I purchased the game on Steam as it was released. Oh boy that was a big neatly packaged mass of disappointment! First of all the story somehow got streamlined into "You are in Valhalla, you have to keep going from Lv1 to Lv100 of Valhalla by entering the gate at the end of every level that looks exactly like the last level with an added biome of forest" from "Epic Saga and story of Viking Boy and Europeans and Sarrasin friends" Second of all, I have no clue how people are saying its a good release because aside from Graphics. ALL SYSTEMS OF THE PREVIOUS GAMES HAVE BEEN SIMPLIFIED AND DUMBED DOWN. Here's a list: 1. Making Food is completely streamline, I saw no need to make other production such as Bread over just massing Fishermen 2. The weapon system is completely gone, you will find yourselves making axes to rush the gate without anything else just to get it over with. 3. No marriage system, vikings JUST FALL DOWN FROM THE SKIES. So realistic 4. You will not be making Mead or any Extra industries because they were either removed or you can't see any utility for it Thirdly, instead of making their games better, the developer was busy trying to sell you A DWARVEN BIOME DLC FOR 12$ so no... They lost all my respects. The Culture and Settlers series have always been the most esteemed series of my gaming library... This left a very sour taste
