Crossroads Inn Anniversary Edition

Seemed like a deal at $10, US, but about thirty seconds into the campaign tutorial, the game is broken in such a way that makes it literally impossible to play. The tutorial demands you expand the inn, but will not allow you to do so. This problem has existed since the game's release, and hasn't been fixed. Do not buy this game.

So, these sort of sims appeal to me but I wait to see the reviews before I purchase when a game is new so I waited for some. When they came, they weren't very reassuring and I held off some more as they did at least seem to promise fixes on the horizon. Then eventually I got notification that the Anniversary Edition was on special and some of the reviews had indicated those aforementioned fixes and I took the gamble... it was not a break me sort of investment; It was quite cheap actually. I have had very little issues with the game. There has been no crashes though customers will walk about exploring and get stuck in a corner and just stack if you don't realise or forget they there, but that's why the introduced the hand of god button (but it shouldn't be a thing that's needed in the first place. No manual I can find (I may have missed it) to let me know the answers to many questions. No explanation on why adventurers, bards, seers, and vedetas will not do a quest for days and the quest will just vanish uncompleted? Is there a limit on how many quests? A time span between finishing one and starting another? You can have a metaphorical 'million' staff but customers will still complain about slow service even if there are ample goods. Cannot be totally self sufficient with most of the more expensive items needing to be purchased. With what you can I wouldn't even try as you can't seem to have enough staff to do everything and some things (the bakery for me and brewery) just never produced any bread and ale/mead/etc. Can't seem to chop wood from a forest (I think a load screen tells you not to do so in the Lords forest, so...?) Other than that, I have been enjoying the sandbox mode even with my 'heroes' only doing assigned quests randomly. Managing fun otherwise.

Entertaining game with a lot of potential. As of patch 2.6, the GoG Galaxy version is crashing a lot for me. Had experienced a few crashes in 2.4 and 2.3, but not to this degree. Campaign Mode: The A.I. is still getting stuck and doing nothing despite giving a wide birth of space for them to move. The Staff moves to talk to people on breaks, completely breaking them and causing them to stay in the same place indefinitely. Haven't built Staff rooms to see if this fixes their need to chat with people randomly, though it looks like the people they do talk to lose the ability to move (though I have on some occasions seen them still ask for service, even though they're stuck... and they never get served). At first this was only happening in the rest rooms, but just now it happened in the tutorial of the campaign, with two patrons stuck on the stairs after an employee spoke with them. Now my employees are just flocking to them whenever they need to speak. Developers: The Developers seem to be nice and updating frequently. Some quick responses on a few forums, and an apology for the initial launch problems. However, they made a post about people not updating their games or not understanding things, and that the game is mostly bug free and the campaign can be played through. Speaking for myself, I always check versions before booting up to see updates. The game still has plenty of bugs, and if people are, in large, confused by various things, then that is either a problem of not explaning things, or a design flaw. It is the developers first game, according to their initial apology, so many of these things can be understood. Though players always find and break games in unexpected ways (or go about things oddly), so to claim any version is mostly bug free is a little unrealistic. Nov. 15th review: Wait until more patches. Will update as soon as I finish the campaign without seeing annoying bugs and change the stars / personal recommendations.

On paper this seems like it would be a great game, but unfortunately it is fully of glitches, bugs, clunky controls, and completely idiotic broken AI. It is so full of issues that it feels like you are playing an Alpha copy certainly not even a Beta or Full Release. At this point the game is pretty unplayable. Maybe they will get things fixed upcoming but for now I would stay away.

Have you ever wondered how great it would be to travel through time, land in the Middle Ages and visit a cozy inn? You know, all the food poisoning, intrigues and adventures – it sounds so cool, right? Imagine my happiness when I heard that someone's working on this concept. I was literally thrilled! Mechanics finished to the finest detail, well-thought-through narrative structure and amazing quests. I was ready to take a "gaming leave" from my MD, teach my doggo to use a manual can opener and tell my partner that I need some time for myself (a statement "It's not you, it's me" would be 100% true in this case!). I waited quite a long time, and it turned out that it was so… not worth it. The game has really impressive list of problems and bugs. There're crashes, a tutorial that thought me some basics but didn't tell much about more advanced options, a codex that doesn't seem to exist and the narrative structure, which I found very dissapointing. This game made me really sad and to be honest I'm at a loss for what to do next – refund it or keep it? I think that in this particular case marketing was on a higher level than the quality of a product, which couldn't end well. Hear ye, hear ye! If you saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail I bet you can recall a scene in which the Black Knight was trotting out the same sentence: "None shall pass!". Well, when it comes to Crossroads Inn, this fella seems to be a real fortune-teller!