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A low-fantasy turn-based head of merc band simulator.
Combat is amazing, every faction and every enemy type feels unique. Bandits are a mix of dangerous individuals. Army`s of North have stalwart shield walls with polearms behind them and crossbowmen raining bolts upon you. Orc`s brutally toss your man around, while wearing a car equivalent of iron as armor. Goblins being annoying and deadly little ♥♥♥♥♥. And beasts, trust me, you`ll never forget which of them do what.
Your bros all have their unique backgrounds, stats and traits. Injuries add permanent looks and debuffs. You will grow attached to this vagabonds. Tons of perks to chose from.
World and event writing is superb. Sound and music is out of this world. Sound for weapons are so good, i only noticed that there is no animation for strikes only after several dozens of hours. I quarantee, you will add some of the OST to your playlists. Different origins allow for interesting different playtroughs (Gladiators, my beloved). What part of the world map you started the battle impacts combat location. Hills, pits , swamps and trees. Low on numbers and being chased by big number of brigands? Lure them in to the tight forests and negate their numeric advantage. You have a big number of archers? Let`s hear how orcs roar and squeel while being struck by barrages from mountain tops. Just don`t fight undead in swamps. Craft and unique items, bosses and legendary locations. Get it if you like turn-based games, you won`t regret it.

Dungeon crawler which is best enjoyed with friends. Plethora of classes and races, plenty of equipment and mobs, stages have a ton of character. If you have at least a one friend, this game will not disappoint.

Small and heavily RNG based. No incentive to care for your fighters, doesn`t matter 1 or 4 made it to the exit, result is the same. Random events/map/objective generation will make or break your mission. For example, i were able to finish a mission to save an asset in 3 turns, while killing a single guy. In other mission i had to check every building for 5 turns out of 10, being unable to find location of target and on 6 turn enemies spawned literally on back of two of my guys and killed them. Now i had 2 guys and 4 rounds to complete mission, while still being unaware of VIP`s location. What chances do you have to hit the guy? You don`t know. What are the chances for your guys to get shot? You don`t know. Game looks more barren then some of the flash games i played more then 10 years ago. Buy on sale, or not at all, you will not lose much and it is from the person from likes turn-based games.

Game is mostly fixed after first DLC. Pretty long, if you can read kinda easy on normal so go higher if you don`t want combat become boring after middle of the game. Endings are pretty Sadge, DLC is great value, esp if you get Season Pass for the price of Void Shadows.

Unplayable at it`s current state for a few reasons.
First: No bounce back mechanics. If you lost your gear you can wipe your save. In demo there was a certain amount of low tier gear that you could use even in case of losing everything. Even at rock bottom you had at least a knife and a pistol. And with every flash drive that you brought home you were improving bottom line of your gear. Now rock bottom is literally you and your naked ass. Whick is a problem because...
Second: You can only evac in two specific scenarios. Either if you complete the mission, or you found a flash drive with a bp for equipment or a new character class. Just tried to loot some shotgun to be able to do anything after your unfortunate demise? Well, let`s hope you found flash drive in your first room , otherwise..
Third: Each mission is a some kind of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gauntlet. Three stages at least (that was as far as was able to go), with tons of enemies. Your weapon will break before end of the mission. This is not a joke, there are literally so many enemies that by start of the stage two your weapon would be in a critical condition.You need a specific items to repair it, and most of them LOWER max condition. I was playing character with double weapon condition, mind you. And further you go it becomes harder because of Quasimorph infection.
Fourth: Do you like timers? Do you like timers, which your ability to combat them completelly depends on RNG? Well , does this game have a mechanic for you. Every in game tick, progress of infection rises. It doesn`t matter if you in combat or looting, it will increase. Every hundred or so, enemies get a buff. More health, damage reduction , higher aggression and at some point, all of the map know where you are. Higher the infection , higher the chance that on death enemy will spawn a demon, which strength will depend on a stage of the infection. On the last stage they are literal bullet sponges, that are able to cross a corridor in a turn and kill you in two. How do you combat infection? If you lucky game will spawn item that will drop infection by 100 or so. If you are not lucky, you can`t combat infection.

So as of right now you waste around an hour killing tons of mobs, trying to find goal of your mission until infection and slow degradation of your abilitty to fight enemies finally kills you, after which you don`t even have a means to try again, unless you start a new save. If it sounds like experince for you , try it. Or if you like CBT , i don`t know.

Game punishes you, if you didnt buy 3 keys for each type of chest. Game punishes you, if you didnt buy random fountain blessing, because you didnt know there exist a type of room, where you cant get to a chest without that specific blessing, Game punishes you for using skip function, because this way , you earn less items,gold and ore , which makes actual progression slower (what the point in such a skip then?). Game forces you to play like a little ♥♥♥♥♥, taking back every ounce of a scrap you happen to go by, because there can be no option of deposit for several next levels and if you die , you lose everything. Go play it, if you want to fell like a person who takes his armored vest, handgun and calls his private security service every time he goes to piss.

Probably good game, when it works. One artist made a comics about this game and that his faction(wardens) needs help. Game seemed fun in the trailers, so i bought it. Checked the tutorials, decided to work with supplies for a start, ran for a deploy aaaand.... Nothing. Second in queue, first in queue , lost connection to a server. 14 in queue , 10 in queue , 5 in queue , lost connection to a host. Very nice, glad to reccomend.

Very bad English ahead, turn before you gouge your eyes out. Cool game with a lot of things that decrease fun to money value. Combat is fun (if you dont take high diffuculties, more on this later), different factions have very distinct styles in both aspects of game (if we talking about races which are not forgotten by CA) and all work from audio and visual standpoint are pretty good. What is not cool. DLC. Do you like DLC? Lots of it here. Several races, entire first game roster,some of Legendary Lords and units are behind them. There are several LL for each faction, each adds it`s own bonuses or even entire mechanics. There also a confederation mechanic. For several races, you can invite other Lords into confederation, making their armies and buildings yours. Oh wait, you dont have this subfaction DLC? Well, too bad. You cant confederate if they have even single unit that you didnt buy with real money. You only wanted to confederate because of several provinces? Well, zog off, it is war or nothing. Diplomacy? Devs took name of a franchise too seriosly, this feature is useless. Ally have one settlemet in a province where you own every other and you want it to execute commandment? Well, too bad, confederation or war. Higher diffuculty means AI just cheats more. Armies that you just destroyed march straight out of Underworld right in to heat of battle. Any stat that exist on map is buffed for AI and debuffed for you. In battles on higher diffuculties player controlled melee units are trash so your last resot is to cheese with stacks of ranged units. Some of the factions are straight up forgotten. They campaigns are boring, their roster sucks and only hope they have is DLC. And with TW3 it is pretty long shot. Do you like to play for a few days and be unable to finish campaign because of ... reasons? Who knows what bug it is this time. Pirate cove bug, game cant comprehend half of the drivers bug, AI armies got stuck on pathfinding bug, etc. Try to seek a solution, only to find threads from 2018 that have posts from this July about how campaigns randomly crash on different factions for random reasons. Some dude couldn`t get past turn 5.

One word: Collector.
This word summarizes it all. Pure ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ incarnate, for when all other RNG filled traps dont work, but impotent developers want you dead. When crits out of ass getting outhealed, stress damage because you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ walking doesnt bring your heroes on the brink of madness and two hunger checks in a single corridor leaves them alive. Here comes this boy. Actual boss that spawns in your face in a middle of nowhere. No matter location, level of light or any other factor. Just because ♥♥♥♥ you, thats why. Boss that spawns more mobs, have lifesteal skill( mobs by the way, can guard, stun,proc bleed and heal boss). "Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer" my ass, developers that only know RNG as a diffuculty setting is my killer.
All game about it. You can embark with ♥♥♥♥♥♥ party and win if you lucky. You can embark with balanced party and lose them all because plague ridden skeleton dodges 3 attacks in a row and then crit and one-shots your healer, procs bleed on her and she dies on the start of her turn. Quirks that have no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sense. You completed quest in ruins, all in good health on a low stress? Well now your crusader afraid of beasts. Why , you ask, there was not a single ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ beast in whole dungeon. Cause Dave decided that is what diffuculty in games about.
Game has beatiful narrator, good soundtrack , coll artstyle and somewhat grim and interesting plot. But my god, does the gameplay falls flat on its ugly ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ face.

Dungeon crawler with many mechanics that tied to clicks in a right time in a right place. Good atmosphere, enjoyable progression, somewhat repetitive combat. Also progression in-game tied with others games from studio, but i`m not sure how, cause it`s my first game from that developer. All in all, good source of fun and warm evenings.