Beautiful visuals and atmosphere
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“The visual styling, soundtrack, and overall artistic composition are stunning.”
Steam review · 534.6 h played ↗
Cliff Empire
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Very Positive · 87%Very Positive · 87%Lion's Shade2019City Builder · Strategy · Simulation
$17.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 2 h ago
The verdict
A beautiful, relaxing sci-fi city builder about scarce cliff space and trading between three cities. Skip it if you hate waiting, opaque UI or harsh death spirals.
Great for
Patient players who like economy balancing, space-planning puzzles and a relaxing futuristic atmosphere
Main risk
Endless waiting and unrecoverable death spirals with poor in-game explanation
What players love
Great value and ongoing developer updates
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“It's been out for almost 6 years and still regularly receives QoL and new content updates (all free).”
Steam review · 340.4 h played ↗
Unique limited-space cliff concept
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“Of all the tight resource management you will be doing here, real estate management will be the tightest.”
Steam review · 67.5 h played ↗
Relaxing, low-stress gameplay
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“Very fun, relaxing management and building game.”
Steam review · 102.3 h played ↗
Deep economy with multi-city trading
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews
“you actually have not 1 but 3 city's that can trade with each other. Each city have their own pros and cons like soil fertility, ore deposits etc.”
Steam review · 12.9 h played ↗
What players complain about
Poor explanation, tutorial and UI
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“The tutorial just tells you to build stuff with no explanation anywhere as to why you are building it, what it influences and how it links to other elements of the game.”
Steam review · 5.2 h played ↗
Unforgiving death spirals and balance
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“it's impossible to recover once something goes even slightly wrong. A death spiral of negative income, people leaving the city, and decreasing production is completely unrecoverable.”
Steam review · 11.2 h played ↗
Constant waiting, feels like an idle game
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“It really feels like an idle game. You always have to wait... You wait for money to come in, you wait for buildings to finish.”
Steam review · 25.3 h played ↗
Orbital orders and trade limits cause failures
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 negative reviews
“The problem is that the demanded amount can't be transported in that time as the trade platform only takes 20 max.”
Steam review · 15.9 h played ↗
Removed Russian localization
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“I launch the game and they've cut out the Russian language.”
Steam review · translated · 93.9 h played ↗
Drones and transport ignore priorities
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews
“the Drones will ignore collecting food and water despite my priority order”
Steam review · 7.5 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable1 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7 or newer
Processor2 GHz Dual Core
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsHardware Accelerated Graphics
Storage1 GB available space
OSWindows 7 or newer
Processor2 GHz Dual Core
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsHardware Accelerated Graphics
Storage1 GB available space
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