SpellForce Platinum

The RTS part alone makes this game really great. Here it deserves FIVE stars. However: The RGP part is - IMO - only half-working or quite disfunctional. ( Choose for your-self ). That makes this game a bad expericense. I paid FULL price ( 299 DKK ) for this game in the past. This is why I only give 3 stars.

If you haven't played it yet, then I strongly recommend you to do so.

A catastrophe to configure at each installation and launching on windows 11...

Game has a tons of flaws and sadly, there's more of negative aspects of the game than positive ones. Overall it's a poor experience and I don't recommend playing this game. Pros: -Interesting vision of the races with diverse play styles. -Mix of an RPG and RTS, with gameplay switching between these two and combining them. -Colorful graphics. Cons: -Extremely cheesy story with "doom and gloom +chosen one" right off the bat, characters are shallow and throwing one-liners constantly. It's like a work of a teenager. -Hideous UI that doesn't tell you anything: life or mana, what companion's abilities do (you don't know what their abilities do unless you have it yourself), stat numbers, buffs/debuffs and so on. Very little is known to the player. -RTS aspect has no proper control of your units with only 2 commands: move and attack (not even on the ground, just that specific unit). It makes managing your units just tiresome and not really enjoyable, transforming everything into a meat-grinder. On top of that, destroying a building is suffering. -Can be unbalanced at times, like 5+ sorceres one shoting your hero the moment they see you and there's literally nothing you can do about it or 40+ frost archers perma stunlocking a boss. -Map can be huge, even with portal stones traversing it takes extremely long time. -Death instantly kills half of your army for some reason, even if the other half can finish off the enemy. Combined with a fact that heroes can get one shot within 1 second it can be frustrating at times. -Moving between maps clears all your units, if you did so before finishing the objective (and game autosaves for you after switching) - tough luck pal.

Crashed every time I try to open the options