This is an incredible passion project and a city builder with lots of potential. Despite being unfinished, the game already has a lot of things in it, and plenty to do. The amount of detail put everything is astonishing and comendable! This being a 1 guy project is simply stunning. This is what "Early Access" was meant to support, and I'm happy I found it, and I can re-live my kid's Pharaoh addiction!
The game is amazing. It's true. It doesn't shine with innovative and mind-blowing gameplay, but it shines with an immersive story, beautifully crafted world and characters you're grow to love or hate.
This could've been a great game, an amazing game even. However, it feels like it could use a year more of intense development. It feels unfinished, unpolished and wonky. It is filled with amazing ideas and mechanics that could've been great, if finished. The world is amazing, the story is interesting and captivating. The feeling that you're in a medival Europe is great. However all this is darkened by constant issues with the wonky mechanics, somewhat steep progression of your character and absolutely God awful performance. You start as a pesant with a wooden bat, then you can make your way to full-armor knight and still because of the wonky fighting mechanics a couple of pesants with their fists can beat the dust out of you.. or you can completely annihilate them, it's a coin-flip. The performance.. oh my the performance. It is by far the biggest issue in this game. Hardware that should have no problem with what this game offers on your screen is barely running 30FPS in some zones or fights on High. In a matter of fact, it behaves exactly the same on all settings, even the ultra. You will constantly struggle with terrible FPS no matter what hardware you get.
There are absolutely none that will do it justice. One game that truly brings something to build uppon the marvelous book series! This is not a game, it's an experience. The only downside, it has an end!
IMO the game is perfect balance between complex interraction mechanics and casual fun. If you don't want to go through the thousands of MTG cards and interractions, but you're tired of Hearthstone - this is for you. The game is very enjoyable and great fun. Especially after Homecoming it feels so much more like a card game. It easily has the most beautiful card art you will ever see. You can probably spend hours just looking at the cards' art and enjoy the premiums. The system is extremely generious, even if you're F2P guy. With the reward tree system alone you will be racking tons of ore and kegs in no time. On top of that you will get daily quests awarding you more, and ON TOP of that you can watch streams for a chance to win even more freebies. Give it a try.
