Posted on: December 24, 2017

GalliumNaN

Games: Reviews: 18

Good core, poor game

There is a unique and well-designed combat system at the heart of this game, but it is not enough to carry a game of even this short length. The game is mostly small-scale, turn-based skirmishes between two groups of units, and in between are choose-your-own-adventure-style management choices. The choices do not have a major effect on the direction of the game, and some appear to do no more than change the conversation and carry no lasting effects. This could have been an X-COM-style game that alternates between combat and base management (with the base being a moving caravan in this case), but the game in between combat is barely there, and X-Com (2012) was a bit repetitive as it is. I would recommend this game only to enthusiasts of the turn-based-tactics genre who may want to try the unique combat system for a bit and then shelve their copy forever.

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Posted on: June 13, 2019

Redbeard1084

Verified owner

Games: 978 Reviews: 64

HUGELY DISAPPOINTING

I want the day I spent playiing this back. A very poorly thought management system takes the wind out of a pretty deep and mostly enjoyable combat system. At first I was amused by the "X has happened, what do you want to do?" thing. Then it just kept happening, and happening, and it didn't seem to matter what choices I made, I quickly found myself losing my most valuable characters to BS offscreen hazards like a wagon going off a cliff. It's like Oregon Trail with Orcs...with Shining Force battles sprinkled about. Eventually I found myself in an unwinnable situation that I did not feel was my fault. But instead of feeling frustrated, or motivated to try again...I just felt tired and dejected, like I just wasted a day of my life for what? I uninstalled it. I'll never play it again. No plans to try the sequels after this experience.

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Posted on: December 27, 2024

LordTremere

Verified owner

Games: 375 Reviews: 2

Great game, great saga

This is a must have for fantasty, turn based strategy fans. What a masterpiece.

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Posted on: May 16, 2025

DanielStargate

Verified owner

Games: 177 Reviews: 3

An Incredible Experience

I played this game now in 2025, and got surprised by the amount of Content, Choices and Consequences the Game allows me to do and see, the Story is Very Unique, Specially if you Remember this is a game created back in 2014, in an age where Nordic Culture was not Explored enought in Video Games, The Art and Soundtracks of the Game is Amazing and Gorgeous respectivelly, and what Really Shines in the Game for me Are the Variety of Characters that you can Recruit to your Caravan throughout the game World, The Gameplay is very Simple, Build Your Squad and Fight the Best way you can, but what makes it really interesting is that you have to make choices before every Battle and depending on the way you choose to Start or End the Situation you can Save or Kill some Squad Members, and You have your Caravan which you need to constantly Manage to keep as many people as possible Alive and Happy for their safety (And Sometimes for Your Safety too), it's a really good Hidden Gem that took me 23 Hours and 19 Minutes to end, and it was totally wothy it, Stoic Really did a Great Surprise with this game, when i have the time, i will play the Second and Thrid Parts of this History and see what End do i get in each Game, and will surelly get all the Achievements for all the 3 Games someday.

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Posted on: April 27, 2019

Tmenite

Verified owner

Games: 101 Reviews: 2

For Egil's Sake

The best parts of this game art by far its aesthetic presentation and the solid soundtrack playing in the background. With the good parts out of the way, let's address the average/infuriating sections: (Av) Combat is explained in a pretty rudimentary manner, half the fighters feel awful to use in combat (let alone getting low-levels mid-late in the game with little chance to level them effectively), and combat consists less of carefully planning who'll go where and do what, and more "who do I need to throw the entire party at first so I can kill it the fastest and slog onto the next?" So if you don't get it on your first few tries you'll basically just be better off restarting the campaign early as opposed to resting, due to... (Nf) ...Resources dwindling like truffles to swine - worse yet, resting (resources expend per-day) is the only way to keep your core fighters in tip-top shape, and defeat in battle provides plenty of "#-days'-rest-required" casualties unless you plan on knocking things down to Easy. (Av) Dialogue is serviceable, what with 1/3 of the characters being murderers and another 1/3 being naive - about half of the event-interaction choices allow you to spend incredibly valuable amounts of time amounting to absolutely zero payoff (at least give me a penny for wasting my time, don't leave me a pauper). (Nf) The game has a penchant for murdering characters off-screen or through text-events; "Egil" was near-invincible on the battlefield, yet has no less than FOUR "chances" to randomly die in events without so much as an "excuse you" for his troubles (somehow he always loses his skull or throat, too, despite his skill and MASSIVE shield...). I've given up on a story that wants to top the amount and stupidity of deaths in the Game Of Thrones and Friday 13th franchises combined. Okay game in total, but I'll wait to see if the sequels are less ludicrous in design.

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