Depraved
In Depraved you are the leader of the pioneers in the Wild West. You are about to start your adventure in a procedurally generated world with only one carriage full of resources. Select a suitable place for your first settlement and procure building materials from mother nature or by trading to create a new home country for your residents. The happier your residents are, the faster your town will grow. Supply your residents with food and water, so that they won't starve or die of thirst. Protect them against the weather and against illnesses by supplying them with clothes and fire wood. You will have to face numerous dangers. Storms, illnesses and bandits will strike at you, and also your own residents can become a danger, if you do not meet their needs. Are you ready for this challenge? The residents of Drepraved have needs. Their basic needs are hunger and thirst which you can satisfy with food and water. In addition, every population type needs another food source. If your population type experiences a shortage of food and the preferential food is not available, you can nourish them with an alternative food source – however, this will affect the mood of your residents in a negative way. Unhappy residents commit raids and other criminal offenses or simply leave the town.
Game Discussion
Steam User 7
This is a criminally underrated game. It's one of the better Banish clones. It's essentially Banish in the wild west but with some unique mechanics. Like cemeteries are for burying the dead not just to make people happy. And if you don't bury the dead, they rot in the street and spread disease. You have to build outhouses or people will poop in the streets and spread disease; I love this little logistical consideration that I don't think the other games consider. A lot of reviews say it's boring after a while but that's true of Banished and the other clones. This seems like another game harmed by the early access crowd that turned on it when it didn't deliver every single little thing they asked for.
Steam User 2
This game is just good, relaxing city builder with some little hardships but overall a good experience about the wild west, good graphics and a resonable price.
Steam User 0
I don't understand the mixed/terrible reviews. Addicting Banished/Manor Lords style city survival game in the old West. Maybe you won't play for hundreds of hours, but it's great for what it has.
Steam User 0
It's far from being one of the best city builder games out there but it's not so bad either. It's not too complex if you fancy a relaxing game although there isn't really a tutorial making it a bit complicated while you work everythiing out. In the end, I got a good 30 hours of entertainment from the game so I'd recommend it when it's on offer.
Steam User 0
Updated Review 4/15/2024
So, I'm making a new review as I hit the over 200 hours mark for the game sand wanted to do an updated review to reflect my thoughts for current time.
Would I recommend it? Yes (with caveats)
Stars: 5.5 out of 10
Price Value Worth: 5$
Mod Support: None
TECHNICAL-------
-not many graphics options
-has some lag scrolling across map at the very beginning when first playing the map
-map reloads take too long when trying to find a new map
-doesn't save your resolution after changing it in menu (saves in game)
-supports higher resolutions but ui is really small
-No mod support
I would recommend a couple things if you play. Turn off bloom and clouds. Also for those who can use DSR, use it. I run 1440p monitor and run it at 2.5x with smoothness at 25-30 and the game looks considerably better with that rough western look. It even looks good at 1.5 and maintains 72 fps on my monitor as well. At 2.5, it's above 60 no problem.
PERFORMANCE (IN-GAME)-------
It stays decently stable during game. I have had like 2 crashes in 200 hours but that was in my early playing time. I have not had a crash in over 100 hours. Seemed to be an isolated incident when first started using DSR.
GAMEPLAY
Positives
+One of the best things about this game is the animation details. When someone dies, you see the undertaker roll his cart to the body, pick up the body and put it in cart, roll the cart back to the cemetery. and than see him bury it. This game has all those little animal steps for most of the jobs in the town.
+You can change the name of all your townsfolk, so it's possible to have Bonnie & Clyde live there
Negatives
-The main problem with this game is depth. I want a game where you have things that keep you wanting to play. This game sorely lacks that. I mean it's great unlocking the buildings the first time but after that, there are not enough buildings to keep going to keep the gaming drive alive to want to keep playing. At some point, you're just playing to reach the end game achievements. It sorely needs more endgame depth. Give me a brothel please.
- the game needs more micromanaging to keep you busy during slow times. I like to be able to assign certain guns to certain jobs. Also, when builders are not building, they should resort back to laborers to help out; same with the farmers who just stand around most of the time.
-animals in the wild breed too slow. They need be humping faster.
-The last negative thing is the bandits. They are way too much and it designed as soon as you take down bandits, the natives will attack as you dealing with them and burn your town down. It becomes more of defending your town, at times, than growing. It makes you want to kill all bandits and natives and not have to deal with it. It shouldn't make you want to play that way. You can turn the natives off in the menu.
So, in conclusion, I would recommend this game if you can get if for a fiver or less. I think anything more is not worth it. I bought it for 3 dollars and it got me 200 hours, so I can't complain about that for me.
P.S. I would also recommend playing on hard. It's a much better experience.
Steam User 0
Very fun top down city builder. little rough but i love this game
Steam User 7
Crazy that Manor Lords got so popular when it's basically this game set in a different time period.