Recent reviews by Nezgroul

- Slow
- Boring
- AoS
Animations are pretty though!

Post update review:
Lords are completely busted, campaign mechanics are poorly designed.
The race updates removed all flavor said races had without adding anything interesting.
- The changeling cannot lose and is poorly designed but has a lot of fun quest battles and rewards.
- Mother Ostankya campaign mechanics and in battle is just too strong and makes the game a joke.
- Yuan Bo is more of the same cathay stuff, adding some useful units but bland and easy.

All the units are VERY strong and lay somewhere between "will always use them over base game units" and "are high tier so you will never get to use them outside of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around since you basically win a campaign by turn 30-40 anyway."
At this point, I feel that whoever is at the helm just sucks at his job, there is clearly love put into a lot of the smaller parts of the dlc but the overall design is just awful.
Got it on sale for 17 bucks, would probably say its worth ~13-14 bucks at most.

Still rushed, buggy, unfun.
Post SoD update review:
DLC Lords are completely busted, campaign mechanics are poorly designed.
The race updates removed all flavor said races had without adding anything interesting.
- The changeling cannot lose and is poorly designed but has a lot of fun quest battles and rewards.
- Mother Ostankya campaign mechanics and in battle is just too strong and makes the game a joke.
- Yuan Bo is more of the same cathay stuff, adding some useful units but bland and easy.

All the units are VERY strong and lay somewhere between "will always use them over base game units" and "are high tier so you will never get to use them outside of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around since you basically win a campaign by turn 30-40 anyway."
At this point, I feel that whoever is at the helm just sucks at his job, there is clearly love put into a lot of the smaller parts of the dlc but the overall design is just awful.
Got it on sale for 17 bucks, would probably say its worth ~13-14 bucks at most.

Bug fixes seem to be an after-thought done only to calm down a mad community with the biggest issues unresolved or made worse (AI, guns not shooting, maps being very bad to the point that I think they were designed either for esports or to purposefully nerf ranged units)

I think ToD is the last chance for them to prove that they actually care for the game but I think what they did to the Cathay/Kislev race mechanics is proof that they just dont care. They took interesting race mechanics that required another parse and completely removed them, leaving nothing interesting behind.

Fun times, needs better optimization for phones though.

Great game but I hope it gets content updates at a steady pace.

Artifact is a fun game, but everything related to the non-game aspect is pretty rushed.
In the last patch Valve nerfed some of the best cards into being good cards, and buffed some of the worst cards, something I was not expecting.

The new leveling system is pretty bear bones, the daily quest system is just as bland and boring(It is just first win of the day)

The game still needs a lot of work, but the recent two patches show that the people at Valve are willing to listen and try different things, hopefuly it's a sign of things to come. Do not buy this game based on what might happen, but on what it has right now, a solid game with poor progression/ reasons to come back every day.

For anyone on the fence, maybe wait for another patch or two to see if the game is still being developed for properly, valve has a tendency of adding features and then forgetting to work on them.