 1.0 

1.0 Ancient Cities Releases TODAY! Will put up a full video for you all tomorrow!

The mention of progressing from ancient times to modern & advanced, reminded me of the "Empire earth" franchise. First and second games were just amazing. Having a more sim-style game set like this would indeed be amazing. But I'd also settle on the pure strategy genre too.

haha! This game is getting smashed in the Steam Reviews. Thanks for the vid Raptor, it clearly shows the game is far from deserving its current price tag.

Start of the video: 6:33

Empire Earth is an early rts of progressing from stone age to space age. It was a lot of fun for its time!

Should be called Ancient City because you can only have 1

I did what you talked about----Regarding settling in Dodgerland and trying to bug out in the last possible moment. The game is very rich in landscapes and representation, but as I recall, it did not do any changes with respect to changing sea levels in the actual settlement area. I think I played this particular game around the time The Agricultural Update came out, possibly a little before. What happened is that I got a message where all the messages appear, which is in the lower right corner-----Something like rising sea levels imminent or dangerously high and possibly Migration Strongly Recommended, even though there were zero changes in the actual representation of the sea level. My tribe had over 20 members and something like 7 leather tents. I immediately set up all tents to be taken down, but at the same time I did not bother to kill all other tasks like food gathering or fishing, so there was some competition for labor-----Mistake #1. In my lack of the necessary wisdom, I assumed I would have about 2 or 3 days to clear out the camp and move it to higher ground. Yeah, I know the 3 days actually represent probably 40-60 years, but I was not expecting instantaneous sea level changes. Mistake #2, also final mistake. It did not show the settlement underwater the next day, it just had a message that it had been wiped out and also GAME OVER. Painful way to crash a civilization. In summation, if you settle in an area where climate change is going to be an enormous issue and you get that message about imminent sea level change, then immediately stop all work groups and break down all the portable tents, it would also be best to start the migration to higher ground at worst about two dots after midday and get them all moving long before nightfall, otherwise it is epic swimming lessons for the tribe. I do like that they doubled the original settlement area, so you have more to choose from, and are not relegated to an isolated peninsula if you want to play a game with a necessary migration scenario. Cheers.

I think this game sadly suffers from a misplaced idea of what it is meant to be. Too many people come in expecting a typical city builder but this is not that - the game IS hard. Life WAS hard at this period of human history - it's more of a survival city builder and thus you have to pay really close attention to small details. For example, don't over gather berries or no more will grow (how would they if there are no seeds left to germinate for the next season) Wild animal populations also move - you should move with them, as we did back in the day. Staying in one place (at least until you can farm) is generally a bad idea. Task management is also important - granted the game does a poor job of explaining it but many groups doing singular tasks that can be stopped and started is key. The way the game is set up also has a massive impact (especially speed) on slow a season is three days, normal two and fast one - basically the faster the game speed the easier it is (you only end up with one day of winter for example) I think alone changes the game significantly and faster speeds make it much easier This game is definitely for a certain type of player IMO - glad you covered it again!

raptor im pretty sure I have that gaming chair

They made some changes regarding reeds. The tribes can now get reeds by cropping tall grass. It depends on what you have your tribe doing----gathering straw, gathering plant fiber, or gathering reeds. It all seems to be able to come from similar plants. I am in the middle of a game in France north of Monaco, at a river junction. Started it in 10,000 BC, I have gathered around 100 reeds so far, right now I am at 8850 BC and none of those reeds have come from the tall reed plants along the river. They have left them totally intact.

Thanks Raptor for the gifted membership. Belated Happy birthday!!

Good to see this release at 1.0. I do like this and look forward to your next stream!

Wow this game still in development?

Thanks.

Why this game is expensive?

This game should be called ancient survival , or ancient abandonment , better yet unhappy tribes people .

Is in PlayStation?

Did the tutorial get any better?

Looks like a good game. A little pricey , but I`ll probably get it anyway. I`d have called Geoff, Chris!

Hi. you put the fishing pole too far away your villagers have to walk a long way to eat and get back home

The only way they would get me to pay so much for this game is if they include a system where other villages can attack yours as it is with Dawn of Man. As it is, the one-sided raiding system is basically abstract and unfun. Without that threat so common with human history, this game is too boring and expensive IMO.

I hate when game try to look realism but with absolutely wrong historical data(ancient demography). They did it to lick their main audience boot, to get more sales. It's declaring we're totally for entertainment, zero educational purpose.

That loading was atrocious.

Is the game still clunky?

This game lags a lot i got 12gb of Gpu , dunno what to do

As I can see 0 optimization, still looking shallow.

I think you lose knowledge stats as you travel, try opening the tabs to see while you walk