Grissallia<p>October 23, 2023 - Day 296 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 315</p><p>Game: Lords &amp; Villeins</p><p>Platform: Steam<br>Release Date: Nov 11, 2022<br>Installation Date: Oct 23, 2023<br>Unplayed: 0d<br>Playtime: 15m</p><p>Lords &amp; Villeins is a top-down pixel-art medieval city-building sim. Number six in the October Humble Choice Bundle.</p><p>I generally try to find something good to say about a game, but I genuinely can't find anything to like about this game.</p><p>Top-down &amp; pixel-art was a hard sell to begin with, but Stardew Valley is top-down pixel-art and that worked for me.</p><p>This just didn't click. It's not so much of a city-building management sim, as a micro-management sim based on city-building.</p><p>The systems in the game seem disconnected from one another.</p><p>You assign land to a family. A 10 block x 10 block area of land is "10 acres". Each person takes up 1 block, so I guess each person is 10% of an acre in size?</p><p>But then you turn that area into a house, and now it's a 10 acre house?</p><p>I have to give the villeins everything single thing they need from my "warehouse". There are things in my warehouse. How did they get there? I do not know.</p><p>For instance, I had to give them X amount of straw.</p><p>Then they need walls on the land I zoned for them, and I can build the walls out of straw or wood. Do the walls come out of my warehouse pile of straw or the straw I just gave to the villeins?</p><p>The game does not tell me, and at this point, I do not care. I just want it to be over.</p><p>I attempt to build walls. You place the icon and drag out the wall. I dragged it in the wrong place. I can't cancel it. I need to delete it. I can't delete it with a drag. I have to click on and delete every single piece of wall individually.</p><p>The systems in this game are opaque and frustrating and when my 15 minutes were up, I gave a sigh of relief.</p><p>There is probably an audience for this game, but wherever that may be, I assume they have a tolerance for pain that I lack.</p><p>Lords &amp; Villeins: </p><p>1: Nope</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/LordsAndVilleins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LordsAndVilleins</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TopDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TopDown</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PixelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PixelArt</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medieval</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CityBuilder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CityBuilder</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HumbleChoice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumbleChoice</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>