Townsmen Premium 4+

It is a great game, but missing iCloud support so you can not transfer saved games to other devices, really needed feature. Another thing is it doesn’t recognise iPad mini 5 resolution so game looks low res like on non retina iPad. Last it wold be great if developer scaled down sizes of buttons on iPad or gave option in menu to set UI scale so it will not look like iPhone game played on iPad. Other than that it is for me probably the best strategy/city building game on AppStore!

The premise of the game is actually quite good, a lot like settlers with different resource trees to fulfil and manage.
Unfortunately the game is mired by ads even when you have purchased the ad free premium version as well as the ad on to reduce speed up ads totalling £5 for the game.
The developers have introduced wear on to all buildings that must be constantly repaired using gold, there is no way to produce enough gold to have some semblance of a normal enjoyable game without using prestige to get more gold or your buildings all burn down. There are two ways of getting prestige, pay £100’s more or sit through relentless ads.
I’ve no doubt the positive reviews on here have been bought.
If at any point you choose to buy something on the game or watch one of the relentless ads it glitches and you sometimes have to do it 3 or 4 times to get the reward.
Don’t bother trying the other ways to get prestige like filling out surveys, when you do it they never actually give you the reward even after you’ve completed everything it says to do, they just harvest your details for nothing back.
If after all of this you still download the game and encounter one of these problems don’t bother to contact the developers either, they just ignore you.
Steer well clear.

My first impressions
Cute and charming game. The tunes and graphics are good enough.
Too much?
This reminds me of an old school classic called the settlers.
I also plaid the original Townsmen on old school mobiles.
Where the original settlers had just enough layers of resources and combat my initial feeling is there’s too many resources / layers to juggle here.
Pops ups herbs needed, water needed, pigs needed, workers needed etc.
What’s needed is a priority chain for goods. So if woods needed you move logs up the list, then planks etc.
Seems geared to have to instant build as you run out of townies.
Can’t get any more as there’s no one to build town houses.

I will keep at it, maybe play with sandbox. But as much as I want to love it and enjoyed the old school Townies games the supply chains after an hour of playing tutorials are too complex.
The game feels constantly hassling you rather than immersing you into its world.