Not leaving many reviews here, because I'm usually too lazy to leave a proper review. However, I see those extremely unjustified low star reviews, so I have to do something about it! I hit over 100 hours in this game 2 days ago. This is seriously one of the best Early Access (In Development) games you can play since years. No missing updates bullshit, no developer who is aggressive to their community or any of that stuff. If you invest in this Early Access (In Development) game, you get A LOT, considering this game isn't even fully released yet. If you don't play for a month or two, you can be sure to download at least one huge update, before you start playing again. For example, I made a break between version 0.4 and 0.6 and these were some really huge updates, with lots of features, bug fixes and additions to the game. Most importantly: THE DEVELOPERS LISTEN TO THE COMMUNITY! I have seen so many players request stuff and a majority of requests actually get implemented! I consider buying this game on Steam, even though I obviously bought it here already, and plan to buy DLC, if any will come, to support the great developers this game has. If you want to build your "Medieval Dynasty" by playing someone who starts out as a random dude, but then, over the years, works himself up to build and manage his own village, then you should really play this game. Additionally, it has some non-annoying survival elements, that keep you on track and make this seemingly quiet game more demanding and exciting in a way, that forces you to play efficient and with brains, i.e. it does not get boring.
Most of the not-so-good or bad reviews are from 2015 when the game came out. I am playing this game's newest version, the last update was provided in mid 2017 at the time of writing this. This game has still some rough edges but who cares? Nothing is perfect, important is that you work on the errors. These developers really do and listen. The game itself is in my opinion very good and pretty unique. Despite some basic errors here and there, like e.g. an event gets triggered over and over when you visit the same place more than once even though the event makes only sense the first time, I think that this game is a pretty gem. It combines many different styles and goals into a well done mixture. To me personally Western and Pirate themed games/movies are usually the most boring but this game's style, theme and crossover genre is interesting to me. It mixes the "Western" genre with a dark and crude style which has a rather horrory taste to it (which is btw. another genre I don't like on its own). Now that's the mixed theme and type of story. The gameplay is also mixed, at first a little bit irritating, but once you get how it is supposed to work then you get along with it and recognize how you will progress in your own experience provided by this game. To help you, dear reader, decide whether you should buy this game or not, here are some characteristics of the game that will clear up how it is to play it: - open turn based combat in a closed level - between battles improvements to your characters (and event-triggered debuffs) are possible - the big picture and overall experience of the game gives a pretty strong DnD-like taste - the story and theme of the game is filled with dark humour, western movie styled overall experience (e.g. behaviour of characters, atmosphere, any actions and how progress is made) - story is cut into "scenarios" that are separate from each other, gameplaywise, but are based on the previous one - variety of weapons, usables, characters
