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A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is a city builder, survival and automation game
developed by Suncrash
and published by Suncrash and Gamirror Games.
Released on May 09th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 7 languages: English, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Japanese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 572 reviews of which 428 were positive and 144 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.1 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7/8/10 64-bit
- Processor: 3.0 Ghz Dual Core CPU
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 11 GPU with 2GB of memory (GTX 660 or better)
- DirectX: Version 11
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Game is amazing! It combines my favourite elements: city building, resource automation, and tower defense. You build up through a set of technologies, infrastructure, and advanced powers found only in "ruins" that are present on some maps. Fairly easy to learn, but many advanced strategies you'll need if you want to beat the highest difficulty. You can also play this more like Factorio and build crazy completed cities that efficiently produce advanced resources. This game isn't really a story game, and parts are a bit grindy in the higher-level difficulties. I had a great time playing this, including discovering so many items and different technologies and items to unlock. Strongly recommend.
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It is interesting. I really like the idea of it, but I will say the endgame is pretty bored and dumb. trying to fly around and hopfully get a random map with an expedition that has a dream core so I can build the shield is pretty boring when i have plenty of resouces to build it. I was hooked for the rest of it though.
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A fun factory/logistics sim with some light hack & slash ARPG mechanics too them in the form of a little robot avatar. Essentially you build your factory city on top of a flying platform, moving from biome to biome, part to escape danger that increases the longer you stay in one places and part to collect resources and pre-apocalyptic tech. The heart of the game is figuring out how to configure everything for increasing levels resources processing as space and weight on you flying platform is limited and anything not build on your platform is left behind when you leave. This can lead to some interesting choices as you decide how you want to set up your city and each map. You can choose to keep things light and go quickly from location to location scavenging ruins, stick around longer and focus on harvesting and processing the advanced resources or sending out expeditions, and if in doing so either approach, how much you want to build off your platform that either must be scrapped or left behind when you move on. And also of note there is an option in settings to allow free movement of the camera when in build mode or to keep it fixed on your robot avatar, forcing you to walk yourself over to where you want to build, allowing you the choice of challenge/immersion vs convenience. You get some basic idea what resources, ruins/scavenging sites, level of hostility, and modifiers are on each selection of landing zones before choosing one of 6 initially presented, with the allowance to mulligan and get a new selection of 6 landing zones if you want to expend additional fuel can have some free redraws with upgrades and a specialized scouting building should you chose to build one. Resources notes on each map have an supply that is easily collected at first, but afterwards become depleted and produce at a reduced rate - albeit infinitely, some of which are biome specific. So it does some weighing of options each time to choose where to go next. Unfortunately, as of writing, maps don't really contain any kinds of unexpected surprises or unique game play mechanics, as much of the variation comes from resource availability and stat altering bonuses and penalties. So apart from biome visuals, the landing zones don't really stand out much from one another. Combats is simple adds a bit to the formula for trade off when deciding on landing spots though, as of writing, can get a tad repetitive. While there's some nice visual variety in the enemies, their behavior doesn't change much, usually bee-lining toward you the biggest difference being if the enemy has a ranged attack, size, and quantity. Larger enemies being tankier and smaller, more numerous, enemies swarming. You have some choices of equipment, blueprints for which are unlock by tech or scavenging, with two quick load out options each with their own melee and ranged weapon combo. But there no cool-down to switch equipment so as long as the items are on your avatar's inventory and not your city's you can switch on the fly to try out whatever works. Overall I really enjoyed my time with the game, especially the early parts where each new scavenged bit of old world tech can really be felt in or city or you little robot. Later in the game can get a bit sloggish after you've seen what the game has to offer. That said the core gameplay mechanics and balances are solid and it has me looking forward to what new content or modding could add to the game, but as it stands you have a game that give some nice choices to makes while you keep you flying city fueled and safe, Worth checking out if you like factory management style of games with an adversarial element to them and an exaggerated fantastical fantasy-steampunk aesthetics.
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Automation game with active fighting and strategy for defending in a simplistic TD style. + Flying away makes a soft reset which solves the stiffness of long-running automation bases + Varying gameplay, you can move around fighting by yourself or build solid defenses or focus on resources to get a heads-up in technology + Since v1.00 finally balanced 🙂 - Slightly stretched end-game, but still fun 'cause of all the various resources and choices you can make - Small performance issues, slowing down towards the end-game, but still playable - Few QoL missing, like saving the zoom/rotation of the camera on game start
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I don't write reviews very often but in my opinion this incredible game is getting some undeserved negative reviews. I find the game to be a perfect mix of "paused" building/planning and real time strategy. Also a good amount of game affecting decisions to be made. Fully customizable keybinding and gameplay options. Also tribe selection to fit your play style. My recommendations if you've played many factory building games before is to rebind rotate building to "R" right away and just open the research men by pushing the button at the top of the screen. Also in gameplay I recommend enabling free camera and pause when switching to build mode automatically. Hope it helps someone.
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Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.
Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.
Dream Engines: Nomad Cities received 428 positive votes out of a total of 572 achieving a rating of 7.12.
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Dream Engines: Nomad Cities was developed by Suncrash and published by Suncrash and Gamirror Games.
Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is not playable on MacOS.
Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is not playable on Linux.
Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is a single-player game.
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Dream Engines: Nomad Cities does not support Steam Remote Play.
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Developer
Suncrash
Publisher
Suncrash,
Gamirror Games
Release
09 May 2024
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