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Vagrus - The Riven Realms is a very interesting game with a wealth of lore waiting for you to eat up at every turn. Leading your merchant caravan, your comitatus, is exciting, challenging, and puts heavy weight on your decisions as a leader whether you're helping a wayward warrior or backstabbing a broker you promised a deal for.

The Good:
--- Extremely rich, well crafted and detailed world with so much to discover.
--- A lot of original high-fantasy ideas that you don't see often, even with the heavy pull from Greco-Roman aesthetics
--- You really feel like a leader trudging on with your hired men and women in the pursuit of wealth
--- An enormous map with so many places to explore (eventually)
--- The characters are well written, unique, and are generally interesting to interact with. This goes for pretty much everyone from quest NPCs to comitatus companions
--- Huge, huge potential for a sandboxy, story-generating game

The Meh:
--- Combat is servicable, but it's currently barebones. The good part is that it's still very much being worked on, the latest update as of this writing even added several more bits that added some depth
--- Travel is exceedingly difficult. This is not a bad thing, in fact it fits really well with the overall world, but improving my comitatus only very marginally ever made things easier when it felt like I should have been better off. For example, getting a larger force and having to feed them all was far more of a negative thing than it was positive.
--- The companions are currently restricted to level 2 or 3. This really sucks cause they're often 1 stat upgrade away from being able to be employed in the special roles for your comitatus. It's early access though and this will obviously be fleshed out in the future.
--- There are 3 main paths of play you choose from the start: Merchant, Explorer, Mercenary/Raider. You can only play merchant right now as the other 2 of unfinished systems and will not represent the final gameplay. Understandable for EA, and the game even warns you of this, which is quite nice.

The Bad:
--- The tutorial story was incredibly frustrating. I'm no stranger to hunkering down and really learning a game (like dwarf fortress, crusader kings, etc,) but the tutorial for this game, while doing an OK job explaining the menus and things, does not give a good impression of the exploration system of the main game. The tutorial has you hunt down 3 separate locations but gives you almost no indication on where to go other than 'south' and arms you with a scouting system that is almost useless. Sounds like complaining, right? Why not just learn the game and think? Well the problem is you can only travel outside of town for about a max of 6-10 turns before you need to go back to town and resupply. Only you don't have enough money because you weren't making any while exploring. And since this is a tutorial with hardly any of the procedurally generated trading contracts that fuel much of your supply costs, you'll eventually get bogged down into being unable to do anything but reload to a much earlier save or restart completely and just trial and error the exploration. Hope you saved.
--- Slow updates - I bought and have been watching this game since it released here on Steam in EA and there's only been a handful of very small but welcomed updates to the game. Granted, real world crises may have played a part in this and I'd never say that's not an excuse, but the fact is that the game is incredibly slow to update. Much of the content that's not yet in the game will definitely take this game from 'hmm, nice' to 'absolutely amazing' very quickly.
--- The Price - The asking price for this game would definitely be appropriate if the game was finished and had all of it's promised content, or if it was at least being updated bi-monthly or so. But it's not, and you're mostly just paying a huge sum of money to show support and hope this game becomes what it very well deserves to be.
--- The rest of the complaints I'd list if this wasn't Early Access, such as only being given access to a fraction of the massive map to explore, are not yet working against the game considering it's not even finished. It's early access, so if you buy the game now, you have to understand that you're not going to have a complete experience.

Overall I think the downsides of this game will eventually be a thing of the past and I can't wait to edit this review to strike it all out. Unfortunately, I can't help but feel that won't be for quite some time. Still, I recommended Vagrus - The Riven Realms because I want to believe this game will be a big success in the future based on the core ideas already available for play.

Fast paced, very replayable, and all-around very fun to jump in and play whenever.

10/10 would head-pat any of them.