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Pretty disappointing. You're not building a city, you're building a silent collection of buildings. There are no people walking around, going about their lives, there is no ambient noise or feeling that this city of yours is actually lived in, and though on the surface it might look like one of the old Pharoah/Caesar style games, it's just a lifeless clone.

Remember how in the older city building games you could literally feel your city? How you could click on any of the people living in it, who would be happy to tell their thoughts? How you were constantly listening to the background noise of the city itself? The exchange of money and goods, laughter, music, pottery breaking, drinks being poured? How it was full of little details that made your city actually FEEL like a city, and that these details only grew the larger and more complex that city got?

Well from what I can tell, there's none of that here. The only time people walk around is when they have a specific job to do. They don't say anything, there's no ambient noise, there's no citizens walking around the residential districts doing their jobs. It's just buildings. Buildings that sit there and look pretty, and eerily absent of any form of life or occupation. The only time you see anyone in your city is when there's something a worker needs to do - like take resources from a production facility to a warehouse, or plant seeds for crops. You can even see it in the screenshots. The cities you build look pretty, but are completely empty.

This isn't the next Impressions Games' City Builder. It could be, but right now it isn't. It's just an imitation of one, a city-building skin stretched over a bare-bones skeleton with no meat.