Recent reviews by HRod

A beautiful piece of nostalgia and homage to a horror game that set the path for so many horror games to come in the future. It was so much fun to play and get through all the different endings.

I cannot in good conscience recommend this game in its current, unplayable state with critical and game-breaking bugs. I hope to be able to edit this to something more positive in the future, but for now I say wait until major patches come.

My SO and I were so excited to play this game and have been anticipating it for over a year. I spent hours in character creator exploring all the customization options, making a character I really liked...only to find out that at the end of the tutorial there is a current game-breaking bug hitting a number of players that prevents the portal from ever opening. You cannot progress past the tutorial, restarting doesn't fix it, and your character is locked into that play through. The only current solution in the bug reporting is to create a new character from scratch and just "try again" while this is under investigation. So I guess luck of the draw on whether your entire playthrough bugs out permanently (as of current writing) on the creation of a portal - the entire point of the game.

I'm really not sure how bugs this critical would get through a game that from what I thought had prior closed beta testing and now costs ~30 USD for early access. I play plenty of early access games and expect some issues. In fact I at first thought people giving mixed-negative reviews on this game were so harsh of a really awesome, innovative, uniquely themed, crafting-survival type game in its early access phase. But I get it now, unfortunately. Truly disappointed I can't even get past the tutorial after being so incredibly excited to play and support this game. Please make the improvements and do better.

I haven't ever written a review before but Northgard was worth it to write one for. Truly a wonderful RTS that reminded me of the nostalgia I had as a kid playing "Empire Earth" but with the viking theme I love. I really enjoy the story mode and there's so many options for multiplayer set up. Do yourself a favor and if you're on the fence buy the basic game and give it a try!