Posted on: August 26, 2018

Early Access review

vrensul

Games: 337 Reviews: 1

Just one more day...

This review is written for the IN DEV version. (also my first review but I really liked this game so far) Here's what the game is: You own a tavern. You have these people who are different RPG style classes (assassin, survivalist, fire mage, etc...) come sit in your tavern. During the day, you're clicking away serving drinks and food. It really does make a difference what you do so this isn't just some farm-style click fest. During this time, you talk to these characters and you can choose to let them join you. After your tavern closes, you can then set them out on quests. The characters you choose to go on these quests really do make a difference on success and failure. If they level up on return, you can even select which attributes each of the characters can level up in. So, for example, you can level your barbarian's weapon skills, or his endurance, etc... There's a few points assigned and there seems to be a system that determines the amount based on the class. Truely a nice touch! Why do this? Well that brings you back to the first part. By winning these quests, you get some type of reward. Sometimes it's a new addition or service for your tavern! Sometimes it's loot for the heros or it could even be a perk that makes something in your tavern work better (such as faster healing). All that sounds great, and it is. But I must confess that there are times where it feel like there is a little repetition. There's a lot of text to read while you're playing. Mostly this is in the form of characters speaking to you or points along the way when your characters are going along their quests. This really isn't a minus in my book though. The stories add character. My TL;DR summary: Casual game that you can't stop playing where your strategy matters and so far, there appears to be a wealth of replaibilty with a solid ground of RPG elements.

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Posted on: November 5, 2022

Early Access review

pretzyl

Verified owner

Games: 25 Reviews: 1

I want to heart it so badly

This game, itself, is an awsome concept. There are so many great ideas that arent actual features. The daily tavern grind is cool, but as someone else said, the rng is almost useless (120% success chance, but you fail 9/10 times.) and the higher level, the more "wins" you need in a row. Also, you get 10 moves per day, and a ton of them are used up listening to characters repeat to you their "personal stories", which are actually just them saying you could have picked a better name for your tavern. Most of the expansions aren't actually implemented yet. So still no stables or outhouse! Even the "decor", at one point you get a popup telling you to paint your walls - but you cannot actually do it. The quests themselves are stellar the first time. There are a lot of repeat encounters, which are really well written, but no writing stands up to the 10th time you've watched your people bicker over the apple they found, even though you've paid 10 times the gold for travel rations as you're ever going to make. (Not to mention, the hunger is buggy and doesn't really matter because resting does not pass time, and even if you rest when you think its a grand idea, if 2 seconds later there's a rest stop built in, your one party member will be 1/3 starving and all of them will be out of spirit. Every SINGLE time.) And I STILL tried to love it. Even when trying to divide my gear while the skills currently make no sense. Even while dealing with the fact that if you close a game during a multi-day quest, you will have to restart your tavern. Even though 90% of the game controls do nothing. My biggest issue is that steam is on version 1184 and we're on 1177. And i'm not going to pay again for a game that's been in pre-release for multiple years. (the price is great IF the game was getting updated, btw.) It seems the developers forgot GoG. Buyer beware I suppose. Give us the update, I'll give it 3 stars. Finish it, I'll give it 5. as is, i wish i had gotten the refund.

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Posted on: November 25, 2022

Ceana of the Crags

Games: 232 Reviews: 24

This Will Never Be Ready-for-Release

I own this in Steam. It has been in early access 5 years, and still riddled with bugs. The encounters are not coordinated correctly with the responses. One hero rolls a fail, but is the savior of the moment, just randomly. Not even for a justifiable reason. Until the devs actually release this, and it has the bugs cleaned up, which can be found listed in Steam, so I will not re-list them here, I would not recommend buying this. So sad, because the concept was really nice!

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Posted on: April 28, 2024

Early Access review

ThatAspieLife

Games: 797 Reviews: 5

7 years of early access? No thanks.

This "Game" has been in early access since 2017 when it was "released". I think its safe to say that it's a dead game. If it's still in early access 7 years later and getting such poor reviews it's not worth even looking at sadly.

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Posted on: April 7, 2025

Early Access review

donaldjmunro

Verified owner

Games: 556 Reviews: 1

Broken and Abandoned.

There is a potentially good game here, but it is too buggy to play. It is also unfinished. It is still in early access but the developers appear to have abandoned it.

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