Please do not flag this as off topic or something. This is about another game I have been playing that actually comes close to checking all my Conan boxes. Close.
Battle is pure jank with 0 lock on. It has terraforming but no grid to lock to so if you have even the slightest OCD it will make you crazy; oh ya, worken my nerves. What you get for villagers is RNG so make the best of them. At the start most enemies can one hit you so run, no faster, faster… yup bear gotch ya, gotta dodge. It’s also very much a production line game; sort of like schedule 1 but vikings and gear.
So what am I on about?
Lively villages done well. You set the schedule of what hours they work, what hours they rest, and what hours the sleep. And if they have no jobs to do, they just set down and rest. This is really what I was hoping Conan’s lively villages would be. But I spend a lot of time managing my village so I can see why some people wouldn’t care for Aska. I’m on my 8th village.
You know lively villages was one of my pet peeves. I think we all wanted it to be more then we got. Something manageable and functioning that, we had far more control over.