By selecting each one of your buildings with A, a specific menu will open, where you can access unique options. In order to do that, you control a pointer with the left analogue stick (on handheld mode, you have the option of using the touch controls too). In Townsmen, all the micro-management of your city is done by selecting the buildings. Just like in AoE, in order to develop your city, you’ll have to start from the very basics: gather resources like wood and stone to construct different builds do activities like farming and finishing to feed all your population, and collect taxes to create your own economy.ĭifferent to AoE, though: you don’t have direct control over your population. In Townsmen, you’re also the leader of a small village, striving to survive during medieval times.

As I started taking care of my town, I’ve became surprised with some similarities between the two games. Gather resources, construct new buildings, and help your medieval city prosper.ĭue to its medieval thematic and top-down perspective, the first time I saw Townsmen, I couldn’t think about anything different than the classic Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. Townsmen lies in the midway on that scale – but it compensates with a high replay value. Thankfully, now that the Switch library is much more diverse, we have many other options of the town-building simulation genre, although some are better than others. Maybe that’s why I spent so many hours on a game like New Frontier Days: Founding Pioneers, despite its lacklustre presentation. As much as I like playing real-time strategy games, I must confess that I have much more enjoyment building my city and watching it grow than when I have to actually engage in combat with other enemy factions.

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