
For example the apartment building not only increases the population limit, but is also required to build a butcher or a tailor. But instead of placing each production building individually, the player now only places one of six main types of buildings and adds on up to three production facilities to it.

In addition a forester can keep the forest from vanishing. As most parts of the series, this involves building production cycles like placing a lumberjack near a forest to cut wood, building a sawmill to produce planks out of it and using those planks to build other buildings and production lines. But before the player needs to thing about that, he needs to start building up a working economy with the resources he has available in his castle and the ones he can find in his first sector. As opposed to the starting general, recruited generals give additional bonuses like an advantage against defense towers.

The latter is used to recruit soldiers and additional generals in exchange for gold and foot. The player once again starts with an almost empty sector, only containing a castle, a warehouse, a construction building and a tavern. Even the 12 mission long single player campaign, in which the player helps Zoé reunite Tandrien, is more of a really long tutorial for the multiplayer-matches, slowly introducing the players to the game. Still, the game features several deviations and changes to the original gameplay mechanics and is very much multiplayer-oriented. The resulting peace is just a bonus.Īs opposed to the previous two, more RTS-oriented iterations of the series, The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom returns in its core to the gameplay mechanics of the very successful second part of the series, The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici. Instead she finally wants to become a Queen herself. And Zoé does as she's told - but not for the good of the people. Princess Zoé is tasked by her father to stop the Lord and once again reunite the country under one crown. Tandrien has a problem: The evil Lord Wolvering is conquering the land and no one seems to be able to stop him.
