This means you're always researching, always in pursuit of the next upgrade, and being able to research without any materials got me out of one or two scrapes with total calamity. The tech tree is very simple and easy to progress through - research doesn't require any materials, just your time and a few citizens for labor. Building colors are totally customizable too, and you'll discover new pallets for buildings along the journey that can be applied to building types wholesale to keep a consistency in your town's aesthetic.Įach kingdom's residents act differently and have differing degrees of requests from your kingdom.īuilding research centers will allow you to upgrade your town and build new machines to in the pursuit of resources, storage, lift and propulsion, or luxuries. This is as close as a video game will ever get to Studio Ghibli's Castle in the Sky.There's also a robust photo mode you can use to show off your healthily growing kingdom to your friends. In the most flattering way possible, the entire thing is exceedingly cute. You'll need to be conscious about zoning, too if you place the industrial district too close to a residential district your citizens will file complaints about the noise and odor. Resources like wood or water are collected from the ground by sending down scouts as you pass overhead, and the rate at which you gather can of course be upgraded through a city-builder staple: a technology tree. You'll need to keep your citizens happy by providing them with "desires" to plants and streetlights while maintaining the Lift and Tilt of the kingdom. Before you lies a vast open world to explore from the skies, full of resources, wonders, ancient ruins and settlements aplenty. Soon you'll have your first row of houses built, and that's when the magic happens. We've started a community garden to widespread town approval. It is exactly what it sounds like as you build, you'll need to keep weight distribution even on all four sides, lest your city tip sideways and your little polygonal citizens tumble into the vast below. Beyond that, you'll also need to account for Tilt. The pull of gravity will begin to weight down your town as you build, and only by providing more Lift can your kingdom-in-the-making stay afloat. Just as important as the materials, however, are the physics. This allows you to take some beautiful screenshots of your utopia whenever you please.I found many familiar components of city builder games in Airborne Kingdom food, water, coal to run the motor, wood, clay, iron and glass to build and of course citizen happiness. There's also a surprisingly robust photo mode that includes full sliders for depth-of-field, contrast, saturation, and more, alongside things like color filters and film grain. Meanwhile, the soundtrack is energetic and catchy, which fits the active, exploration-heavy nature of the gameplay. The visuals are colorful and soft in nature, which makes the game feel like a fantasy adventure. Overall, Airborne Kingdom's emphasis on exploration is very enjoyable and fits right in with the core "your city can fly" concept.Īll of the great gameplay experiences are wrapped together with a beautiful art style and a fantastic soundtrack. Your goal is to unite the lands by forming a coalition with all 15 of the game's kingdoms. Completing quests for kingdoms will result in them allying with you, which is how you win the game. You can also run into settlements and ground-based kingdoms - recruiting new citizens in the former while the latter offers quests as well as opportunities for resource trading, purchasing technology schematics for new structures, and more. Along the way, you'll find tons of neat little secrets like hidden temples and secret ruins, which come with unique snippets of lore and helpful resource caches.
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