Comment on Best City Builder 2024: Manor Lords [as per PCGamer]

murmelade@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Dashi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t know how I feel about this game getting an award in Early Access. But it feels weird.

  I have nothing against EA I played several ea games including this one, but this is getting closer and closer to the norm.

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  • murmelade@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah it seems like it will be a great game and best wishes to the Dev but it’s like giving an award to a demo. Why don’t we just give all the awards to Star Citizen then since they have promised us it will be the best everything once it releases.

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• EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Were there any city builders fully released in 2024? Is this a matter of an EA title being chosen because there are no non-SA titles?

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  • Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is what I was wondering. Was the genre that quiet this year? Manor Lords isn’t just early access, it’s early early access. So many outright unfinished systems.

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can’t think of a single city builder released this year that isn’t in EA.

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      • Dashi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Frostpunk 2 released and is pretty solid. Maybe not for everyone but it’s a full title release I believe

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      • cpkwtf@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There’s a Soviet city builder that fully launched in the last few months

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  • Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Following up on this conversation since I just saw this PC Gamer article:

    I played a whopping 23 city builders in 2024, and here are my 5 favorites

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