I enjoyed the mining/combat aspect of it but constantly managing a village for vital NPCs just bothers me. It's not fun at all imo and I'd rather get the items they sell somehow else. The setting is a mish-mash that I don't enjoy. This is a sandbox with weird pacing. The average player probably enjoys the exploration and combat the most, but stops have to be made to build. Odd design decision. Only in endgame you seem to get the privilege of not having to build, not to say that it isn't fun when you do it voluntarily.
This game gave me a splitting headache first time I seriously played it. Now I "got" most of the features and the gameplay is smooth with little hiccups(other than national tragedies due to mismanaging signals). The game is just about being a transportation tycoon, it's a basic premise and the game does it well. There are some shortcomings such as the features are VERY poorly explained in-game and guides open in the background are a must. Also, the immersion could be a bit better, as towns branch out their roads in the most demented of ways and interaction with towns really feels like it was designed in the 1990s. Multiplayer is about 1000x more fun than any other game I played. I played terraria, minecraft, doom, keywe(don't judge), dungeon keeper 2 and many others but the multiplayer experience here is just way more fun. Probably because there's little in this game to rage about other than the obscure mechanics, but it's a blast leading a corporation together. Give it a try, it's free.
It's basically a collection of mini games, all of which quickly get boring or are dragged out. It looks and plays like a free browser game. Species customisation is kind of cool so it gets points for that. Devs smoking crack if they charge any money for it
As a game there is surprisingly little to do. Earn money, buy and train soldiers, then send them to die in war. The grind is pretty bad. Combat is nice but cavalry is a bit too powerful. It's a bit of a tech demo rather than a game in the sense that anything besides combat is not polished at all and it seems rushed. They should've gone all in on the combat and disregard the weak outer shell to it. It does run on damn anything, I had a laptop with 1GB of RAM left and 2GB of space and it ran really well.
The game is -Grindy -Unbalanced -Weirdly paced Grindy: In the game you can collect both gold and ore from dungeons, yet when you try to save your resources you pay a tax on the gold, which greatly impacts how much you can farm. This goldsink is very unnecessary and reminiscent of an MMO, it only serves to further increase the grind for little reason. You can spend ore to decrease taxes, but exchanging one grind for another doesn't excuse this. You need ore to upgrade the city, which then unlocks upgrades for your character that you can buy for gold. One of many poor design decisions in this game. Unbalanced: The class balancing is very weird. Some classes are borderline unplayable, others crush the game all the way through. Notably the paladin is terrible, while a class like the warlock is very powerful. The wizard has the least HP of any class, yet 3 out of 4 skills he can use make him immobile. Just really weird decisions all around. Weirdly paced: In Act 2, The Prison combat and all is as usual, however most of the loot is behind gates. To unlock the gates you need to find a random button that's hidden somewhere in the level. This is a poor game design decision as it greatly slows down the gameplay from the usual action and this design is very cruel when one considers the amount of grind they put into the game. This problem is made worse in Act 4, The Archives where you need to find the button to even progress. Needless to say I don't play this game to look around for buttons for half an hour. The endgame levels are also too big, the game is riddled with spelling/phrasing errors and it loses it's novelty faster than most other games I've played. It has many odd features that don't belong in a singleplayer game and the performance is terrible for a 2D game. The core combat is fun however(would've been better if the devs knew how to balance classes) and playing online co-op with friends is even better. I don't recommend you buy it.
