Overthrown has finally hit full release and come to PlayStation 5. Maximum Entertainment was nice enough to set me up with a copy to play, which is always appreciated. The game itself allows you to play as a king ruling and building his kingdom from scratch in a very hands-on way, literally.
The game starts out with you picking up your crown, then placing your town center. This is where your citizens will emerge from every so often. When you build things like farms or sawmills, they will just go to work if you have someone unemployed. If you want, you can also just pick up the nearest person and throw them at the building and make them work there. Where you place your building does and does not matter, because if you are unhappy with its placement, you can just pick it up and put it somewhere new later and rearrange the town as you see fit. So while buildings do need to be in certain places, for example, a place that uses fruit being nowhere near fruit is useless, you can always move it later if need be.
Picking stuff up isn’t limited to buildings. Feel free to toss a tree into your sawmill and help the production cycle along if you want. You can chop it down if you want as well.
This kind of leads me to my only issue with the game: it gets quite repetitive fast, and the challenge just isn’t there. While the game is fun, and if you aren’t looking for a huge challenge, that is fine. The only real risk of death doesn’t come for probably 10-12 hours when the raids start, except for the occasional monster picking off a villager. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, however, and this admittedly could be simply because the combat is very well done and fun to use. As you make your way through the tech tree, you will discover a ton of weapons, from swords to spears.
The game is a solid, 7/10 experience that is worth checking out. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.
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