A New Roman City Builder WITH WARFARE - Citadelum Review

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It's been a while since I thoroughly enjoyed a classic-style city builder, but thanks to a charming approach, some new mechanics including warfare and trade, and a Roman setting filled with gorgeous buildings and decorations, Citadelum is something I've truly enjoyed playing.

It's not perfect, and could benefit from a few quality of life updates and fixes, but with all of its offerings in a very affordable package, I highly recommend checking Citadelum out, I'm sure you'll love it if you enjoy classic city builders like Caesar and Pharaoh.

Let me know your thoughts on the game and the video in the comments, and make sure to leave a like and subscribe to the channel :)

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[TheRealKenobi]

This game is radiating Caesar IV vibes and I love it!

[velzaresp]

Gods walking around is very "Lord of Olympus, Zeus" and "Lord of Atlantis, Poseidon". But that game have mythological creatures and heroes too.

[waltonsmith]

Strategy fans have only been asking for this kind of game forever. It was bound to get made eventually.

[deltaman]

Does anyone remember Black and White? they don't make games like that anymore.

[legionofrome]

At least it has not been labeled as "total war destroyer". It looks good as a game and I personally have already got it. I also am looking forward to, another roman city builder, Nova Roma.

[Wub_Sniffz]

I’ve got around 12ish hours and I love the heck out of this game. I’m glad your making a video to show other about it. Simple, total war esque combat. Amazing city building fun. 9.5/10 for me. Two nit-picks are the gods are kind of hard to deal with in the beginning of the game. As well as combat could use just a tiny bit more polish and depth I feel. I really like how late game becomes a designer almost. Tons and tons of fun. Thank you for this awesome video Andy!

[notwhatitwasbefore]

Those small square villas did make me think about Populous 2.

Not that Populous 2 actually looks like that and I think its single tile terrain deformations that a little like the roofs but well played devs thats a super positive connection my brain just made. Will be checking this one out I think

[RogueRanks]

The combat looks surprisingly fun! Its not trying too hard to be more than it is which is appealing. Nice overview!

[ReadingOcelotl]

Nice going to try this out, seems like a great game to sync some time in! Battles and combat in the city looks so fun, an aspect that usually is not the best in these citybuilder genres.

[Quecojo]

Looks interesting! Will keep my eye it for a little bit!

[shipmcgree]

Impressive. Leagues better than some AAA & "AAAA" dev teams 👌🏼

[solreaver]

Co-op version where you have your own cities but can work together with trade, diplomacy and maybe even visit and work on each other's cities. Additionally research and technologies learned would be cool rather the the typical you just get everything.

[huantruonginh]

Am I missing something or that Insulae and other two or more stories buildings don’t exist in this game? Maybe they’ll add them in later?

[doofernz]

"An indie dev made this..." makes me think of one person, not an indie game studio with several devs. Looks good anyway!

[TheKingofRome]

not sure how but it looked more cartoony on the steampage which pushed me away but this video has me interested again

[lordfreezer]

Tbh this has come close to civcity rome which is arguably the best roman city builder but still hasnt topped it. Interiors, yes, finally, but lifeless, in civcity each civilian had a name, walked to get each resource and left it in a spot on the house. Lifeless house upgrades and 2 house types, upgrading only gives a "new paint" and "new interior" with a stat boost which is that more people live inside... While in civcity the whole house upgrade tier are different and in depth, with insulas that can be placed ON TOP of store stalls (i have never ever seen this repeated) and domus, villas and palaces all starting from a sack... Plus the people that "live inside" on civcity grow organically (lone civilian-marriage-child-slave buying). The only place thats more developed on citadelum is combat except the part where you receive an attack... The "guard" system... Dude, i want to receive the attack of an entire army... But yeah, it has more troop types, map battles and more military buildings. Oh, and also the god thing, which is new. Thats it, on the rest civcity is superior. Man i wish they remastered that game or remake it...

[anthonypowell]

I think they could imrpove the game by just adding some exstra stuff to make the map more clean and also the battles look at bit rough with how the Ai works also there should be units doing clashing against another(like 1 on 1 clashing during battles)

[Tijn]

Have you heard that Total War Empire mobile is coming out on November 21st?

[MichaelCollins-dlom]

The downside to this Impressions style system is that you have to constantly babysit the gods.

[philliie]

I cant tell you how many hours iv put into Grand Ages Rome over the years. You must have also played Imperium Romanum gold i somewhat perfered over grand ages rome. Its been awhile since i played them or anything like them... get in L#### we're going shopping