A Rough but Promising Colony Builder - Ostriv
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2023
- In Ostriv, you develop and govern a new town in 18th century Ukraine, gathering key resources, managing your local economy, and trading with neighbors. Three years of early access and delays have not deterred the developers from their work on a realistic - and sometimes unforgiving - colony builder, with gender roles, longer build times, and a heavier reliance on trade rather than self-sufficiency. Overall, I highly respect what this game has accomplished and is trying to become, though I do believe the game has a few rough-around-the-edges points that need refinement and the pacing could stand for some improvement.
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I love this game please make this into a series
Yes totally agree
Yes please! 🙏
+1
Pleeeaaase?
Yes.
I love this game, I've been playing it a few years now. The most efficient method i've found is to build the forestry, and than build 9 houses and 1 Thatchery. Do the Forestry first, 9 houses, Thatchery, and than the smithy and carpenter. If you are quick enough you can get through the start without losing anyone.
Thathery last. Smithy for nails and metal parts, carpentry to repair/build carts and finally cart parking so you get a 4th slot. None requires thatch. Thatechry last, set to women workers only and max out employment. Don't start work on the farm until the 4th cart is built so the thatchery has time to produce. If you timed everything right, you should have finished your last house in October/November (if you were really good, everything but the farm should be ready by November) and the farm should be ready by March which is the earliest you can start planting anyway.
Alternatively, forestry, clay pit, farm, thachery, houses WITHOUT gardens, smithy, carpentry and cart parking. You can have the farm up and running the 1st year and still get all 9 houses before winter but you're totally relent on the farm for food since nobody has a garden.
I personally love how long it takes to build everything. It makes you truly consider what you want to build and also forces you to think ahead. (E.g do you build the farm through winter for the next sowing season, or build a trade post and import food and export other items) The time it takes to build anything almost acts as a penalty for rushing and trying to do everything at once, basically, the game forces you to take it slow.
Houses with gardens also allow for people living in them to grow more than enough food and thus sell it back to you at markets, which increases their own personal wealth (assuming you don't tax the hell out of them).
Ostriv won't win any graphical awards but it's one of the most... It's just delightful. Soothing. Period appropriate. No fluff. No drama.
This game seems really interesting, I would be all for this to be a series
Finally a somewhat brutal survival game. It doesn't joke around.
The dark souls of survival games, game journos would even say.
I believe you start with all the materials to make all 9 house, the tutorial at the top left is actually kinda of a guide to pass the first winter, it's not very clear until have made a few cities but if you do what is says, you shouldn't have much issues to begin with.
Yes you do start with all the materials you need to make the first 9 house, except for the wood.
The nutrients are likely Potassium, Phosphorus, and Nitrogen, not in that order but definitely the three key nutrients for plants.
Oh man, i bought this game on humble bundle ages ago and just found my old key, certainly has gotten a lot better over the years :D
good time to start this series. the big part of my country will never be the same.
thank you for support even in this way.
The game looks interesting and the UI seems to be intuitive. Could be a nice city builder
I love how the first thing you did when you were managing the economy was massive pay cuts
One of my favorite streamers playing one of my favorite games! Please make this a series
I recommend to place some banks. This shortens the way the worker have to walk to rest
Love the realism of this game, hope to see more. :)
Oh, didn't know this is still around,👍😎 Hoping for best.
Ive been following ostriv for years and im ao glad youre playing it 🍾
ROUGH... ROUGH... You are joking right?!? This game is amazing and OFF THE GRID!!!
soil colors: potassium, nitrogen, and phosphorus. which is red, green, and blue: unknown
Historically, I agree, women could be in more trades then they are in the current state of this game. I’ve had this since it was first released to Early Access. I haven’t played it in a while, but I share that frustration of never having enough male laborers. I made the same expensive mistake with the livestock. Good to see a video on Ostriv.
Ostriv means Island.
Too much spread resources are actually no problem in this game. Firstly, building for gathering stone and lime can be placed wherever you want. The workers will be able to go for the deposits over all map. And since further processing and usage of them is quite slow and not so often, there is usualy quite a lot time for workers to gather the resources from the second half of map. Second, materials like stone, lime and Iron require quite complicated building chains to be built, so they are more for mid and late game. Until then, you should be able to buy them comfortably.
I think that this game just require different mindset than most of other building strategies. Your developement should not be rushed, but more slow, steady and sturdy. Your people really need just some basics for living (and they have good amount of their own food and staff when they move in) and your economy chains require a lot of people. So your first focus should be lot of buildings, that meet requiremenst for moving in (they have market stall nearby, etc. - you didn´t have that one for half of a video, so thus no one was moving in). And just after that you are able to make your economy more variabile.
It helps to start with building mostly houses with garden, so families have their own basic food. But since they tend to produce just one thing in each garden, you should also build storehouse which could buy their personal crops. And then you can sell it in market to everyone else. Makes food more variabile, and city cash flows better.
Also pay attention to balance taxes and wages. You have set it quite uneven, so the rents were higher than wages. That´s easy way to bancrupt your people (for example when one of the family is just occasional laborer). If Iunderstand it right, the only way to get more money in the city is by selling goods to other cities (abd money brought by new settlers). All taxes, wages and local market transactions are just money circulation between families and you. If you try to gain more money that way, you end up leaving your people poor.
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At 11:45, one of the tabs you opened on the trading dock let you select whether men, women, or both could work there. Do all of the buildings have that option? That might be one way around the gender roles built into the game.
Yes, you have that option on all buildings, but if you look closely that option is for laborers only, not for workers. You do have the option to select men/women workers for certain buildings (chicken coop, farm, etc.) but not for the "hard jobs" like construction, iron mine, etc.
I love this game and have played it on and off for 4 years now, Note: you say developers, it is really just 1 developer, I am not sure if he has recently got help . Some updates have changed the strategy in the game.
some items in the video that are no longer right. A clay pit is no longer permanent you can delete it now. the only building that is now permanent is the Town Hall.
Those three colors in the farm are soil types there are three different types of soil types like in actual farming
Confession, I love this game. So I do feel that you are being a bit harsh, on the other hand it did take me a couple of false starts. And as a result I now know the "unwritten" rules for starting a successful town.
That, I would suggest, is probably true for most town or colony building games. In fact one of my complaints/comments is that the game is pretty kind to you. If people leave the town, they are replaced by new people, often with better stockpiles of goods, so the only penalty is time.
The dev is still actively working on lots of improvements, but the organic growth of Ostriv towns is unsurpassed by any other town builder that I have tried.
Ostriv means "island" in almost any Slavic language (Ostrov in Russian, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, etc., only Ukrainian has the "i") and you pronounce it very right.
I'd love a series, but only if you are enjoying it and have the time. Enjoy yourself, and enjoy the time with your family. Cheers!🍻
Its like an updated version of banished! Ive been waiting so long for this lol
Jeez they've been working on this game for years now.
Many games are worked on for years. All you know is what's released. Stardew Valley was worked on for many years before Eric ever put out updates about it.
Well, this game is being made by 1 person. I just hope that he gets to finish it.
This isn't made by 1 person. It's a small dev group. The fuck? Have you ever read their updates?
Not anymore. There's been a whole team for a while but now. But Russia kinda blew up their homes and Ukraine drafted them so...
Yea, Not holding much hope anymore..lol @@davidkelly4210
@Pravus. Didn't you just have a kid? Congrats. :) And on the topic of Colony Builder. if you had to choice which Culture and Era to raise a Kid and family. In the Ancient or medieval past, from around the world. No later then Pike and shot. what would you choose?
This is just for a little bit of fun. XD I'm curious what you would chose.
Hey New Dad, am I hearing a little tiredness in your voice? You’re doing great! I know it that you are! Appreciate the heck out of you, man!!
yes please more
Looks promising
Welcome back Papa Pravus!
Good series 🙏
Realistic with the units? How are you putting together 7400 planks with only 148 nails?
Lmao so true
At least they "tried"
Better than making a skyscarper with 100 steel and 40 nails and 30 wood
Not every wooden joint requires nails.
Nails were quite expensive back then and were used only where absolutely necessary.
In Ukraine we have wooden churches which are told to be built without a single nail.
For example this one: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Zhovkva
@@MihaChiken very true, they could be using wood joinery
*laughs in Japan* Those guys built entire wooden castles without iron nails!
@@MihaChikenthat is difficult
Sunflower seeds are delicious.
Greetings from Kyiv!
I regularly watch all new videos on the channel, but it was especially nice to see ukrainian game ❤
Hope you guys can beat Russia and take back crimea
FOR UKRAINE!
I've seen this game being played before and it's very metal hahahaha
This game gives me "workers and resources soviet union" vibes
I kinda like this
ah yes a good Calm and peaceful games watch
Praise Pravus
woohoo! like 360! Full circle!
For the road its kind same style foundation, anyways i like city building game as long as have good concept
8:40 never the truth word have said.
The only harsh thing that really bothers me in this game is to place a countless number of tombs every ten minutes, even if you place dozens of them at once in the first place! And yeah, some production chains are really long and hard yet interesting - lime, for example.
Why did you buy the iron ore if you have it unlimited on this map?))))
Promising?
Ostriv has delivered already, no?
Considering it's not out of 1.0, not - it hasn't technically "delivered" anything.
The graphics and ui remind me of dawn of man
Weirdly this reminds me of Manor Lords …
This is before Manor Lords.
cool
This could do with some UI scaling
The work rules for what women can and cannot do are probably based on what was really allowed and not allowed in that time-period. Until very recently there were very clear sex demarcations on work. It looks like they are trying to create a very realistic game for the period.
Pravus should play more democracy 4. i would love to see a hardest difficulty america run. day 189. oh man im late today
talking about how realistic the building is then complains how slow it is lol. yeah building a place takes a long time, so it's realistic
I wonder how many cuts this video has because of his kid
Seems simple? Oh no. It gets really brutal when you get to around 500 population or so. Loads of fun. Certainly not a sandbox game.
This is just a comment to increase engagement
Hi
Charming Ukrainian folk life 😁🇺🇦
Brutal survival game but the building part is far too slow, 30 min game to get a few houses is stupid. Everything take too much time which kill the flow
Oh! Didn't expect this game on your channel. This game is being developed by one person, literally. Слава Україні
One person? You sure about that? Then why do all of their updates say "our" and "we" and not "I" and "my"? This is a small team of Ukrainian devs. Not one.
'I have tons if women, but need men'
Welcome to every kingdom ever across history. Game looks good, but the review could have done without the anachronistic misandry.
Slava Ukraini! Would love to see Pravus playing it as a series! Praise the heir! Praise Gimli!
I have the same problem, too many women.
dont think making the women do "work" would be in the spirit of the game in terms of settings
Feels like the game is massively stretching the rigidity of gender roles. Women weren't sitting at home doing nothing as everyone starved because the fields weren't worked.
@@thakillman7You are anachronistically viewing history through an ideological lens.
@@bobSeigar Thanks, this is the most insane take i've seen all year
@@thakillman7 It would help if you left your house, and interacted with the real world. Not some 21st century delusion.
@@bobSeigar Mate, you need to check into the mental hospital.
*Sees the amount of buildings inside a category*
Nope... not for me, i will stick to the against the storm
Lol. This game is actually quite easy to understand and it's not as crazy as you think. If you think this is too many, you should see a game like Captain of Industry.
Even if I wont play the game I went and bought it. Stand with Ukraine!
23:20 sowing the seeds for a ukrainian workers revolution...
I love your videos, but you really don't know how to play this one.
Woke ppl are mad about this game!😂
only two genders and traditional gender roles? is this legal?
Get over yourself.
Im from Ukraine and i like it
Seems cool, strange why it's "Ukraine in the 18th century" when it didn't exist then😂
'The Borderlands' have always existed. Language is important.
Russian
Ukraine wasn’t always Russian. It has a history you know
Or Polish-Lithuanian, given it's 1721. But most probably Russian colonization of the Wild field
@@elfinkenshi6437 True. It probably is set in Ukraine but in the Russian Empire. I think he is saying that it is today. I just want him to keep politics out of a fun game
Not anymore it isn't.
Charcoal and coal needs to be banned, green energy needs to be a internationally required law
In the age that this game is set in, Charcoal/coal is the best they had. Also, charcoal is just trees that have been burned down. How do you get any more "green" than that?
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