Review Lethis: Path of Progress

Over the past years, the genre of urban planning simulators has come out of the corner of the squeezing back to the roots. There are analogues or full copies of Simcity and Settlers, Anno and Tropico alive than all living things and many quite original projects came out. The only thing I missed was so are the pomnic games made by the Impresson Games. And recently, almost one after one, games come out with a similar look and mechanics. And about one of them -Lthis: Path of Progress I want to talk.

A barrel of honey

The scene of the game State Letis, reminiscent of Austria-Hungary of the beginning-inventions of the 19th century. The world of the game is experiencing an industrial revolution. Handwords are included in reduced steam. Steampank’s genre setting. Now there are not many games use it. And the Gradostroy in it looks completely unusual. Some notes of magic are present, but they are small.

Another reason for interest visual style. I am a fan of drawn graphics. And here is literally a feast for the eyes. Buildings, sprites of workers and residents, even just the area on the map delights with pleasant graphics. A separate plus for painting male and female versions of sprites for all workers.

Basy lethis is no different from the Impress Games games. We create an infrastructure of resource production and their processing. We adjust the logistics of services in residential areas. We evolve residential buildings so that they contain more people, delivering food and other goods.

The setting of the Gamblingsitesnotongamstop.co.uk steampunk is manifested in the fact that some production and service buildings should receive liquefied steam for work. This resource is extracted on geysers using extractors. The pipes are supplied to the liquefied, from where the cylinders are transported throughout the city.

Two species of population live in the city: citizens and aristocracy. Citizens do most of the work. The functionality of aristocrats is less than other similar games. They pay large taxes, participate in the buildings of monuments as sponsors and can be ambassadors in other cities by reducing purchase prices and increasing export. For this, many expensive resources consume and in most service buildings not people work for them, but machine guns. Which are collected in factories, for which it is necessary to organize your production chains.

A bucket of water

Missions in the game are similar to the predecessors. In each it is necessary to build a city that satisfies pre -set requirements. There is even a simple plot uniting missions in the campaign telling about the difficult fate of the state of Letis in the era of industrialization. There are internal conflicts, intrigues, betrayal, power struggle, but all this happens against the background. But we take the role of architects in these difficult times and build the city.

Construction in this game is a very relaxing lesson. There is neither the threat of the invasion of troops or constant threats of any supernatural forces. There are requests from the state or other cities . Other events, although negative at least positive, with proper construction there is little effect on the effect. The only thing that is worth fear is bankruptcy, since the minus of finances should be lost.

A spoon of tar

The game is not devoid of shortcomings, and in those places where I did not expect to see them. There are no complaints about the main mechanics. But besides them, but there are few innovations. The developers came up with an interesting setting, but it affects the gameplay little. Moreover, those mechanics that were the basis in such strategies did not want or were unable to realize. As a result, the game can arouse interest, but it is unable to hold it

I praised the visual style, but there are places where the developers could not cope. This is an interface. He looks poor enough. But this is half a bastard. Pop -up windows are poorly scaled. On my monitor, all the inscriptions and icons were small and difficult to distinguish. And the change in permission did not help. It would seem a trifle, but given that you spend a third of the game, looking at all sorts of pop -up windows and submenu, it becomes not very clear why this was not fixed.

Pull the animations of buildings. In Impression Games games, animation was launched when the necessary resources and workers were put in the construction. Immediately, only workers are required to start animation. As a result, it turns out that at first glance the building works, but in fact there is no.

The game itself is not bad, but it is rather a demonstration of the capabilities of the developer team than an independent project. Given the fact that they are working on the Pharaoh remake, this is very likely. It is worth playing it as a vacation from large projects or while listening to podcasts. It is ideal for those who are just entering the genre. For fans of the genre, the game will be of little interest.