Recent reviews by Apricot

My mother always taught me that if I have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all. In the spirit of that, I have owned every Civ game that I am aware exists all the way through to this one and including the physical board game. It was/is a great series. I bought the most expensive version of this and have nothing but regrets. I really tried to like it, I did. It's beautiful, it's unique, it should have blown away all previous versions. It failed. There's no sense in me rehashing the same criticisms that the majority of other people have made, so all I can say for now is wait and hope they fix it up.

I will play again after each patch and hope it's better. I still have hope. If they do manage to turn it around, I will change my recommendation.

Not much to say other than it's a fun game.

Never having played any Pathfinder games ever, I can honestly say that this game is the most true to the Pathfinder rule set that I have ever played.

A very cute building game, you go to different islands and get to build stuff out of different materials and there is a story to go with it.

I like the game, it's more of a sandbox style than most other "sandbox" type games I've played. It can be a bit grindy, but not any worse then older mmo. Fair warning, if you intend to play this for more than a week, you will need a paid sub to do anything cool. People complaining about that obviously have never played any major mmo in their life. At least we don't have to pay for the game or buy 40 DLCs.

It's like being a naked fat guy on a hover board, once you stop caring what it looks like, it's amazingly fun and refreshing.

Awesome game. Very relaxing and you can do things at your own pace. I like that there are some quests but it's not overwhelming.

I love this game so much! The social aspect is really cool because if you become friends with someone then the people they are friends with like you more too. Also the social section lets you know the benefits of becoming that persons friend and also can help keep track of things they love and hate. The storage is also very nice. You can name chests and by opening one you can access them all and there is a way to sort everything into its rightful place without having to go through every little box.

It is primarily a building and mining game, you don't need to farm really. I do recommend having a few trees though, and farming get way easier once you can get things automated.

Ok I always look for negative reviews first. My opinion is that someone who hates the game will over exagerate the flaws, but at least will talk about the flaws where someone who loves it is less likely to. That being said, I still love this game even though it has flaws. However, some people won't like it as I do so I will begin with the negatives then move on to the positives since that's how I approach it anyway.

Negatives:
Crashes too much. I'd say once every few hours of play time you will have the game crash. It's not enough to bother me, but it can be frustrating.
AI can be off pretty bad. Battles that will tell you are impossible sometimes can be beaten manually without losing a single hit point. Battles that say they are so weak they are not worth your time will sometimes wipe you on auto. That doesn't happen all of the time, and with some play time you can easilly judge for yourself. Also computer players will keep throwing themselves at your defenses every time they resurect even if they die every single time in some situations.
Bugs. There are a few, one that for some reason will pop up the AI's hero screen in front of me which has shown me they get a +10 gold per turn bonus per hero at the level I was playing at.

Positives
It is constantly changing. Every time you start a new character or see a new world, the game will be different, different maps, different quests available. It kind of reminds me of Civ in that aspect.
You can chose how you play. Some games require you to be the hero, some games require you to be the villian, this game requires you to be whatever you feel like being.
It is a great strategy game IMO. Losing a single soldier at the wrong time can cost you an entire map, granted like most strat games you can always load fail (load the game and redo a fight because you lost), but not all of us play like that.

So with all of that I'd say the game play and replayability are worth it. The bugs and glitches and even AI issues can be fixed (or modders can fix them if it ever opens to mod on steam). Overall I'd say the positives outweigh the negatives enough for me.