I failed at my favorite Steam Next Fest city-builder because I was too distracted by the amazing movement to actually build anything

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I only played a couple of city-builders in Steam Next Fest, but I'm glad one of them was Overthrown - not necessarily for its settlement systems, which are hard to get a true sense of in a demo, but for what's easily best-in-genre movement tech.

I'd had my eye on Overthrown for a while, largely thanks to its developers' fondness for showing off how it laughs at most genre conventions. The 'thrown' in that game name is pretty literal, it turns out, thanks to your characters' ability to pick up basically any item in the world and chuck it somewhere new. Within minutes of starting the demo, I was pitching entire tree trunks around the map to speed up the progress of my sawmill and expand my city, and that cartoonish logic can also be applied to entire buildings. Don't like where you've placed your town hall? Throw it somewhere else.

But what if you should throw a villager's house too far away by accident and then need to collect and replace it? In another game, you might be in for an uncomfortably long saunter across your city. But not in Overthrown, a game where the Sprint button momentarily locks you into a power stance before catapulting you away across the map. Your character is astonishingly fast, capable of zipping across your entire settlement in moments, and Overthrown's third-person camera means that you're firmly in the driver's seat.

The last city-builder I played that gives you that kind of perspective was Manor Lords, where you can abandon the traditional top-down perspective and go for a gentle saunter around your settlement. Overthrown's protagonist would leave that lord in the dust even at their normal movespeed, but once they're moving at full speed, it's easy to forget that you're supposed to have been managing a city this whole time.

That's because Overthrown's movement is so fun that I was sometimes hesitant to construct any buildings - I didn't want them to get in my way. Instead, I was much more interested in charging across the plains, drifting