Dream Engines: Nomad Cities on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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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 578 reviews of which 431 were positive and 147 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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Dream Engines: Nomad Cities delivers a refreshing and well-supported base-building experience with a flying twist. It's a standout for automation fans looking for progression and survival, though the combat could use more depth. Single-player only, but robust and rewarding. Mixing factory automation (à la Factorio), base defense (They Are Billions), and action-RPG elements, all plugged into a flying-city premise. Introduced a campaign with story missions and lore, extensive new content, mechanics, and improvements. Overhauled tutorials, improved graphics settings, ramped loot on hard maps, recyclable equipment features. Fans of factory/colony simulators who enjoy a lighter combat twist and nomad-style progression (biome hopping, survival). Players seeking single-player depth, with strong automation, resource management, and light story arcs. But if you're after heavy combat mechanics, lush visuals, or multiplayer dynamics, this might fall short. Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is an interesting take on the combination factory/city builder genre. I especially like how a press of the space bar switches Tiny between a top-down, city-builder mode and an isometric, Diablo-like perspective for combat, complete with context-specific hot bars. The key to survival in Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is to use available space and resources efficiently. Buildings require workers, which require houses and a constant food supply, all of which must be built using resources such as stone and wood, which requires buildings, which requires more power generation, which requires certain limited resources, and so it goes. And in the midst of what on its own is a fairly complicated city-builder with entwined, automated systems that require clever planning, it's simultaneously a tower defense game as Tiny and strategically placed turrets attempt to repel invaders, which attack at regular intervals. Once an area has been drained of resources or the attacks get too strong, it's time to move on. The city will lift off from the ground, using its limited fuel, and players will choose from six new possible locations. The environment may change (for example, being in a "Blightlands" or a desert), and the available raw resources and level of enemy activity can vary too. There are also modifiers to worry about, such as decreased food production in deserts. If you feel like the game is becoming too easy at any point, the difficulty can be increased when you select new locations to land, and achieving certain milestones will unlock new "tribes" to play as that will alter some of the core mechanics. 7/10 DISASTER | BAD | MEDIOCRE | OKAY | GOOD | GREAT |AMAZING| MASTERPIECE Reviewed on: Win11 Home 64-bit, Intel i5-11600K, GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB TUF, 32GB DDR4-3600 RAM, 2 x Kingston NV1 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD, Internet Broadband 1000/1000 Mbit If you like this review, then please consider giving it a thumbs up. I've also reviewed other games that you might find interesting. If so please follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/27418263/] Top of the Chart.
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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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I played this game back in early access and while I loved the concept it didn't click with me. Now after the full release I decided to give it another shot and it most definitely was worth it. The one downside is the difficulty selection. As you take your city (and therefore progress) with you, a single playthrough lasts a long time. A loss later on really hurts - so if you are anything like me, you want to overcompensate by lowering the difficulty a lot. However that is a mistake as selecting too easy of a difficulty will make the game feel tedious and boring (because nothing will happen/go wrong, so you just kind of spend all your time waiting for the next upgrade)
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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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If you have encountered this review. This game is enjoyable. More people should purchase it. Reworking the city to be more efficient in each landing zone is a wonderful puzzle. The pressure building over time then releasing when you fly to a new location is wonderful. The forward planning for what resources you are looking for is enjoyable. Is it factorio levels of complicated, no. But i have spent many evenings enjoyably womping nightmares and reworking my city layouts. Do recommend. Devs have been bug fixing since release.
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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 431 positive votes out of a total of 578 achieving a rating of 7.09.
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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.
Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Suncrash
Publisher
Suncrash,
Gamirror Games
Release
09 May 2024
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