Medievo

Medievo is an OSG from Brazil that has a lot of potential. I haven’t been able to delve as deep as I would like to, and the game is still in early beta, so consider this a mini-review. Medievo breaks the standard OSG format by placing everything on the world map. There’s no city view / resource view / world view: everything is together. You start with a castle which allows you to build other structures within a certain radius. You then build your sawmills on top of forests, build your quarries on top of hills, etc. This opens up a whole degree of strategy not present in other OSG’s. Finally you can go to war to seize a gold mine, instead of just looting some gold. You can build all your farms next to a river so you only have to defend one side, or you can team up with another player to out-flank an enemy. There is a lot of strategic potential here. The main drawback of the game for me is the balance issue between resource production and what you need to spend. There are some very rigid restrictions on building prerequisites. For example: in order to build a barracks you need a blacksmith, which requires a library, which requires a level 2 castle, which requires three level 3 wood warehouses before you can hold enough lumber to build it! I’ve played for a week and still my only military unit is the scout that I started with.