A mate was telling me he picked this up last night, so you've saved me remembering to see what it is. It's settlers on crack, right.

I enjoy city builders a lot so I might check this out at some point.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/242920

currently around 15,000 players online, so it's proving to be quite popular!

I was hoping for a good AoE type game on the new gen but it doesn't like we'll be getting one.

I haven't read too much about this yet, but from snippets I gather It's quite challenging? Because Tropico is easy as piss and I'd like something a bit tougher.

Here Bean

i played it a bit. settlers is a good starting point, except slightly more 'realistic'.  also not really a 'game', more of a sim, there's no aim as such, just got to keep going.  there's no combat or rivals, you just build up your settlement, and try to keep everyone alive...then you'll get hit by a tornado which destroys half your town/population, then you struggle on and try to rebuild.
it's very well made, good at what it is, but i got out early before it consumed my life in a 'pointless' grind...

i guess the grind is it's own reward for those that like that kind of thing....my mate has put loads of time into and loves it.  but there are no points in the game, no set objectives, there's no development so nothing really changes. so for me once i'd built my village up to the stage where i'd built one of every building type, and then it got destroyed by a tornado, and i started clearing it up and juggling my remaining villagers...i realised i had  a good few hours of game time stretching before me basically just waiting and watching for my small population to breed and for their kids to grow into workers, and then i'd be back where i was and....i could build two of each building...and then maybe three!  though a tornado would likely have struck before then.

like i say, it's good at what it is, and will tickle some people's fancy.  for me though, with limited gaming time, i realised i was spending a couple of hours watching a game on fast-forward, occasionally slowing time to 'normal' to re-allocate my spare worker from chopping down trees to chopping up the trees for firewood and back again as the resource levels required.  ultimately for me it's one of them 'games' where you suddenly realise you're working rather than having fun, and when there's no 'win state' on top of that, you're just grinding to keep bread on the table, and i'd rather my gaming time wasn't like that.

Settlers on crack was my first impression indeed, definitely not a bad thing

If its a one man job, my hat goes off to him, a phenomenal achievement should that be the case, from one one-manner to another

First town mightn't make it past 20 years...