Planetiles is a serene city builder simulator accompanies with roguelike element. It’s developed and published by MythicOwl.
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Craft Your World
Planetiles offers players to craft their world on a selected planet. Players play as a creator to build a natural habitats. Player is provided different level difficulty based on the planet they choose. Player will be introduced the puzzle system and quest objective. The gameplay is works like a city building simulator in mix with fill in gap puzzle. Player’s ultimate objective is fill in the map with no gap and achieve the target points to unlock the technology.
Puzzle Land Building
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As the game begins, players will jump into tutorial session. A planet is waiting for player to decorates with lands and structures. Player may starts build an island then expands across the map with a variety kinds of terrains. Player can fill the gaps with rain-forest, sand, mountains, fields, etc. Once condition met, a construct will erects on the terrain. Each terrains may produce different kind of structures. Besides that, fill in the gaps following the quest’s instruction will complete the quest and gains extra point.
Fill the Gap
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Here’s the main mechanism of the game. Players’ challenge is fill in the gap by building the terrains with specific number of block. Also, player can shuffle the chunk of blocks once condition met. Thus, player has to arrange the blocks to fill in the gap in a limited space. Once conditions met, player can choose a terrain to evolve. Player may discovers many kind of structures through the planting the tiles. The evolution depends on player. However, there’s also risk in fill in the gap. Once certain conditions met, player will be offered an upgrade comes along with a cataclysm. The cataclysm will affect the map randomly and might devastate the following progress.
Natural Cataclysm
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During the selecting the planet difficulty, the planet’s information will shows the forecasted cataclysms. The cataclysms are set according to the difficulty. Once condition is met, it will be triggered along side with the upgrade. Player has to equip the risk management technology to counter or lower the damage it causes. There are many kinds of cataclysm and all are meant to destroy the tiles and structures player has built. Thus, player has to be careful in picking the technology equipment in order prepare the incoming disasters.
Mind-Puzzling Relaxation
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As I start playing the game, its engaging experience brings surprise to me. Do not be fooled by its casual-like appearance as it does requires some thinking to do. It’s wrong to think planting down the tiles without concerning the consequences will fills in all the gap. In my humble opinion, it’s not just about fill in the gap. It’s about trying my best in evolving the terrains into populated lands and working my best to counter the cataclysms with my technology. In overall, I recommend to give this game a try if players want to try a beginner level city building simulator genre.
