Recent reviews by Blue_Frog[IL]

UPDATE : While I would still recommend to wait until the full release (hopefully soon), the game is such a treat to play and is shaping to be a must have. The only reason not to play it now is you will be feel robed of your experience when the first chapter end in anti climatic manner, and you are caped to level 4, something that you will do very early on.

Dog pope

A maybe later for me. It's a real time 4x game set in dune, and there's many systems that have potential. Also this game dose not lack any flavor. However, it is waaay too slow paced , and that coming from someone that don't mind slow paced strategy games. However it feels like it takes forever to do basic things and the game just drag on for no reason.

Units moves slowly, buildings are built slowly, you pay tax slowly... it feels like there should be a speed up button that's not there. Without it most of the game is waiting. Also, constant raiding is a key sign for a bad game design.

I would also like to see more depth to diplomacy, there is non at the moment. You can trade and that's about it.

I did liked the economy. It feels like everything is on a budget and you need to spends your resources carefully. Like it should be, we are on third world country the size of a planet, it should feel like we are stranger to this world.

Presentation in my opinion is spot on. This is not a big budget game, so don't expect 4k graphics. Instead, expect dedication to the source material and the theme. It feels just like dune, great artistic direction.

Performace - bad. The game is not pretty, it shouldn't run in less then 50 fps on my machine.

Overall, its a mix bag. I will keep fallowing this game. I think it got potential, but right now its not that great. It need a lot of polish.

I like the idea but there is nothing to do. This game lack content and I waited for the devs to fix this problem, however most of the updates adds cosmetics. This game needs are real push of new features. being able to make dungeons with loot and bosses could be a nice start.

it's good

Steam really needs some more shade of gray for recommendetion for cases like this one. There are things in this game that I really like that I would love to see in other games, yet there are things that are the standard in the genre by now that are just missing.

Pros:
* Presentation and UI. This game dose is a TRL that dose not looks and feel like oporating some old MSDOS school library program. The pixel art is very decent, some good effects and a usable UI.
*World generation. The world is mostly hand made, with some elements being able to "mutate" such as location of buidlings or a place being replace with a veriant (such as a town now having an active cult of vempire slayers). This rewards exploration - there are interating locations to find and even hidden secrets.
* I like the stamina and rest system. Every action take stamina. You gain stamina by resting for a turn, but you also get fatiuge that cap your max stamina. You need to sleep to get rid of it. This rewards efficency and tactical thinking.

Cons:
* Why can't I auto explore?
*While the stamina system is great in theory, in practice most abilities are better then simple attack and cost only a little more stamina. Even the really powerful magic.
* Item durability is not fun. Stop adding it to my games unless it support the main gameplay loop. In this game, it only makes it so I can't relay on any weapon. Finding a rare or making some legendery item is not rewarding becuase I'll get to play with them for no more then a few minuts. Some say tweak this system, I say remove it, it's add nothing.
* I get it that I am the avatar of a dark god, but why a random peasent knows that? If I'm playing a lich I get it, everyone knows liches are evil. But why dose a bat, a gnome farmer and an orc raider all gangs up on a random human ? I just got out of some caves yet eveyryone claims to knows of my arrival. How and why?

Wait for it to get more content and a sandbox campaign. If you have the previous games, wait for a discount or see how it is when it get the full sandbox map, otherwise wait for some bundle. The factions are fun to play, the map looking great and all of this just make me think "this will be amazingly fun if I didn't had to play through the slough that is the chaos realm".

Pros:
* The tutorial. They actually made a good story based mini campaign, make me wish they would makes more of this quality.
* The factions are fun to play. so far Tzeench is my fav.
* The art direction is mind blowing. You can get lost for hours just looking at models and the maps.
* The new legendary lords are all fun.

Cons:
* The main campaign. The map is amazing, but you are rushed into the realm of chaos way too early, and to be frank, they are not fun. I find myself having fun in the first 30 turns and then the game is like "babe, it's time for Ursan roar again".
* The realm of chaos, while amazing to look at, is just...uninspiring. The layout is bland, and each gimmick is more annoying then challenging.
* The chaos factions needs more unit to be viable. They are fun, but lacking. They all have their own fun rush style gameplay with a twist, but they are really barebone and while the units we got great, they feels like they are lacking support from units that are not in the game yet. The most obvious example is Slaanesh, an hammer and anvil faction, yet their only option for anvil is marauders. The really needs chaos warriors.

Wait for the sandbox and for the deamon to get a more complete roaster. Then it should be amazing.

its good

I really wish I could give this game a positive review. There are so many great ideas and great design. However the game is so buggy that most of the times its a role of the dice if I would get to complete my mission or not. The game is not hard, but progressing is near impossible at times because the game will glitch and cause you to loose for not fault of your own.

Last time I played at the water map. A really cool map with what should be a fun gameplay. However in practice my braves were obsessive about destroying an empty boat, while my thinker tried to walk on water to get back to the campfire, only to remember it is impossible and he drowned and I lost. Still tried to get back to the campfire after death, good on him.

If glitches won't make you loose, the AI will. It is bad. To name a few issues - pathfinding can't handle verticality, and braves will get stuck trying to climb a tower or an house with roof access and not knowing how to get down. Riding animals is a really great idea, but on some of the bigger animals the AI glitched and the animal with its rider getting frozen. Task mannagement had gotten worse since the close beta, and I find myself having to micro any single task otherwise the braves won't do nothing but to stand at a random position. The game consider them being busy, so I have to micro looking for them too.

And the list goes on and on.

To the dev - I rally love the game, but at its current state it is unplayable. I backed you up in kickstater and took part in the beta. Find someone to help you with debugging. It was a problem at beta too, and a public release is a bad time to start fixing bugs. I hope to just back to the game in the future and to see it in a better state.

Still as good as I remember.