Endzone – A World Apart

Endzone is an enjoyable but mostly unremarkable colony sim. I think it's worth trying if you enjoy the genre, but at the same time I don't think it really stands out unless you really like the post-apocalyptic theme.
Some other notes:
- It took me about 15 hours to reach 1000 citizens plus build everything in survival mode. It was a satisfying experience and I didn't need to AFK for resources to accumulate. However I don't think the game has much replayability.
- It's an attractive game with some nice models, but it's very hard to read. Buildings are often indistinct and blend together, not helped by the desaturated art style. This starts to drag the game down when you have a big settlement going and can no longer remember exactly where everything is. It also makes the scenarios pretty unenjoyable to start playing.
- People need to be manually assigned to jobs, and the game doesn't allow you to automate any part of this so you need to constantly re-assign people as workers die and new ones are born. Not being able to tell the game 'always auto assign at least X people to work in Y job' becomes really tedious as time goes on, and can lead to unexpected shortages of important goods if you forget to check it often enough.
- I like the system for scouting and exploring ruins, it gives some variety to the gameplay and works well with the post-apocalyptic theme.
- The prosperity DLC is extremely good, almost essential. It substantially expands the late game with new buildings, resources, luxury goods and citizen demands. Without it the game barely has a late game and would be sorely lacking in any kind of challenge once you've stablized your basic necessities.
- The Distant Places DLC is mostly superfluous. It adds a few off map scouting mission and a trade system which is mildly useful. Only worth it at a deep discount.

Flawed but good city builder for those who want more of something like the good old Banished.
The tutorial is hours long and shows almost every mechanic of the game, but it betrays the game by being really easy whereas the game itself and especially at the beginning is very punishing. There are bandits attacking in regular intervals but they're a pushover if you have choke points and towers. Not having a safety buffer of water, food and enough protective clothing are the factors that can end a game. The game has a weird difficulty curve that it's really difficult at first and once you've carved out your mark on the landscape and optimized everything it'll turn piss easy. But it's still a fun time and a more full fledged city builder than something like Caesar 3 that punishes extremely heavily for not building the city out of perfect modules.

Endzone - A World Apart is a solid game in the style of Tropico.
Overall it is fun to play up to around 250-300 people in your settlement, after that you have experienced everything you can experience in this game and it becomes stale.
The scenarios in this game are bare bones, not like the fantastic scenarios in the Tropico franchise.
The fact that you can only gather most achievements in survival mode and not the scenarios really irks me.
Beware of the dlcs, they are not needed for the achievements and they don't add anything meaningfull to the game, they are just a waste of money.
Overall I give this game 6,5/10, recommended for genre enthusiasts.

This game is like a more open version of frostpunk, which is nice. It can be a bit difficult but once you have a good flow, it can be very easy/fun. A shame the studio shut down and hope the IP gets acquired somehow

Endzone A World Apart - 100% Completion Review
Score: 7.5/10
Endzone is a Post Apocalyptic Survival City Builder, after fully completing this game i'll give some Pro's, Neutrals and Cons
Pro's:
-Good building designs
-Building is simple and easy to understand
-Resources are all relatively simple and easy to collect
-Survival mode has lots of settings to play how you want
-Can create expeditions to scout out ruins
-Has survival elements but nothing too unfair
-Everything built is nice and even, good for people with ocd
-Good research tree
-Good performance, no bugs, crashes or lag
Neutrals: "No Score Change From These"
-Music is ok, your typical wasteland dreary type of music
-Raiders can be annoying, game is more fun if you simply turn 'em off
-Builders can take forever to get to a build site
Cons:
-Tools and clothing are a nightmare to maintain due to how insanely fast the citizens will go through them, tool and clothing degradation needs to be fixed
-Population can explode out of control if you build too many houses, shelters are pretty much mandatory
-Finding seeds in ruins is too rng, your better off just unlocking them all at the start of the game
-Game doesn't auto assign a citizen to a job when the old one dies, has to be done manually which is a bit annoying
Overall Endzone A World Apart is a pretty solid survival city builder, it has a few flaws but if you like city builders or survival type of games then you will probably like this one just fine regardless, but as always, It's.. Up.. To.. You, and i'll leave it at that (^_−).

Amazing challenge design. I really loved the mechanics and struggle with the environment. Every play is different and unique. I am glad tutorial took 3.5 hours, otherwise i wouldnt understand this game at all. Strategy is my favourite genre and i have almost 300 games in my library. I can easily say, developers really really put time and mind on this game. They did not do it to sell, it is obvious they wanted us to grind and enjoy the game and it's challenges. Just amazing game guys.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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