Of Life and Land is a City Builder on Steam With a Focus on Environment Simulation

Of Life and Land is the debut game of studio Kerzoven and is a city builder that is currently available on Steam and focuses on the environment.

The game just released on early access earlier this month and sets itself apart from other games in the genre with how it cares about details of environment, behavior, and weather. All of these can affect people, animals, and plants.

City Builder With a Focus on the Environment

Of Life and Land is a City Builder on Steam With a Focus on Environment Simulation — Of Life and Land is a city builder game that has a unique focus on the environment and urges players to manage more than just their settlers but also animals of the land and plants.
(Photo : Kerzoven / Screenshot taken from Steam)

In Of Life and Land, both people and animals have their own homes, work to form groups, need social interaction, and require food, water, and sleep. Another thing you'd need to look out for is the temperature range and weather. These factors will help your settlers live comfortably.

All of these factors are also tied to the economic simulation that is at the heart of the game's building and expanding a settlement mechanic. If players wipe out too much of a prey animal or pollute the environment too much, the local population can disappear entirely, according to PCGamer.

On the other hand, if players wipe out too much of a particular predator, this could result in the local prey population exploding in numbers. Also, Of Life and Land urges players to avoid letting their settlers get heat strokes when they are around hot environments.

This can be done by having the right clothing to protect them from the heat of the sun. However, smaller details, such as minimizing transport distance to spend less time outside can also factor into this. You should also make sure that longer paths are alongside the cooler air near a river or have trees planted nearby for shade and heat absorption.

Even from the start of the game, players will see animals already prowling around and trying to steal resources to feed their own kind. One feature that is surely going to go down well with players is the speed-up mechanic, which lets you speed up to 300x to make things go faster.

Of Life and Land's Unique Gameplay

This is particularly important especially when waiting for settlers to gather building resources. However, you should be careful about using this feature as if you forget about it, your settlers could die off relatively quickly, said GamingOnLinux.

Of Life and Land also has a unique job system where each person can work multiple jobs and have a workload percentage. This means that you will have to balance how many jobs they have and what others do to keep up with growing needs.

Furthermore, the buildings also have various output types that you can prioritize depending on what you want to gather next. There will also be events that occur randomly, such as people joining your village, building requests, and others.

The game also features factions and players will be able to trade with others that produce goods with the same rules as they do. Additionally, Of Life and Land lets you create your own maps and scenarios using the editor feature and extend them using mods to build an extremely unique gameplay experience, according to GamesPress.