These settlers who look like cute little bobbleheads, but far more expressive are more than willing to lend a hand as long as their basic needs are met.
This sounds easy but can get fairly tricky once you have more than a few settlers to look after. Fortunately, the game avoids inflicting hair-pulling levels of micro-management on us by making the settlers proactive and largely self-sufficient. The result is a fun-maximizing balance between automation and control. Aside from building up your colony, the other main point of the game is to create goods to trade with the Old World. Aside from this strange genre mash-up, The Promised Land gets two enthusiastic thumbs up for its gameplay as well as its audio and visuals.
As I mentioned, the settlers are adorable, and I found myself laughing out loud at the wry faces they made when lugging something heavy around. Their surroundings are nice too, and feature lively environmental animations like waves moving and fish swimming.
The music, which ranges from the pastoral to the vaguely exotic, is unobtrusive enough to add ambiance without forcing you to notice it and diverse enough to keep things interesting when you do. The Promised Land has a lot to be proud of. A few problematic things however, do work against it now and then. First, for a title trying to make strategy more accessible, it does a clumsy job of tutorializing. For instance, the game instructs you to make upgrades and offers a general description of them.
It does nothing, however, to help you understand the specific benefits gained by buying each level of upgrade. The interface can at times be similarly vague, clunky and even misleading. The trade menu is the prime example. Most games in the genre allow you to speed through the more tedious tasks. Here, the only thing you can do to make a task go faster is throw more people at it. Despite these issues, a good measure of fun can still be had with The Promised Land.
The game offers great graphics, music and animation, and provides a friendly, streamlined approach to strategy gameplay. And while a little clumsy here and there, its good points make it a great introduction for casual players, to a genre they might normally be afraid to try. Subscribe to GameZebo. Home Reviews Strategy. The Promised Land Review.
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Try the DEMO now! A unique and challenging puzzle adventure Tetragon is out now! About This Game Become a leader of a little group of settlers to create a thriving colony which will envy even the developed nation! Who says it would be easy?! An untamed land where you will have to make everything on your own —to provide your people with food and shelter then to give them job and protection. Day by day you will have to remake your production plans, switch your workers to find out the best solution for each industry.
But keep in mind, that every citizen has his own temper that one day can be shown off. Pirates and wild tribes are all around this Promised Land to disturb your presence and development here.
To create a developed colony one will not only need to become keen in production, but also in science.
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