I wasn't expecting much from this but it turned out better than I was expecting. It's still early Beta and there's a long way to go, buy maybe there's something interesting here? Meanwhile, we've also checked out a bunch of other new games recently, so here's the playlist: gamerzakh.com/encounters
They aren't timberlings, they are already called the timberborn. But beavers is already enough. The sims are simulations, simulated people. So beavers can be beevs if you really feel the need for an overly cutesy name. But otherwise they are the timberborn.
Can't wait to see more beaver versions of other famous games: Beaver 1800 The Elder Beavers V: Hamsterim Beaver: Rise of The Furry Hamster Beaver King 2 Europa Beaveralis 4 Beaverlization 5 and 6 Metal Beaver Solid Beaver and Furries: Red Hamster Alert Baevaer 3 and 4 Fur NOT Included Beaver of Industry Beaverward Beaverico 4, 5 and 6 City Beaverlines SimBeaver 3000 Baldur's Beaver 2: Shadow of Hams NeverFurry Nights 1: Shadow of Undrebeavertide Furrytopia: SimBeaver Revamped Beaveris: Path of Hamster Hamster Royale 2 Total Beaver: Furrieval 2 - Hairy Edition The Beavther 2: Assassins of Furry Kings Strongbeavehold: Hamstusader Age of Beavers 2: The Age of The Semiaquatic Rodents
Yes the trees from the triassic were the first to develop lignin(wood) allowing them to grow tall. At the time nothing existed that could decompose lignin so it just stacked up into massive deposits which later became coal.
I will definitely try out their open beta and provide feedback on the theme and gameplay after I played it myself. It looks interesting enough that I want it to be good. For gardens on roofs you should have a tech that allows you to make timber gardens with fertalizer. Make it a mid or late game tech
Man i came for your help in Caesar III a few days ago but now i don't necessarily care too much about what you're playing, you're just super likeable and nice to listen to! Also damn you for intensifying my itch for city-building again, considering i prefer to play on my Switch which is seriously lacking in that genre :D. Edit: Also agree with the personality part soo much! The first thing i look at in city-builders is how the look makes me feel. That's why i love the Anno series so much, because the rennaisance age is just so beautiful!j
For a game about beavers it appears that there are not enough structures directly on water - e.g. a dam which is a typical beaver structure. The river is right there and we seem to be getting further away from it :) I would like to see more interaction with the river from the very beginning and then slowly moving to the land - evolving from beavers to timberlings :D
hmm having a city-builder with beavers is really challenging ... what comes to my mind are damns and water levels. Similar to the dwarf fortress you should be able to amass a huge body of water and then build your base inside it. Then you have to deal with droughts, winter and maybe water pollution? It would be an interesting concept of expanding via flooding the area and researching new technology to further improve the damn structure to get access to even more areas.
Personality/style is such a big part of why I love games like Two Point Hospital. 100% agree, so important, gimme all the silly names (and diseases). Love that whole part of the video.
I really hope they go all-in on the fact they are beavers. We need Dam's. Building a Dam should be their version of a Wonder. I wanna see wood-related food, Bark Bread, Sawdust sprinkled desert, Sap Snacks. Waterways for travel whether by swimming or little boats they row with their tails.
Speaking of verticality, you may want to check Cliff Empire. A great game with loads of surprising stuff to unlock that constantly change the management of the space given to the player
@@GamerZakh - It looked easy too. My brain has already been designing ziggurats and towers of varying size and complexity, some with courtyards, others not.
Thank you for the great review. Just subscribed to your channel. You deserve a pat on the back for keeping old games such as Caesar 3 and Pharaohs going. Have you ever played or reviewed Diablo 2 LOD? Latest version is D3, and although its not a city building game, point to note is that D2 LOD was released in 2001 making it a nostalgic addition to your list.
i really like the concept for the power generation. building up is also a very interesting choice. but you're right though, if they're going to mke their people beavers, i hope they'll make the entire game accordingly whacky =)
Fun idea, but I'm kinda sad they didn't go for a more water-based theme, having a grand dam as the "city center", and then using various kinds of dam-like structures in the water and on the shores, with modular functionality for the dams (Beaverdams IRL are marvels of engineering, with rooms, several entrances, etc, both below and above water.) Granted, multi-level building is kinda nice, but to me this just feels like yet another survival sim town-management game, only with beavers instead of humans. Cute, but I think I'd would make a bigger splash if it went for that dam theme.
I think if they go far more anthropomorphic with the beavers that would give the game more personality. If they want to go cute with the game then making the colors vibrate would help out as well. Otherwise, if they are going more serious than the colors works right now. But I think giving a slight cute or even comical edge would be interesting. Personally, I prefer cute and vibrate, especially if I am going to be playing a game with anthro beavers.
Thank you Zakh for your excellent videos... Honestly you got the real job marvelous done !! Only one humble suggestions, you need to work on you video image. This is a constructive critic, please take my suggestion with humility. New hair style, more colors on your dress-code and change to a new glasses frame. I want see your subscribers go through the roof .. Take care Zakh !! I will continue watch your amazing videos online.
A very on-point discussion about personality, and the more intangible, artistic choices in games. I don't know whether you heard of it, but there's an older game called Alien Nations, which is, so to speak, a spiritual predecessor to Banished. Basically, you are building a town / colony, where you don't manage your underlings directly, but rather assign them jobs / tasks. It was something of a combination between Settlers and an RTS, as combat was the main focus point of the game. Nevertheless, when Banished came out, I was quite looking forward to playing it, since it looked so similar to Alien Nations gameplay-wise. So I bought the game and after a few hours only felt disappointment. Banished simply lacked soul, personality, character, or whatever else you want to call it. The thing is, while Alien Nations was a rather simple game, it was just so weird and charming. The three titular nations were the blue-skinned, beer-loving, Homer-Simpson-looking orcs; the fierce and seductive Amazonians who had a penchant for chocolate cakes; and a race of mischievous, shady insectoids who could be seen smoking a fat cigar at any and all times. And the whole backstory was that of intergalactic storks dropping their alien baby loads by accident on the same planet, thus starting the conflict between the three nations in the first place. I don't know who came up with that stuff, but it certainly made the game much, much more memorable. I understand that to a large degree it's the nostalgia that makes me like the game more than it probably deserves, but still, I recently played through it (it's on GOG), and I still enjoyed it a lot. Goes to show that the ideal game is not just what's inside (technical aspects), and neither only what's on the outside (artistic choices) but a combination of both of them!
This makes me want to finish my achievements in banished 😄 looks super cute, and i may add, you’re looking more handsome than ever, salute to your lovely wife keep up the good spirit ✨✨✨
@@GamerZakh It is, but then you get franchises like Resistance and Time Splitters not getting developed due to resources going elsewhere. I know not these devs :)
"You need to go all out on this... The term lumber punk is an insane idea and I had to play it because of that." -Gamer Zakh. What are you running from Zakh?
You, I would much rather have seen them double (or triple) down on actual beaver building. You know, dams! If you're going to have beavers do human things, then just use human sprites. I see no redeeming quality in them being beavers for the sake of it. So, if the developers really want to be creative: make a kind of XCOM, but instead of a subterranean command center, you have to build a dam with compartments, and that means you have to scout on the map outside of your dam to look for resources. Now that game I would play!
YES! Biever should be doing beavery things, not any other game BUT now with beaver skin! The worst thing for this game would be, it to become an overpriced Banished mod.
I played lethis, but got really bored of the simplistic gameplay loop. If you want to keep people engaged with purely economy based city builders you have to learn from the Anno series, especially the earlier ones. There was military, but it was so limited you basically produced them as a resource, rather than using any strategy.
I did find the lack of military took away a lot of the 'stress' that I feel makes a game engaging. When it's purely economic problems you can just take your time and eventually figure stuff out.
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I wasn't expecting much from this but it turned out better than I was expecting. It's still early Beta and there's a long way to go, buy maybe there's something interesting here? Meanwhile, we've also checked out a bunch of other new games recently, so here's the playlist: gamerzakh.com/encounters
They aren't timberlings, they are already called the timberborn. But beavers is already enough. The sims are simulations, simulated people. So beavers can be beevs if you really feel the need for an overly cutesy name. But otherwise they are the timberborn.
Can't wait to see more beaver versions of other famous games:
Beaver 1800
The Elder Beavers V: Hamsterim
Beaver: Rise of The Furry Hamster
Beaver King 2
Europa Beaveralis 4
Beaverlization 5 and 6
Metal Beaver Solid
Beaver and Furries: Red Hamster Alert
Baevaer 3 and 4
Fur NOT Included
Beaver of Industry
Beaverward
Beaverico 4, 5 and 6
City Beaverlines
SimBeaver 3000
Baldur's Beaver 2: Shadow of Hams
NeverFurry Nights 1: Shadow of Undrebeavertide
Furrytopia: SimBeaver Revamped
Beaveris: Path of Hamster
Hamster Royale 2
Total Beaver: Furrieval 2 - Hairy Edition
The Beavther 2: Assassins of Furry Kings
Strongbeavehold: Hamstusader
Age of Beavers 2: The Age of The Semiaquatic Rodents
legend
Legend of Zelda, Beaver of the Wild
Beaver of Fire
Beaver Star
BeaverFront II
Thatßs so good :D
Woodbeaverustry
Hearts of beavers 4
"Beaver Banished!"
I've clicked faster than I would do otherwise.
Hoping for a Canada mod, where O'Canada plays at random intervals and you can build maple syrup refineries.
lmao neat
Yes!!
"Nice beaver!"
"Thanks I just had it stuffed"
No puns? Dam... alright
I wonder if you research shaved beavers
Are there Angry Beavers? I miss that show.
Lol, that would be beavers on strike carrying signs.
Yes I miss the show too.
Yes the trees from the triassic were the first to develop lignin(wood) allowing them to grow tall. At the time nothing existed that could decompose lignin so it just stacked up into massive deposits which later became coal.
Yes that's it! I've learnt that before but couldn't remember all the specifics.
I will definitely try out their open beta and provide feedback on the theme and gameplay after I played it myself. It looks interesting enough that I want it to be good.
For gardens on roofs you should have a tech that allows you to make timber gardens with fertalizer. Make it a mid or late game tech
Looks really interessting. I loved banished and what can be better than banished with beavers.
Looks great so far!
Of course can’t blame the UI for being a bit ... woodimentary
Man i came for your help in Caesar III a few days ago but now i don't necessarily care too much about what you're playing, you're just super likeable and nice to listen to! Also damn you for intensifying my itch for city-building again, considering i prefer to play on my Switch which is seriously lacking in that genre :D.
Edit: Also agree with the personality part soo much! The first thing i look at in city-builders is how the look makes me feel. That's why i love the Anno series so much, because the rennaisance age is just so beautiful!j
For a game about beavers it appears that there are not enough structures directly on water - e.g. a dam which is a typical beaver structure.
The river is right there and we seem to be getting further away from it :) I would like to see more interaction with the river from the very beginning and then slowly moving to the land - evolving from beavers to timberlings :D
hmm having a city-builder with beavers is really challenging ...
what comes to my mind are damns and water levels. Similar to the dwarf fortress you should be able to amass a huge body of water and then build your base inside it. Then you have to deal with droughts, winter and maybe water pollution?
It would be an interesting concept of expanding via flooding the area and researching new technology to further improve the damn structure to get access to even more areas.
Personality/style is such a big part of why I love games like Two Point Hospital. 100% agree, so important, gimme all the silly names (and diseases). Love that whole part of the video.
I really hope they go all-in on the fact they are beavers. We need Dam's. Building a Dam should be their version of a Wonder. I wanna see wood-related food, Bark Bread, Sawdust sprinkled desert, Sap Snacks. Waterways for travel whether by swimming or little boats they row with their tails.
That little foray into carbon-based fern structure was beautiful.
It was an interesting thought! Never really thought about how tree ferns aren't technically wood. Then I realised I had no idea what they're made of.
Beavarians you should call them haha
The most liked beaver, "The Common One".
"Anyone got wood, for my beaver?"
/I'm sorry, I just couldn't not do it
Speaking of verticality, you may want to check Cliff Empire. A great game with loads of surprising stuff to unlock that constantly change the management of the space given to the player
This looks really good, something to keep an eye on for the future. I love the verticality.
How easy it was to build up was great. Usually vertical building is really daunting.
@@GamerZakh - It looked easy too. My brain has already been designing ziggurats and towers of varying size and complexity, some with courtyards, others not.
Thank you for the great review. Just subscribed to your channel. You deserve a pat on the back for keeping old games such as Caesar 3 and Pharaohs going. Have you ever played or reviewed Diablo 2 LOD? Latest version is D3, and although its not a city building game, point to note is that D2 LOD was released in 2001 making it a nostalgic addition to your list.
the labor house roof shape is similar in appearance to a beaver mound.
I love hairy beavers.
Could be a challenging 3D survival city builder. NICE!
i really like the concept for the power generation. building up is also a very interesting choice.
but you're right though, if they're going to mke their people beavers, i hope they'll make the entire game accordingly whacky =)
So hes wanting the Hanging Gardens of Beaverlon?
Yeah that sounds awesome.
Fun idea, but I'm kinda sad they didn't go for a more water-based theme, having a grand dam as the "city center", and then using various kinds of dam-like structures in the water and on the shores, with modular functionality for the dams (Beaverdams IRL are marvels of engineering, with rooms, several entrances, etc, both below and above water.) Granted, multi-level building is kinda nice, but to me this just feels like yet another survival sim town-management game, only with beavers instead of humans. Cute, but I think I'd would make a bigger splash if it went for that dam theme.
This is the game I never knew I needed but want it so much!
omg 8 minutes in, and I'm already rolling around on the floor
Wow you give so much knowledge :) I wondering if you wanna try Kubifaktorium as well?
I think if they go far more anthropomorphic with the beavers that would give the game more personality. If they want to go cute with the game then making the colors vibrate would help out as well. Otherwise, if they are going more serious than the colors works right now. But I think giving a slight cute or even comical edge would be interesting. Personally, I prefer cute and vibrate, especially if I am going to be playing a game with anthro beavers.
Thank you Zakh for your excellent videos... Honestly you got the real job marvelous done !! Only one humble suggestions, you need to work on you video image. This is a constructive critic, please take my suggestion with humility. New hair style, more colors on your dress-code and change to a new glasses frame. I want see your subscribers go through the roof ..
Take care Zakh !! I will continue watch your amazing videos online.
Can you drive a Lumberghini?
Caesar 3 is a legendary game :D
People suck anyway, who doesn't wants to be a fluffy beaver!
Hello there new to the channel how's it going
You should try ostriv sometime, I think you will like it
These beavers better be angry! No better beaver than an angry one!
Zakh your hair is so long! haha
Not anymore!
A very on-point discussion about personality, and the more intangible, artistic choices in games.
I don't know whether you heard of it, but there's an older game called Alien Nations, which is, so to speak, a spiritual predecessor to Banished. Basically, you are building a town / colony, where you don't manage your underlings directly, but rather assign them jobs / tasks. It was something of a combination between Settlers and an RTS, as combat was the main focus point of the game.
Nevertheless, when Banished came out, I was quite looking forward to playing it, since it looked so similar to Alien Nations gameplay-wise. So I bought the game and after a few hours only felt disappointment. Banished simply lacked soul, personality, character, or whatever else you want to call it.
The thing is, while Alien Nations was a rather simple game, it was just so weird and charming. The three titular nations were the blue-skinned, beer-loving, Homer-Simpson-looking orcs; the fierce and seductive Amazonians who had a penchant for chocolate cakes; and a race of mischievous, shady insectoids who could be seen smoking a fat cigar at any and all times. And the whole backstory was that of intergalactic storks dropping their alien baby loads by accident on the same planet, thus starting the conflict between the three nations in the first place.
I don't know who came up with that stuff, but it certainly made the game much, much more memorable. I understand that to a large degree it's the nostalgia that makes me like the game more than it probably deserves, but still, I recently played through it (it's on GOG), and I still enjoyed it a lot.
Goes to show that the ideal game is not just what's inside (technical aspects), and neither only what's on the outside (artistic choices) but a combination of both of them!
Ratlings??
This makes me want to finish my achievements in banished 😄 looks super cute, and i may add, you’re looking more handsome than ever, salute to your lovely wife keep up the good spirit ✨✨✨
BUT,...BUT,.......”sigh”.
No butts!
@@GamerZakh Nip that right in the butt Zakh.
Beavers?
People will make anything nowadays.
Generally a good thing. They'll make everything and we get to decide if it's good or not.
@@GamerZakh It is, but then you get franchises like Resistance and Time Splitters not getting developed due to resources going elsewhere. I know not these devs :)
"You need to go all out on this... The term lumber punk is an insane idea and I had to play it because of that." -Gamer Zakh. What are you running from Zakh?
Haha what do you mean?
@@GamerZakh You're crazy XD
You, I would much rather have seen them double (or triple) down on actual beaver building. You know, dams! If you're going to have beavers do human things, then just use human sprites. I see no redeeming quality in them being beavers for the sake of it. So, if the developers really want to be creative: make a kind of XCOM, but instead of a subterranean command center, you have to build a dam with compartments, and that means you have to scout on the map outside of your dam to look for resources. Now that game I would play!
Lools like age of mythology
This looks like fun.
HIMYM - beavers anyone :D
Thats look nice
Can we build a Dam?!
YES! Biever should be doing beavery things, not any other game BUT now with beaver skin!
The worst thing for this game would be, it to become an overpriced Banished mod.
coal is fossilized wood??? therefore its more like rock, i think
I played lethis, but got really bored of the simplistic gameplay loop. If you want to keep people engaged with purely economy based city builders you have to learn from the Anno series, especially the earlier ones. There was military, but it was so limited you basically produced them as a resource, rather than using any strategy.
I did find the lack of military took away a lot of the 'stress' that I feel makes a game engaging. When it's purely economic problems you can just take your time and eventually figure stuff out.
Brazilian?
Me? No I'm Malaysian.
@@GamerZakh Lol! I meant the beaver. I want a Brazilian beaver. I don't think I have ever seen a Malaysian beaver. Cool channel btw.
@@StevenMcGregor Oh haha! Thank you!
Can we expect a game based on sperm donors in 2021?
All animals make trails if they walk the same route over and over again.