The other bummer is that even once you’ve cleared out every bush and tree and filled in every hole, the development of your kingdom is very much on rails. It’s also a little too easy to accidentally spend gems to speed up tasks, as simply highlighting a building and then tapping on it again without another tap somewhere else can kick your tribezman into turbo mode and deprive you of some precious gems. The omnipresent “deals” asking you if you’d like to buy more at great rates aren’t as nice, but the game does have to be monetized somehow. You can also earn gems, the game’s premium currency, via achievements.įree gems are good. That’s important, as achievements allow you to level up faster, unlocking more structures and helping to advance the plot. As you upgrade structures, you’ll be able to choose whether to produce small amounts of resources quickly or set the buildings for longer cycles to get higher yields.Īnd unlike other games of this type, there’s actually a point to continuous play since a number of achievements can be earned by completing tasks during a single play session (others are cumulative over all of your play). Everything else you build costs something - gold, food, wood, stone, etc. - while producing something else. Housing structures are needed for workers, used for all other tasks.

Repairing the infrastructure is a delicate dance of resource management.

Given the fact that said landing smashes the magic crystal that holds Gobools, Trollums and other fantasy monsters at bay, the least he, Aurora and the tribezmen can do is help him rebuild and defend his land (and if you can figure out how all the tribezmen fit in the ship, please let me know). The Tribez & Castlezmoves the action into the future, relatively speaking, by having the scientist who helped the Tribez crash-land in a medieval kingdom run by a Prince Eric. The biggest difference since the first outing is the setting. Besides torturing the standard concept of pluralization even more, The Tribez & Castlezdoubles down on the narrative and graphics while retaining most of the core gameplay from the original. Since mobile gamers ate up the more story-focused take on city-builders presented in The Tribez, it didn’t stray too far when plotting a course for the sequel. Say this about Game Insight: when it has a good thing, it knows not to mess it up. Developer: Game Insight Publisher: Game Insight Platforms: iOS, Android

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