@@tutompop Based on their vague phrasing, it's possible they were russians and took that time to move from russia or to find ways around new limitations (russia had problems with Steam). Ukrainians have no reason to be vague now, rather opposite. Just assumption though.
Hey SplatterCat! Nice to see your review again, it's great that you haven't forgotten about our game! :) Yes, unfortunately we missed quite a lot of time in which we could have made a lot of content for the game. It's very sad and we wouldn't want to ever do that again. We'll be releasing another update soon with new buildings, systems and QoL features :)
Ihigly disagree with the health bar like KINGDOM you don't need it you just need a visual clue that evolve and then a wiki with the exact stat for an overall idea.
I'd really like a side-scrolling game like one of these (and not nesecarrily _this one_ ) that used the background layers as the timer for invasion of the demons/armies. Like, night 1 has fires and smoke on the mountain's slopes; night 2 the fires get bigger or more numerous; night 3-5 the fires move the next layer in and the mountains have fires even during the day; and each night (or set of nights) it gets worse and the waves of enemies get thicker and more varied instead of just a weird portal that poops them out on you. It might be interesting to see one where something similar is happening below ground too, with allies, other enemies, or natural phenomenon welling up from below; like dwarves that mined too deep and got themselves a balrog.
To game devs: You need a dopamine releasing sound. I know it sounds stupid, but you do. Kingdom new lands had the bad guy sounds, and death noises, the coin pickup sound, the little chimes when upgrading, ect. You need those small sharp sounds that trigger some minor chemical reaction in the player's brain.
@@nassimnassim6019 It's conditioning. We humans are animals too, we can't help it. It's like when you start getting annoyed when listening to your alarm clock music (no matter which music it is or how much you like it) because well... It makes your brain recall the sensation of having to wake up quickly. In their case, some sort of small sound whenever the sun rises or falls, or when enemies break a wall or arrive at the player's buildings (screaming? fire?) would be nice. They should take full advantage of stereo sound too, so the player can quickly tell from which direction the sound cue came from.
@@ammygamer what you are suggesting are "immersive sound" that different from what he suggest, for most game if you want that, you have to download mod(sound of skyrim or immersive sound for example). He suggest "dopamine" which is more like the "loot box" sound when you unlock rare item, répétitives sound that are the same without variety or almost no varieties . If you play "modern game" it's mostly loud music as well, I guess it do the job of répétitive conditioning . Also conditioning isn't nice, neither is viewing your customers as animals, plus I have learned to distrust whoever say or write " we human are all x" it's a mental gymnastic by nasty people's try to say everyone share their sins and is just pretending to hide them. I had one of them come in my area recently and pretend to be a baller "oh yeah I got 7(or 8) properties, I am here to buy a house money isn't a problem I got a team of builders working for me". Then when I told him the house he wanted was overpriced and to distrust the seller as he is know for his dishonesty and avarice, he went "oh but we human are all suffering from avarice". He also brag about "giving away for free" a pieces of land to some people's who bought an house from him and how "the girl cried from happiness" anyway I suggested him another house. He then went to the owner and "pretended" to buy it, also he wanted the other adjacent house as well, then he had the paper and all, just needed to sign and such finalities . He asked for a quotation from the local carpenters and "couvreur" who are also scammer, even thought he had " a team" and "would do the work himself" . The quote was to high and he ran away lolz. Anyway treating people's like if they were animal and not men and women is evil and disrespectful, it show that the person view the customers lowly and if you told me that i would not buy your product. If you lied to me and hide, i would grow doubt about the industry as a whole, which i did. Oh its also demagogue like because people's who do this have a tendency of ignoring genuine suggestions about gameplay and art style and instead decide to go with " the pigs feed" techniques "you think you do but you don't" . And it ignore all the people's who dislike it.
Interesting game. Would be nice if facilities like smithy could be built underground. Save the surface for farms and the like. Maybe mushroom farms in the mines, even.
Hi! We already have plans to add underground buildings and expand gameplay that way, but your ideas are very interesting! We never thought of an underground mushroom farm :)
@@honorablepixel6413 An even wilder idea that occurred to me while watching is to make more space available under the dome. I don't mean widen it, but give it depth instead. Just visualize the dome in 3D space and you'll see you have a row of buildable space down the center. Think of that as Main Street. You could have one or two more parallel "streets" on each side but smaller as they approach the dome edge. Maybe even have to build and man walls on every street in a hard mode. 😉 But then buildings the player puts on other streets could show in the parallax background. Just an idea. Hope it was clear. Cheers!
@@Zombull73 This is...a very profound idea :) But I think it would complicate the game too much in the end. We originally created the game in such a way that after some time the player would get a second and then a third village under their control, which would be managed simultaneously. That sounds a lot like your suggestion :)
And then your people dig too deep, and demons start spawning in the mines, and you have to defend those as well... ... or at least that's how it would go if they were Dwarves.
@@honorablepixel6413 , I’m not the original commentator you’re replying to, but I love when games let me choose to live underground. And I, personally, would immediately be sold the moment that feature is available. One thing that I do suggest if you expand the underground gameplay is to add a lights system, partially for aesthetic/decor but also to potentially make an anti-cheesing system. Perhaps the civilians work slower/less effectively in the dark, elsewise people might focus too many of their buildings underground. Perhaps some lanterns hanging from the ceiling or walls, or even magic fairy lights-maybe the fairy lights also function as a demon trap? Not sure how that’d fit, but thinking outloud anyways. The game looks absolutely gorgeous so far, by the way. Especially the backgrounds. Y’all should be very proud!
The visuals are indeed gorgeous, great amount of care and passion, as well as the technicalities of defence management. It's encouraging because it shows a lot of thoughts for how the game will be played, up to the small and very important details.
Reminds me of The Demon Cycle book series. It's like a medieval setting where demons attack people at nighttime from these portals that open up from the ground and people are protected from them by using magic wards that create barriers the demons can't cross. Cool game. I might check it out.
@@qwik123456 Have you read the 3 books? Because there are fighting wards as well. They will fight back the demons, pretty easily until the mind demon joins the party.
Idk why but this game just tickles my pickle. It’s so visually beautiful and actually feels rewarding to survive each night and expand. The music is amazing. I wouldn’t usually be into stuff like this but I legit want to play this and really anticipate its development.
One thing I think would be great to add it a pointer at the sides of the screen showing how many immigrants or monsters are offscreen in that direction, so you don't have to pan back and forth and count manually.
The left to right scrolling kingdom building demonic incursion defense game has a "vibe" of the other left to right scrolling kingdom building demonic incursion defense game?
@@NameName2.0 are you expected to run from area to area though? I hated that in Kingdoms. You have one specific way of playing the game and if you don't do that then you lose.
Def inspired by it, be it artistic direction or gameplay. But it also adds so much that you can't say it's the same. It's like saying cities skyline is the same as sim city... ok the former was inspired by the later, but they def aren't the same. ^^
Pro tip for everyone playing this gem. If You right click on a flag camera jumps quicly to that position. You can place empty one's at desired location and jump there.
What a fascinating game. It remembers me of "Kingdom Two Crowns", gameplay and some visuals wise. Wishlisted! Edit: wishlisted, then 3 minutes later I bought it
So glad i subbed, just because i learn about cool indie games with art like this. And you never play so much that the game is spoiled for the rest of us 💪
SplatterCat: "Yes, we realize that the developer's home was blown up by Russian artillery, but if they can't keep up pace with development then they are going to be a huge disappointment."
It looks good. Seems to address some of my bigger issues with Kingdom, being able to send soldiers specifically left or right, for example. Very pretty pixel graphics, too, which is always a plus for me. Will probably pick this up once it's out of early access.
I feel like you are twisting what he said. he very clearly said that they had an obviously good reason to not be working but now that they promissed that they would be going double-time, he hopes that they keep to that promise...
@@Nevario1 "absent for so long" not "too long". Splat never said it as a criticism and neither did I. It is something to think about though if you are hoping for an update but don't get one for half a year on a barely beta game.
Every time I see this layout of a game, I think what if it was two person coop. Where one person can only work center to the left, and the other center to the right, Everything on the right can be traded for to get to the left and visa versa. So if you have the wood cutter on the left and I have the mine on the right, We can trade a farmer for an lumberjack (The output of that worker would go to the side he was traded to) Or just trade lumber for stone. The Side that falls last gets bigger rewords, so you have the dynamic of helping while competing. Yes I'm sure there are problems yada yada can't yada yada imposable . . . . . . still think it would be cool.
0:25 Pretty sure it's illegal to call a game Phoenix Hope and then abandon it and it it die lol 20:18 Wow get to hear the soundtrack, that's rare, thanks for that.
Oh, is this the sequel to Kingdoms series? I stopped playing Kingdoms: New Lands because it glitched so hard that my characters ended up getting kicked out of the playing area and into no-place. I was afraid my game was cursed and quickly uninstalled it. I love isekai, but I wouldn't want to be isekai'd into the world of Kingdoms.
The difficulty makes me wary :/ wish some difficulty options or so were a thing. This is the first days of the first map and if you didn't know what to do you'd be dead already
Honestly, as far as explanations go "we couldn't really release updates for five months because a war broke out" is a pretty darn good one.
They’re based in Ukraine?
Excuses, excuses... ;)
@@tutompop I don't know, I'm going off of what was said in the video.
@@tutompop Based on their vague phrasing, it's possible they were russians and took that time to move from russia or to find ways around new limitations (russia had problems with Steam). Ukrainians have no reason to be vague now, rather opposite. Just assumption though.
@@BuranStrannik did you stretch before you jumped that conclusion?
Hey SplatterCat! Nice to see your review again, it's great that you haven't forgotten about our game! :)
Yes, unfortunately we missed quite a lot of time in which we could have made a lot of content for the game. It's very sad and we wouldn't want to ever do that again.
We'll be releasing another update soon with new buildings, systems and QoL features :)
I hope you all are safe at present.
@@GameTimeWhy Thank you, we are fine, but some of our loved ones are still in danger. We hope that this war will end as soon as possible...
@@honorablepixel6413 We all hope for that. Hang in there bro!
Ihigly disagree with the health bar like KINGDOM you don't need it you just need a visual clue that evolve and then a wiki with the exact stat for an overall idea.
Also the HP bar would ruin the imemrsion ambience too
I'd really like a side-scrolling game like one of these (and not nesecarrily _this one_ ) that used the background layers as the timer for invasion of the demons/armies. Like, night 1 has fires and smoke on the mountain's slopes; night 2 the fires get bigger or more numerous; night 3-5 the fires move the next layer in and the mountains have fires even during the day; and each night (or set of nights) it gets worse and the waves of enemies get thicker and more varied instead of just a weird portal that poops them out on you. It might be interesting to see one where something similar is happening below ground too, with allies, other enemies, or natural phenomenon welling up from below; like dwarves that mined too deep and got themselves a balrog.
To game devs: You need a dopamine releasing sound. I know it sounds stupid, but you do. Kingdom new lands had the bad guy sounds, and death noises, the coin pickup sound, the little chimes when upgrading, ect.
You need those small sharp sounds that trigger some minor chemical reaction in the player's brain.
Hmm, that's interesting. Thank you, we'll look into it.
So you treat them like druggy?
@@nassimnassim6019 It's conditioning. We humans are animals too, we can't help it. It's like when you start getting annoyed when listening to your alarm clock music (no matter which music it is or how much you like it) because well... It makes your brain recall the sensation of having to wake up quickly.
In their case, some sort of small sound whenever the sun rises or falls, or when enemies break a wall or arrive at the player's buildings (screaming? fire?) would be nice. They should take full advantage of stereo sound too, so the player can quickly tell from which direction the sound cue came from.
@@ammygamer what you are suggesting are "immersive sound" that different from what he suggest, for most game if you want that, you have to download mod(sound of skyrim or immersive sound for example). He suggest "dopamine" which is more like the "loot box" sound when you unlock rare item, répétitives sound that are the same without variety or almost no varieties . If you play "modern game" it's mostly loud music as well, I guess it do the job of répétitive conditioning . Also conditioning isn't nice, neither is viewing your customers as animals, plus I have learned to distrust whoever say or write " we human are all x" it's a mental gymnastic by nasty people's try to say everyone share their sins and is just pretending to hide them.
I had one of them come in my area recently and pretend to be a baller "oh yeah I got 7(or 8) properties, I am here to buy a house money isn't a problem I got a team of builders working for me". Then when I told him the house he wanted was overpriced and to distrust the seller as he is know for his dishonesty and avarice, he went "oh but we human are all suffering from avarice". He also brag about "giving away for free" a pieces of land to some people's who bought an house from him and how "the girl cried from happiness" anyway I suggested him another house.
He then went to the owner and "pretended" to buy it, also he wanted the other adjacent house as well, then he had the paper and all, just needed to sign and such finalities . He asked for a quotation from the local carpenters and "couvreur" who are also scammer, even thought he had " a team" and "would do the work himself" . The quote was to high and he ran away lolz.
Anyway treating people's like if they were animal and not men and women is evil and disrespectful, it show that the person view the customers lowly and if you told me that i would not buy your product. If you lied to me and hide, i would grow doubt about the industry as a whole, which i did. Oh its also demagogue like because people's who do this have a tendency of ignoring genuine suggestions about gameplay and art style and instead decide to go with " the pigs feed" techniques "you think you do but you don't" . And it ignore all the people's who dislike it.
Interesting game. Would be nice if facilities like smithy could be built underground. Save the surface for farms and the like. Maybe mushroom farms in the mines, even.
Hi! We already have plans to add underground buildings and expand gameplay that way, but your ideas are very interesting! We never thought of an underground mushroom farm :)
@@honorablepixel6413 An even wilder idea that occurred to me while watching is to make more space available under the dome. I don't mean widen it, but give it depth instead. Just visualize the dome in 3D space and you'll see you have a row of buildable space down the center. Think of that as Main Street. You could have one or two more parallel "streets" on each side but smaller as they approach the dome edge. Maybe even have to build and man walls on every street in a hard mode. 😉 But then buildings the player puts on other streets could show in the parallax background. Just an idea. Hope it was clear. Cheers!
@@Zombull73 This is...a very profound idea :) But I think it would complicate the game too much in the end. We originally created the game in such a way that after some time the player would get a second and then a third village under their control, which would be managed simultaneously. That sounds a lot like your suggestion :)
And then your people dig too deep, and demons start spawning in the mines, and you have to defend those as well...
... or at least that's how it would go if they were Dwarves.
@@honorablepixel6413 , I’m not the original commentator you’re replying to, but I love when games let me choose to live underground. And I, personally, would immediately be sold the moment that feature is available.
One thing that I do suggest if you expand the underground gameplay is to add a lights system, partially for aesthetic/decor but also to potentially make an anti-cheesing system. Perhaps the civilians work slower/less effectively in the dark, elsewise people might focus too many of their buildings underground. Perhaps some lanterns hanging from the ceiling or walls, or even magic fairy lights-maybe the fairy lights also function as a demon trap? Not sure how that’d fit, but thinking outloud anyways.
The game looks absolutely gorgeous so far, by the way. Especially the backgrounds. Y’all should be very proud!
The visuals are indeed gorgeous, great amount of care and passion, as well as the technicalities of defence management. It's encouraging because it shows a lot of thoughts for how the game will be played, up to the small and very important details.
Reminds me of The Demon Cycle book series.
It's like a medieval setting where demons attack people at nighttime from these portals that open up from the ground and people are protected from them by using magic wards that create barriers the demons can't cross.
Cool game. I might check it out.
FOK YEAH
The WARDED MAN / THE PAINTED MAN
I loved those books and I heard that they want to make it into movies!
@@rareraven Seriously ? Where do you see that information ?
@@Costaud-xb7mg I heard that about 5years ago, but I still have hope.
Ow this is Rare Raven Games btw 😂
The Warded Man gave me the heebie jeebies since no where was safe unless you had those wards around you and then they just paced around your place
@@qwik123456 Have you read the 3 books? Because there are fighting wards as well. They will fight back the demons, pretty easily until the mind demon joins the party.
Idk why but this game just tickles my pickle. It’s so visually beautiful and actually feels rewarding to survive each night and expand. The music is amazing. I wouldn’t usually be into stuff like this but I legit want to play this and really anticipate its development.
"I always like to go into the evening period with a little extra wood"..... Truer words have never been spoken Splatt
Thanks Splatty, just bought it to support devs. It looks like a gem, so much work is there!
One thing I think would be great to add it a pointer at the sides of the screen showing how many immigrants or monsters are offscreen in that direction, so you don't have to pan back and forth and count manually.
I don't know what it is about Splatty's voice, but, I just love listening to him, I swear I could listen to him talk about anything lol
One of the best channels on youtube. Hands down!
This definitely has a "Kingdom: New Lands" vibe.
Looks totally similar to me
If by "vibe" you mean it's almost the same game, then yeah! It is the same exact premise.
The left to right scrolling kingdom building demonic incursion defense game has a "vibe" of the other left to right scrolling kingdom building demonic incursion defense game?
@@NameName2.0 are you expected to run from area to area though? I hated that in Kingdoms. You have one specific way of playing the game and if you don't do that then you lose.
Def inspired by it, be it artistic direction or gameplay.
But it also adds so much that you can't say it's the same.
It's like saying cities skyline is the same as sim city... ok the former was inspired by the later, but they def aren't the same. ^^
Pro tip for everyone playing this gem. If You right click on a flag camera jumps quicly to that position. You can place empty one's at desired location and jump there.
What a fascinating game. It remembers me of "Kingdom Two Crowns", gameplay and some visuals wise. Wishlisted!
Edit: wishlisted, then 3 minutes later I bought it
As a person that really enjoyed Kindom, this is really interesting. Straight into my wishlist!
So glad i subbed, just because i learn about cool indie games with art like this. And you never play so much that the game is spoiled for the rest of us 💪
This game is kingdom new lands meets judgment apocalypse survival. Both of which are great games and I wanna see more of this.
I totally agree
this is "kingdoms, new lands" 2 ^^
It has clearly got it's inspiration from it but did a great job at expending the concept.
Art style looks excellent. And they did a consistent pixel size. 😆
YES oh my god it bothers me so much when games don't pay attention to that
Thanks for showcasing! ^^
Keep the good work devs and be safe. :)
This is one of those games I want to do well. It looks incredibly immersive!
Cat be like " i have 2 axes, so lemme have 4 lumberjacks. I'm sure it's going to be fine " lol xD
I love the art style and graphics!
Two thumbs up! Great video. Thanks!
SplatterCat: "Yes, we realize that the developer's home was blown up by Russian artillery, but if they can't keep up pace with development then they are going to be a huge disappointment."
Yeah, like what the hell is that about? They're literally fighting a war for their existence, I found his opening to be very tone deaf.
Nobody said they lived in ukraine
Why buy a product that may never end up finished?
@@darktornaydoe4705 Turns out they outsourced a lot of the work to Chinese developers to keep up with the production schedule.
@@duckterdoland3881 You don't have to live in a war zone to be affected by a war zone. You just need to be nearby.
I remember this type of game. There was one that was a flash game. I loved playing it.
Happy to see this isn't abandoned, even if this is simply a copy of Grim Nights.
Thanks, Splatter. Yet again holding back the tide of my inevitable demise for one more day.
Yeah this
Looks really nice and I like the gameplay loop
Just as casual reminder, the war is still going.
This game instantly found its way to my wishlist. ^_^ i am excited to see when it finishes early access im sure itll be a great game worth buying.
i really appreciate what you do, thank you.
Two crowns plus dome romantik 👍
the music is legendary
I look forward to the day you play a game that's considered released.
He said he likes to go into the evening with wood. :D
Kinda looks like the bubble is growing. More people means more hope I suppose.
It looks good. Seems to address some of my bigger issues with Kingdom, being able to send soldiers specifically left or right, for example. Very pretty pixel graphics, too, which is always a plus for me. Will probably pick this up once it's out of early access.
Well that's sensitive... it's a war going on but they better get the content of games out...
I feel like you are twisting what he said. he very clearly said that they had an obviously good reason to not be working but now that they promissed that they would be going double-time, he hopes that they keep to that promise...
"...throw it on your wishlist"
I do that with a lot of games and see how they're going later.
Gorgeous landscape!
The comments about the war and the developers being “absent” seemed a little tone deaf. I get this is about the game but that was a little cold :/
Are the devs Ukrainian?
Why is it cold? The war is obviously terrible but it's also true they were absent for so long.
@@GameTimeWhy Yeah, how dare they take the time to make sure they're safe enough to continue development without being killed during a WAR.
@@Nevario1 "absent for so long" not "too long". Splat never said it as a criticism and neither did I. It is something to think about though if you are hoping for an update but don't get one for half a year on a barely beta game.
A statement of fact isn't "tone deaf" and he never said anything akin to "how dare they," you don't have to be offended on others' behalf.
There was at least 2 or 3 more games like this, I'd love to know them all, they're so good looking and rts intensive.
Hey there! Do you remember the names of those games? Would love to check them out! :D
Impressively in tune!
29:23 I agree, especially as they seem to raze buildings (or at least walls) when upgrading them.
Fans screaming hurry up as the devs trying not to get their heads lobbed off 😂😂
KOTOR flashbacks with the Bantha poodoo lol
Disney is going to copyright claim you.
You even did the plane noise! Temple of Doom was my favorite =P
it has grim nights and kingdom vibes
As i loved "Kingdom New Lands", i put this one in my wish list, like "Sons of Valhalla" !! ^^
looks cool, reminds me of kingdom.
This is like the Kingdom games.
Its a nice game! fun to play:D
That's going onto the wishlist.
Game menus have personality and are very imersive.
I imagine the spikes don't auto-repair in case the player is in desperate need of wood for a building or other projects.
I was just chkn. Didn’t know. I would be so livid.
I have trouble getting into colony games that use left/right orientation instead of top down.
The bubble should be expandable for a large cost of resources
Great concept, but I've never been big on the scroll right and left tower defense type gaming
Oh this is just a game like the kingdom series
Lol war breaks out, americans: wheres the updates hurry up oof lol pretty solid reason to have to pause updates
Every time I see this layout of a game, I think what if it was two person coop. Where one person can only work center to the left, and the other center to the right, Everything on the right can be traded for to get to the left and visa versa. So if you have the wood cutter on the left and I have the mine on the right, We can trade a farmer for an lumberjack (The output of that worker would go to the side he was traded to) Or just trade lumber for stone. The Side that falls last gets bigger rewords, so you have the dynamic of helping while competing.
Yes I'm sure there are problems yada yada can't yada yada imposable . . . . . . still think it would be cool.
oh man, you seem to have forgotten the mouse owns Indiana Jones. I wish you luck in this video's monetization!
Newt: they come at night...Mostly.
So weird, I was playing Clanfolk and came across this vid. The music while you were giving your intro in the title screen is the same.
I enjoyed it!
Beautiful!
Hey Splatter I'm not sure if you've already done a review on it, but if you haven't try Realms of Magic?
looks kinda like that kingdom two crown game
This is kind of like the Demon Cycle, but those fuckers come out of the ground.
Took me a while to find... Song in the main menu is:
Kevin MacLeod - Skye Cuillin
Splat's Condensed Review: 41:51
you cud have rapired the wall as u did mension before it broke down lol
The game feels like kingdom 2 crownd
Interesting!
0:25 Pretty sure it's illegal to call a game Phoenix Hope and then abandon it and it it die lol
20:18 Wow get to hear the soundtrack, that's rare, thanks for that.
Game looks great, they need to ditch the royalty free music
I felt that GRIM NIGHTS was better and almost identical to this... but MUCH better looking.
grim nights
I got hairy legs!
Now that steam sale is up lemme see the price of this
I rather like this game. Got to say 45ish since we’ll before the update. Fun, but needs some love in the gameplay details.
Isn't this a carbon copy of Kingdom Two Crowns?
Wondering if anyone has heard about the switch release of until We die?
Oh, is this the sequel to Kingdoms series? I stopped playing Kingdoms: New Lands because it glitched so hard that my characters ended up getting kicked out of the playing area and into no-place. I was afraid my game was cursed and quickly uninstalled it. I love isekai, but I wouldn't want to be isekai'd into the world of Kingdoms.
Isn't this similar to two crowns?
🖤
strange why did they use the same music as in clan folk?
i hope they move that bit of ui on the side. the lower corners of the screen have nothing going on and the art is too pretty to be covered up.
More battle brothers?
Re: 31:00 Even your cat thinks your singing is god awful !
Orc invasion delays development of demonic invasion game.
Maybe I'm being ignorant but isn't this game the same as Kingdom?
The difficulty makes me wary :/ wish some difficulty options or so were a thing. This is the first days of the first map and if you didn't know what to do you'd be dead already
👏👍
Kinda looks like Region of Ruins
Game looks cool. Also, if they're Ukrainian I definitely don't mind giving a couple bucks to support the game.