Evertown

Evertown
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Metacritic
44
Steam
26.25
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Price
$1.99
Release date
11 January 2016
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Steam reviews score
Total
44 (61 votes)

Evertown is a RTS (real-time strategy) game with some survival elements. The goal is to raise your town to make it safe (the longest you can).

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Evertown system requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: Windows 10
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 50 MB available space

Recommended:

Recommended requirements are not yet specified.
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Steam APP ID
432500
Platforms
Windows PC
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Zaxtor99® TTV
Zaxtor99® TTV

Nice little indie game that runs pretty good for early access. Here's my first game play on the early access launch day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDNtTFrUaLY

At this point, this game runs well with simple old school style pixel graphics, yet it is pretty fun to play if you can get past that.

The game ended up crashing on me that ended my game just as the action got intense, so be sure you use the options in the top right of the game screen to save the game often if you buy this! ..Just a heads up! :-)

I'd like to see improvements made to the AI of your villagers so they don't just stop working a given task requiring your micro-management and sometimes they just seem to take off in a random direction for no reason without being to to and get themselves killed, pretty frustating..but I guess it adds to the challenge lol.

Overall, I can see this being a really fun little game if the developer continues working on this and fixes a few things, and keeps adding content. I hope that he/she doesn't give up or abandon this, and if you find my video of this game or this game interesting, perhaps show your support with the small purchase cost! I personally already see enough value in this game to warant the cost, just be sure you save often in case it crashes on you! :-D

I like it. :-)

AAAAAAHHHHHHHH
AAAAAAHHHHHHHH

This game is very fun however, I would not recomend you buy this until the bugs are fixed.
PROS: The art is well done; the gameplay is simple to understand; the music is hella immersive; simple user interface; only $3
CONS: The game crashes about every fifteen minutes; there is no auto-save feature as far as I am aware; there are no tutorials
FINAL VERDICT: I would not recomend this game unless until there has been updates to fix the crashing.

legos
legos

Amazing game. 10/10 would recomend

JolliB
JolliB

At this current state game is too buggy and incomplete and should have not even released with its current alpha state. Map was very small and everything in this game that it can offer at this came can be accomplised in 10 mins.

Major bug which is a game breaker for me is that villagers will randomly stop farming fields leaving you micromanaging them often since you have to put each one back to work. When you have many farm plots going this can get tedious because not only do I have to keep an eye on them I need to watch which plots are vacant due to this bug so I can put the villagers back to work.

Right now once you are set up there is nothing much to do since aside from playing mini tower defense when nightfall comes and you have to defend your base from the creatures that attacks your base. I would say wait for this game to get develop or not buy it at all due to its curretn state

smaam
smaam

Has a forced CRT filter that to my knowledge can't be disabled. The pixel art style would be fine without it, but personally it makes it impossible to play for me. The effect can be found in many emulators for retro gaming consoles, and it's just as annoying here as it is there, more so because it is pointless.

Made me too nauseous to want to play, your mileage may vary.

EmoeOnion
EmoeOnion

This is definitly a good start love the idea. i have found 2 bugs so far i found a peasent that just stopped working randomly and i couldnt control him at all. Also my game crashed after 55 mins of playing and i lost all of my progress so i was decently sad.But if you increase the skill system and buildings and characters,enemies add a tutorial too this can be a really good game.

Minty
Minty

Really loved what i've played so far! Only had one random crash, but its not unplayable. Looking forward to seeing future developments :D

Gameplay video below!

Part #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96UgdtW_QVY

Part #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHDu7dxe1aE

GTH
GTH

Pros - The game design is quite nice and it could easily be an addictive way to pass your time as the leveling feature keeps you playing to try expand.

Cons - As already mentioned in other reviews, the game is extremely buggy at the moment. Within an average time of 5-10 minutes of playing the game completely crashes.

I feel like this is just not acceptable to release a game in that state. Surely it must have been tested and the developer fully aware of the game state. Hopefully it is fixed soon.

In terms of game play, quite a number of things to improve but that is expected due to this being an early access game so ill leave those out for now.

The crashing really limited the chance to fully explore the actual game content, i will be happy to change my recommendation when the crashing is not at least as frequent.

Ryan Dorkoski
Ryan Dorkoski

My review will most likely change to positive once the game has developed further.
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Evertown plays like an indie version of Age of Empires, which is totally great, except it is more of a proof-of-concept at this point than a close-to-complete game.

Just too many bugs. It crashed nearly 3 times on us in 30 minutes. While we play almost exclusively indie and early access games, this is unheard of. There also needs to be fairly extensive developement on the menu and overall playing system done, before I can totally recommend.

Pros:
+Really fun to play, even in the current state
+Price is probably too cheap
+Graphics are quirky, and fun
+Music and ambient sound is nice, at this point

Cons:
-Too buggy as of (1/13/16)
-Needs better UI refinement and hotkeys
-Probably needs further complexity and depth added

Yeah, I mean its like three bucks. Its worth it, but I just hope developement continues quickly.

Nemo
Nemo

Great game!
Lots of potential, looking forward to more updates!

Hobbes
Hobbes

At the moment a little bland, but well worth the asking price as there is an update every other day. Game gets fun once you have have 250+ peasants running around to do your bidding, and they sure are giving. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

rrocks
rrocks

Early Access Review

Finally, a game that is priced appropriately for the content that it offers.

The game is very early in development, and there is not much content at all. I will list the current content, and my pros/cons, during the review I will try to be objective as possible.

Current Content

=Farm: Used to grow crops, needed for unit construction.
=House: Used to increase population limit.
=Fence: Decorative item (not sure if it prevents hordes from attacking).
=Road: Increases unit speed, although units do not "auto-follow" the roads (yet).
=Tower: Used to deal ranged damage to enemies.
=Woodcutter Shack: Used as a secondary resource drop for wood choppers.
=Barracks: Currently in-game, although the materials needed to create it are absent (in my experience).

Pros

+Nostalgic 8-bit graphics, scanlines and all.
+Good difficulty curve.
+Ability to choose your hero class/perks.
+Heroes respawn after falling in battle.
+Promising game/mechanics.
+Procedural world generation.
+Ability to distribute XP "your way", i.e. either for Tech, or for Level Upgrades

Cons

-Limited content (currently).
-A.I. don't follow build orders/can't queue up build orders.
-A.I. pathfinding needs improvement, guards appear to retreat to random areas after a conflict, rather than to their post.
-Can only queue up to 5 units for creation at a time in the Town Center construction.
-Menu options are very limited, don't seem to save preferences.
-The procedural world generator can leave you with no resources, or room to build.

Subjective/Personal Thoughts

The game has a solid idea, using this low resolution graphical style the options seem to be limitless. Currently the game is very in development however. I have had maps start where I simply had no room what-so-ever to build due to terrain issues. This is because you cannot build on/cross over mountains, and water tiles.

There are some trees (not sure if all) that seem to never deplete their resources (the fat oaks), I am not sure if this is intentional or not. The issue with this is that it goes against the idea of the game, that you have to outlast the waves of enemies with limited resources.

Of course I would love to see more content in the way of resources, methods of transportation (boats/horses/etc), unit types, defensive structure types, a market, other A.I. towns, etc.

Gameplay

The idea of the game is simple, you have a settlement, a hero, and a few citizens to help start over. You must build up quickly because each night waves of enemies start attacking you. Right now, I haven't "lost" the game so-to-speak, which is a good thing for me, because I hate games that put you in a position to ultimately lose eventually. I like to have a little more control over my fate, and know that through good strategy I can win/survive.

You start the game by picking your hero, his perk, and his class. You then have a handful of skill points that you can distribute before the game starts. Once you are in the game world, you task your workers to start on supplies, and your hunters to scout the area for resources, choke points, etc.

Once nightfall hits, the hordes start moving in. I don't know how random the chances are, because I went through three nights straight without anybody bothering me, and that the same time I have been hit hard multiple nights in a row.

Through surviving the nights (by killing enemies), and building various structures, you gain experience. This experience is then either "saved" to level up your town center, or spent to instantly learn new techs. As of right now, the options are very limited, but I like having the RPG element of picking and choosing how to distribute my own XP. Sometimes it may make more sense to spend that XP on a Fortify upgrade, rather than leveling up your Town Center.

This pretty much sums up the gameplay in the games current state. There is not a lot to see or do at the moment, but for the price, it's more than appropriate. The only concern I have right now, is because of the price, how much content will the dev add in updates.

NOTE:

Some people are complaining of crashes. I have not experienced a single crash yet. The only bug I have found is, if I change from windowed to fullscreen via ALT+ENTER, the mouse cursor becomes out of sync with the game. I have been ALT+TABBING without any issues, and loading/exiting without any issues. The lower resolution may be an issue for some people depending on their pc setup, some graphics cards simply don't run windowed games at such low resolutions. You can see my build information in my profile.

tl;dr

It's a solid purchase at $2.99 to support further development. The only concern is the low price, was this meant to be what it is in it's current state, minus the bugs? Or, will the dev build on this and keep adding content/mechanics. That's a risk that's personally up to each person to take individually. I supported the dev in hopes that he continues to build on this game, I recommend others to do so as well, but I respect everyones personal decisions.

monansora
monansora

The game has a few bugs but it is in early access. So far I think the game is quite fun to play and hope to see the game improve over time by fixing bugs and adding more in to it.

wanted31
wanted31

AWESOME ! My kind of flixnet and chill out game !

OG Lopus
OG Lopus

It's pretty great, I hope the developers take care of this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv0DFG5nibg

Tree
Tree

On a seriosu note, I played the game till it was dead, and I must say that the game itself has been abandonded. unless you like AoE stripped to nothing I'd recommend staying away. The game will never be out of early access and if it does I would gladly change my review but until hell freezes over spend your money else where.

Castillian
Castillian

You can pretty much beat this game in 30 mins or less. Not enough building options, quite frankly I don't believe it takes 7 months to add new buildings, enemies, perks, etc. to a 16-bit game. This may be more of a cash grab or maybe it's not. But don't buy this game please, there are no updates. The new version doesn't even let you get everything because the inventory is glitched, so you're just sitting there staring at new buildings you can't get or you can't see which is a real pain. Like you can't even train military units because the iron mine is replaced by a 2nd set of roads. Then tier 4 altogether doesn't even show.... It's not worth it. Save your money and move on.

Kinja
Kinja

I hate to do this, but i have to warn anyone interested in this title to move along. Besides some bugfixes on release, because for some the game flat out didn't work, this "game" has had no update since release. It does not even really deserve to be called a game at this point, it's more of a prototype.

Basically a short time after release the developer decided the engine wasn't good enough for what he wanted to do with the game. He said he decided to port it over to another engine and redo everything, that was more or less the last meaningful thing he ever posted on steam and besides a gif and a screenshot(iirc) a while back and answering someone that he's still working on the game there's no real proof that this project is ever going anywhere.

So unless you don't mind paying 3$ for a very shallow, short and potentially crash filled sandbox RTS just move along, there's better alternatives, both paid for and free, out there.

Bigmitch256
Bigmitch256

Great little starter RTS. There isn't a whole lot of content but what is there is great! The price is great, I've paid so much more for so much less (I'm looking at you Battlefront) I highly suggest throwing $3 at the dev. and encouraging more content.

A Dull Black Ixian Artifact
A Dull Black I…

Basically no content exists in the game, just basic mechanics, and it saw one or two updates since release for what was meant to be "only a few months" in early access. Shit show.

Dusiek
Dusiek

This game is dead. No updates for about year tho. "Early Access"

Virtual_Wolfy
Virtual_Wolfy

Well... Is it Towncraft II, you can find on GameJolt, isn't it?
This game could be awesome if you add planneg features, you wrote in the description. It is still fun, to play it, but it's getting borring quite fast. I'd like to see it fully developed.

Zestychille
Zestychille

Edit: They never finished the game, so if you are itching to try it be sure to get it on sale.

I really enjoy RTS. This one is cheap and easy to learn. Nothing special, just the usual run of the mill RTS. If you can get it on sale, great. But if I knew I would play it over 2 hours the first time I even tried it, I would have bought it for full price. Yes, there are free games exactly like it. There are similarly priced games that are better. ANd there are expensive games that are better. But I'm not comparing it to the rest of the world, I'm enjoying it for what it is.

Only down side is that if your town gets too massive the game crashes.
(I'm talking span the entire map with farmers type massive)

Edit: Barracks doesn't work because the resources required don't exist. Looks like the game is unfinished. So don;t go into it expecting the full experience.

Kruxed
Kruxed

Game has been Abandoned. Dev spends his time on twitter talking about pixel shading for non related 'Evertown' things, ignores all communication from anyone asking about 'Evertown'.

CatTheCatception
CatTheCatception

This game is dead.

The Dev of the game never updates it nor reaches out to the community about what he is doing for the game.

This game is a waste of money as there are so few features currently implemented.

I'm not one to write negative reviews often or at all really.

But this game is not worth your time.

Lord Knorrx
Lord Knorrx

Don't buy! The dev has finally deleted their twitter account. This game is the deadest thing on Steam.

tobb
tobb

Great potential, if it added on more content. Seeing as the game has not been updated in more than a year, it probably never will be. Do not buy this game..

iacthulhuf.htagn
iacthulhuf.htagn

Projects like this give Early Access Games a bad name.

The developer has abandoned this project years ago so it remains very-very incomplete and buggy.

It could be understood that someone may lose the interest or the means to continue the development, but to leave Evertown here in the Steam store as it is, and continue accepting money for it is utterly dishonest and should not be allowed.

Jackerino
Jackerino

DO NOT BUY.

The developer took the money and ran.

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Minorthreatt

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The Short of it: A very minimalistic real-time strategy game, very indie. It's very simple, short, and doesn't seem like it's going to be updated often, or ever, but somehow it's hard to hate on it. Buy if on sale.

UPDATE: Seemingly abandoned by developer, so no more updates likely. Reccommended if 99 cents or less, just for the nostalgic feel, and I still don't think the game is completely useless, even in this state.

Not a Tiger
Not a Tiger

The game had potential, unfortunately the dev disappeared about two years ago. It has base mechanics however there is a lack of content and although the beginning is sorta hard it becomes very easy in the mid game. Over the course of an hour or two you can completely take over the map with little difficulty.

jumping_tatters
jumping_tatters

I bought this game and there are absolutly 0 updates in like 3 years, dont buy this its a waste and what we do have isnt worth 3 dollars...

choiboy2
choiboy2

Incomplete and very little content.

Redner
Redner

i bought this game for about fifty cents and it was still over priced

Gavrail
Gavrail

Forget about this game... it's dead.

Kreuscher
Kreuscher

Okay, so this game looks cute. It seems like a nice, casual indie RTS with survival elements. "Right up my alley!", I thought. Well, don't be fooled.

The UI is broken. Icons can pop out of their bars, sometimes leaving the window.

Pathfinding is horrid, units are slow and lack many commands (e.g. there's no difference between move and attack-move).

There is some sort of memory leak. I paused the game for an hour, only to find that it crashed due to lack of RAM. This happened twice.

But worst of all, and what I found completely inadmissible is that there's a resource (iron, I guess, by the icon) which is literally missing from the game. It hasn't been implemented! You require iron to build a barracks (which is rather pointless, since there's nothing in the map which would require the units it might provide), but there is no way to obtain iron in the game. Look, this game is in Early Access, and as of now the release date on the description reads 30/jan/2020, but I found people complaining about this as far back as 2018. The developer seems to have eloped, but the game remains purchasable in its unfinished state. I have never asked for a refund on Steam before, but I will now.

TL;DR incomplete game with no prospects; right now it's lacking essential features, making it effectively unplayable.

Paradox00700
Paradox00700

DO NOT BUY
developer has abandoned the project and you will not get your money worth. it is NOT an early access game. It is a dead project and will never be updated.