I loved the original Outlanders so of course I downloaded the sequel. At first, I really didn’t like Outlanders 2. The levels all felt near impossible to beat and that was only worsened when I realized I couldn’t use decrees to reach my goals. I preferred the story telling of the first game and the diversity of the characters there as well. All these things can be taken as constructive criticism or ignored, because at the end of the day, I ended up enjoying Outlanders 2. The learning curve took a lot longer for me but that was because I was still playing it like the original game. The lack of decrees, in my opinion, gives the player less leeway to be creative when going about achieving all the tasks; on the one hand that can feel negatively restrictive, on the other hand, it creates another sense of challenge. Now I look forward to what they’ll bring next. I only really suggest that they create more environmental obstacles and bring back the diversity they had in the first game. All in all, great game and can’t wait for more updates.TLDR: After I realized that this game needed a different approach than the original, I was able to more thoroughly enjoy the game play.

I absolutely adore this game. I’ve already blown through all the campaign challenges and am working my way through the weekly challenges and never get bored. Sandbox mode is also a ton of fun and easy to restart and find a map you really like. A couple suggestions; through some trial and error (and a few discord threads) I learned there are memory limits when it comes to resources and hoarding resources or using larger maps in sandbox mode with the resources set on max. Sandbox mode specifically. This limits you to about 170 days of playtime before it crashes out completely and becomes unplayable. There are workarounds for longer playtime by choosing smaller maps and limiting your starting resources and then limiting your resources and population overall during gameplay. Things like a backup of 300 food can be dangerous. I feel this mode should come with a warning and limits before more people invest tons of time into builds that eventually crash and become unplayable. Now that I’ve learned the limits I still am enjoying it immensely. I do however wish you were able to use all the building options throughout all of the maps. I would love to have a vineyard on a tropical island, as well as the cheesery and fondue restaurant. Alternatively I’d love to build ice pop stands on an evergreen map or also build a winery on a wintergreen map. You could do this with a greenhouse/orchard combo option. Lastly, please add more decorations!! 3/4 is not enough!!

I like most things about this game. The art style is different, the need to juggle people between jobs rather than spawning as many workers as possible was at first annoying but I got into it. The interface is passable. There are some QoL issues that would have been disqualifying on a PC but this is a phone game, so, fine. The one thing that absolutely breaks the experience for me in the mid game is the day limit. Most levels can be beaten in 20 minutes but some can take an hour and there is no way to save and revert to an earlier state in the level. So, say, you misunderstood the instructions or did not calculate the output of a building correctly; easy enough to do since there are very few stats and metrics to rely on; and barely lost. You now know exactly what you should have done to win. Probably should have had two orchards for instance. Are you going to replay an hour level just to do that one thing differently? Screw that, I have a pc if I want to spend that much time on a game. So far, I’ve replayed one level and now I’m daunted by having to replay another one a few levels later. There’s no way to skip them so I guess I’m probably done with this game. It’s too bad because the limit brings very little to the experience and I do want to see what lies ahead. I just can’t justify spending a boring hour just to unlock more levels, which have a high chance of bringing the same problem.

I played outlander, and it was a fun game. I’m not going to say it was perfect, but it was definitely fun. Then I started this game… One of the first things I noticed is how clunky and cumbersome the menus work. It’s like the person who designed the menus really thought they were going to make this fancy new system that was going to be so much better than the old system, so they were going to take all the really easy to access information and hide it behind a bunch of tabs, and people would appreciate having to go to all these extra steps to get everything done. Then the game speed is horrendous. The game has two speeds… “I really want to claw my eyes out this game is so slow“, and “OMG, I can’t believe this is slower than the other speed, and there is no way anybody would ever play this game, if they didn’t have the faster speed“. Then the next level they introduce a new concept… “You now live in the tropics, which means everything moves EVEN SLOWER“. Then the game crashed, and I felt like it had saved me from actually having to deal with playing the game anymore. When you’re thankful for a game crash, the game is horrible. If I had to tell people who I thought this game was designed for, I would say, between the huge clunky menus with all the unnecessary tabs, and the super slow speed that no thinking adult really needs to have to deal with, kindergartners… At the max.