Songs Of Syx! An Enormous Early Access City Builder That Simulates Every Single Citizen!

[@WeirdPros]

Education. split into "Education" and "Indoctrination" ratings. Game is based.

[@danielmcleod5133]

Anyone else see archibald and immediately think “is that Nigel Thornberry?”

[@firebreathingcow]

Smashing

[@HazzronIV]

I love Tim Curry. Maybe it's in accurate but I feel like he's a bit like our generation's Vincent Price.

[@deadbeef576]

@@HazzronIV Tim Curry is the one who introduced me to my fetishes, cant thank him enough for that!

[@IanGerritsen]

My old man (70) and I bought this after your earlier coverage, we sunk hundreds of hours each into it and it took dwarf fortress steam to pull us away. It's amazing, really looking forward to development of the world map and war.

[@artios162]

Honestly a few thing they could add into the game would be 1. Multi story building: it is already a thing even in ancient time, it would help immensely with the housing issue. Just smack a bunch of modifier onto it like filth and noise 2. Transportation: wagon, stage coach or anything that can be use to extend the distance worker will travel from their houses to the workplace. There are more but those are the 2 thing that is at top of my head after watching the video

[@henriqueribeiro8167]

Point two is exactly what I scrolled down to write. In rural areas of Brazil, farm laborers are hauled to their workplace all toguether in the back of a pickup truck from a more residential area of the nearby city. A planned "state" coach-service, or Carts for the citizens hauling goods + people on their own (think people getting lifts on hay carts) would be perfect .

[@Tinyuvm]

@@henriqueribeiro8167 Le Pau-de-arara

[@henriqueribeiro8167]

@@Tinyuvm Oh, I didnt know it was called that, this is very interesting. I got confused for a second, "Pau de arara" is also a torture technique popular during the dictatorship.

[@Tinyuvm]

@@henriqueribeiro8167 Yeah, maybe it's called that because you barely would have Space to sit. So they would balance in the sides like "Araras in a pole"

[@meliocurie1809]

There are wagons already you can research it in the logistics

[@dragonballzgt1989]

dude surround each farm with a canal. It really boosts fertility. I normally wrap each one in 2 rows and i can get a plot that was in the high 40% up to the 70s in some cases. Also helps herds.

[@benjamintherogue2421]

My crops are doing well. Irrigation is the future.

[@Tom-kg6qe]

Archibald Reedash - SMASHING!

[@nadrewod999]

Damn, that map detail scaling is smooth. The zoom in from "Dwarf-Fortress pixel city" to "high-res pixel art for each face, character, item, and room"took mere seconds.

[@Paul-cu9lu]

That was my first thought. A dwarf fortress-like. We need a name for that

[@PreacherwithoutaPulpit]

Very cool, I for one would love to see you playing more of this...

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

Realistically, people who would immigrate to the middle of nowhere were probably looking to farm. They'd want some land for themselves and would probably be tough and willing to defend it. And you better not piss them off, because they're tough enough to fight for their rights. However, farmers wouldn't care about much so long as you leave the alone (ie. don't tax them too much), nor would they be pursuaded by intellectuals of certain ideologies. Pretty much every other immigrant would just be someone looking for diverse work opportunities in a city. Or they're disaster/war refugees. Or they're staying temporarily, because they're agents, merchants or whoever.

[@iller3]

only 2 minutes in and Arch is already guilty of Warcrimes (making his ppl eat without Table)

[@ronnibech3376]

Bought the game because of this video thank you very much Arch 😹

[@jonarc2403]

“I covered this game… a couple of years ago?” …8 months, mate.

[@johnathonyoung4799]

Thank god I thought I was going mad

[@Hippo_Hegemony]

This is his third video in it, so yeah it has been years

[@BVargas78]

It looks prety cool, I actually bought it not too long ago but am too much of a peasant to have gotten around to playing it much yet!

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

As South Park would say, "Alas, you are incapable, for you still have a life."

[@IanGerritsen]

Man it's really worth it, it's easy to just play and build with no random civilization ending catastrophes like someone eating without a table. If they're not happy you'll just stagnate in pop size until you fix what's pissing them all off.

[@martingreer2714]

I wish I had the level of autism needed to play these sorts of games. I always find them interesting to watch, but I'd not have the patience to learn how to play them.

[@umbraelegios4130]

Ain't nothing wrong with "Rat on a stick" or "Tasty Meat Pie's" and a little "Scrumble". All Mor Porkian needs.

[@Graygor.]

Sausages in a bun made from genuine pig products!

[@IRMentat]

This is looking really good so far. The population "issue" (if you want to eat you had best be willing to walk more than 100meters to get to work) could really use something and one apartment per person seems excessive, there needs to be better options for more family/multi-generational accommodation that can hold 6-10 people each (2-4 grandparents, main couple, 2-4 kids) plus maybe even clan/familiar-houses to really hit the theming for a more medieval/tribal approach to how people used to live. Hell, even in the industrial revolutions and peak-national production phases especially you would get entire families plus pets in terraced houses lined u by the hundreds to work in single-facilities where those very streets in which they lives were built and managed by the mine/factory/farm/town owners. leaning into that sort of thing would help make this feel a lot like an endless array of disconnected dots running around in their narrow lives rarely interacting with one another (plus PETS!, or at least, working animal companions for stat-boosts and sundry out-doorsey tasks like guarding, hunting, scouting, transport, farming, industry, foraging, warfrare/skirmishing, supply runs). like I said tho, some significant stepts already taken to making this look like a title that's right on the wedge of must-buy/cult--classic.

[@whatever11ization]

Love this game, super complex, it breaks my brain

[@xaxas736]

Pigpeople for slaves? in some Fantasysettings Pigpeople = Orcs. And as we learned from the LotR/DnD coverage, Orcs do represent Blacks. What are you doing Arch?!? :D

[@Vlamyncksken]

orcs in lotr dont represent blacks...

[@Graygor.]

I picked up Songs of Syx after your previous review and loved it. I took a break after a month or two as its still early access but i have been keeping an eye on it aside it updates. It might be time to give it another go.

[@DefaultFlame]

"This game is not yet available on steam." Is all it says when I looked at it right now. How'd you get it?

[@DefaultFlame]

Ignore me. Steam gave me Songs of Silence, not Songs of Syx.

[@theinvisiableman6483]

Trying to watch the vid arch and ALL I can think about is how I'm, hearing Fear a Bhàta in the background.. cheers for that lol

[@theinvisiableman6483]

If you dont know what that is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXnIY3tojLSEjtU

[@TheHej2]

Locking forward to it

[@WaywardLone]

Neat! Arch covers S't'yx. That's About All...Peace Out

[@DragonMaster360]

I understood that reference 😉

[@WeirdPros]

clank

[@asmkalrizion7078]

some kind of Trains/public transportation would be cool

[@barryryan7777]

I got it when you first showed it. Then I played and holy shit

[@angermacfadden2702]

This game is great for EA. It has much potential with the Factions and it has been fun slowly building.

[@poprostujanek1014]

looks neat.

[@guardsmen666]

hey arch can u do a lets-play of this?

[@johnathonyoung4799]

Yes!

[@johnathonyoung4799]

I want to see that

[@lukestewart6155]

This kinda reminds me of that Stargate Atlantis episode The season 3, 15 episode called “the game”

[@timmorin6657]

Pretty cool game, will buy

[@grassrootsdictator5701]

It’s been a year arch, the games got a bunch of updates and attention let’s get some more songs of syx content!

[@bigneto95]

Another vídeo about this game? Nice

[@williamjeffery9653]

Not 5 minutes in, and Arch enslaves the pig people. I guess they were less equal then others.

[@deadbeef576]

Time to rebuild Magnasanti

[@do0myk]

if someone gonna go in to this with the idea of having homogeneous population, like i did, consider that you will make the game MUCH harder for yourself that way, perhaps even unplayable. It is possible but the game is designed in a way so that you would have at least 2 different races in your city at all times.

[@nurgleschosen8145]

If this game had elevation you'd be capable of building actual apartments by building up

[@firebreathingcow]

Hey Arch, I’ve been playing this game and I’d love if you’d stream this game.

[@christianpackard8674]

8 days of food? is that due to more food per person? my number is 30 days of food, it allows you to tweak your logistics more properly and allows for more smoother acclimation when adding citizens. Plus it allows you to focus on getting a sustainability on three to four food per person and then 3-4 cloth per person. But maybe you're already doing that and thats why its so low. But everyone i watches always has such low food in stock lol. you also should have more warehouses put up. just mini ones all over,especially next to canteens and the storage ones. You just make a mini one that fetches only drink, food, and whatever else you need. that way your people are always able to get clothes food and drink and not waste time.

[@anyaarvidsson3038]

very American law enforcement

[@classicfrog80]

That game map reminds me of western Europe for some reason.

[@icameisawicringed6644]

Why, when you were comparing Dwarf Fortress to Rimworld; did you not compare it to this instead? This is actually comparable to DF, in terms of complexity, while also having the QoL features you demand. Definitely gonna pick it up, even though I already don't have time to play it; or any other games I own for that matter.

[@CynicalOldDwarf]

Probably because Rimwold is very well known whereas this isnt

[@icameisawicringed6644]

@@CynicalOldDwarf All the more reason to mention it .... He has been playing it for a while. I altered my initial comment for brevity, but in reality this game has been on my wishlist for around a year; after seeing Barch play it.

[@frederiknielsen6038]

Honestly, this is closer to something like Pharoe or Emperor or other city builders like them than it is to DF.

[@getfreur2458]

Deja Vu, I'm almost sure I saw this video last year.

[@nadrewod999]

He covered it 7 months ago, so that's probably when you first saw it.

[@Chordus_Gaius]

Cretorians are vegetarians. A good reason to prosecute them.

[@demoulius1529]

So.... bAsicly large scale rimworld?

[@timmorin6657]

Want

[@pjackson6688]

Is Arch going to dig to deep and to greedily

[@ogthebarbaricallymoderate8804]

Fear a bhata song is playing in the background of the first couple of minutes lol I love that song

[@buckhammer5897]

Looks like dwarf fortress 2.0

[@elysiankentarchy1531]

Algorithm comment. Praise Arch

[@DragonMaster360]

Is it available for Linux?

[@ianbruene1529]

With proton, most things are.

[@TheRealXartaX]

Every time I start playing this I just lose interest because of the horrible max sizes of buildings. I don't find it difficult or complicated, but my OCD just refuses to deal with stuff I can't neatly arrange into grids.

[@aaronkienenberger9028]

lets play please

[@10011110011]

if the game doesnt have race riots, I dont care dwarfs and elf in one city, X Doubt

[@Hippo_Hegemony]

The game does, in a way.

[@10011110011]

@@Hippo_Hegemony in a way 🤔

[@lemons1559]

@@10011110011 Every race wants to be the majority so if there are too many other races, they'll be unhappy about that.

[@Hippo_Hegemony]

@@10011110011 a race will dislike other races, and this can spiral out of control

[@10011110011]

@@Hippo_Hegemony is there mass scale homocide?

[@n0r53man4]

Øl

[@ninstar8165]

How long until your society turns Woke?