The follow-up to charming and decent-enough city-builder Lethis – Path of Progress is not another build ’em up, but rather an interplanetary exploration game. Triskell Interactive this week announced Lethis – Daring Discoverers [official site], which will blast some odd folks from the steampunk world up to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no gungan has gone before. Have a look at the announcement trailer: … [visit site to read more]

As the doors of game development open up to more and more souls, an added benefit is that it’s ever-more plausible to make some great art then slap it into your engine, elevating the functional into the beautiful. Caesar/Zeus/Pharaoh-inspired, combat-free Gallic citybuilder Lethis: Path Of Progress doesn’t do especially remarkable things in terms of town management, but with an animation-inspired, gently Steampunk art style which falls somewhere in between bande dessinee and Studio Ghibli, it’s too gorgeous to put down even when it’s on the verge of tedium. … [visit site to read more]

We live in happier times for building cities for imaginary people, after several dark but mostly tedious years. Cities: Skylines has done a fine job picking up where Sim City-ish left off before it stumbled, tumbled, broke its legs, and was shot on the track by a licensed sim doctor. If you prefer your city-building more in the style of Caesar and Pharaoh, hey, here’s a game inspired by them.

Lethis – Path of Progress [official site] launched yesterday, a steampunk take on that old Impressions Games style.

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