Cliff Empire - Post Apocalyptic Sci Fi Colony Builder

what's up guys and gals and welcome back to the nerd castle today in the world of indie games we are checking out cliff empire a game about so listen let me pitch you an idea did you ever think about building an empire on top of a cliff well then if you answered yes to that question i may have a game for you this is a game that does exactly what it says it does a post-apocalyptic sci-fi future city building game where you've got limited economy as far as spacing goes and you've got to choose very very carefully where you want to put all of your different resources in order to start generating a profit that you can send on back to the mothership this game is pretty cool and so i recommend you check it on out let's play the game and see what it's got on offer after a nuclear war in the past decade the surface of the earth was covered with a layer of radioactive mist several thousand people found shelter on an orbital station those who stayed had time to build artificial cliffs on the surface to give a chance for the future generations to return home all right so here we are we're going to go on the default game mode for right now all right and so we need to build a storage but first we need to generate a level that we find to be appealing let's generate some levels out here this one's got a little bit of water like a river runs through it and then it's got a little long boy right there i wanted like a big beefy fat boy island that's what i want okay all right i could see that so this is the north coast right here i like this island right here i definitely oh the game is like running right now while i'm generating levels we should probably like pause that real fast i didn't realize that it wasn't paused by default that's something we're going to sort out with time i do like these islands that have the big bodies of water on but i'm actually looking for something a little bit smaller as far as water bodies go yeah like that'll do it right there this is a little bit more complicated like i think we'll have to build like a lift right there or something like that to allow people to get in between those two but this starting location looks pretty good to me yeah i think so so over here we've got crypto currencies so we've got heaven water which is apparently the name of this island so that's going to allow us to have 1200 or i guess 12 000 12 500 sounds pretty good there is a place that we can go in here that will show us what the power supply looks like in these various areas and if we wanted to check that we just click on the little eye button right here so we know that this area has a 100 percent windiness and 100 sunshine so this place is going to be a pretty good place to start but if we go over to here you'll see that we have less sunshine and less windiness so it's gonna be harder to generate electricity over there whereas these guys so this is obviously the place to start so we want to start right here because batteries are gonna be a big thing in this game we're gonna need to be able to like package batteries in tons on this island right here and they're going to need to export to these other islands because these guys aren't really going to be able to satisfy their own power needs this place might be able to just off wind generation but this place over here well they can do it a little bit off of sunshine so but this is going to be our main battery farm so we'll start out right here it wants us to build a storage so i think that's a pretty good idea and in order to do that we're just going to click on the island right here and we're going to go over to this cog and we've got our storage right here so we can take this and we can choose a location for it i don't know exactly where i want my storage to be but i'm going to put it right there spaceship comes down we've got a pretty rad spaceship i'd fly that spaceship that thing is aesthetically pleasing look at that spaceship right there it's like halfway in between like a karelian cruiser and like a star destroyer it looks good drop that thing off oh we get 250 for that i'll take 250 for just about anything throw that on in the stack so we need a landing platform and we need room for 15 citizens i don't recall which menu it's inside the population one all right so we want to click on that and we're gonna go to our population menu and we need a landing platform which is right there and we can choose the location for this wherever we really want it to go but just be aware so if we want the landing platform it's going to have to go like right there it looks like we can't sneak it into either of those spots we may be able to sneak it in right there yeah let's go ahead and do it right there that sounds good to me robots get to work that's right our storage area comes with fun little additions like giant helicopter-sized drones that do all of our construction for us they're bigger than a construction crane god knows the amount of kerosene it requires to fly one of these things but we're not going to question that right now because the world's been wiped out all of the fuel and water and resource problems have been fixed there's only like 10 000 humans left traffic is much better the sky is no longer filled with smog people aren't leaving large residential areas because they already left because they're dead now we also need housing for 15 citizens so we can go with a small house right there if we really wanted to we can go with a medium residence or we can go with the residential complex oh they've also got like expensive housing over here too and they've got eco houses and personal villas i don't think living in the utilitarian world in which we dwell is a good idea to have personal housing we're gonna have to keep things a little bit dystopian for a little while you know dystopia has like two definitions in the original greek depending on how like utopos like dystopia like utopia has two separate meanings depending on how you pronounce like the last syllable like one is the way like things are perfect and if you pronounce it the other way it means that which cannot be kind of an interesting word like that isn't it kind of a unique word let's do a medium residence around here that'll hold 26 tenants well yeah yeah don't mind if i do let's go ahead and drop that off right next to the storage facility right there i may be going through my resources a little bit rapidly but as far as i see it we've got 105 steel left so why panic too hard when we're kind of going through a bit of a glut as far as spending resources goes and plus we have that baller spaceship if anything goes wrong they can just come pick us up and we'll go back into space we'll like mine some asteroids beat up some aliens take their stuff and do what we have to do in order to secure the future of the human imperium we're making a hive world right now there we go another 250 bucks right there we need to settle 15 citizens and it actually is going to do that automatically take a look here comes our little landing craft truck oh it almost missed you saw it swung to the side like that right that wouldn't have been good we would have all just stood on the edge of the deck right there and been like well now what do we do hmm hello little citizens little door opens and now they come if i remember right they're like little cardboard cutouts oh they're little people now they used to be 2d so these used to be little like it had like 2d cartoons that would come out of here and they'd like waddle their way into the village now they've actually made like real citizens that all appear to be wearing g-strings that's fine you know what if that's the style nowadays we got to do what's popular with the kids we got to convince people to settle here like listen if you want to wear a g-string you wear that g-string uh we need to generate a power surplus okay let's take a look at our power situation so we can go with a solar power station right here or we can go with a smaller solar power so that gives one workplace that gives two workplaces at the moment our population appears to be greater than 15. you have 15 people trying to settle here so we should have room for this i think so let's just put down the power grid right there we'll generate all of our electricity right here holistically homegrown gluten-free sunshine you always got to make sure that your sunshine doesn't have any soy or anything else in it you know no peanut-free sunshine to make sure nobody has a reaction a little bit more money right there that we can add to the stack they want us to build a battery station so what's going to happen is sunshine's gonna come in and it's gonna get packaged into batteries and then we're gonna take this to a separate facility charge those batteries up and then they get taken back in so they can be moved around and you end up with excess power at the moment it looks like our electricity is at 100 efficiency so we're looking pretty good there's six workplaces right now 15 people so we've got like nine more spaces until we really need to think about adding more people to this whole adventure uh so the battery station it actually only takes up one square and so we can kind of wedge that back here if we really want to one of the unique things about this game is it's like a game of scale where if you like zoom out on this thing it doesn't really seem like you have that much space but you actually do you've actually got a reasonable amount of stuff that you can get underway so battery station go do your thing we'll charge up a couple of batteries we'll add some people over here the workers should move in automatically you don't need to worry about allocating that yourself and so now what will happen is this will generate electricity everything that's in surplus so what we need in order to run that building in this building and this building right here will be converted into a battery as you can see right there in a very anno type way i've actually felt like i've always felt like this is one of those games that definitely modeled itself after anno a little bit with the way that it functions because it's not a city builder in the sense that like city skylines is this is a game where like people upgrade and the happier they are the more stuff they have and the more options you have and so i've always liked that though i never really had time to dive into the new anno and it really disappoints me i've always wanted to but i just haven't really gotten around to it i love city builders i enjoy the hell out of them they're actually one of my favorite game genres but the new anno anno 1800 or whatever i played a couple episodes for the channel way back in the day and then after that i just really didn't dive any further into it maybe at some point i'll give that some of my personal time so that we can dig our way through as i recall it was on uplay or something like that though and i'm not a big uplay guy like i have a uplay because i kind of have to for my job but it's sort of like twitter you know i don't really like it but i have it for my job which speaking of which my twitter is down below in the description you should go there and hear my thoughts now i tend to talk about things more in depth like i'll talk about things in a video and then usually i have thoughts after the fact about the game that i forgot to express so it's a good place to get stuff like that also you get notifications for my stream or whatever so you can come hang out every single day on twitch because i need more friends i'm so lonely i'm so lonely apparently our overall efficiency is going down i don't know if we have to deal with night time or not in this game if so we're going to figure out another way to get some more wind going 200 bucks right there keep on adding that crypto we need a water extraction station okay so we've got 80 drinking water right now but it wants us to produce a little bit more i think we're going to need more people before we do anything else though i don't know how many people are gonna have to work at the water extraction place but we've got a water extraction place right there yeah five people can work in the water extraction let's save that little spot right there maybe i'll build another utility right there that seems all right we only have two people though so maybe i'll add another residence too i know it didn't tell me to do it but i think i might do it we'll just add like a little residence right there to maintain our grid this would be kind of a creepy place to live like can you imagine working in those windows right there just looking out over the world like that that'd be wild i am terrified of heights like i didn't even know i was afraid of heights i took my wife to san francisco for a vacation like a little weekend vacay new citizens arrived oh good they're bringing in more people sweet two more people coming through so anyways i took my wife to san francisco for the weekend like a couple years ago for when i was gonna propose on our anniversary we stayed at the top of a building that was like 80 stories and we were on like the 74th floor or something like that and like oh my god that is really high up it is super high up i didn't know i was afraid of heights until i was looking out the window of that hotel room and was just like oh my god i don't like this at all like i swear to god my wife said she couldn't feel it to this day i swear to god i could feel the building moving in the wind like i don't know if i was actually feeling that or if my brain was making it up but it was gnarly frankly i was horrified i was shocked and i was terrified for my safety oh nice 13 more people coming in so now we've got way more places for people to work yeah these guys should just go like straight to work and start popping out some water exactly come in here pee in the funnel we'll run it through a filter you won't even notice that it's urine if you think that's not how your water works unless you're on well water if you're inside of a city or a township you're probably drinking somebody else's pee every time you turn on the tap water they use reclamation centers for all that just letting you know it's an unpleasant truth i mean they run it through like a thousand different filters they have like sediment tanks they have sedimentation rooms they have filters and black light systems and all that kind of stuff like it literally comes out cleaner than it probably would be if you drank it out of a river or a creek or whatever a lot of people don't like to think about that if you're if your house is on well water then no you don't really need to worry about that if your house is on well water you're solid you're getting your own supply but that comes with its own problems if you're on well water a lot of things can go wrong with well water let's see here we can have a large open crop field or we can have indoor crop field this place is sunny though so i can't imagine it's really going to negatively affect us that much if we do it this way we need two water and one grain in order to do this and pop that on in there how many workers do these take we'll put in two for right now just to make sure that we've got everybody taken care of oh it wants me to do three that's even better because then it makes this fill in the grid properly small construction completed i don't know if we have enough water we got to wait for this water to get done right here before the final field is actually going to be available oh it only takes one worker per field nice okay well there's our little crop field right there i can't imagine that that's going to be enough to feed an entire city but we'll give it our best college try i assume that we're popping out batteries right now like crazy right yeah we've already got 50 batteries trying to figure out something to do with those things i think some buildings run off of batteries if i remember right so we need a matter mine that way we can make more generic matter don't question it it's just the way that this game functions oh the drones take care of the fields or are the drones picking stuff up from the fields what are the drones doing right now are they like lasering the corn to make it more healthy or something it's toasted uh let's see can you tell i've been watching mad men lately i'm pretty sure every interesting thing i've said during this episode was from mad men that's what happens i watch things and then i absorb and then i regurgitate for you and they wanted to matter mine huh nothing really matters anyone can see nothing really matters all right well indigo matter i think maybe they were watering the grain or something like i don't know i'm not super sure large construction completed that's growing i'm wondering if it doesn't actively update while you're looking at it although everything else does so why wouldn't that that's it we gotta sit here and look at it and see if it goes up to ten percent we're not really doing much anyways so like oh it did it does actively update apparently it just takes a really really long time uh we don't want to overdo it right now with our building trust me it's very very easy during the beginning portions of this game to over expand and build stuff that like you don't need and just get carried away and i promise you it will bite you in the ass as time goes along and you'll end up basically like soft locked and unable to do a whole lot you'll run out of credits is really the main problem if you just go nutty with the building i'm pretty sure at some point we've also got to build ourselves like a tax center or something like that so that we can start collecting credits from everybody but i don't know exactly when that happens apparently we also have defense turrets and things that's new i was unaware that there was threats in this game so apparently you can fight off enemies now as well it wants me to settle more citizens well i will settle with the fact that i need to get to work on that how much does a residential complex hold like a lot 52 tenants that might be overkill let's maybe like keep this maybe i'll rotate them just to make it look a little bit different right here with our little parkways i'm gonna prioritize saving space as much as possible as we get further into this play because obviously it's going to kind of get full eventually at some point you are going to be able to get more drones i don't remember exactly how you get them but i do recall being able to get more drones at one point or another you seem to be growing really really slowly then again it gets like plus five grain for every time it completes so you're not just getting plus one i don't know we'll have to wait and see do we have more citizens coming through you guys want to like descend from on high yeah exactly descend from the stars come and join us here on this new social project that we're all pulling so hard to make happen we're down about 1600 crypto right now which is a bummer uh we'll break positive eventually though like you should be able to take some of this stuff and turn it into good things so apparently we can also repay and issue loans once we get the town hall if you can't see the mouse cursor you can also turn that on that'll illuminate things you don't really see the need to do so though because it's kind of overpoweringly bright i bet you would be crazy down here i bet you'd be like the wild wild west sands you know sans will smith in this area that could be hard to enforce law and order in a place like this so we wanted to go to the town hall there it is right there a town square never mind where's a town square at let's take a look and find out it's in the business district all right office building central bank market town square there you go so we can have a town square so that we can have fun things like civic meetings and be like hey you guys i'm gonna put that like right in the middle of everything i want them to walk through the most beautiful part of our city as they're coming in and just wonder at the marvels of terrestrial life some of these people have gotten weak in the lack of gravity alright we need to make them strong again and make them remember what the wind feels like on your face what the sunshine feels like when it warms the shirt on your neck you know objective completed so this has workers right here apparently we're generating five credits at a time now so that's pretty cool we need a maintenance center where is that it's in the security section ah well there's that law and order that we were discussing so at the maintenance center what does this do monitors the condition of equipment and industrial facilities and have a special station for quick water refilling of fire drones oh it's a fire station okay uh we're gonna need an engine though for that and i don't think we have any engines i'll put it over here next to all the residences because i want to protect those over like everything else did we start with engines because if we didn't start with engines i don't see any possibility that this is going to go very well i'm pretty sure the matter mine produces like pollution or something like that too yeah it messes with the ecology that's what it was so on the planet you've got to balance your ecology so you got to build parks to balance out the fact that you've got like matter mines and things medium construction completed well there's two people hanging out in the town square like it's a romantic comedy just singing oh three people okay i'm getting freaky out here all right all right i respect that i respect that sometimes you gotta get freaky i think you freaky well next up it wants a 3d printing facility so that we can take our matter and we can turn it into engines and furniture i don't know if that's an intensely good idea for right now because we're barely generating matter fast enough to really do anything that's the part that kind of confuses me is that we've got 21 spaces left for more people to work at i mean i guess we can give it a go i don't think it's a great idea but consumes seven kilowatts how many kilowatts are we generating right now we are generating 72 there i think there's a button we can push that will give us the regression that i desire for how much power we have left like our consent there it is right there sorry it was on my screen as i was speaking about it if it was a snake it would have bit me so we've actually only used 30 of our power grids so that's not too bad and we've got plenty of spaces left for people to live inside of so that's good this is probably going to negatively affect the ecology so we have unused production points well i guess go ahead and make me an engine and then they wanted furniture or something like that right and go ahead and make me some furniture too engine and a furniture that's going to eat through our matter pretty quickly so we may reach a point where we kind of just need to sit around for a little bit and wait for our matter to come back or we may need to build a secondary matter mine which i wish i had done over here i very much wish i had put the matter in a different spot i can choose a building upgrade um you can turn into an eco building we can mess with the ecology more but it'll do double production for a little while okay it'll also extract debris do i want debris like i'm a big a fan of cheese as anybody else but is that something we actively need right now is that necessary we're still producing over here so you know what whatever so now we're producing again i've been skipping through the night time because apparently everybody has a work shift and like at night time nothing happens it's just like dead around here and so there's really no point including that in this little impressions video although honestly we've done this game before so my impressions are positive but every time i come back there's new stuff added to this game and that pleases me i like it when developers fall through and stuff and with this game you could tell they had a very distinct idea that they wanted to run with completed let's go ahead and stop that stuff right there i think we're we're good on that production we need to start building up a little bit more matter uh they want me to do a trading portal and they want me to make money through the portal you can also establish trade in between so these will be separate settlements that like know each other but are not a part of each other you can also trade in between settlements if you really want to which is a pretty sweet little feature for a trading portal i assume that's over here somewhere we have a market oh it's an industry i guess so i guess i learned a new thing today yeah there's our trading portal it's kind of beefy it's kind of large it's kind of rotund what's it gonna cost me to oh my god it's gonna cost me so much matter it's gonna cost me so much matter all right i think we're gonna need another matter mine before we do anything else it's gonna be somewhat requisite i think yeah we'll drop another matter mine over there even though i'm pretty sure we can't afford it yeah we need ten matter in order to get that done bit of a bummer right there but that's what i'm talking about is you're gonna hit stop gaps in this game where you're just gonna have to sit and watch the city do what the city does for a little while and it happens from time to time some other city builders do offer a smoother experience in that regard where you don't get like you don't get stuck during the beginning processes honestly i kind of feel like we should tank the ecology in order to get extra matter yeah i'm going to do it it was pricey but i think it was worth it so we've got a power drill now and that's going to be producing double we can offset the cost on our ecology a little bit by making this one right here we can make this one into an eco mine it's still going to hurt us but i think that should mostly take care of our matter problems i do wish that i could speed up production on this thing ever so slightly but unfortunately at maximum workers we're only producing the matter that we're producing so you know what's the matter well we just can't get enough matter my name is splatterkey thank you for joining me for clifftop empires i like this game it's a little lightweight city builder that i think people that enjoy city builders that are looking for something a little bit different where it's about space management unless so if you're into the game called islanders it's kind of like that almost just more in-depth it's a game about space it's a game about maximizing all these little squares that you have and deciding when you should build things here versus when you should build things on other islands what your islands should specialize in so they're all copacetic and pushing in the same direction and i think that's a unique idea like i think that's an idea that works very very well and this game has flown under the radar for a long time so anyways check it on out i'll have a link for you down in the description if you enjoyed the video leave a like on your way out the door it helps me out as a content creator aside from that my name is flatter cat i sifted the pile to find what's worthwhile in the world of indie gaming every single day so that you don't have to i'll be back with something hot and fresh off the skillet tomorrow that you can be certain how you doing take care everybody it's been a blast

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Length: 27min 12sec (1632 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 24 2019