Yield! Fall of Rome Steam Review

Yield! Fall of Rome from Daedalic Entertainment is an interesting 4X Strategy game developed by Billionworlds. They were nice enough to send me a copy of the early version to check out the first part of the campaign and I have to say it quickly caught my attention.

You can see where the creators grew up loving civilization but wanting something that played a bit faster without losing the need for strategy. From the beginning, you are greeted with the familiar hexagonal map and fog of war you are used to seeing. You will also be sending off a settler to start a city in an advantageous spot surrounded by useful resources, however,you can simply click on those resources to build when you have the right technology and enough money to build farms rather than using builders. Tech is also simply bought with gold rather than science.

Games now have a turn limit of around 50, which doesn’t sound like much but it is plenty of time to get all the tech and explore the much smaller maps or wage all the wars you want. Wars can quickly become quite large and require planning, I quickly learned you can’t just spam units and hope for good results. My first attempt I just sent massive amounts of horses and quickly saw them dead and me without the resources to even defend my cities.

Is this game going to be a civilization kill? No, and it definitely isn’t meant to be. Is it a good alternative? My initial feeling is yes, the time I spent playing it, this game is absolutely going to fill that niche. I don’t always have time to spend hours on a game, but I can spend the time on this and it feels great. I can not wait to spend more time on this 8/10 title. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

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