Have you ever imagined building your own medieval village, with quaint cottages, winding streets, and the hustle and bustle of a new commercial center? City Tales: Medieval Era offers you the opportunity to create your own kingdom in an expansive world of city-building without worrying about your city being on a grid. City Tales: Medieval Era combines creativity, city building, strategy, and stories in one fun and entertaining game.
A New Perspective on City-Building
City Tales: Medieval Era departs from other city-building games by offering a more relaxed, uniquely creative, and expressive experience of city-building. While many games encourage players to focus on improving efficiency, and looking at city-building in ways to improve town or city metrics, City Tales: Medieval Era encourages you to build cities that feel alive, individual, and unique.
Organic Layouts: Building without rules
One of the key features of City Tales: Medieval Era is the ability to draw your city without being confined to a grid. Historic medieval cities do not, nor did they develop, along a grid. You can create winding roads, odd shaped districts, making your layouts feel more accurate to real-life medieval towns. It is akin to sketching your perfect city on a piece of paper, not tied to a specific design method, relationship, or spatial perspective. You can design more naturally and even freely aesthetically!
Procedural Generation: Unique Every Time
Because of procedural generation, no two buildings or cities are the same. Every building is generated as best suits the space it was made for, resulting in a surprisingly awesome combination of buildings and city. It adds a fun element to each playthrough, with surprise and uniqueness to every playthrough.
Companions and Their Tales
While constructing your city, you will meet a number of companions with their own stories and quests. This creates more narrative focused gameplay that intersects with the development of your city. These companions will be able to create new opportunities for you all while enhancing gameplay.
Resource Management Made Fun
Managing your resources is an integral part of the game. However, the way resource management exists in the game makes it engaging and seamless. With over 50 different types of resources and more than 60 types of buildings, it is easy to lose yourself in balancing the resources of production, trade, and consumption and figuring out how to keep your city growing.
A Visual Feast: The Art of the Game
The game art is different from any other city building game I have played because of the colourful nature and absolutely stunning art style. The textures are so interesting along with the lighting and just the charm of everything animated in your medieval city is beautiful. It is hard to express what this feels like, but it is overwhelming in its power to watch your city build and flourish.
Early Access Overview
Released in Early Access on May 22, 2025, City Tales: Medieval Era is off to a great start with players giving positive reviews. While the game has some performance issues and bugs, the developers are working on making fixes/improvements to the game showing strong commitment to improving the game.
System Requirements and Performance
As a visually pleasing game, it does have some performance issues, especially on lower-end systems. The developers are addressing optimization to create smoother performance on a variety of hardware setups.
Where to Get the Game
City Tales: Medieval Era is available on Steam. Currently, there is a 10% discount available for early access users.
Final Thoughts
City Tales: Medieval Era offers a refreshing, creative take on city building. With its organic design, well written story, and bright and colorful visuals, this title is a standout in the city building genre. Whether you’re an avid player of city-building games or brand new to the genre, we recommend checking out City Tales: Medieval Era – you’ll have a good time playing it.
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