5PM Studio hasreleased their city-builderMemoriapolisonto Steam Early Access today. The planned timeframe is 4-6 months, and currently features the ages of Antiquity and Medieval out of a planned four.
Memoriapolisis a classic city-builder whose main hook is the way in which it progresses through historical eras. From Antiquity to the Age of Enlightenment. Along the way, you build production, cultural, and military buildings to keep your citizens happy and in their lane. You know, city-building stuff.
The feature that stands out to me most aboutMemoriapolisis the fact that you don’t build the roads yourself. In any city builder where you’re given control of where pavement gets laid down, it invariably leads to grids. At least it does in my case. I’ve learned to force myself to curve roads and avoid symmetry, even when it isn’t as efficient. The focus is on organic growth.
It’s certainly a lavish trailer they put out with the announcement as well. I tend to love city builders and management games, but I’m not sure that I can fit another one in. Not that I wouldn’t want to. Memoriapolis looks pretty solid. But I already keep telling myself to get back intoFarthest Frontier. I just can’t find the time. Maybe I need to stop sleeping.
