Gnomoria

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I stumbled over this quite interesting game called Gnomoria today.

It's basically a game along the lines of Towns or Dwarf Fortress, so it might be of interest for some of us.

For those not familiar with either of both, you have a bunch of people and start building a settlement from scratch, collecting goods needed to build and sustain aswell as eventually defend it.

Same applies to Gnomoria:

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere. Craft items, build structures, set traps and dig deep underground in search of precious resources to help your gnomes survive the harsh lands. Build your kingdom and stockpile wealth to attract wandering gnomads to your cause, but be wary of also attracting enemies!

Graphics are isometric retro and it has a very very in-depth economy and supply chain:

e.g. to craft a bed, you need a carpenter workshop, a loom workshop, a tailor workshop, a butcher workshop, a stonecutter, a stonemason and a bonecarver workshop.

either of them requires chairs, tables and a tool. to get them you need to chop wood and cut it into planks and planks cut into sticks aswell as stone cut to blades which, together with hilts from sticks, make knifes.

this all requires an initial form of a workbench, the "crude workbench" which needs stone and wood... stone comes from digging down to the rock layer.

and the butcher is needed to give bones to the bonecarver so the latter can provide the tailor with needles to sew.

to sew you need either cotton or wool, both must be farmed.

(fyi, I still don't have a single bed because I lack bones as the only animals on my map are 2 yaks and I want them to reproduce first - which needs a pasture and a male and a female aswell as some time)

and you have - of course - to provide food and beverages to your party of gnomes which are 12 from the getgo but new "gnomads" will soon join your humble settlement.

the maps are randomly seeded in several different sizes starting with a 64x64 blocks footprint, vertical dimension is 128blocks. the game also offers an advanced map creator which allows to set a bunch of parameters.

gameplay is very addictive thanks to the cute retro-graphics aswell as the amazing immersion in production chains.

the latter is worth a note because it also means you have to accept quite a learning curve to enjoy the game.

luckily almost everything you can create comes with an in-tool help to tell you what's needed to accomplish it.

the game itself is still in it's alpha phase (atm it's v0.8.25), but you can pre-order it to get access to the alpha available for a very small buck (8usd/7eur) and very very very well developped already. if it wasn't declared an alpha, I wouldn't believe it!

linky to the homepage