Review: Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt (PlayStation 4)
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Pros:
- Bright vibrant graphics.
- 687.1mb download size.
- Town building/economy gameplay.
- Platinum trophy.
- Four save slots.
- First campaign has a working tutorial set over a handful of chapters.
- Five modes-campaign/scenarios/endless mode and the seaside empire.
- Campaign-six campaigns each with 2 difficulties-easy and hard.
- 26 scenarios set pieces.
- Endless mode has 24 maps varying in size and difficulties.
- Seaside empire has six scenarios and 9 maps.
- Good loading times.
- Quick pop up dial for fast selecting tasks.
- Save when you want.
- Clear easy to read the Hud and Hotbar.
- Game speed options.
- Erase mode-allows mass erasing with a simple highlight/mark and delete.
- Level up from tasks to get new research.
- Full stats and stock screens.
- Happiness bars and graphs based on your performance.
- Encyclopedia-help archive.
- Easy to get into.
- Fun to play.
Cons:
- A couple of blue screen crashes.
- Only one control layout.
- Stop-start pop-ups.
- It looks like an upscaled mobile game.
- No online interactions.
Summary
Townsmen is a well-known strategy game that I first played on the mobile. Coming into this version I honestly thought it would just be an uprezzed mobile game. I am wrong and wrong in a big way, the game feels like a solid fully competent console game. They have made the controls work really well, the progression is layered and done in a way where you feel overwhelmed, it comes with a lof content, some of which was DLC before. The graphics look good as does the animation. Overall Townsmen is a decent strategy game and a must-own for strategy fans.
