Recent reviews by Stout Gaming

Top tier game. Solves a lot of the problems I have with city builders. There's a real reason to play multiple games. I've played about 10 settlements so far, and most of the rounds have felt pretty unique. Highly recommend.

It's not bad, the core gameplay is fun and all, but the game is just too short.
I finished the campaign in about an hour, for $25 that's just too short. Granted, there is other stuff to do, but still...
If you can find it on a sale for like $10-15 I'd consider it.

This game could of been great, it has a lot to do, and you get to try a bunch of different strategies, but it is an exercise in frustration. RNG is way to op in this.

Sometimes a few turns before leaving the halt, oh now there's a new second resource that you must gather to advance. I lose. Next game, almost ready to leave the halt, Flood only ten turns away let's add a new resource when you were barely gonna move on and your run is over. Like adding resources within 30 sometimes 50 turns of the flood is a death sentence. There's no fun in that. What, I just have to gather 300 of a random resource and hope I'm right to win?

Currently played through to almost past 3rd tier of 12.
It has some problems, but you can see the effort put into the game. It is fun to play, lots of small things I'd change, and additional item tiers would of been nice, For example, paying a lot of spirit stones to get a better ring or mount or some powerful herbs.
7.5/10 with lots of potential

Way more fun than I thought, but not enough here to play for a long time. Highly recommend if you have an hour or two to kill.

It's really good. Highly recommend modding it as much as possible. Especially Primal Fear

So I wanna give it a neutral rating, and I know I haven't played a whole lot, but the technical requirements to run this game at a steady 60 fps are insane. To give you some idea, I can run Witcher 3 with a steady 120 frames. I'm well above the recommended requirements and still can't more than 40-42 frames on medium settings, and like 48 on low. As far as the game itself, I felt like there are other games that did mechanics, inventories, combat, and controls far better. Also, there's a lot of bugs in my first 1.9 hours, none that are ruining saves or anything, but still at least 10 visual bugs, and few bugs related to combat or mechanics. Such as being permanently stuck in hacking mode, till I restarted the game. If your here for the story, the world, and have a 3080 ti with a super good cpu, then this is for you. If not I'd wait till it runs better, and there's bug fixes, or your experience won't be what you expected.\

Edit: GET the Driver update!!! I just got it, I can now get exactly 60 fps on medium (no ray tracing). So it's better, still not to the amount I expect but way better.

If there was a neutral rating this would be it.

I highly recommend that you buy this game in a few weeks maybe a month or two. I love the original mount and blade: warband, and I'm enjoying the sequel, but there's for me too many crashes (15 in the first 12 hours for me) and is a little to early access in terms of late game content right now.

Now that's not to say everyone will crash, because there are people I've talked to that aren't crashing at all.

The stuff that they have finished is all great. After playing 12 hours I can assure you this will be a great game in the near future and when it does I'll change my review.

Surprisingly, the game works really well on computer. Never played the offline board game (I'm assuming there is one). Played about 7 hours today and each game was completely different. Lot's of depth and a good purchase.

I will say that the AI is quite good in my opinion, I was really challenged in order to win. Maybe I won't feel that way after my 100th game, but for now, I'm impressed.

I just can't give it a positive. I loved the alpha but I'm kind of a meh on this.
Not a big fan of the gear based progression. I spent like 4 hours and probably killed 100's of blue mobs to get a blue weapon (of my class plenty not) At hour 6 again after farming tons of purples (getting many items I cant use and none I can) I just cheesed a 5 star gold for about 20 minutes and just completely skipped purple (with a lucky gold wep drop). Now everything is easy except for mage bosses literally getting one or two shot. I feel like I can't complete everything in the region because I get hit once or twice by these mages and I'm dead. (Half gold half purple armor). I liked the setup for progression the alpha better but I like the world for the this one better. I feel like I made 0 progress for hours and then like 3 minutes of progress then no progress for hours.

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I could care less about the region locking. I just want to be able to get stronger outside of hoping for a drop.

In my opinion:
If we had this world, with the old level system. 10/10
Even if the levels were region specific that would still be better (again in my opinion).