We are the Dwarves

At it's core this game could be classified as a combat-puzzle game. The closest thing similar to it I can think of would be transistor. Except there the pause function is actually usefull to do combats, not just planning them. While the ideas are not bad, the execution is unfortunatley. I spend way more time fighting with the GUI and Input then the enemies, wich is always a bad thing for any game. Much less one dependant on precise inputs such as this. The "voice acting" is propably from a synthesizer/text to speech engine, at wich point they could just have left it out either way. Even original with subtitles would have been better then this locaslisation. For me the game played a lot better with only 1 dwarf. With 2-3 the challenges just become really just overcomplex and hard to manage. More of a chore then a fun challenge. I guess if you like something like chess where planning several moves ahead across a dozen pieces is fun this game would be for you. But for the average puzzle solving mind it is just too complex, too poorly executed. Do not let the early gameplay fool you into how this game plays. The late game is like the game with 2 dwarves. Squared.

Hard to believe it was 74 cents until I played it. I wanted to like this game. The game won't let me. I had to look up how to get out of the first area because the game wanted me to repair my spacesuit. How do I do that? Nothing in game told me how. Walk to a glowing patch on the ground. No, not that one. The other one. Click on 'Characters', then doubleclick on the four bars on your spacesuit. Then press escape. Then save your changes. In the second area, a monster knocked me off a platform and when the game put me back, I was frozen in place. I spent the next two minutes being pelted by arrows while I tried to move or attack. Nothing I tried would move me out of that position. I have to repeatedly click on nearby monsters in order to attack, and I have to make sure the monster's outline is highlighted otherwise I do nothing. Click to move? fine. Click and drag does not move? Why? The dialog is dreadful. "I can't do that in a swamp" a billion times. shut up. just shut up. Cutscene dialogs are the worst. Growly voices that sound like drunk dogs stumbling through their lines in a children's play. It makes even less sense than that sentence. Visuals look ok. Story is stupid. Long cooldowns on the skills like this is some stupid mmo. This game is bad. I wonder if it will reach "so bad, it's good" status if I try to play it some more. Not worth the frustration to me. Too many good games out there for me to bother.

Actually a nice game. Lack of map, or bad camera can be irritating at times, but the mechanics, strategically eradicating opponents and messing with AI enemies is great fun. The environment is gorgeous, and story looks intereting. However... the game ends abruptly. After something i would call an "introduction act". As in, the story finished first arc, two chapters in, and we get "to be continues screen". As in, imagine Diablo 2 or whatnot ending after act 1. So, no idea if i did not play enough new games, and this is standard, but.... it is incredibly short.

The art is good, the overall concept is great, the controls are just a bit clunky, and the voice acting is terrible. What this amounts to is a frustrating game experience that good art and story can not save. Hopefully, the developer will have an opportunity to create a sequel and correct these issues.