A bunch of easygoing settlers depend on you! Once your band of laid-back guys managed to escape a the criminals and found a vacant archipelago in the middle of the sea they decided to settle down and enjoy the view. The chain of aisles offers enough challenges to satisfy the most adventurous. Colonizing is never easy but sometimes it’s downright grueling especially when there are ill-tempered natives to consider.
Island Realms made by Alawar Melesta offers you an amazing opportunity to explore and succeed proving who is the better man!
This strategy game offers you to move your wagon of goods from island to island (and simultaneously from level to level). You are supposed to fill the wagon first and then move it from one island to the other. Every island has a choice of waypoints. The game dictates where you are to build a store or a grain mill. Your men are to build roads where necessary e.g. between the waypoints.
Don’t rush to begin the construction. If you need to build something, you’ll need to buy necessary blueprints. Everything looks like real life! To continue with real life tendencies everything you plan to build or upgrade consumes a certain number of resources. Sometimes in cases you are not able to directly produce necessary resources you can barter or trade them. Don’t forget to build and upgrade your warehouses since each building can hold only so many goods.
In Island Realms everything is animated. Watching your people move around doing things is an entertainment in itself. Also the more work you have the more people you need. If in trouble go buy some settlers (a true bargain – one coin per settler!). Sounds somewhat ominous but really rather amusing.
As I said before there are natives who ruin your efforts. The roads get destroyed, goods stolen, buildings ruined. They even knock over your people! First time it happened I even cried out in indignation! There is a rather humorous solution to this particular problem though – make your men build some idols here and there. When a native soldier faces one of the idols he can’t help to dance about hooting. Downright hilarious!
Your main strategy in Island Realms is to move quickly and keep the work going. The graphics are interesting; music wasn’t irritating me. Once you understand somewhat lacking tutorial you’ll get a real kick out of this game!
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