This game involves building a community. You start from scratch every level with different resources.

It's the usual:
Build and Upgrade houses;
Upgrade Resources;
Collect Materials - some from the road, but mostly from buildings.

What's different from other games of this type:

- Although you can go to the sawmill to buy wood it will also auto-generate resources there. But you have to send a worker to fetch it.
- Rent is automatically collected.
- Resources have to be collected - even if you demolish a building, you have to send someone back to collect the resources.
- The more wood you buy the more workers you need to send to carry the wood back etc.

You cannot click ahead and queue tasks. You need to have a worker available.

Although this game is well made and looks good I found no reason to play it. The tutorial was tedious because you have to do exactly what it tells you to do before you can continue, but without it, one couldn't finish the game as there were a few things that weren't intuitive - like looking for gold at the river or "mining" it from the general store.

In later levels the tasks are given one or two at a time so that you're just going through the motions and doing the next thing. Buildings need to be repaired quite often.

I only found some strategy on 2 levels out of the 1st 10 - and these were rather that you didn't know things upfront - for example you don't know that you can only have x number of workers based on population. So you might upgrade your house for money and then discover you need more population and then you're stuck - you have to demolish them and rebuild or restart. But this isn't strategy - it's just finding things out too late. You're going to replay the level knowing exactly what to do and that's just boring. Despite this, and demolishing buildings and rebuilding them I got an expert pass on every level - although not all the stars.

The only "bug" I found is when the pop-up says "Click to Continue" it means - do the action she says, to continue.

If they had given one all the tasks upfront and you had to plan a strategy to complete them all it would have been a lot more fun.

However, if you enjoy these games to pass the time and you're not a strategy junky then you'll probably enjoy this one.

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