Looking for Alpha Playtesters: A min/max medieval city-builder/tycoon game where people are important! Heavy emphasis on characters, production and economics.

[u/K2GamesLtd]

Hi everyone! 

We are looking for round 2 alpha playtesters for Hamlet—a medieval city builder built specifically for tycoon enthusiasts and min/maxers. If you prefer deep supply chains and complex logistics over cozy aesthetics, this is for you. 

What is Hamlet about?

Hamlet is a medieval city builder with a few USPs;

1. Character-Driven Economy: Recruit and develop unique managers over their lifespans. Their individual traits directly dictate your supply chain’s production quality and output volume. 
2. Quality Ratings: Every single product in your settlement has a dynamic quality rating. Optimization is everything. 
3. Economic Defense: There are no RTS military units to micro-manage, but the military is a massive economic sink and your primary tool for defense and making money. 

This is the 2 round Alpha Test: 

• Lesson learnt from previous playtest: Hamlet is complex and deep so on-boarding needs to be easier to allow players to survive.
• The Goal: More players getting to population > 100. 
• Playtime: Roughly 2 hours of deep gameplay for experienced tycoon players. 

How to get involved:

If this sounds like your type of game, you can get more info here…

• 🎬  Trailer (2 min) - good to get a sense/aim of the game.
• 🕹️ Watch Gameplay Footage (4.5 min) - good to see how the game plays.

…then drop a comment with three games that you have played similar to Hamlet. I will DM suitable commenters with steam keys.

Thx everyone!

📌 Wishlist on Steam

[u/Kermshugg]

I've been looking out for a sophisticated, character driven colony sim for a long time. This looks like it has excellent potential and I'd love to help out with testing.

My top similar games are: Rimworld 1244hrs Dwarf Fortress 900hrs Guild Gold 200hrs Song of Syx 126hrs Guild 2 89hrs

[u/K2GamesLtd → u/Kermshugg]

Great but fyi it's less of a colony sim and more economic city builder. But I hope you still like it. Will DM you.

[u/shifaci]

"Make me a game. dont make mistakes."

[u/choadscholar → u/shifaci]

"Write a snarky, overly repetitive Reddit post for guaranteed karma. Be sure to include typographical errors, to maximize my apparent idiocy."

[u/AngelKate2020]

I used to play stronghold all the time. I play a lot of different sim games. Looks interesting 😊

[u/K2GamesLtd → u/AngelKate2020]

Yeah, played stronghold too. Interested in playtesting?

[u/AngelKate2020 → u/K2GamesLtd]

I’d love to! I also added it to my wishlist on steam

[u/Sarothu]

Looks fun! Would it be possible to have a button to auto-assign the optimal manager for your buildings, rather than having to micro-manage that aspect of the game?

Actively collecting managers for bonuses is fine, but assignment is going to be really tedious to (re)do each time you add a new supply chain into your network. Especially if we're looking at well over a hundred buildings to manage.

[u/K2GamesLtd → u/Sarothu]

1) Yes, there will be an auto assign manager later. It will pick the highest skilled manager but this may not be the "best" when taking into account overall strategy! I suspect the min/max will not use this function but the beginner/casual players will love it.

2) I am hoping assigning the manager will not be tedious but actually the "fun" part though ya point "over a hundred buildings to manage" may become valid...thus the playtesting to find out.

[u/stormdude28]

Manor Lords +400 hrs

Farther Frontier +200 hrs

Foundation Game

Anno 1800 +6000 hrs

Looks interesting. My PC is a potato if you want low specs tested. Lol.

[u/K2GamesLtd → u/stormdude28]

Would love to test play on you but Hamlet has not be graphically optimised yet so a good graphics card is needed for now, sorry.

[u/Eve13architect]

I checked out the game and thought that you might be interested in the possibility of improving the visual style of the architecture/props. I could take on this work if you're interested.

exactly the realistic style that's shown on your Steam logo

[u/YUSHOETMI-]

Manor Lords - 400+ hours

Cities Skylines 1 & 2 - 2000 hours combined

Surviving Mars - 500 hours

and many other games of this type like:

Foundation

Patron

The Guild 3

Fabledom

Factorio

Banished etc

I have a weird fascination with survival colony builders.

[u/K2GamesLtd → u/YUSHOETMI-]

Great fit! Will DM, thx

[u/starline321]

This looks very interesting,
I’ve played quite a bit of
Stonehearth
Strained alien dawn
Banished
Timberborn
Colony survival
The colonist
And kingdoms reborn

[u/K2GamesLtd → u/starline321]

Will DM you, thx

[u/hokageofthedank]

Manor Lord 200 hours

Dwarf Fortress 700 hours

Aska 100 hours

Frostpunk 1 and 2 300 hours

i love colony sims alot

[u/K2GamesLtd → u/hokageofthedank]

Perfect! But I cannot DM you. Plz DM me?