Kingdom Strategy That's Incredibly Hard to Put Down - Microcivilization

[@Dracobyte]

"What is this? A strategy game for ants?"

[@kylemackinnon5696]

It needs to be atleast...ten times bigger than this!

[@PlayrayGamer]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@TinchoX]

Kind of~

[@Nephilim2001]

I smell a Norsemen reference here 😬

[@ChristopherDwiggins]

😂

[@TheStephaneAdam]

We can tell when Splatty really likes a game, and this is one of those cases. And this channel is an expensive habit.

[@xiaoyuhu4191]

word

[@TheFunLuvnCRIMINAL]

Gaming is a cheap hobby.

[@mitchk7655]

@@TheFunLuvnCRIMINAL Cheap is always relative.

[@MrRafagigapr]

To be honest you could pirate all these games easily , best way to stop piracy is make it inconvenient to keep downloading your game by actually updating it

[@EmergencyInductionPort]

My wallet is very happy my PC has been dead for years 😂

[@kj2w]

Things I like to remember about this game 1. The 'a' and 's' keys are alternatives to clicking the food and resource buttons (still acquire heat) 2. you can speed up the game to 400% by clicking the '+' sign, and decrease it down to 100% by using the '-' key 3. In the ascension tree, the bottom right corner introduces the 'automatic management' buttons beside the enable government, the import wood and import food buttons

[@barahng]

What a nice informative post

[@percinatto]

This game has been on my wishlist for a while. I'm getting it as soon as it hits 1.0. Very excited for it. Thanks for bringing attention to it splat!

[@tutompop]

Forgot to use your link to buy so here’s a tip instead. Pixel art interested me and it came through your curator steam page. Your excitement for the game really did a lot of work selling me. Wasn’t too sure the loop would be fun and the clicker aspect had me thinking twice. However, you just really had a lot of positive things to say about the different systems, how they connected and how it all works so well and it does. The management, lotus and leader systems combine for some good fun and I’m looking forward to subsequent play throughs. I get a lot of mileage out of this channel covering niche indie games and the recommendations that follow.

[@LordSaric]

Update Announcement: Splat is playing an old version here. The Map, Walls/Forts, Wonders, and Workers have all been changed. The map is now ten times larger or more and shaped like a continent, you can 'spend' a worker to claim a tile for a very small income bonus (+1 food on click for example) but with the right tech you can convert tiles into farms, forests, villages, mines, forts, etc. These give income per second or extra charges for your infantry or forts and benefit from adjacency bonuses. For example farms give 10 food per second, but if you have two more farms next to one it gets an extra 10 food per second, and if you fully surround it on the hex grin (6 spots needed) it gets an extra 10% food on top of the other bonuses. Since workers are spent to claim tiles (you can abandon a tile to get the worker back but your territory must connect back to your village or you loose everything that gets cut off) they are no longer upgraded by tech, so free workers provide only 1 food per second and never improve. Walls no longer fully block attack penalties, they now provide a % chance to block an attack up to a max of 90% block chance (and that can fail you at critical moments) with any extra chance to block rolling over to the next penalty. Attacks have fewer penalties and walls are much cheaper as a result. Wonders now take a workshop slot, so every wonder you build is a workshop you can't make, and when manned they generate risk while charging an ability that offers an extra meta point... *if* you keep the wonder alive until you ascend! Every time you use the ability it triggers an attack, and every attack of any kind after you build it might destroy your wonder, and if it's destroyed you can't rebuilt it though the slot does free up for other wonders or your workshops. The wonder also needs an extra worker to man it each time you perform the 'ceremony' action so eventually you can't man it anymore and have to move on. I have build Stonehenge on four different runs and never gotten it to survive so far.

[@mitchk7655]

They did change just two days ago, lol. So he probably already had this in the que to go out.

[@jaywerner8415]

@@mitchk7655 Yeah that would probably explain it.

[@charles_teak]

Wow. More reasons. I think I'll wishlist it.

[@tehhayn2732]

You bastard!!!! I saw your last video and picked it up since it was on sale 2 days ago. I have not been able to go to sleep this weekend! Seriously though, love your work

[@MikaelKKarlsson]

- So we'll invade them one more time. Are we the baddies?

[@Gigusx]

Probably... he wanted to convert them into a food plantation, and I assume it wouldn't be little robots working those fields 😁

[@cookienades8617]

Love the art and way they show your city growing in the background

[@sethstriker]

Congrats on your being so close to 1M subscribers!

[@bucketogravy4470]

First time seeing this game. All of the layers really impressed me. Something I’m definitely picking up. I love when indie devs do some creative thinking and make a game that I never thought I would need in my life. Another great video!

[@PraetorDragoon]

And yesterday I was thinking about this game and i couldn't remember the name and here you cover it!

[@PraetorDragoon]

And Empire Earth being named.i knew there was a reason I liked this channel.

[@sethstriker]

Dude, I'm sold. Take my money!

[@HomemdaFaina]

Looks like a good mix of clicker and "through the ages/civ" style gameplay.

[@ToothlessGrisu]

In the demo you could hold down the button for a medium of automated clicks instead of clicking manually. I would assume you still can.

[@GMaster7]

This one has been on my Wishlist since your video covering the demo. Looking forward to getting into it - and enjoyed another look at it here.

[@BlackGold-fc7tu]

Wow a lot of thought went into this game. Looks great.

[@EmergencyInductionPort]

17:51 this reminds me of the odd fact that Michael Flatley set the Guinness World Record for taps per second twice (taps as in tap dancing). First time in 1989 at 28 taps per second... second time was 1998 at 35 taps per second. That is absolutely bonkers! As far as I'm aware no one has broken that record. Absolutely blows my mind that someone can move their feet that quickly in a coordinated manner... meanwhile I fall up stairs and over my own feet regularly 😂😂

[@Stadtpark90]

33:08 hit the nail on the head The „clicker“ aspect makes this game pure poison. It would burn out my synapses faster than Blizzards „Overwatch“ (- which I stopped playing two days in for the same reason). - I know what is bad for my dopamine economy, and this is pure crack: it would leave me burned out and empty, chew me and spit me out in just a few days. Big Red Flag.

[@alphatonic1481]

I played the demo of this game a while ago. Thank you for reminding me of it.

[@987321sam]

It's funny I tried to look up gameplay for this game yesterday and never ended up watching it and now you post and I watch hahaha

[@lukluk683]

You should check the beta branch of this game, there were a lot of updates to the world map and how you interact with tiles, it's different/better than the version you've played in this playthrough.

[@keithmathews4605]

@2:00 population... "if this goes down to zero, it is over, there is no walking that off"... only to find out that if it goes to zero you have to recover from that and "bounce back". Seems like we are no longer giving zero the definition of zero. Zero population should mean there is no one left to bounce back with, due to there being... wait for it... zero people. Am I missing something?

[@drahkas8526]

Dude! You used stopgap correctly! heck yeah!

[@yaroslavbozhdynsky]

Just started playing it again a day after the map update. DO create a village and surround it with tiles, you'll get +3 workers, tiles can be shared by villages but villages cannot be in contact with another village.

[@KABLAMMATS]

"It has a little something for everyone" ahh game

[@WhatWillYouFind]

I played the demo due to this channel a year ago? It was good, but extremely difficult to balance because it has its own kind of flow to it. Micro is not quite cookie clicker, sometimes wild expansive can cause collapse. Aggressive map play can cause a tidal wave of enemy incursions. It has a lot more "thought" to it than a lot of the idle incremental games. I hope it sells well because it definitely sticks out.

[@Jasta85]

Just got back into the game after the latest update, I've got most of the tech tree unlocked at this point but it is fun to put in just one more run after each major update. Looking forward to the 1.0 launch.

[@mitchk7655]

HAve you done the tower of babel yet?

[@GregH-p5r]

Playing an Empire Earth grand AI battle for like 5 hours is a high water mark of PC gaming for me. I immediately started listening when you dropped its name.

[@kalamsp]

This is one of rhose videos where you can really tell in Splat's voice that he is exicetd about this game

[@karnegionzzz]

If this is a Paradox game the hero function would be DLC, the scouting function is limited by DLC, only phalanx is available (horsemen is DLC), there's a faction skin pack as DLC, and extra music pack (which usually are a bop) as DLC

[@BjrnFriedrichsen]

if you use the double skill before you use any skill it doubles its use. so instead of having 1 wood/food/stone/attack charge you now have 2. very effective way of maximizing your attack power.

[@charles_teak]

That is so *_stimulating!_*

[@Zetraxes]

Watching this on 2x speed feels like im downloading the entire contents of the internet into my brain at the speed of light it would look somewhat like the intro of big bang theory

[@Opus_Fluke]

I'm getting flashbacks to the way too many hours spent playing "Civilization 2".

[@quicsilver524]

Time to revisit drova

[@aoihitori]

I had ant terrarium and this is what it feels like.

[@dirtywhitellama]

This looks so fun but being a clicker is a hard dealbreaker for me. I click enough at work my wrists and hands can't take that anymore at my age

[@dirtywhitellama]

Can't edit my comment in this mobile browser, but if anyone is wondering, it sounds like there are accessibility options for holding a key rather than clicking, so I may check it out after all.

[@eepopgames2741]

@@dirtywhitellama As a fellow OLD, I can't recommend highly enough a USB foot pedal for games in general. I bought like the cheapest one i could find on the prime shopping site, and its been a godsend for reducing repetitive strain. No idea how it handles for this title in particular though.

[@dirtywhitellama]

@@eepopgames2741 I didn't even realize those are a thing, that's very interesting! Thanks for the heads up!

[@6thisis]

I think you playing an older version. in the new version they have a new world map and few other updates to the buildings.

[@jaywerner8415]

I just scrolled past a comment mentioning the "beta" branches on Steam. So maybe that's why? Like this is just the official "public release" version at the moment.

[@ChristopherDwiggins]

I love this game its strangely addicting 😅

[@BjrnFriedrichsen]

later on you can get hero´s that increase sustainability by over 200% and some that increase damage of you units by over 10.

[@samadams2203]

Oh, is it still click heavy? I played the demo some time ago, left feedback about it and the dev said they might add an auto-clicker. Shame, it looks like a decent little game, but far too much clicking.

[@leoleo1035]

Yep, still is a mostly cookie clicker game

[@sapientwolfe2640]

FWIW, I saw another comment mention the dev added a hold mode instead of clicker mode!

[@mitchk7655]

They did add an auto clicker.

[@jaywerner8415]

I mean I know you can get LEADERS that allow for Automation but Your still better off clicking manually.

[@blackshard641]

Lemmings + Civilization =

[@TheFlayedalive]

You don't have to click, there are two buttons you can press and hold (A and S). I am sure others have mentioned that here too.

[@jznightmare1158]

kinda reminds me of the lemmings 😆

[@JayB9127]

Comment for the comment god!

[@Schneckentokkel]

not gonna lie, this Gandhi looks like Mahatma Gollum! xD

[@plumbthumbs9584]

excellent!

[@Kymlaar]

Oh, did you know that you can hold A for food and S for production instead of clicking? Save uour mouse.

[@P4tchimus]

Reminds me a lot of old CivNet

[@hiddengalaxy187]

Reminds me of Reus

[@davidgermain]

can you macro the scroll whell to the click?

[@stevens9625]

Can you experience a nuclear apocalypse/terminator and rebuild from the ashes of the past or are we railroaded like in CIV?

[@jaywerner8415]

From what i played, id say Railroaded like CIV. Like.... Roguelike is not the right term but..... I guess its kinda like Loop Hero? You Research Tech till you hit the end of the Tech tree, then you "ACCEND" which tallys up all your Accomplishments in that "run" which gives you Lotus to unlock MORE STUFF. For example you start in the Cave man age, and can unlock NEW Ages to research though up till the Modern age last I checked. But their are other things like Bonus Resorces income among other things in the Unlock Tree.

[@Ilamarea]

Did they get rid of battle animations or do I remember it wrong?

[@mitchk7655]

The animations usually walk onto screen, and he is killing them too fast for them to get on screen. You see a horse run on a few times before he beats the battle.

[@LordZoth6292]

Cattursplat

[@jweare333]

It looks cool… the amount of clicking is a little worrying though.

[@FrancesWitt-j6e]

Katarina Islands

[@chadowen4379]

The excessive clicking is a major issue to me. Think that the system needs to be redisgned. Other than that, game looks great

[@jaywerner8415]

Their is a way to Automate the Clicking but your better off Clicking manually.

[@dukelornek]

if it didn't have the the clicker mechanic I would like it

[@jaywerner8415]

You can automate the Clicks if you want. But your better off clicking manually.

[@danielkowalski7527]

try Wizard and Minion Idle ^^

[@mbielcik]

🖤

[@Ondar007]

Bought 😁 My fingers will hurt!

[@ThePiachu]

While I wanted to be into this game, it really didn't click for me. It's too much of an "active" idle game - not much progresses when you just have it on the second screen and also you have to babysit it just in case some problem comes up. At the same time, it's not active enough to be something I play with full focus. So it kind of awkwardly stradles the two genres for me...

[@LordZoth6292]

Lol I'd just use an auto clicker and turn it on an off.

[@agentwade]

I got about 5 hours in and lost power to my PC. Lost all the data of the entire 10 or so hours I had. Be warned.

[@DrBunnyMedicinal]

Comment to appease the Algorithmic Spirit!

[@Tyfyss]

For the KZbin servitors, brother!

[@jeffcraymore]

auto clicker is your friend. but this game has an anti auto clicker feature.

[@MegaOgrady]

Honestly, I'd get a mouse clicker just to get the resources. Id rather be a cheater than get carpal tunnel

[@Tokarr]

Why half of new indie games looks like web browser games from 2010 ? And cost 25$ ? !

[@Astronaut_Zero]

Because there are a lot of us that love the classic style and have learned that graphics are the least necessary thing for a game to have to be fun.

[@jaywerner8415]

Cus we love the look of those old games?

[@Tokarr]

@@Astronaut_Zero And you just accept web browser games for 20$ ?

[@Astronaut_Zero]

@@Tokarr if it’s fun, sure. I have paid way more and gotten way less. Maybe this game isn’t for you. Good thing you don’t do the thinking for all of us.

[@rottenapple_]

Worth is subjective.

[@TheHoriyoshi]

Played it.....u gotta click your ass off in this one....clickclickclickclickclick....tendonitis is comiiiiing...xd...but other than that, cool idea...

[@nigl2807]

"idle game" err....

[@nelsoc2]

I found this game to be very very boring. But thats what I love about games. everyone has their own games that they love

[@sicotic2897]

Way too much clicking needed....

[@Dalamarian]

I made it 3 minuets in before buying it, this dude is so bad for my wallet.

[@Diree]

The clicking part is just a big nono for me (even if you can use a and s alternatively as someone pointed out in the comments). It's either "click and hold" for me or "click to enable/disable". Anything else is going to drive me crazy and wear down my equipment needlessly (I already click thousands of times per day for work, and I'm going through a mouse every 6 months or so). In a day and age where "accessibility" is so high on everyone's list, I think they should implement an option make that happen. It's a single player game. Nobody suffers from this option being there. But that's just me. If they think this clicking mechanic is an integral part of their game ... then it's just not for me and I'm okay with that. Funnily enough the devs apparently responded on Steam to add such an option. That was in 2023 ... soooo, not sure why this hasn't happened yet?

[@percinatto]

You can click and hold if you want. They will probably add enable/disable eventually

[@TheAwkwardGuy]

*Ahem* how in the world do you go through a mouse every 6 months?! It's either an incredibly cheap mouse for like 1$ or you're clicking a little too hard lmao

[@jaywerner8415]

You can Automate the Clicking somewhat, but your still better off clicking manually.

[@ALEakaKorwin]

Fix subtitles please.

[@johannesmantiri8336]

👍

[@leoleo1035]

Not sure this can be classified as a strategy game. Seems like 90% cookie clicker (even has the "ascension" mechanic, which is pretty much playing the same thing over and over again, with very slight changes) I mean, the game isn't bad, but it is not strategy material.

[@LilaHikes]

I think I value my mouse hand more than I value this game. What a horrible mechanic.

[@JohnyG29]

Yeah, pretty sure I wouldn't enjoy this game.

[@DaClaptain]

When every game is the greatest game youve ever looked at it kind of looses all meaning. imagine being this desperate to beg on the internet for a handout and attention as an adult. Kinda sad bud.

[@ThatGuy-hl1go]

First

[@winzyl9546]

Eww clicker. Thats not strategy.