SpellForce 3: Soul Harvest

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Posted on: January 17, 2021

RestartGame

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Games: 279 Reviews: 15

Better than the base game in everything

They really did fix many of the issues. The RTS component feels solid now. The UI is much better than before The AI is not AS clunky Story elements and characters are even better. Still, it is not a perfect game I would have liked my main PC to become a god instead of capping at lvl 20 and just being really strong. Too few stat boost potions. 2 revive limit means you can't let your heroes die and that's lame. I would have also LOVED to keep the old broken Circle Mage difficulty of SP3 that had the enemy throw you entire SCREENS of enemies. While your heroes are more balanced now, enemies are fewer and attacks are not as constant as before, probably because of the 200 unit limit regardless of the map. Still a great game, i'll gladly buy the next expansion

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Posted on: December 26, 2020

PirroEpirote

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Games: 289 Reviews: 18

A great game at expansion pack price

This standalone expansion to SpellForce 3, a solid RTS+RPG hybrid, delivers exceptional value (almost a full game at expansion price), and retains the high level of quality and attention to detail of the original. Once again, great graphics, sound and art direction are joined by outstanding writing, voice-acting and music (though perhaps I preferred the original plot, where characters evolved more naturally). Two new and rather unique factions spice-up the RTS side, and the campaign is as involved and adventurous as ever. On the flip-side, sadly the RTS part got "streamlined" - that is, simplified, as the features that made it unique were unceremoniously removed (supply chains, worker/carrier, balance, multi-step production lines). This didn't help in fixing the actual problems on the RTS model (snowball effect, rush friendliness). Also, the RPG model was simplified too (less damage types, simpler items, no unique specializations for companions, etc.), which is a shame. Still, for the price, this is hard to beat and it remains a very fun experience (some rather well written and voiced characters that return from the original are worthy of the price of admission alone). Another easy recommendation for me.

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Posted on: January 6, 2021

neonACTPOHABT

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Games: 140 Reviews: 6

A true hidden gem

I thought base SF3 was already a gem in its own right, after the massive patching that had been done. Soul Harvest only improves on it further. Better UI, tighter story, 2 new factions, the 3 factions from the base game were all revamped and much improved design-wise. the revamp of the heroes class trees also makes for more interesting hero building. graphics and sound are as good as ever, SH even looks a tiny bit better with the really pretty autumn theme it has. I can only recommend this, I'm really loving it and I can't believe we got something like this in 2020. Feels like from the early 2000s with modern production values.

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Posted on: February 11, 2020

Vielo

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Games: 89 Reviews: 6

Spellforce 3: Unbalanced Woke Harvest

TLDR: Gameplay-wise deeply flawed, unbalanced and heavily scripted. Almost all of the dialogue in this game makes you feel like they have been written by people frequenting various Reddit selfhelp subs. While at first it feels fresh and seems more realistic than your standard fantasy mumbo jumbo, it gets stale real quick. Imagine endless quasi-deep personal/quest discussions with 100% accepting, thoughtful, reasonable and "wholesome" NPCs. Those same NPCs are at the same time extremely one-dimensional, naive and downright gullible. A royal officer disobeys orders which ends up causing a major problem gets discharged (while keeping his pension) and starts ranting about it like a baby IN FRONT OF THE QUEEN who then proceeds to explain things to him like he's 5 and fails to recognize his resentment? That's comletely OK, he will not rebel for sure, let's just leave him be, everybody is entitled to their own quirks regardless of their professional (in this case military!) obligations and can get away with just about anything. And this is just one example of the issue with the writing in the game, there's much, much more. The vanilla game, while not perfect, was much better in this regard. I understand that the writers probably wanted to make the NPC interactions deeper than the cliche "we shall slay the dragon, m'lady", but it becomes so damned tiring REAL FAST. Yes, people talk about deeper stuff from time to time, but not all the time. Not unless they are in a therapy session that is, and the game honestly feels like that. When it comes to gameplay, it is extremely unbalanced and heavily scripted. You can win pretty much every RTS segment by just NOT UPGRADING the capitol (as it will trigger stronger attacks from the enemy) and just rushing the opponent with basic units and quickly conquering land. Once you get the earthquake spell to level 3 you can just rush the capitol with your heroes and instawin by destroying it with 1 cast of the spell. It's bonkers.

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Posted on: July 9, 2020

MHoyland

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Games: 12 Reviews: 1

Fantastic!

This is another great addition to the spellforce world. Love the graphics, music and voice acting. Great challenge to manage army building while defending relentless attacking hordes. Once you get used to the mechanics it is brilliant!

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