Yeah this game reminds me of Laputa which im sure had some level of inspiration. (could be wrong). But in regards to a floating city being terrifying as a technologically superior state crossing borders that for sure makes sense. Given the apparent setting of the game it's like a group of people having access to aircraft carriers and strategic bombing in the bronze age.
that aspect reminds me of Mortal Engines, except the cities are on treads and roam the wastelands hunting scrap and each other (if you at all enjoyed the movie, I recommend the books, there's 9 and can be had in a box set. They are "young adult" but I am 59 and found them fun. And like most movie adaptations, the books flesh the setting and story out a lot.)
@@GretchenDawntreader I didn't realize it was a book series. I'll have to check it out. I wish they didnt rush the movie much. It had so much in it but so little was actually fleshed out. I just wanted to know more about the world.
I recommend centering the hangar with one of the two doors on the side of the center building. They have to walk between them, so that minimizes the time they have to spend carrying resources. You can either move that center road you added at the beginning or you can turn the hangar sideways
I love the parquetry effect of the land below the floating kingdom..... Your comments about the 'balsa wood' construction of the world are spot on, Mr SplatterCat! As I watch you get into the game, one thing is buzzing in my brain - I WANT TO PLAY ! 😃 Brilliant, sir! 👍😊 M 🦘🏏😎
Normally games with paths don't need them and just make the game harder to pick up for new players. With this game you're a single building floating in air. With paths effecting the tilt and over all weight of the ship so it's one of the few games where I like it being in there.
The hanger was almost perfect tail shape, so when you put it aft I was thinking "Yes, as it should be.." then you tacked it on the side instead "AH! WHY!"
It's true Splatty, so much DARK in games, books too. Reading a pleasant sci/fi right now as opposed to so much in sci/fi and fantasy last years that are DARK. Nice game, like Book of Travels seems a relaxed pleasant not DARK, good stuff.
So true..I've never heard of Book of Travels but will def check it out for a change..What sci-fi book are you reading I'm interested in a pleasant sci-fi story? I can't remember the last time, or any time for that matter lol, I read a sci-fi book that wasn't dystopian or had an almost horror/dark underlying bent or main theme to it..any recommendations for books or games that fall in that vein would be appreciated, thanks
@@dimePS check out books by Becky Chambers, she writes lovely upbeat stories. I just finished very short Monk & Robot first book, very nice. Looking forward to the next.
I should look into getting this game, it's got my interest, thanks for reviewing this one again Splat. Also, yes, a Conservatory is a term for a school, for music and/or the arts, it is also another term for a Solarium, Greenhouse, or such similar.
Splat is also correct in that a conservatory can be used to mean a school, most commonly a school for the arts. Think about it the way we frequently call schools for small children "kindergarten," "garden of children."
@@QuantumWaltz Yeah, Universities often have a "conservatory of music" etc which is an "extension" of the main university.. a place where knowledge grows
The two meanings of conservatory aren't related like that. The word has nothing to do with growing or plants, but preserving. In England, it came to be used for greenhouses, while later on, via the French as usual, the Italian meaning was imported. In Italy, the word was originally used for an orphanage in which great musicians came by to teach the orphans, leading to the later "conservatory of music". That's why conservatory has two rather unrelated meanings in modern English (but to my knowledge, no other language, although many adopted the late Italian meaning).
@@Muenni I never said they were etymologically related; merely pointed out a similar area where English refers to educational institutions as being places of cultivation.
@@winnie8614 I mean... sometimes you gotta do what you've got to do to make your dream come true. At least it's not a microtransaction riddled NFT generator, right? It's a fun game, that for some reason we don't know, was exclusive to EGS for a year.
@@winnie8614 Actually it was supposed to be a permanent epic exclusive. Apparently the console publisher bought out the contract and so they finally released it on steam after having a dormant steam page since before EGS launch.
The gameplay looks like a great city builder, but the real winner for me here is the worldbuilding. The aesthetic and the lore breadcrumbed to us in the intro video feels like I've flown off into some Arabian Night story or something. This might just get me off my habit of heavily modding Rimworld... Once my salary rolls in, anyway...
With the risk of getting lynched because of using mac for gaming, it could be extremely nice if you could put keywords like Mac and Windows at the end of the title to let us know the platforms the game can be played on, that way we can actually search by those keywords and can get only the related results. Otherwise, I often find myself watching a really cool gameplay of a really nice game that I got to love by the end of the video, only to find out that the game does not run on my computer (Mac) :(((( I ofc know that you don't have to in any way, but it would be a very very helpful thing for I think not only me but other people as well. Love your work and thank you :)
This type of games are boring to me, but this ones is so good in the art style and direction and how carefully crafted the gameworld is, the setting, the atmosphere, the subtle music, narration and those gameplay elements like tilt degrees, elevation, changing the worldmap depending on your actions, a lot of love, care and dedication was put into this work of passion, and that's something worth paying for, even if I'm bored to death by the gameplay I had to buy it.
I also think your symmetry issue is partially from splitting districts port/starboard instead of fore/aft. If you built all the housing balanced left-right fore, and all the industry aft... I suspect it would tickle the brain less.
Not the kind of title I'm into, at all, but I'll still watch the video (as usual). 😅 It is pretty, and presents a few unique ideas, but I find regular old survival games hard enough (and not very fun), even when they're on land.
Oh lol, it's on steam now. I remembered your EGS review. I liked a game, I played it, but didn't bought it. Now I am wondering should i buy it, or boycott it for being EGS exclusive for year?
Very pretty. I wanna say you're probably mostly paying for aesthetics here, which may be valid for some, depending on wallet size and disposition. I don't see that it contains any substantial variables that provides replayability. According to negative reviews, after 5-10 hours, you'll be done with it, unless you wanna go again just to look at it I guess.
Art games are probably best thought of in terms of movies when it comes to value. I don’t know how much the game is but a movie is usually an hour and a half for $15 or so at the theater.
@@M33f3r Yes. For a certain kind of person, enjoying this almost purely for the aesthetics is certainly within my realm of understanding. However, as a game, I think that it must suffer some deserved criticism. When they got this far, why not tweak the design to make it interesting mechanically as well right? You could have both, and if it did have both, it would be a no brainer at this price point for anyone interested in the genre.
Dude, you flew right passed the glass, even though you didn't have any, twice and never bothered to collect any. I'm just saying, gathering up any resource that you pass is a good thing. Whether you need it at the moment or not is beside the point. The fact is that you will need them at some point and to go find them is a lot of time wasted. Overall still a good video though.👍
I played this game last year. I nice and different look to it for sure. I let these MOFOS fall out of the sky tho. I'm an outlaw like that cat. That's how i rollll.
May i know if the game will continue to progress even when I don't log in? example. I started and come back after 1 to 2 weeks. will all the people died and game over. or it will only continue when I log in the game again and nothing will lose.
I love the random history tibbits yee old splaty gives during videos they are so random sometimes but ink being made of iron like where do you learn this shit
Terrible city planning sense. I suppose it’s more forgiving than frostpunk where districting was much more vital… but in this game it would be much harder to revise your city after rampant developing with the tilt mechanic. I might have started with the hanger centered on its own side and the housing counter weighting it though from a central path out.
I would say that Boat somewhat requires some sort of propulsion? Else it would be raft... Also it looks cool. I like games like this... Too bad it was rotting on Epic store :(
I'd bite if there was cool aerial combat elements, that would be cool. Imagine being able to switch to first person in a little fighter jet, grab your hotas, and repel attacks from ground based nations. Hell, if you could land ground forces to turn nations into tributary states; no actual control of them, but they give you money and resources. Open it up to multiplayer, where you can go head to head with other players, growing your flying city and fighting for influence among the grounders.
Looks great (frostpunk-like) but the fact that you can't reassign workers in buildings is irritating to the point of frustration and almost makes the early game unplayable.
Bro! They're still building stiff in the adobe color in the OC it's the worst. Unlike everything here in L.A. which is painted in homelessness and Gucci
"I'm going to put two houses on each side. I want to keep things balanced." *puts hangar and water tower on the same side*
You know not eweryone have bright mind:)
classic Splat
Yeah this game reminds me of Laputa which im sure had some level of inspiration. (could be wrong). But in regards to a floating city being terrifying as a technologically superior state crossing borders that for sure makes sense. Given the apparent setting of the game it's like a group of people having access to aircraft carriers and strategic bombing in the bronze age.
Unfortunately there's no giant death laser on the bottom of this city.
that aspect reminds me of Mortal Engines, except the cities are on treads and roam the wastelands hunting scrap and each other (if you at all enjoyed the movie, I recommend the books, there's 9 and can be had in a box set. They are "young adult" but I am 59 and found them fun. And like most movie adaptations, the books flesh the setting and story out a lot.)
@@GretchenDawntreader I didn't realize it was a book series. I'll have to check it out. I wish they didnt rush the movie much. It had so much in it but so little was actually fleshed out. I just wanted to know more about the world.
Such a pretty game with an original twist on the city management. Glad to be reminded of its progress
You perform a public service, my dude. So glad I don't have to slog through all the terrible stuff to find the gems. Thank you.
I can't believe that it's been a year since the last time I saw you played this, it feels like yesterday.
Time is relative ;-)
I recommend centering the hangar with one of the two doors on the side of the center building. They have to walk between them, so that minimizes the time they have to spend carrying resources. You can either move that center road you added at the beginning or you can turn the hangar sideways
I love the parquetry effect of the land below the floating kingdom..... Your comments about the 'balsa wood' construction of the world are spot on, Mr SplatterCat!
As I watch you get into the game, one thing is buzzing in my brain - I WANT TO PLAY ! 😃
Brilliant, sir! 👍😊
M 🦘🏏😎
I like how in the intro they just casually make a connection between self-interest and isolation…
Yesterday I saw this game on steam and thought it'd be great if you covered it. Today I bought it. Thanks SplatterCat!
SplatterCat. Like when you throw a cat and it goes splat!? Just like that.
@@Astral100 I'm gonna blame auto-correct on that one! lol
I'm glad you're revisiting this game. I really like it, it looks beautiful.
Is there anything new added? The game is good for like one or two playthroughs but the static map really hurts replayability.
There is a NG+ with more randomized world, where you pick a wonder to start with (somewhat) and creative mode.
@@kvakosekboyo Oh that's great news. When he said the map was the same, I was worried for the replayability...
Normally games with paths don't need them and just make the game harder to pick up for new players. With this game you're a single building floating in air. With paths effecting the tilt and over all weight of the ship so it's one of the few games where I like it being in there.
Splat, man i feel you mate. Love this game. Well done on playing it again. Love your work. Please never stop. Bro hug from New Zealand.
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Reminds me of a very old game...Stratosphere :) anyone else remember that old PC game. Love the vids
The hanger was almost perfect tail shape, so when you put it aft I was thinking "Yes, as it should be.." then you tacked it on the side instead "AH! WHY!"
It's true Splatty, so much DARK in games, books too. Reading a pleasant sci/fi right now as opposed to so much in sci/fi and fantasy last years that are DARK. Nice game, like Book of Travels seems a relaxed pleasant not DARK, good stuff.
So true..I've never heard of Book of Travels but will def check it out for a change..What sci-fi book are you reading I'm interested in a pleasant sci-fi story? I can't remember the last time, or any time for that matter lol, I read a sci-fi book that wasn't dystopian or had an almost horror/dark underlying bent or main theme to it..any recommendations for books or games that fall in that vein would be appreciated, thanks
@@dimePS check out books by Becky Chambers, she writes lovely upbeat stories. I just finished very short Monk & Robot first book, very nice. Looking forward to the next.
I should look into getting this game, it's got my interest, thanks for reviewing this one again Splat. Also, yes, a Conservatory is a term for a school, for music and/or the arts, it is also another term for a Solarium, Greenhouse, or such similar.
Conservatories are for plebs, true gentlemen take their refreshments in the orangery...
Ha just played this yesterday. Really cool game concept. Love the tilt mechanic.
FYI: Conservatory = "a room with a glass roof and walls, attached to a house at one side and used as a sun lounge or for growing plants."
Splat is also correct in that a conservatory can be used to mean a school, most commonly a school for the arts. Think about it the way we frequently call schools for small children "kindergarten," "garden of children."
@@QuantumWaltz Yeah, Universities often have a "conservatory of music" etc which is an "extension" of the main university.. a place where knowledge grows
The two meanings of conservatory aren't related like that. The word has nothing to do with growing or plants, but preserving. In England, it came to be used for greenhouses, while later on, via the French as usual, the Italian meaning was imported. In Italy, the word was originally used for an orphanage in which great musicians came by to teach the orphans, leading to the later "conservatory of music". That's why conservatory has two rather unrelated meanings in modern English (but to my knowledge, no other language, although many adopted the late Italian meaning).
@@Muenni I never said they were etymologically related; merely pointed out a similar area where English refers to educational institutions as being places of cultivation.
I dont know why watching this makes me want a game based off of the Mortal Engines movie.
I saw this on steam and figured you'd cover it eventually, so I held of buying it but I'm definitely interested lol
It is great game. But author selt their soul to EGS for one year, so IDK if it is morally viable to buy it now.
@@winnie8614 I mean... sometimes you gotta do what you've got to do to make your dream come true. At least it's not a microtransaction riddled NFT generator, right? It's a fun game, that for some reason we don't know, was exclusive to EGS for a year.
@@winnie8614 Actually it was supposed to be a permanent epic exclusive. Apparently the console publisher bought out the contract and so they finally released it on steam after having a dormant steam page since before EGS launch.
The gameplay looks like a great city builder, but the real winner for me here is the worldbuilding. The aesthetic and the lore breadcrumbed to us in the intro video feels like I've flown off into some Arabian Night story or something. This might just get me off my habit of heavily modding Rimworld... Once my salary rolls in, anyway...
Splatt talking about nuance of colors, and casually going the wrong way !
I grew up in the 80s in Philly.
The palette you describe is the same.
Then I came to Cali in 1990.
This is adorable! Needs black powder revolvers though. Even if they are just on the people's clothes while they walk around the ship!
I watched this being played in a playlist by a fave gamer of mine and it's very cute and the ship gets very elaborate.
With the risk of getting lynched because of using mac for gaming, it could be extremely nice if you could put keywords like Mac and Windows at the end of the title to let us know the platforms the game can be played on, that way we can actually search by those keywords and can get only the related results. Otherwise, I often find myself watching a really cool gameplay of a really nice game that I got to love by the end of the video, only to find out that the game does not run on my computer (Mac) :(((( I ofc know that you don't have to in any way, but it would be a very very helpful thing for I think not only me but other people as well. Love your work and thank you :)
Yes. And Linux too please. :P
Loved this game. Its a shame its so short (took me about 5h to complete it)
How replaceable is it?
@@CobisTaba *replayable ;-)
@@igorthelight ehhh lol, aurocorrect...
@@CobisTaba :-)
It looks absolutely lovely. I can't wait to play this
Wow, what a visually interesting game
This type of games are boring to me, but this ones is so good in the art style and direction and how carefully crafted the gameworld is, the setting, the atmosphere, the subtle music, narration and those gameplay elements like tilt degrees, elevation, changing the worldmap depending on your actions, a lot of love, care and dedication was put into this work of passion, and that's something worth paying for, even if I'm bored to death by the gameplay I had to buy it.
I just learned something new today I didn’t know about the ink thank you for teaching me this
So we're basically building our own Laputa? Neat!
I also think your symmetry issue is partially from splitting districts port/starboard instead of fore/aft.
If you built all the housing balanced left-right fore, and all the industry aft... I suspect it would tickle the brain less.
picked this up on epic when it came out; however it's more of a play once then never again game. still fun to play that one time tho.
Defenestration. I believe that's the word you're looking for Splat.
You unlocked coloring and immediately made a red light district XD
it's called Parallax error, engineers use mirrors behind the guages to mitigate it.
Not the kind of title I'm into, at all, but I'll still watch the video (as usual). 😅 It is pretty, and presents a few unique ideas, but I find regular old survival games hard enough (and not very fun), even when they're on land.
Oh lol, it's on steam now. I remembered your EGS review. I liked a game, I played it, but didn't bought it. Now I am wondering should i buy it, or boycott it for being EGS exclusive for year?
What do you think of a Sci-Fi version of this like Surviving Mars but more story driven. Surviving Venus?
Unification? You mean the Unification Wars after the Old Night?
Glad you liked the game man, peace
I'm good friends with one of the lead developers of this game. Happy to see you review it on your channel.
Tell hem that they are horrible person for making it EGS exclusive at first
question for your friend
Will procedural be a future addition to keep it fresh?
Seems lovable but short
What a fun game ! Thanks for sharing this one!
That intro for real had avatar the Airbender vibes..
Reminds me of Frostpunk, but with a far happier vibe. I like it and hope it makes its way to console like Frostpunk did too.
A boat that doesn't have propulsion is called a barge, Splatty...
Very pretty. I wanna say you're probably mostly paying for aesthetics here, which may be valid for some, depending on wallet size and disposition. I don't see that it contains any substantial variables that provides replayability. According to negative reviews, after 5-10 hours, you'll be done with it, unless you wanna go again just to look at it I guess.
Art games are probably best thought of in terms of movies when it comes to value. I don’t know how much the game is but a movie is usually an hour and a half for $15 or so at the theater.
@@M33f3r Yes. For a certain kind of person, enjoying this almost purely for the aesthetics is certainly within my realm of understanding. However, as a game, I think that it must suffer some deserved criticism. When they got this far, why not tweak the design to make it interesting mechanically as well right? You could have both, and if it did have both, it would be a no brainer at this price point for anyone interested in the genre.
The only thing which looks weird is the ceramik looking floor tiles, which should represent ground.
your positivity is refreshing. 😃 and I agree: this is a great game. beautiful too.
Dude, you flew right passed the glass, even though you didn't have any, twice and never bothered to collect any.
I'm just saying, gathering up any resource that you pass is a good thing. Whether you need it at the moment or not is beside the point. The fact is that you will need them at some point and to go find them is a lot of time wasted.
Overall still a good video though.👍
"a flying island full of true believers" soooo Columbia from Bioshock Infinite?
Good stuff, thanks for covering this.
@7:48 if you reverse for 10 seconds fron there you can make an endless talk loop
This game is really attractive and interesting.
Oh I was hoping you’d cover this
Looks like the intro to the tv series Game of Thrones :)
SPLATERRCAT YOU DA MAN !
This is a great game, but super short.
Nice reminder.
debating getting this game now... Looks kinda fun.
If the item just sits there and floats, I would think it's considered a bouy
or a raft. Maybe a dock.
god the music reminds me a lot of skysaga.
i really miss the game.
I played this game last year. I nice and different look to it for sure. I let these MOFOS fall out of the sky tho. I'm an outlaw like that cat. That's how i rollll.
May i know if the game will continue to progress even when I don't log in? example. I started and come back after 1 to 2 weeks. will all the people died and game over. or it will only continue when I log in the game again and nothing will lose.
I love the random history tibbits yee old splaty gives during videos they are so random sometimes but ink being made of iron like where do you learn this shit
probably been said Conservatory=greenhouse
So Frostpunk but it's in the sky.
You mean, "Bioshock Infinite"
Terrible city planning sense. I suppose it’s more forgiving than frostpunk where districting was much more vital… but in this game it would be much harder to revise your city after rampant developing with the tilt mechanic. I might have started with the hanger centered on its own side and the housing counter weighting it though from a central path out.
@Splattercat did you finish any game?)
The voice telling the story of the kingdom is really good! And he kinda sounds like Markiplier
Appreciate the longer vids
I would say that Boat somewhat requires some sort of propulsion? Else it would be raft... Also it looks cool. I like games like this... Too bad it was rotting on Epic store :(
Nice.. Go wishlist
I played this on the Switch, where it looks like garbage on an external monitor, but I enjoyed it for a while anyhow.
Huh dont have nothing of "post apocalyptic" in the airborne kingdom '-' why u put this in the title?
Have fun living in the guaranteed collateral zone I know I do.
ksp and banished had a baby
Splat used 3/4 of his lift just on things going down...
👏👏👏👏
Wellp, I'm buying this.
I'd bite if there was cool aerial combat elements, that would be cool. Imagine being able to switch to first person in a little fighter jet, grab your hotas, and repel attacks from ground based nations. Hell, if you could land ground forces to turn nations into tributary states; no actual control of them, but they give you money and resources. Open it up to multiplayer, where you can go head to head with other players, growing your flying city and fighting for influence among the grounders.
An influence from Actraiser?
Looks great (frostpunk-like) but the fact that you can't reassign workers in buildings is irritating to the point of frustration and almost makes the early game unplayable.
Great game, bad ending.
idk, but houseboats exist...
not sure he knows what stopgap means.
Project Zomboid is the place to be, especially w all the many awesome Mods. If you haven't checked it out yet -absolutely do
Post the streams here please and thank you 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿 mix it up a lil
I've played this game on Epic and I liked it very much. I just wonder if this Steam version is somewhat different. Maybe some new features?
defenestration would not be good in this environment.
21:47 wtf he got the voice
Hi Catgamming
I don't touch Epic games
This is a beautiful looking game
Bro! They're still building stiff in the adobe color in the OC it's the worst. Unlike everything here in L.A. which is painted in homelessness and Gucci
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Those rotors are spinning so slowly they could not even lift themselves
Oh sorry vidyagames I forgot to leave my logic at the door
Oh great, so another frostpunk clone...