Clockwork Empires (Preview) PC « Pixel Perfect Gaming

DaRipp3r

September 21st, 2014 at 11:06 am -

Gaslamp Games’ survival strategy game, Clockwork Empires, has finally arrived on Steam Early Access. If you have ever played the classic survival game, Dwarf Fortress, or the more recent, Banished, then Clockwork Empires needs no introduction.

Even in its ‘Early Access’ state, Clockwork Empires is a rich, enthralling survival game that has you helping civilization thrive in treacherous conditions.

You start the game with a handful of colonists with very little food. The player must learn to live off the land by harvesting bushes, chopping down trees, and building shelter as soon as possible. Everything from wood to food must be harvested and then re-purposed into either usable material or edible content.

The gameplay is not complicated even though it may appear that way at first. The Early Access release doesn’t include a tutorial, but the game is easy to play thanks to the straightforward GUI that is located in the lower left-hand corner of the screen.

Since the game is still in Early Access form, a lot of features are either not implemented or fully functional at this time. Gaslamp Games have been hard at work releasing a steady stream of daily updates and patches for the game. These updates do not hinder the gameplay or the experience whatsoever. And while Clockwork Empires is still in development, it plays with minimal crashing, glitches and downtime.

So far, Clockwork Empires is stacking up to be an amazing city-building strategy game that is on par with classic games such as Dwarf Fortress and Banished, to name just a few. Clockwork Empires will not disappoint any gamer that enjoys this genre.

It’s evident from playing Clockwork Empires that Gaslamp Games has dedicated countless hours to developing a game that, when it finally launches, can easily steal ‘Strategy game of the Year’ from its competitors, especially if the developer continues to address in-game issues with timely patches and updates.

Please stay tuned for a full review of Clockwork Empires once it officially launches on Steam. Clockwork Empires is available via Steam Early Access for the modest price of $29.99USD. As it stands in its current state, Gaslamp Games’ latest strategy game is worth every penny.

James ‘Daripp3r’ Pittaro
Platform: PC

System Requirements
Minimum:
OS: Windows 7, Operating System of The Lower Classes
Processor: Intel i5 Processor or Equivalent (“The Little Scrapper” model)
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA or AMD card capable of supporting OpenGL 3.2 Core or Above. INTEL HD3000 AND HD4000 GRAPHICS CARDS ARE NOT SUPPORTED.
DirectX: Version 9.0
Hard Drive: 4 GB available space
Sound Card: Lord Palmerstoke’s Sound-Reproducing “Old-Timey” Wax Cylinder Driver
Additional Notes: INTEL HD3000 AND HD4000 GRAPHICS CARDS ARE NOT SUPPORTED. The Ministry for Video Game Drivers would like to remind you: true Patriots of the Empire always install their latest Graphics Card Drivers before Enjoying A Bracing Video Game, lest the Blackness Consume Us All.