Looks promising, even god-appeasing sacrifices are in.

"Make sacrifices & collect blood...to survive the night"

That's where they lost me.

Well, can't please everyone.

Marked for future purchase.

I want to sacrifice my blood again to appease God : )

Looks like Pharaoh on an energy drink, might work

I'd prefer a conquistador RPG where the choice-driven evil ending is historical canon, but the player could be good instead. The main idea of course, is that the Aztecs are evil and should be stopped regardless of who replaces them.

You can't decently ask to play Aztecs without human sacrifices and rivers of blood in the name of the Sun God.

Not to be confused with the tower defense game this was originally intended to be

The guy on the promo picture looks for me like made with AI.

They haven't invented blood donation or to save one another : D
Aztecs... anything good or just wicked?

You clearly missed the crucial part of my statement.

I couldn't care less about these sacrifices (or any temples and churches that I need to build in other games to fulfill some "religious needs" by my people).
Those are not, what made me lose interest.

I jest. In all fairness, it just sucks. There's nothing I find valuable in ancient civs that would sacrifice humans for better weather. That stains me. But to answer your question it's both, I just can't get over the fact that those people would kill me the instant they could.

The game seems somewhat charming. I just can't glorify that way of life. It's scary for me. I don't like feeling like that so I joke that they should make a more defensive game since they lost a war they couldn't overcome, much like many of the people sacrificed.

I hate the stigma, and I wish games would be more modern.

"According to one record, 84,400 prisoners were sacrificed in four days for the reconsecration of the Great Period of Tenochtitlan in 1487."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20150227-a-place-for-human-sacrifices
&
"Coyolxauhqui is an Aztec goddess, specifically the goddess of the moon and Milky Way. She is known for her role in a significant Aztec myth where she leads her brothers, the Centzon Huitznahua, in an attack against their mother, Coatlicue, who has become pregnant." &
"Defeat by Huitzilopochtli:
They plan to kill Coatlicue, but Coyolxauhqui's brother, Huitzilopochtli, the sun god, is born fully formed and armed, defending his mother. "
&
but
"A lower circular temple devoted to the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl, who predated the Aztecs, faced this main structure." known as "Kukulkan" for Mayas.....
Oh.... story gets dark x D

Don't forget Mictlantecuhtli and that his worship included ritual cannibalism. No wonder the other tribes were fed up and took the opportunity to topple the empire when it presented itself.