Iron Danger features a very simple and very interchangeable fantasy-storyline. A good human kingdom ist attacked by an evil northern-steampunk kingdom. The heroine's village is attacked and she literally stumbles into her role - now no longer a civilian she can suddenly use magic. The game's description says: "The core of Iron Danger is its unique time control mechanic. You can rewind time for up to 5 seconds whenever you want." Matter of factly you cannot only do this, but to survive and win you HAVE TO constantly rewind time for two different timelines to micro-control all actions in each and every battle. And this is not only core of the game, it is the game. There are no xp, no levels, no stats, no equipment and only some basic predefined skills, that you can slightly enhance over time. The voices are ok, but the dialogues narrating the already simple storyline are very short and feel rushed. The game is very short - after the tutorial you have basically six railroaded quests to gather each of the six shards. That means you arrive by boat on a very small map, you enter a very small temple - sometimes you solve some kind of very easy and obvious puzzle - you leave a temple. That's it, done. One shard was taken before you can reach it - thats the final battle. You reach each area automatically in a linear matter. You can do nothing else and travel nowhere else. No map has anything to explore or unususal to discover. Then the story ended in the middle with a black screen. Some kind of sequel-bait?! You cannot save the game - due to the time rewind mechanic. That doesn't save you from those game-crashes and stuck game-sequences, however. The very few hours of gameplay result from micro-managing those timelines in battle. A very disappointing experience - even for a -80% sale! - for 5$ I do not feal ripped off - but to be honest for this small content it's not worth more.
This is so absolutely ridiculous! Not even the base game is rudimentary finished. Bugs without end and only the first half of the game is playable. The second half was cobbled together and then the story of the other gems just ended to go into release. Descriptions are almost non-existent and the voice-overs are absurdly trash. Faces are ugly as hell. The game is nowhere near beta status. And now two new character classes are coming not as an update for free, but as an addon for 12€. Are you kidding me?! ... and those 5-star-fanboy-fake-reviews are laughable.
... but it immediately crashes to desktop after start at the loading-bar-screen ... up to date system and drivers Win10 64bit, NVidia GeForce 2080 Ti ... NEVER had any problems with any other program or game from GOG or otherwise ... even restarted the system and tried to start game with anti-virus-software deactivated ... always the same result ... I doubt the reviews since I simply cannot be the only one with this particular problem on a stable standard system-environment
... but for a few weeks the game officially has release-status ... matter of factly it is still a bug-riddled work in progress ... graphic is somewhat ok but even at low seetings everything behaves very slow and bucking even with a high-end-system ... every conversation is eerily silent, since there are absolutly no voices ingame not even for a greeting ... obviously there's quite some content missing ... combat system feels very ramshackle ... game concept still needs a lot of polishing and suffers from many technical issues - starting the game and loading takes forever even with SSD Game concept, ideas and stories are good nonetheless and the game has much potential if brought to a decent state of development. Currently the game suffers from a lot of glitches and bugs, severe technical issues, and many important missing features.
... but for a few days the game officially has release-status ... matter of factly it is still a bug-riddled work in progress ... obviously there's quite some content missing - i.e. character backgrounds ... combat system is adopted from Darkest Dungeon but the implementation for Vagrus still feels very ramshackle ... game concept still needs a lot of polishing and suffers from balacing issues - especially food requirements on journeys and probabilities in combat Game concept, ideas and stories are really great nonetheless and the game has much potential if brought to a decent state of development. Currently the game suffers from a lot of glitches and bugs, severe balance issues, and many important missing features.
... don't get me wrong ... the game has great potential, no doubt ... and it's full of new and very interesting concepts ... ... but it's completely unacceptable to release it to the public in this stage of development (11/2021) ... the game experience is extremely frustrating - to say the least ... and I am a 5E gamemaster and know the 5E rules very well ... I cannot even begin to imagine, how a novice to 5E might feel ... ... character creation is very good in itself ... but then you reach the stage, where you choose your appearance ... it's absolutely ridiculous ... you have VERY few choices (usually only 6 different faces that look very similar and that you cannot customize any further beside skin color) and ALL those faces are outright awkward and ugly as hell ... for each race you might find perhaps ONE choice that's at least somewhat bearable ... beards look like absurd false beards ... faces look like they are made from modeling clay ... ... EVERYTHING in the game has only short-descriptions - at best - spells, items, recipes, ingredients ... you can only guess, what they might do ... i.e. you find a recipe "craft whiteburn" ... that's it ... wtf is a "whiteburn"?! ... does it require smithing, enchanting, herbalism? ... what?! ... even worse with spells and their descriptions ... you might have an idea, if you're a professional 5E player ... otherwise you're screwed ... ... dialogs are somewhat ok most of the time, but the storyline is told in rather short words ... you get the central theme, but nothing more ... when spending time in a town to turn in quests and to buy and sell things the few dialog-options and phrases, that are used over and over again start to get VERY annoying ... i.e. "stay in the light" and "clear skies" ... ... the game feels sluggish ... and the few fast-traveling options in some locations cannot make up for that ... ... there are many bugs ... fist half of the game is somewhat playable ... last half feels jury-rigged ...
First: The game builds up on Kingmaker and looks really great - more classes, more options, everything looks better and more polished. Nonetheless it's clearly still deep in beta-status with a whole lot of bugs - another game released while it's far from finished and with no rudimentary QA. I am still not too far into the game and while I myself encountered no game-breaking bugs up to now, there are quite a number of solid problems and basic annoyances as well as broken quests - and the game-breaking bugs are out there as you can see in the forums. Last two patches came up every 4-6 days. - Many options in character creation are faulty. Chosen character options often lead to "empty" abiilities. Just the two- or three-letter name with no further description or values. - Sometimes the game crashes during character creation or when you exit to main menu or desktop. - There are many glitches, for example if you turn off the visuals of headgear or backpack, often your character's color-schemes get messed up - chalky-white skin or clothes ot both. Same after loading a game or looking into your inventory. If turning off headgear, headbands are turned off only partially - the front-part still being visible. - Icons for skills and abilities got bigger and brighter, but quite some icons are missing a proper picture. You also can no longer see the rank of given skills and abilities anywhere in the game - for example extra channeling, extra lay on hands, extra rage, sneak attack miltiplier - since the counter from Kingmaker is gone in WotR - and there also is no counter in the description or mouse-over. - Transparency of obstacles got much worse - especially in caves. You often cannot see your characters or the enemies - or in small passages anything at all - and have to constantly rotate the camera even in follow-mode. Conclusion: While the storyline sounds really exciting and epic, the whole game still needs quite some patches and polishing.
The game builds up on Kingmaker and looks really great - more classes and options, everything looks better and more polished. Nonetheless it clearly still has beta-status. I am still not too far into the game and while I encountered no game-breaking bugs up to now, there are quite a number of basic annoyances: - I thought Aasimar might be a good choice for this kind of storyline, but Aasimar now have to be very colored and bright - lips, eyes, hair - no chance for a decent appearance with only subtle signs. The optical character creation and its options are still very basic and leave much to be desired - and making everything just brighter and more multi-colored only makes this worse. Still there are very few character-pictures to choose from - and those are again the same as ingame-NPCs - but you can also use the pictures from Kingmaker. - There are many small glitches, for example if you turn off the visuals of headgear or backpack, often your characters color-schemes get messed up - chalky-white skin or clothes ot both. Same after loading a game or looking into your inventory. Loading the game usually does not help. You have to turn on and off backpack again and might be lucky that everything looks normal again after that. If turning off headgear, headbands are turned off only partially - the front-part still being visible. - Icons for skills and abilities got bigger and brighter, but quite some icons are missing a proper picture. You also can no longer see the rank of a given ability, since the counter from Kingmaker is gone in WotR - and also no counter in the description or mouse-over. - Transparency of obstacles got much worse - especially in caves. You often cannot see your characters or the enemies - or in small passages anything at all - and have to constantly rotate the camera even in follow-mode. Conclusion: While the storyline sounds really exciting and epic, the whole game still needs quite some polishing.
