Dystopika Review (FlutterFeet Fetish)
It looks very impressive and has a lot of potential, but for a game with an accent on creativity it's lacking way too much freedom.
When placing buildings the game would automatically generate tiny filler-type buildings to create density, but there's no control over it. I wanted to take advantage of clipping buildings through each other to create my own type of megastructure, but the more buildings I place - the more filler generates around them, creating a mess I have no control over. We need a tool to brush away these filler building, similar to the existing lighting tool. It would also help with creating a wasteland type of area, where I'd prefer to have a select few buildings with no density.
I felt like Alpha and Omega were antipods of each other and wanted to create districts based on that, but there's not enough gritty structures to match the Alpha megastructure aesthetic.
Storepage screenshots make it feel like you have control over the city's color scheme, but you can't theme the city around a certain color for there's no setting to control lighting aside from the lighting brush, that just lights up buildings in preset random colors.
The worst sin of the game by far is the roads management. You can't seemlessly connect roads. Forget about tidy intersections and branching routes, you either can make singular point A to point B strips or loops. You can make roads any length, but they always only have 4 nodes, so the longer the road - the harder it is to adjust. Also these nodes are tiny and impossible to see when zoomed out, not to mention that they're also hard to pin point with the mouse.
I would personally like to see more militaristic props and buildings. Omega's design enspires to create some sort of space related military base.
I love the concept and I love how it looks, but it feels like it's a beta of the game with some of these seemingly obvious fundamental features that a city builder needs missing. Every time I get a cool design idea for the city I get shut down by the game's limitations. It's worth buying, but also heavily lacking. I hope I could finish my city in the future with more features added. 6/10