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901.0 hrs on record (173.2 hrs at review time)
Helldivers massacred 2 BILLION bugs in 12 hours for that sweet E-710, what's a single corporation?
Posted May 6, 2024.
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20.7 hrs on record (20.1 hrs at review time)
Bought this game because I love any citybuilder that features Rome. I own Caesar 3, (played hell out of it), will be buying Caesar 4 on GoG soon, and bought this during the Summer Sales.

When I first ran the game, I've had the same bug that's been plaguing everyone else. Some of the workers just stopped working for no good reason. I've verified the game cache couple of times and that seemed to fix it but it came back again. I did a reinstall of the game and that seem to fix it for good. I've had no problem with this bug at all since the reinstall.

If you have the workers not working bug, try reinstall and play it, see if that works for ya.

What I like:

- Way that housing progresses/upgrades. Also you can move them in order to have all services avail to it;

- Level of detail inside houses, shops, workshops, and etc;

- Decent graphics for the age of the game; (although the details get lost once you zoom out)

What I don't like:

- The ratio of population and the housing seems very disproportionate. Each of the housing only holds 100 people, and yet the population of the city increases faster than the houses you build. (not all the people need a house for themselves thankfully);

- The way butchers produce the meat/fish. You'd think that the farmers and fisherman would just carry excess meat/fish into the granary. But in this game, butchers need to cut up the meat/fish to store it in the granary. This means that you need to build the butcher/fishshop before you can store food in the granary;

- Amount of money earned from trades. Granted, the trading city doesn't have a quota that may limit how much you can export, which means you can export the hell out of whatever you're exporting, but receiving only 500 dn from 25 glasses seem ridiculous when an iron mine costs a 1000dn;

- The resources in the map runs out very fast. Stone, wood, marble, they all run out so if you're depending on those for income, good luck;

- THE DEVELOPERS RIPPED SOUNDTRACK STRAIGHT OFF FROM CAESAR 3. I maybe the only one who's noticed it, but part of the city ambience music is exactly from Caesar 3. I'm surprised no one knew about this.

It may seem more cons than pros, but most cons are minor gripes. Otherwise, it's an enjoyable game if you like citybuilding and Rome, like me.
Posted July 10, 2016.
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3.8 hrs on record (3.7 hrs at review time)
I shot hundreds of wanna be Nazis and fought Earth invading Aliens. Childhood nostalgiax1000
Posted December 31, 2014.
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