Your mission is to survive by crafting gear, gathering resources, and building a mobile steam-powered base. The unique packing system lets you shrink items like workbenches, walls, or vehicles into a portable bag to drag across the map, emphasizing a nomadic playstyle inspired by RTS classics like Red Alert 2. The procedurally generated world, made of handcrafted tiles, spans deserts, forests, and zombie-filled zones, each packed with challenges and rare loot.

With VR-like precision, you physically grab items, chop trees, or holster tools. Up to four players can team up for co-op chaos, gathering resources by day and fending off zombie swarms at night. While the premise resembles Minecraft, the focus is on a VR-style experience without VR.

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As a desert pirate, you explore the ravaged planet Sophie, where ruins of a lost civilization hide valuable loot. But you’re not alone, rival players and creatures lurk in the sands, ready to steal your plunder. Your lifeline is the Trampler, a giant mobile base you build from scratch. These massive machines serve as transport, storage, and a fortress, shielding you from storms and enemies. You can also upgrade your Trampler with turrets, armor, and gadgets.

In this open world, you’ll discover dilapidated cities, wrecked ships, and ancient monuments while scavenging for resources and weapons. tinyBuild promises intense shooting, chaotic moments as you hop between Tramplers, and large-scale battles against both players and creatures. As with extraction games, gathering loot is only half the challenge, escaping with it is also important.

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In Of Ash and Steel, you start your story from nothing. Without quest markers or hand-holding, exploration feels like a true adventure: you’ll uncover hidden treasures, embark on side quests, or face various bosses. The world reacts to your progress; as you rise from a nobody to a revered hero, NPCs will respect your status.

Combat is deliberate, built around three stances that change how you wield swords, axes, or bows. Timing is crucial to land precise strikes or dodge at the right moment. You’ll also have a specific skill tree to unlock various moves, as well as learn how to survive in the wild or pick up crafting skills for gear.

The game’s atmosphere is top-notch, with a dynamic day-night cycle, shifting weather, and ambient sounds like rustling leaves or distant birdsong that immerse you in its medieval world, while NPCs go about their routines.

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Set in a procedurally generated world of cities, forests, and islands, Streets of Rogue 2 offers boundless freedom of choice. Want to play as a vampire hacker orchestrating a coup or a farmer growing carrots and building a dream cabin? The choice is yours. Drawing inspiration from Skyrim, GTA, and Stardew Valley, the game blends fast-paced action with RPG elements, letting you craft your own unique story.

In this game, you choose from wildly different classes like a scientist, thief, or gorilla, each with unique abilities. You’ll wield bizarre items—shrink rays, bear traps, or banana peels—alongside weapons and gadgets to sow chaos or solve problems. The world reacts to your actions, with advanced AI driving NPCs who will love or hate you based on your reputation. Plus, with online and local co-op, you can team up with friends to conquer or compete together.

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In House of Legacy we found ourselves at the helm of our surviving kin. Since rebel forces breached the city walls, we decide to embark on an arduous journey to seek refuge. After arriving in a county seat untarnished by chaos, it’s time to use tactical skills to ignite the flames of a nascent dynasty. Your choices will fashion a new empire from the very stones of your vision.

Even though it was only a demo version, there are many things to unpack regarding the story, the gameplay and the general feel of this game. Since House of Legacy fits into the category of 4X games, where the players main goals are to „explore, expand, exploit and exterminate”, we can use those components to analyse sandbox potential of this title.

Exploration

We can explore the game’s story and mechanics in many ways – by visiting places marked on a map, completing tasks from the list or simply finding out more about the county and its residents. I was pleasantly surprised by how elaborate is the mix of business and dyplomacy – not only you can decide what kind of shops you build and who you’ll hire, but also you have a chance to get rid of the competition for example by busting illegal gambling. Even the interactions with civilians are quite complex – flattering, granting marriage, poisoning or cursing are just a few examples of many steps you can take to reach your goal.

Expansion

Kako igrači napreduju, sama igra se također širi. Predstavljene su nam prekrasne ručno crtane animacije koje objašnjavaju sukob s pobunjenicima i njegove posljedice. Tijekom dijelova izgradnje i upravljanja gradom, u pozadini svira i divna tradicionalna glazba. Želim također naglasiti da naš utjecaj nije ograničen na jednu lokaciju, možemo kupovati farme, boriti se s drugim okruzima i obnoviti naš rodni grad nakon napada. Proširenje se također odnosi na naš vlastiti klan, odnosno na nama je tko će biti prihvaćen kao novi član klana i tko će postati naš najveći neprijatelj.

Eksploatacija

Exploitation in this case doesn’t necessairly have a negative meaning – it can refer to getting to know the local market and using this knowledge to increase your profit. We can learn this trick from the guide at the beginning of the game – after completing various tasks, we are rewarded with money and more tasks to do. I found it exhausting and a bit overwhelming to complete every position from the list, as it kept adding more quests, which sometimes lacked proper explanation. At times you are not even sure where you are supposed to carry out these missions or how you can achieve your goals. On the other hand, sometimes I got a reward for finishing a task that I didn’t try to do – elements like those make the gameplay a little unbalanced.

Extermination

While this game is not a brutal one, there are definitely ways to increase the significance of your clan by force – like sending your members to battles. Moreover, the characters can just die… I don’t know if it was supposed to happen as a randomized event, or it was due to my mistake, but again, the game didn’t explain to me what lead to that and if I could aviod it. Moments like these were especially frustrating since they required a sudden change of plans.

To sum up, House of Legacy as for now is quite mediocre to me – it has some extraordinary and enjoyable ideas, however their execution needs more polish. While graphics, soundtrack and customization elements work to its advantage, management and instructions feel undercooked. Altough I wouldn’t be too hard on this game – it doesn’t have a release date yet, and the potential is already here, so I’ll be cheering for the devs to improve this game with more balanced and fun to play elements.

You can play free demo of House of Legacy on Steam.

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