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These Doomed Isles: The First God

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88%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, replayability
Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
88% User Score Based on 132 reviews

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These Doomed Isles: The First God is a single player survival city builder game with fantasy and business themes. It was developed by Triplevision Games Limited and was released on May 5, 2023. It received positive reviews from players.

These Doomed Isles: The First God is a prologue chapter of the main game, These Doomed Isles. Play as Cernunnos, the Celtic god of nature, and lead the Celtic civilisation to victory against waves of invaders, curses and more! Raise land from the sea, build a settlement for your followers and provide them with the means to gather the resources they need to prosper. Expand from humble beginnings t…

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88%Audience ScoreBased on 132 reviews
gameplay4 positive mentions
story3 negative mentions
  • Unique mix of genres combining city building, deck building, tower defense, and roguelike elements creates a fresh and engaging gameplay experience.
  • High replayability with an addictive 'one more run' factor and a satisfying progression system unlocking new cards and buildings over multiple plays.
  • Relaxing yet challenging turn-based gameplay with a clear UI, calming music, and pixel art style that appeals to a wide audience including casual and strategy players.
  • Randomness (RNG) heavily affects gameplay balance, sometimes causing frustrating resource shortages or runs where players lack critical cards necessary to progress, which can feel unfair.
  • Technical issues such as crashes, lag in later stages, and minor bugs detract from the experience, along with some problematic UI quirks (e.g., forced cursor movement in tutorial).
  • Gameplay can feel repetitive and limited due to lack of building rotation/removal, constrained city layout, and a somewhat uninspired core loop involving repetitive card and shop refresh mechanics.

  • gameplay

    15 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    27% positive mentions, 53% neutral mentions, 20% negative mentions

    The gameplay combines card, strategy, and roguelike mechanics with potential for variety and replayability, but currently feels repetitive and uninspired, mostly revolving around repetitive refreshing of cards and shops. While initially easy to grasp and offering casual fun, the core loop lacks stimulation and reward, suggesting a need for redesign to enhance engagement and depth.

    • “A fun builder with some interesting mechanics.”
    • “Fun casual gameplay that combines card games with roguelikes and building.”
    • “Offering just a taste in this prologue version, the core mechanics are strong with a lot of variety of play that grows as more elements are unlocked.”
    • “The core gameplay loop after a few years of your settlement is just spamming refresh on your deck to get the card you actually want or refresh on the shop to actually purchase the card you need to try to draw to complete the objectives.”
    • “Something about the gameplay loop is deeply flawed, all it feels like you are doing after a while is just refreshing shops and your hand over and over and over.”
    • “There are five levels and the gameplay was not very intuitive, you don't get to do much besides choose a few cards and 'end' turn.”

  • replayability

    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 33% neutral mentions, 17% negative mentions

    The game offers solid replayability with its colony/deck-building mechanics and multiple difficulty levels, providing varied ways to build and strategize. However, some cards lack distinctiveness, which may limit long-term replay value. Overall, players are optimistic about future updates adding more content that will enhance replayability further.

    • “Fun colony/deck builder, lots of replay value.”
    • “Gameplay looks like it's going to be really replayable with lots of ways to build and focus your deck and there's 5 levels of difficulty to ramp up the challenge.”
    • “Can't wait to see what the full release brings as more 'gods' to play as is just going to stack even more layers of replayability.”
    • “A lot of the cards don't feel different enough to encourage replayability, which is the most important factor in a roguelike.”

  • graphics

    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The graphics are praised for their simple yet charming and polished art style, featuring clear UI and appealing visuals. The blend of genres is visually cohesive, enhanced by animated characters that add charm without feeling unnatural. Overall, the aesthetics contribute to a calming and enjoyable experience.

    • “Overall enjoyable and polished enough with appealing visuals and a blend of genres into a unique game that doesn't feel unnatural in its premise.”
    • “Very clear UI, calming focused music, cute graphics, multiple difficulty settings.”
    • “The aesthetic is charming and the addition of animated workers added a lot to this.”

  • story

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 40% neutral mentions, 60% negative mentions

    The story aspect is notably lacking, with no narrative present. Gameplay revolves around repetitive mission objectives without progression or variety, and mechanics limit player creativity by restricting building management.

    • “No story.”
    • “Every mission requires you to get two wonder cards to finish.”
    • “I have replayed the same mission seven times, and I can't get more than one wonder card.”

  • music

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    75% positive mentions, 25% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The music is praised for being calming, well-suited to the game's atmosphere, and enjoyable even after extended playtime. It complements the clear UI and detailed pixel art, enhancing the overall experience.

    • “Very clear UI, calming focused music, cute graphics, multiple difficulty settings.”
    • “The pixel art is a great style and very detailed, and the music is fantastic.”
    • “It just has the right music and development for your town.”

  • grinding

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is noted to be intensive and time-consuming, often requiring a second life to progress efficiently. Some resource farming, like windmill-supported farms with minimal workers, yields significantly more food compared to other methods such as fishing or gathering.

    • “You'll need a second life for grinding.”

  • optimization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game experiences occasional performance issues depending on the season, but overall remains stable without crashes.

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Play Times

11h Median play time
9h Average play time
6-12h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 2 analyzed playthroughs
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These Doomed Isles: The First God is a survival city builder game with fantasy and business themes. Common tags for These Doomed Isles: The First God include turn-based, indie, roguelite, colony sim, pixel graphics and others.

These Doomed Isles: The First God is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 9 hours playing These Doomed Isles: The First God.

These Doomed Isles: The First God was released on May 5, 2023.

These Doomed Isles: The First God was developed by Triplevision Games Limited.

These Doomed Isles: The First God has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked These Doomed Isles: The First God for its gameplay but disliked it for its story.

These Doomed Isles: The First God is a single player game.

Similar games include These Doomed Isles, Tower Factory, Super Fantasy Kingdom, The King is Watching, Rise to Ruins and others.