Novamdomum

Actually yeah you’re right. I watched some review before I dld it and the person there said it was “new”. Should have double checked.

…worst user-reviewed by online players. Single players are like “Hey neat, better quality, better optimisation, 1st person mode and free. Thanks”.

Played this from the day it came out in early access. Went off it because reasons. Had a quick look just now and oh my God… It’s a completely different game and it looks awesome. Had to stop playing so I can block out some proper time to dive into into. Honestly it just looks so good… :)

Interesting point. However medieval cities with populations of 70-100k were not uncommon (like say Prague or Antwerp). The problem I’m talking about happens WAY before that. Like even at a couple of thousand things pretty obviously grind to a halt and the population becomes more and more miserable. It’s just depressing because you do all this work and then nothing works and you can’t do anything about it. In real life homes would be bought and sold as people needed to move to other areas which would solve the runaway commuting effect. Maybe what Foundation needs is an estate agent/realtor :)

I played this when it first came out and loved it so much. Unfortunately, as it developed it just went in a bunch of directions that made it less and less fun to play. I still try and play it occasionally but there’s so much that gets in the way of enjoying it now. It feels like it got the “too many chefs” treatment and now it’s just not anything like as much fun as it was. I’m not joking when I say it kind of broke my heart to see it basically loose it’s way so much. It also still struggles with an issue they’ve never really resolved which is that when your town grows and your workers end up having to travel further and further away from their workplaces everything becomes inefficient. Every town I’ve made eventually spirals down into this issue and you can’t just delete all the houses and force people to build homes nearer their workplaces cos it’s insanely expensive and produces very unpredictable results. It’s just a shame. TL;DR Used to be great but is kind of not great now (in my opinion of course. Your mileage may vary).

The first few galettes I ate as a child back in the 70’s I remember the fèves were quite large. Then as I suppose they went into more mass production they seemed to just use these small white plastic vaguely human shapes, like a tiny white plastic opaque jelly baby shape. In those days no one much cared about choking hazards in food. There were still coins in Christmas puddings for example. I always thought it was weird to put objects in food (even if the fève had the power to make you “King” for a day 😁)

Side note, this is why Kinder eggs are banned in the US because they contain a “non-nutritive object” that could be a choking hazard.

That looks so amazing but as someone who grew up in France it also gives me anxiety wondering if I’ll choke on the “Feve”. I imagine it must be illegal to hide those bloody things in the galette these days. I hope so!

I hung around their Discord for ages and the pace of development seemed glacial. It’s not that I don’t think it will ever come out but it’s definitely going to be a while. Gave up following after a few months. Love the aesthetic though and I really hope this one doesn’t fizzle out like other titles in my wish list (Road Diner Simulator, B-17 Squadron, Solarpunk, Kerbal Space Program 2 etc.)