TFC: The Fertile Crescent on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Gather resources, build your base, and lead your people to victory in this captivating reimagining of classic base-building RTS, set in the Bronze Age. Secure fertile land, fend off raids, and stockpile food to generate knowledge and unlock powerful village advancements.
TFC: The Fertile Crescent is a action rts, city builder and multiplayer game
developed and published by Wield Interactive.
Released on June 13th 2024 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 313 reviews of which 280 were positive and 33 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 10.79€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel Dual Core or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 500 MB available space
MacOS
- OS: OS X 10.4 or later
- Processor: Intel Dual Core or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 500 MB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 10 or later
- Processor: Intel Dual Core or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 500 MB available space
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It's a good but not a great game. I'd say that you get at best 5 hours out of the campaign that's partially a tutorial. The combat is a little clunky in a similar way to the first Age of Empires game. Given that wa a major inspiration that's not a huge shock but still enough of a letdown to inhibit the desire to do to many combat related scenarios. The vibe is immaculate but the combat drags it down. Get it on a discount for a few hours of Mesopotamian fun. This is a perfect first game, begging for a bigger and improved sequel. This is the kind of game that makes me look forward to where they could take it.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. Ariel Durant The Fertile Crescent is a RTS game in the vein of age of empires where you advance and attempt to conquer your opponents. However while having some similarities to age of empires, the Fertile Crescent had plenty of unique mechanics. To start the food mechanic is ironically one of the most standalone idea but the most realistic. Since food security has been the main push of human development until the 20th century, having a game where you need to ensure food is a very nice change. Another great idea they implemented is how you advance, you can essentially become one of the great powers of the ancient world to tailor and adapt your strategy how you see fit. With a campaign and a couple game modes. If you like RTS games , for a couple of $ the Fertile Crescent is very much worth it.
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Really nice low spec with a lovely aesthetic RTS that nicely portrays an era of history that could use more exploration. The stone-copper and bronze ages are really neat to explore, and I could see the formula of this RTS evolving to include more expansive unit rosters and factions in future instalments. The game is intuitive, any season RTS player could probably jump into this game and understand the resource mechanics and gameplay loop. Unit roster does have a nice diversity to it; and the beautiful thing about this game is that it does emulate the early siege warfare on a conceptual level that occurred in Ancient Mesopotamia and Mid-East. Methods like setting up towers to surround a settlement with stationed troops to block traffic and flow of goods and people or to setup defences similarly in your own sprawling city state... the fact that food in this game is vital to continued survival and is a resource that is consumed over time in greater and greater quantities the more units one has. Meaning that a portion of the population must be gathering food, or the faction needing some means of resources to trade for food imports... which is a temporary solution at best given exchange rates. There is genuine strategies of attrition you can conduct on opponents, and the startling realism that a pixel style game like this can evoke is really nice. Food is generated from farms infinitely with varying degrees of efficiency, can be foraged and hunted... the only thing that is really missing from this game is husbandry with rearing animals- and the choice to dig up fertile land for clay or to farm it is a very nice touch too in terms of environmental decision making. Do you unearth the clay that keeps the moist, rich soils vibrant and healthy for your buildings? Or do you build farms over it to have good soil to grow your crops in? Trees don't regenerate, far as I've seen- meaning wood may become an eventually limited commodity. Same as metal. During a given game though most maps are quite reasonable in resource allocation- but it all requires expansion and while one can be defensive... the game is very cat and mouse with the deployment of forces. Civilians aren't pushovers either though if they become militia- though using your working people in battle will always be a significant risk to your workforce economy, which can be devastating if you field a large army and several farmers died. There's a lot of little nuances that tribute themselves well to history; and make decent little nods to the realities of each empire- especially with research options. The game balances itself largely to symmetrical faction designs (which is alright since a lot of these cultures did have similar army compositions to more or less degrees) with unique aesthetics, with Bronze age era technologies having some exclusivity between the current three choices of Egypt, Assyria and Babylon. If they ever develop DLC or future game installments utilizing their formula, a game featuring the Hittites and Hyksos/Heka Khasut, Phoenicians and Greeks, Persians and others could become potential. I could well see them expanding unit roster but keeping this food economy angle is really compelling and is something I really enjoy seeing in an RTS. I found this game's price affordable and its something that if you're wanting a game for a lower spec machine or you enjoy the retro style or the history niche, its a really charming little RTS that is easy enough to get into. Visuals, music and the general vibe of this game is nice.
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This game is great. Very much in the style of the classic era of RTS games and clearly takes a lot of inspiration from Age of Empires. This game changes up the traditional formula with it's food economy, which requires constant upkeep as your pop grows. You will need a LOT of villagers to sustain your army- get to farming! The campaign is basically an extended tutorial, which slowly introduces all the game mechanics. Expect to spend about 5-6 hours. Once they've layered in all the different features, there is surprising depth to the gameplay. Both the skirmish mode and horde modes are fun to play. I do wish there were more than four different map types though. If you like old school RTS games, I definitely recommend.
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It is definitely NOT relaxing, as during the third mission I got terribly wrecked (on the second lowest difficulty), just when I built up a decent economy and wanted to get into defense and military production. Yet, it is a good game and catches the ancient age vibe and economy, kind of like an indie Ages of Empires. It's a tad too hard for me, nevertheless I can wholeheartedly recommend it.
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TFC: The Fertile Crescent is currently priced at 10.79€ on Steam.
TFC: The Fertile Crescent is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 10.79€ on Steam.
TFC: The Fertile Crescent received 280 positive votes out of a total of 313 achieving a rating of 8.25.
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TFC: The Fertile Crescent was developed and published by Wield Interactive.
TFC: The Fertile Crescent is playable and fully supported on Windows.
TFC: The Fertile Crescent is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
TFC: The Fertile Crescent is playable and fully supported on Linux.
TFC: The Fertile Crescent offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
TFC: The Fertile Crescent offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
TFC: The Fertile Crescent does not currently offer any DLC.
TFC: The Fertile Crescent does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
TFC: The Fertile Crescent does not support Steam Remote Play.
TFC: The Fertile Crescent 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
Wield Interactive
Publisher
Wield Interactive
Release
13 Jun 2024
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