Memoriapolis

The 5PM Studio game didn’t join the ranks of my favorite city-building and management games. That doesn’t mean MEMORIAPOLIS is a bad game, though, as it offers plenty of mechanics that can be appealing. There’s also a strong sense of replayability, and the challenges you must overcome to ensure your civilization survives are interesting. Still, the whole package isn't as polished as we would like it to be.

MEMORIAPOLIS is great if you're looking for a game about numbers rising that will, eventually, get more interesting. If not, then maybe stick with one of the Civilization games.

I really tried to enjoy my time with Memoriapolis, especially with how good-looking it is, but constant soft locking scenarios and a lack of map variety resulted in me losing my interest with it fairly quickly. It’s out of Early Access now, so I truly expected it to have just a bit more content, maybe some randomly generated maps, and a less punishing lack of resources.

Rome certainly wasn’t built in a day, and MEMORIAPOLIS is a testament to that old adage in its current, half-finished state. It came out of the Colosseum gates with a bunch of new features, executed with varying degrees of success. However, its visual style has already been refined to an iconic level, even at this early stage of development. MEMORIAPOLIS has the potential to deliver the experience that Civilization VII aspires to offer, but whether it will surpass or even equal that promise remains to be seen.