I didn't expect the songs be so good. IRL Eurovision have worse songs. Someone may find it expensive for just few songs, but I didn't regret a minute.
Northgard is the game of almost dead real-time strategy genre. In the age of armies of ftp clones with zero new ideas, made only to suck money with microtransactions, this game is a breath of fresh air. + One of a few of original real-time strategy games made in this decade + Unique gameplay + Pretty and original graphics and sound + Interesting Nordic setting, which wasn't mainstream when they launched the game + Devs a still maintaining the game. Upgrading, balancing, adding new free and paid content. Keeping multiplayer servers up and running - The game had problems with bug on start and it still occansionally have some minor issues - Problems with stability. It seems that devs added obligatory online connection to fight the pirates. This thing causing some troubles. If you like strategy games this is a must buy. Most of negative reviews here are because people rege about stability and connection. 4.5/5
I was absolutely astonished when the first time I played King's Bounty - The Legend of the Knight. First of all I want to talk about the most charming part of this game: its atmosphere of a beautiful and good fable. Almost all TBS put a story at the end of the list. King's Bounty on the other hand (though being a standard fantasy) put such a great effort in story, dialogues, tonnes of quests and the little pieces of lore to make you fall in love with the world of Endoria. Colorful design and and some powerful fantasy music themes complete the image. The music is so good and original that I'm sure recognize it even after a decade. The gameplay is different from other TBS you used to play. The game is mostly linear. You have only one hero, which is getting stronger through your journey. Your army is sctrictly limited by your hero characteristics and it can be a huge downside if you are looking a standard homm3 like game where you can sit in a town and amass a huge armies. The battles in King's Bounty keep staying difficult and you must carefully manage every battle. This game won't fit if you tend to autoresolve battles, because you will take losses even on the easy difficulty. And moving to the new island is always harcore as the neutral armies grow considerably and you don't yet have enough army limit. The game is working absolutely fine on Win 10. I had no freezes, drops and only two small bugs (both of which apperantly were already fixed by GoG). A bigger problem is a low resolution and screen fixed aspect ratio, which leaves black bars on the sides of the screen. Probably it is possible to fix it, but I didn't search. Summary: This game is unjustfully got missed by a wide audience of players. If you rate a single player experience is strictly better better than HOMM V launched a year before. And times better than those abominations Ubisoft made after. And it is still worth trying. See you in Endoria, knight!
