Recent reviews by CoNtRoL

15,000 players in queue, can't join the game and play with friends or guild. It has been 30 minutes of waiting, and I only moved up 100 spots. Literally unplayable.

Disappointing to see Amazon fail so miserably at launch.

Edit: Unable to launch the game now. It says "product information not found, please contact support".

♥♥♥♥ this game

Fix:

Go to Control Panel -> Network and Internet -> Network Connections -> Ethernet/WiFi Properties -> Uncheck Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) -> Press OK -> Try launching in again

I would recommend it if Valve gave a ♥♥♥♥ about the game

Update: Still quite a few bugs and annoyances, but wanted to give a review about the actual game. There isn't a tutorial and you are kind of thrown into the middle of the game, sink or swim type style with very little direction. You will have trouble finding Straw, so hint: you can pick the weeds that grow in the river banks. You're welcome.

Also, to save you hours of time, your villagers will work once you put tools inside of the chests of their respective buildings. Another feature that isn't explained at all. Matter of fact, there are so many things I bet I could do that I don't know about because they simply don't care to explain how to play the game.

Each skill has a represented symbol, and 11 hours in, I still don't know what all the symbols are. You guessed it, there are no explanations for them. You can use deductive reasoning and assume the symbol with the bow and arrow means hunting, and the hammer and anvil mean crafting, but if you see a fish and fishing pole, then a knife and fishing pole, are those symbols also crafting and hunting? Maybe survival? And maybe there is a smithing skill I don't know about?

I wish the game had more direction and explanation. And the seasons are stupid short. And you go hungry way too fast, and have to eat way too much to fill the bar. I have to kill like 10 rabbits a day to stay fed. Who the ♥♥♥♥ eats 10 rabbits in a day, I am not playing jabbah the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hut so maybe increase the value of cooked meat for ♥♥♥♥♥ sake.

The dialogue needs work, there are no voice actors, and you can literally have the same conversation/dialogue response with someone 3x in a row. So if they like the weather, just keep choosing that as a conversation option and you continue to get conversation points, regardless of how mundane and boring the conversation is.

All of the women look the same, so don't bother trying to find that 18 y/o dime piece for your wife. You will just find Helga 1 or Helga 2. The only difference being Helga 1 has black hair and Helga 2 is blonde.

Did I mention the seasons/days are too short? You are playing running simulator 2021 half the season.

The combat system is equivalent to Minecraft's - nothing about it, and can't defend.

No clear way to make money in the game, and way too long to start being able to build your village. You should have at least 1 villager through a quest in the beginning or something helping you. I didn't get my first villager until about 7 hours of gameplay. Then they immediately left because I didn't have a food resource building and a normal resource building.

They don't tell you that you need those buildings by the way until after you recruit a villager. Then, the mother ♥♥♥♥♥♥ will leave the very next day and you can't recruit them again. I found him standing in the middle of a field one season and when I tried talking to him, it said he didn't want to talk to me. K

So 3 hours later, I built the necessary buildings and recruited my first villager - for another 3 hours, I spent the time researching how the ♥♥♥♥ to get the villager to do something besides stand there and look at you.

Also, when torch is close to 0 durability, do not make another torch. The new torch will break almost immediately. You have to wait until the old torch dies then make a new one. An annoying bug.

There are other bugs and glitches but I don't have the time and aren't worth mentioning at the moment. I will update again after more hours of gameplay.


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I hated the music, so I turned it off. Now that I had to restart my game, I no longer can turn off the music. Not only is the background music annoying, it is LOUD. You can't hear the environment, or anything else for that matter. I can't adjust the volume whatsoever. The sliders move, but nothing saves. Not even the master volume.

How can you release a game and you can't even properly adjust the settings yet? That's not even half of the issues and bugs with this game.

Great concept, but way too early of a release.

Edit: Devs fixed in a jiffy, changed review due to how responsive they are to these issues. I don't mind supporting a game they actually care about and want to fix and make work.

For those wondering, does not offer Keyboard/Mouse support. Only Keyboard controls or controller. I like to have my punch/kick/blocks on my mouse, not my IJKLO keys. Having two hands on my keyboard when I play is personally awkward and not enjoyable. The game looked fun for all of the 15 mins I spent playing it.

I said screw it about the privacy BS and played the game and I have never had a better time. This is everything I wished I could have created years ago when I thought of an idea similar.

To put it short, this game is an amazing mix between Dynasty Warriors' combat system/style and Mount & Blade Bannerlord unit control and gameplay.

If those two games had a baby, this would be the result. My recommendation on the privacy part is to make sure to only have the my.games launcher open while playing the game and NOTHING else. Then closing it when you are done with the game. I don't believe Steam allows them to continue tracking your information once you are no longer using their service.

They do nickel and dime the hell out of you though in their store lol... but it is "free"!

(SERIOUSLY DEVELOPER/PUBLISHER, PLEASE FIX THE PRIVACY ISSUE AND YOU WILL HAVE SO MANY MORE PEOPLE WILLING TO PLAY YOUR GAME)

Came back to play casually which I do with these types of RTS games, and I saw they added a new "Dynasty" battle mode. Read the rules, added Lu Bu to my roster, and game immediately crashed. Lu Bu effortlessly defeated my $5,000 computer. Haven't been able to get by the screen since.

literally unplayable

I initially gave this game a positive review; however, after over a year and a half, and they still have not implemented core features (development is slower than dial up on windows 95), I cannot in good conscience continue to give this game a positive review. I keep wanting to play it more, but once I get to a certain point, the game is unfinished; and after a year and a half of waiting, to see such little progress is beyond disappointing.

The devs/publishers need to get a grip before this beauty turns into a beast.

I was sneaking up on a compound with a ♥♥♥♥ ton of enemies. I scope out the joint, prioritize my targets, and set a squad mate in the perfect flanking position. The moment we were ready to rush in, I hear this growling sound behind me... it was a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wolverine.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

So I had to open fire on the wolverine before it killed me, which obviously alerted the entire compound. I killed the little bastard but a flamethrower wielding goon managed to creep up behind me and I didn't realize it until I was on fire and could smell my flesh burning.

10/10 would burn alive again

Story sucks - not emotional at all. Too much time between dialogue to even get into the story. Lots of running. Lots and lots of running.

Did I mention the boring endless running?