There’s nothing like having to fend off a herd of wolves with a wooden shovel, before sitting in a dark cabin to a raw mushroom nutrition to thank you for pizza, mild electricity and Ikea. Medieval Dynasty is a simulation game that is much more interested in a fundamental point of ancient precision than making sure you’re having a crazy time , but somehow, that’s much better for that.
When you enter the game, you are just a child who follows in his father’s footsteps, able to build his own colony but with a few more pieces in his pocket. You have land and a hammer for construction, and the rest depends on Each tool has to be designed with resources that you can locate in rivers, forests and grasslands, and everything is hard work, you will have to cut down trees, catch rabbits and roast them, collect rocks, dig clay. bring only little, so building your space means slowly transporting some heavy logs to the site and then placing them. Unless you’ve started hunting and have the leather to sew a skin of water, you have to head to a water fountain to quench your thirst. It’s slow, it’s repetitive, but it’s also strangely relaxing. Forget about simulation games where you can create an entire city of perfectly spaced buildings in minutes, here just building an undeniable cabin is an all-day task.
Medieval life is not without its dangers either, although my character has not yet suffered from rickets, he has faced wolves, toxic fungi and dehydration, the wild boar hunt has almost finished me, especially since I do not have coins for a bow, for which hunting essentially means chasing after my prey with a handful of large pointy sticks and waiting for the animal’s AI to force it to run at attacking distance. Curing means chasing the broadleaf plantain, a plant that is misrepresented in an ocean of greenery. , and you get used to avoiding emotion, than looking for it as you would in any other game. Maybe in a year other than 2020, it would be negative, but honestly, I am satisfied to plant rye in my fields and enjoy the calm.
Of course, to build a settlement, you’ll have to woo some locals to register for you. There are other cities to visit, more people to send you back as the loser of the huts you are, but since you’re old, It’s a lot to walk. The wooden-faced population, not a mo-cap, is hard to impress. To improve the reputation of your dynasty, you want to chat with them; The features are necessarily a discussion about the weather, gossip about an invisible nobleman, or a hunting/agriculture discussion, or a terrifying compliment for being a lovely girl who is a little Borat, but it’s a component of a flirtation mechanism that will then convince you to convince a deficient woman to become your wife and cabinmate. If you think Mass Effect’s romantic characters were an effort, it’s quite possible that it will overwhelm you and send your trust to the afterlife.
At the rate at which my dynasty progresses, I have a long life as a lonely guy who lives in a cabin in front of me in the medieval dynasty, but for now, it’s a welcome break from the madness of the world.
Medieval Dynasty is now available for early access on Steam.
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