Posted on: January 11, 2025
Wrongfire
Verified ownerGames: 136 Reviews: 23
A grindy slog after the great intro
Balrum starts strong as a hardcore survival game with old school influence and charming graphics, however I feel like there is a quick falloff not far into the game's story. Characters start to have nothing to say, your ability to build is restricted to some strange pocket dimension, and you quickly find yourself griding and fighting for any little bit of progress. I really dislike the disconnect between your pocket dimension and the rest of the world, so if that doesn't bother you, you may enjoy this game more. I was excited to find the perfect plot of land outside of town to start making a house, and quickly realized that isn't possible. NPC's wind up as decoration painfully fast, often having only a few lines of dialogue before becoming statues. Considering this whole game revolves around like 2 towns, that also started to chip away at my interest. Maybe they get more dialogue with the game's story. After some time with the game I feel like I would have loved it had it dropped the main story completely and just focused their time on fleshing out the world, characters, and our place in it.
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