Riverlands

by salier

co-authored: @evanaellio, @teanan, @wolfyhawk

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.61

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.77

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.25

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.54

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.61

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.62

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.36

The tides are turning! It seems like rivers have been sprouting everywhere!

Build your town and your economy to resist and survive as long as possible.

How to play 🎮

1. Build a city center to start; 🏛
2. Build houses to increase your population; 🏠
3. Protect your population and buildings with dams; 🌊
4. Connect buildings through water with bridges; 🔗
5. Protect your city center no matter what! 🛡

Controls ⌨

You only need your mouse to play 🖱

- Left click : To select a building and build it.
- Right click : Cancel your building selection mode.
- Mouse wheel : Zoom in & out for a better view.
- Drag with left click : Move around.

Screenshots 📷

Tags: #city builder

Genres: simulation

Comments14

DS Nahogara4 Apr 2022, 22:11

This is a real good game! It took me a while to understand the damms but i got it in the end, i love the graphics and how modular this can be, amazing work ✌

blobo5 Apr 2022, 20:39

It takes some getting used too, but the idea is really cool! The art is nice, and the sound effects definitely add to the experience. Nice work!

Heremeus6 Apr 2022, 21:00

Always nice to see building/sim games in LD :)

The game has a nice relaxed feeling (the music fits perfectly). Managed to get to 100 population before a river decided to spawn directly next to the city centre (either that or the dam I enclosed it in failed) 😄

Sn4pi6 Apr 2022, 21:10

Nice concept! At first I thought, easy game I just build a dam around my center and that's it. The soundtrack is goot and the communication of what's happening or what the user can do, is well done.

jell.0o9 Apr 2022, 19:16

Really interesting! it could do with a bit of balancing, but aside from that great game!

Rainsong9 Apr 2022, 19:22

Great use of the theme, and nice smooth mechanics. The music is a hilarious contrasting with the theme. Nicely done.

BjornStahl9 Apr 2022, 19:26

Well done, you manaaged a complete game with nice visuals and sound. Props for a settings menu and localisation. The gameplay was challenging, it didn't help playing the game on a laptop mousepad. One idea would be to have rivers stop growing if they enter an already existing river, perhaps making that river grow twice as fast as if the water flow is added together.

mharring9 Apr 2022, 19:26

Great implementation of the theme. It was pretty challenging, but in a good way. I do wish you could hold the mouse button down to place dams. I lost a few times because I couldn't left-click fast enough and being able to hold down the button would have helped.

Team Choo Choo13 Apr 2022, 22:30

pretty neat gg
works well
id argue it's a bit limited
also the option to delete stuff would have helped
like dams you misplaced lol
i found out dams can break eventually
that's sad ^^#
neat little game you got there tho
well done :)

schwede20 Apr 2022, 22:46

This is a harmonic, sympathetic and clean game! With some more tweaks and features, then this game would receive a really nice depth.

Link27021 Apr 2022, 06:44

Cool game! I liked the idea, I wasn't sure what the bridges were for exactly, but I survived for a while until a random river decided to go crazy and destroy me. haha well done!

Tanner Shelton21 Apr 2022, 06:44

I enjoyed the gamplay! It was fun, especially when I was able to get going. I do feel like there was a bit of RNG where it all depended on where I placed my building first. So some runs would end right away just because of bad placement. I also soft locked myself by buying dams first.

Mortiss21 Apr 2022, 07:13

Would love to see this idea evolving into a water-managing city-builder, I really liked it!
It's not enough to stop the water with dams, right? You need to direct its flow somewhere or your dams will fall down. The water always finds a way, that's true.