Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy
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76561198044211045
Not Recommended11 hrs played (11 hrs at review)
game sucks. wish i didn't take so long in character creation and wandering or i'd be getting a refund. (steam's bogus x2 'play time' don't help either. game is russian made, and as with most in my experience, they prioritize their games for difficult more than fun. don't waste your money if you are not into inconvienient/unbalanced dark souls like games.
you have no starting armor, enemies gang up on you in numbers, you have no companions for first stretch of the game, (they leave, refuse BS) enemies hit you more often then you do (my accuracy says 70% but only hit 30-40% of the time), they do too much damage, minimal access to healing items, loot is garbage, 'low fantasy' means no magic just boring swords, most sold items sell for 1-2 dollars, prices are too high for everything, leveling is sickeningly slow, as you get NOTHING for xp, weapons are too weak, armor protection is 1-2 points which is next to nothing, abilities are mostly all non-offensive sword techs are worst with nothing decent in lower tiers you are stuck with for a long time, never enough energy for moving + attacking results in wasting turns.
combine this with : developers that have no interest in deepening the the dismal party interactions. that means: no personal relationships at all to make your character feel more human, not mindlessly shallow and alone since there is nothing else to define him.
no friendships, no love interests or well written endearing companions for our MC that we can actually like. it's all out in exchange for just a basic questing/abysmal slow grinding + class building RPG. blank slate protagonist. (to be fair, this is sadly common with even AAA games) your gender means nothing, they don't even refer to you by he/she at all. npc's don't use your name so no point giving him one. you can't really care about your PC because he's just defined by skill checks without any real background or history/family rooting him to the land/culture. pick noble RP option, it just means you can use the occasional obnoxious dialogue to people who still don't even know you are a noble who comes from nowhere.
RPG's by tradition are not about sterile killing/class building and detached fetch questing, but about characters and socializing in a given role play, original protagonist leader centric plot that is not reliant on cheap being obsolete 'serving the npcs or faction selflessly without a reason' plot. good stories, memorable characters, tangling with the villians, the journey with personable non robot companions, ultimately reaching a couple of possible personal goals to shoot for to achieve a satisfying end. made even better along side non Illusionary or pointless choices that don't even negatively effect or benefit you or your ending.
games need to return to this. they know the popularity, they've heard the requests, and like most indie devs, they don't care and only have an interest in doing it their own way only with things that interest them. missing the REAL AAA devs who understand that this is a buisness, and paid products are for the people, not for themselves. they maybe mediocre, or generic, but they fed the player base by giving us a bit of all things while keeping proper storytelling traditions in tact. more reasons still to support those developers instead.
51 votes funny
76561198044211045
Not Recommended11 hrs played (11 hrs at review)
game sucks. wish i didn't take so long in character creation and wandering or i'd be getting a refund. (steam's bogus x2 'play time' don't help either. game is russian made, and as with most in my experience, they prioritize their games for difficult more than fun. don't waste your money if you are not into inconvienient/unbalanced dark souls like games.
you have no starting armor, enemies gang up on you in numbers, you have no companions for first stretch of the game, (they leave, refuse BS) enemies hit you more often then you do (my accuracy says 70% but only hit 30-40% of the time), they do too much damage, minimal access to healing items, loot is garbage, 'low fantasy' means no magic just boring swords, most sold items sell for 1-2 dollars, prices are too high for everything, leveling is sickeningly slow, as you get NOTHING for xp, weapons are too weak, armor protection is 1-2 points which is next to nothing, abilities are mostly all non-offensive sword techs are worst with nothing decent in lower tiers you are stuck with for a long time, never enough energy for moving + attacking results in wasting turns.
combine this with : developers that have no interest in deepening the the dismal party interactions. that means: no personal relationships at all to make your character feel more human, not mindlessly shallow and alone since there is nothing else to define him.
no friendships, no love interests or well written endearing companions for our MC that we can actually like. it's all out in exchange for just a basic questing/abysmal slow grinding + class building RPG. blank slate protagonist. (to be fair, this is sadly common with even AAA games) your gender means nothing, they don't even refer to you by he/she at all. npc's don't use your name so no point giving him one. you can't really care about your PC because he's just defined by skill checks without any real background or history/family rooting him to the land/culture. pick noble RP option, it just means you can use the occasional obnoxious dialogue to people who still don't even know you are a noble who comes from nowhere.
RPG's by tradition are not about sterile killing/class building and detached fetch questing, but about characters and socializing in a given role play, original protagonist leader centric plot that is not reliant on cheap being obsolete 'serving the npcs or faction selflessly without a reason' plot. good stories, memorable characters, tangling with the villians, the journey with personable non robot companions, ultimately reaching a couple of possible personal goals to shoot for to achieve a satisfying end. made even better along side non Illusionary or pointless choices that don't even negatively effect or benefit you or your ending.
games need to return to this. they know the popularity, they've heard the requests, and like most indie devs, they don't care and only have an interest in doing it their own way only with things that interest them. missing the REAL AAA devs who understand that this is a buisness, and paid products are for the people, not for themselves. they maybe mediocre, or generic, but they fed the player base by giving us a bit of all things while keeping proper storytelling traditions in tact. more reasons still to support those developers instead.
51 votes funny
76561198000538414
Not Recommended8 hrs played (8 hrs at review)
This is a medieval rpg without magic but also with very very few weapon skills or interesting builds. I'm a magic loving rpg player so this game is a no for me. I accidentally bought it thinking it had magic. This is like Fallout w/o tech. This is like their other game if you get rid of everything but melee fighting and mild cyoa elements. If you liked those, this will be like a mini-adventure to Atom's other stuff; at least so far.
6 votes funny
76561198360949188
Recommended56 hrs played (24 hrs at review)
I think the game is quite solid overall. My only comment is that the key art doesn’t seem to match the gameplay very closely (or maybe I haven't reached the the part yet? ). After playing around 20 hours, I’ve only had a couple of encounters with the creature featured in the key art. As a fan of Atom Team games, I had an idea of what to expect, but for someone new, it might be difficult to understand what the game is about just from the key art.
5 votes funny
76561198006579162
Not Recommended2 hrs played (2 hrs at review)
This is as basic an RPG as they come with all the hallmarks of a bad one.
Copy and pasted skill trees.
Time wasting, empty, over sized maps.
No indication on what NPC's have quests.
Basic combat.
Bad writing combined with outdated prose.
Maybe it will get better in time but right now it's a hard pass.
5 votes funny
76561198003256777
Not Recommended31 hrs played (31 hrs at review)
I gave this game a fair shake, but I can't deal with constant freeze and crashing at random intervals.
Swordhaven is mediocre, at best. Graphic and sound-wise, it's serviceable, but the story and gameplay is aggressively mediocre. It's either barely on par or several steps backward from its predecessors in the genre and does little to separate itself or do something different. I'm not going to talk about the small gameplay elements that I've found annoying since early access, because I can't be bothered to care at this point.
In a perfect world, I would have finished this title and likely not left a review. But, after dealing with the constant crashing and freezing at random intervals, I'm going to vent and move on.
If you're a fan of Baldur's Gate and Pillars of Eternity, buy it and try it out for yourself.
4 votes funny
76561198035450493
Not Recommended69 hrs played (69 hrs at review)
Game is utterly broken. - Entire town decided to attack me, totally wasted my time with this one. 2/10
4 votes funny
76561198022977791
Not Recommended6 hrs played (5 hrs at review)
Ai does not work, countless gliches, super nishe for very few people who are willing to min max. If you think this is fun rpg to try and experience story. Don't the game is not for you.
4 votes funny
76561198036874457
Not Recommended10 hrs played (10 hrs at review)
Too difficult! Progression is too slow, leveling up takes forever and does not really provide much (if any) benefit. You grind grind grind and earn 10 gold only to have to spend that to rest in order to heal. This just isn't fun and worse it's not interesting enough to stick with it in order to ever so slowly grind up only to get one shotted while traveling...
4 votes funny
76561197992113417
Not Recommended3 hrs played (3 hrs at review)
Needs more time to bake. It reminds me of CRPGs made by Spiderweb Software, so if you're a fan of games like Avernum you may enjoy this.
4 votes funny
76561198077574366
Recommended4 hrs played (4 hrs at review)
Surprisingly good game. Their previous 2 games - fallout in russia was not bad, but not too big and quite boring. Also let's be honest, their fallout russia is not different from just regular modern russia. Going for classic mediaval slightly magic world made is so much better, especially in terms of way to roleplay and solve quests. I was able to play as intellect + attention + personality at max and the rest at 0 which is really rare even in big "AAA" RPGs. And what is more important - all those stories are interconnected and make sense in-universe unlike for example BG3. So if you are waiting for Solasta 2 and WH40k: Dark Heresy like myself, it is good game to pick and play in the mean time. The only real con is graphics which is somewhere at the level of DOS, NWN and the like, but it doesn't really stop us from replaying those games, right?
3 votes funny
76561198032564027
Recommended52 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
its... ok. still Early Access so needs "tuning". Ammo is scarce and you miss... like a lot. excessively so. so thats bad.
crafting is awful. Fail?. lose not just mats, but the tool you need for all similar crafts. which are not cheap.. oh wait, you have no money, so you're screwed. you HAVE to provide something for the beginner. half decent weapon, availiability of ammo, some basic armour.. but no. i REALLY want to support this team, they are such dedicated and talented people... but throw us a bone!.
maybe its me, i just suck at these games, but lifes enough of a struggle without games rubbing failure in our face.
oh, and tools like shears, lockpicks, hammers etc.. DO NOT HAVE ONE USE ONLY!. learn from this and integrate a little reality into the game!.
3 votes funny
76561197971877162
Not Recommended11 hrs played (9 hrs at review)
Not right now. I love atom team and their atom rpg. But this....there is barely any content. Maybe 8 hours worth currently. Not worth early access. I was shocked how little content there was. You pretty much have to make a lockpicking/persuasion build as several of the quests involve using speech and will make your life easier. Tons of locked boxes.
Hit chances are Xenonaughts level of lunacy. Pretty decent weapon skills at level 1, like 50 or so, and yet I still have a 29% chance to hit most mobs. Makes combat, especially turn based, a bit of chore to sit through.
Leveling is the slowest I've seen in a CRPG. After nearly 8 hours i'm only lvl 3. This means that a high intellect stat will be paramount for the extra skill points, as skill points are the major factor in completing the game.
Several bugs that will literally cease quest giver npc's from speaking further dialogue. It will just freeze, causing you to have to cntl alt delete out to close the game and restart. This happens on a few quests.
Just not right now.
2 votes funny
76561197977253313
Not Recommended25 hrs played (9 hrs at review)
As an ATOM RPG fan I was looking forward to this one but sadly it's lacking that sense of progression that kept me hooked in ATOM RPG. The levels are slow, perks are missing completely meaning you level through skill points alone, so far in the early access there is a serious lack of decent equipment for most weapon types (as far as I can tell the knife is the only one with an actually good weapon). I played for about 7 hours and I was still level 4, using a weapon that was barely better than what I started with. I know it's still early access and I'll be keeping an eye on it as it develops, but at this point the grind feels too unrewarding.
Combat reward XP could use a boost too, it feels weird that you'd get more XP from gossiping with a random villager than from killing a wolf pack.
Edit: I don't consider active abilities to be perks, that's not what I'm talking about.
2 votes funny
76561197997839820
Not Recommended2 hrs played (2 hrs at review)
The controls using the controller are very bad.
the Fog of war in the exploration is not well implemented.
The fighting and the gathering (or any action) are very clunky.
2 votes funny
76561198070616040
Recommended33 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
It's just a good old school turn based RPG but with many interesting features and modern quality of life. It's kind of like a Gothic Atom Rpg if you want a very short description.
I played the demo and now i recorded the first episode of my lets play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rulNYTC0nfU
The game has all the complexity of character creation and progression like in ATOM Rpg but the setting is in a medieval low fantasy setting. There are magical and weird enemies but not too exagerated, magic is in the form of artefacts or enchantments. You are not a wizard but a specialised adventurer, sort of speaking.
I wouldn't call it's a CRPG because it's a lot more fun than that with a lot more choices like making a Solo build or a party based build. Using speech skills, crafting, lockpicking, pickpocketing or other skills to progress in the story.
PROS: complex, specialised, nice setting, cool mechanics. Everything you would expect from a good rpg, the team used all their skills learned during the making of the 2 ATOM RPG games. Fun to explore the big maps, you can even fast travel between certain points(sign pots). Quests are everywhere and you can really improvise while solving some of them.
Game was kickstarted so it will feature a lot of cool content and many nice things acording to the roadmap.
CONS: Sadly this is version 0,3 so the game has a long way to go until it's ready, the devs said they need 12 months to finish the game but i am sure the game will recive more content over 2-3 years after being finished.
One of my biggest complaints is how the game looks, it's very fuzzy sort of speaking, if you look at how amazing and crispy Trudograd looks and how beautiful the light and weather is... you will be dissapointed at the 2010-ish graphics the game now has. They are probably waiting for higher textures from their team.
The UI has a few problems as well, some items don't have their final icons, the game is not really balanced.
The game has only 1 Difficulty now, Normal and the other 2 difficulties(easy and hard) will come soon.
Final note: the game is worth the asking price for sure, the game will be great next year so if you are a fan of ATOM RPG jump right in. For newer players it will be overwhelming and hard to learn but probably they will feel dissapoint on how hard it is to learn it and then find how many missing stuff there is.
Another problem for newer player is that the game features a ton of reading, text and even the tutorial is just text. Don't be discouraged, you need to mostly read everything the first time.
I would say wait for the next BIG update to jump into the game and ignore some of the ugly textures and graphics for now.
Another BIG problem is that the game mostly features English language now so if you expect eastern or western european languages you will have to wait. I guess the devs are a bit stubborn because of some situations in Europe right now so many people will be dissapointed. I showed the curent languages in my video
2 votes funny
76561198000818368
Recommended25 hrs played (7 hrs at review)
GOOD.
Update after playing longer:
VERY GOOD.
2 votes funny
76561199170316086
Recommended4 hrs played (2 hrs at review)
Early Impressions: Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy nails the classic CRPG vibe right out of the gate. The writing is sharp, the combat is fun and the music is charming. It feels deliberately paced and confident in its identity. No hand-holding, just solid role-playing. Very promising so far. I'm excited to see where this goes yet I want to savor the experience. Nice job AtomTeam!
1 votes funny
76561197999507238
Recommended57 hrs played (40 hrs at review)
Really like what they have done here. Some of the quests are well written and creative. You can get surprised here and there from various things. I think in some ways it is better than BG2, so far.
I wish these Devs had of handled the enhanced versions of Baldur's gate 1 and 2.
1 votes funny
76561198157354670
Not Recommended8 hrs played (5 hrs at review)
Not enough arrow, expensive price to craft, no documentation about how stealth work and how to get material for crafting.
1 votes funny
76561198071316708
Recommended14 hrs played (14 hrs at review)
1 votes funny
76561197970683872
Recommended4 hrs played (3 hrs at review)
It's got what youre looking for if youre reading the reviews.
1 votes funny
76561198352248292
Recommended302 hrs played (138 hrs at review)
Play as a medieval adventurer. Save the world. Kill eldritch horrors, dinosaurs, and the ninja turtles. 10/10.
P.S. Devs are fantastic and very responsive.
1 votes funny
76561198316124190
Recommended0 hrs played
Big fan of their previous game. Can tell that this one will be great too! Let's wait for the full release:)
1 votes funny
76561198091090291
Recommended21 hrs played (6 hrs at review)
A diamond in the rough crpg !!!
The world building is great, the dialogue choices are plenty and it has the feel of old school crpg`s
Love the setting in this mostly (as far as we know) low fantasy world. The game features both turn based and real time with pause combat. there`s alchemy crafting and pretty much what you would expect out of a game like this.
If old school crpgs are your thing, if u love lore and world building, this is the game for you!
1 votes funny
76561199280725649
Not Recommended1 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
I've spent almost two hours making animal control: I've fought lizards, wolves, rats and bees. I was lured by the 'low magic' advertisement, but I was hoping it to be more real and less fantasy. I should've trusted the game's cover. It's not for me.
1 votes funny
Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy
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76561198044211045
Not Recommended11 hrs played (11 hrs at review)
game sucks. wish i didn't take so long in character creation and wandering or i'd be getting a refund. (steam's bogus x2 'play time' don't help either. game is russian made, and as with most in my experience, they prioritize their games for difficult more than fun. don't waste your money if you are not into inconvienient/unbalanced dark souls like games.
you have no starting armor, enemies gang up on you in numbers, you have no companions for first stretch of the game, (they leave, refuse BS) enemies hit you more often then you do (my accuracy says 70% but only hit 30-40% of the time), they do too much damage, minimal access to healing items, loot is garbage, 'low fantasy' means no magic just boring swords, most sold items sell for 1-2 dollars, prices are too high for everything, leveling is sickeningly slow, as you get NOTHING for xp, weapons are too weak, armor protection is 1-2 points which is next to nothing, abilities are mostly all non-offensive sword techs are worst with nothing decent in lower tiers you are stuck with for a long time, never enough energy for moving + attacking results in wasting turns.
combine this with : developers that have no interest in deepening the the dismal party interactions. that means: no personal relationships at all to make your character feel more human, not mindlessly shallow and alone since there is nothing else to define him.
no friendships, no love interests or well written endearing companions for our MC that we can actually like. it's all out in exchange for just a basic questing/abysmal slow grinding + class building RPG. blank slate protagonist. (to be fair, this is sadly common with even AAA games) your gender means nothing, they don't even refer to you by he/she at all. npc's don't use your name so no point giving him one. you can't really care about your PC because he's just defined by skill checks without any real background or history/family rooting him to the land/culture. pick noble RP option, it just means you can use the occasional obnoxious dialogue to people who still don't even know you are a noble who comes from nowhere.
RPG's by tradition are not about sterile killing/class building and detached fetch questing, but about characters and socializing in a given role play, original protagonist leader centric plot that is not reliant on cheap being obsolete 'serving the npcs or faction selflessly without a reason' plot. good stories, memorable characters, tangling with the villians, the journey with personable non robot companions, ultimately reaching a couple of possible personal goals to shoot for to achieve a satisfying end. made even better along side non Illusionary or pointless choices that don't even negatively effect or benefit you or your ending.
games need to return to this. they know the popularity, they've heard the requests, and like most indie devs, they don't care and only have an interest in doing it their own way only with things that interest them. missing the REAL AAA devs who understand that this is a buisness, and paid products are for the people, not for themselves. they maybe mediocre, or generic, but they fed the player base by giving us a bit of all things while keeping proper storytelling traditions in tact. more reasons still to support those developers instead.
51 votes funny
76561198044211045
Not Recommended11 hrs played (11 hrs at review)
game sucks. wish i didn't take so long in character creation and wandering or i'd be getting a refund. (steam's bogus x2 'play time' don't help either. game is russian made, and as with most in my experience, they prioritize their games for difficult more than fun. don't waste your money if you are not into inconvienient/unbalanced dark souls like games.
you have no starting armor, enemies gang up on you in numbers, you have no companions for first stretch of the game, (they leave, refuse BS) enemies hit you more often then you do (my accuracy says 70% but only hit 30-40% of the time), they do too much damage, minimal access to healing items, loot is garbage, 'low fantasy' means no magic just boring swords, most sold items sell for 1-2 dollars, prices are too high for everything, leveling is sickeningly slow, as you get NOTHING for xp, weapons are too weak, armor protection is 1-2 points which is next to nothing, abilities are mostly all non-offensive sword techs are worst with nothing decent in lower tiers you are stuck with for a long time, never enough energy for moving + attacking results in wasting turns.
combine this with : developers that have no interest in deepening the the dismal party interactions. that means: no personal relationships at all to make your character feel more human, not mindlessly shallow and alone since there is nothing else to define him.
no friendships, no love interests or well written endearing companions for our MC that we can actually like. it's all out in exchange for just a basic questing/abysmal slow grinding + class building RPG. blank slate protagonist. (to be fair, this is sadly common with even AAA games) your gender means nothing, they don't even refer to you by he/she at all. npc's don't use your name so no point giving him one. you can't really care about your PC because he's just defined by skill checks without any real background or history/family rooting him to the land/culture. pick noble RP option, it just means you can use the occasional obnoxious dialogue to people who still don't even know you are a noble who comes from nowhere.
RPG's by tradition are not about sterile killing/class building and detached fetch questing, but about characters and socializing in a given role play, original protagonist leader centric plot that is not reliant on cheap being obsolete 'serving the npcs or faction selflessly without a reason' plot. good stories, memorable characters, tangling with the villians, the journey with personable non robot companions, ultimately reaching a couple of possible personal goals to shoot for to achieve a satisfying end. made even better along side non Illusionary or pointless choices that don't even negatively effect or benefit you or your ending.
games need to return to this. they know the popularity, they've heard the requests, and like most indie devs, they don't care and only have an interest in doing it their own way only with things that interest them. missing the REAL AAA devs who understand that this is a buisness, and paid products are for the people, not for themselves. they maybe mediocre, or generic, but they fed the player base by giving us a bit of all things while keeping proper storytelling traditions in tact. more reasons still to support those developers instead.
51 votes funny
76561198000538414
Not Recommended8 hrs played (8 hrs at review)
This is a medieval rpg without magic but also with very very few weapon skills or interesting builds. I'm a magic loving rpg player so this game is a no for me. I accidentally bought it thinking it had magic. This is like Fallout w/o tech. This is like their other game if you get rid of everything but melee fighting and mild cyoa elements. If you liked those, this will be like a mini-adventure to Atom's other stuff; at least so far.
6 votes funny
76561198360949188
Recommended56 hrs played (24 hrs at review)
I think the game is quite solid overall. My only comment is that the key art doesn’t seem to match the gameplay very closely (or maybe I haven't reached the the part yet? ). After playing around 20 hours, I’ve only had a couple of encounters with the creature featured in the key art. As a fan of Atom Team games, I had an idea of what to expect, but for someone new, it might be difficult to understand what the game is about just from the key art.
5 votes funny
76561198006579162
Not Recommended2 hrs played (2 hrs at review)
This is as basic an RPG as they come with all the hallmarks of a bad one.
Copy and pasted skill trees.
Time wasting, empty, over sized maps.
No indication on what NPC's have quests.
Basic combat.
Bad writing combined with outdated prose.
Maybe it will get better in time but right now it's a hard pass.
5 votes funny
76561198003256777
Not Recommended31 hrs played (31 hrs at review)
I gave this game a fair shake, but I can't deal with constant freeze and crashing at random intervals.
Swordhaven is mediocre, at best. Graphic and sound-wise, it's serviceable, but the story and gameplay is aggressively mediocre. It's either barely on par or several steps backward from its predecessors in the genre and does little to separate itself or do something different. I'm not going to talk about the small gameplay elements that I've found annoying since early access, because I can't be bothered to care at this point.
In a perfect world, I would have finished this title and likely not left a review. But, after dealing with the constant crashing and freezing at random intervals, I'm going to vent and move on.
If you're a fan of Baldur's Gate and Pillars of Eternity, buy it and try it out for yourself.
4 votes funny
76561198035450493
Not Recommended69 hrs played (69 hrs at review)
Game is utterly broken. - Entire town decided to attack me, totally wasted my time with this one. 2/10
4 votes funny
76561198022977791
Not Recommended6 hrs played (5 hrs at review)
Ai does not work, countless gliches, super nishe for very few people who are willing to min max. If you think this is fun rpg to try and experience story. Don't the game is not for you.
4 votes funny
76561198036874457
Not Recommended10 hrs played (10 hrs at review)
Too difficult! Progression is too slow, leveling up takes forever and does not really provide much (if any) benefit. You grind grind grind and earn 10 gold only to have to spend that to rest in order to heal. This just isn't fun and worse it's not interesting enough to stick with it in order to ever so slowly grind up only to get one shotted while traveling...
4 votes funny
76561197992113417
Not Recommended3 hrs played (3 hrs at review)
Needs more time to bake. It reminds me of CRPGs made by Spiderweb Software, so if you're a fan of games like Avernum you may enjoy this.
4 votes funny
76561198077574366
Recommended4 hrs played (4 hrs at review)
Surprisingly good game. Their previous 2 games - fallout in russia was not bad, but not too big and quite boring. Also let's be honest, their fallout russia is not different from just regular modern russia. Going for classic mediaval slightly magic world made is so much better, especially in terms of way to roleplay and solve quests. I was able to play as intellect + attention + personality at max and the rest at 0 which is really rare even in big "AAA" RPGs. And what is more important - all those stories are interconnected and make sense in-universe unlike for example BG3. So if you are waiting for Solasta 2 and WH40k: Dark Heresy like myself, it is good game to pick and play in the mean time. The only real con is graphics which is somewhere at the level of DOS, NWN and the like, but it doesn't really stop us from replaying those games, right?
3 votes funny
76561198032564027
Recommended52 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
its... ok. still Early Access so needs "tuning". Ammo is scarce and you miss... like a lot. excessively so. so thats bad.
crafting is awful. Fail?. lose not just mats, but the tool you need for all similar crafts. which are not cheap.. oh wait, you have no money, so you're screwed. you HAVE to provide something for the beginner. half decent weapon, availiability of ammo, some basic armour.. but no. i REALLY want to support this team, they are such dedicated and talented people... but throw us a bone!.
maybe its me, i just suck at these games, but lifes enough of a struggle without games rubbing failure in our face.
oh, and tools like shears, lockpicks, hammers etc.. DO NOT HAVE ONE USE ONLY!. learn from this and integrate a little reality into the game!.
3 votes funny
76561197971877162
Not Recommended11 hrs played (9 hrs at review)
Not right now. I love atom team and their atom rpg. But this....there is barely any content. Maybe 8 hours worth currently. Not worth early access. I was shocked how little content there was. You pretty much have to make a lockpicking/persuasion build as several of the quests involve using speech and will make your life easier. Tons of locked boxes.
Hit chances are Xenonaughts level of lunacy. Pretty decent weapon skills at level 1, like 50 or so, and yet I still have a 29% chance to hit most mobs. Makes combat, especially turn based, a bit of chore to sit through.
Leveling is the slowest I've seen in a CRPG. After nearly 8 hours i'm only lvl 3. This means that a high intellect stat will be paramount for the extra skill points, as skill points are the major factor in completing the game.
Several bugs that will literally cease quest giver npc's from speaking further dialogue. It will just freeze, causing you to have to cntl alt delete out to close the game and restart. This happens on a few quests.
Just not right now.
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76561197977253313
Not Recommended25 hrs played (9 hrs at review)
As an ATOM RPG fan I was looking forward to this one but sadly it's lacking that sense of progression that kept me hooked in ATOM RPG. The levels are slow, perks are missing completely meaning you level through skill points alone, so far in the early access there is a serious lack of decent equipment for most weapon types (as far as I can tell the knife is the only one with an actually good weapon). I played for about 7 hours and I was still level 4, using a weapon that was barely better than what I started with. I know it's still early access and I'll be keeping an eye on it as it develops, but at this point the grind feels too unrewarding.
Combat reward XP could use a boost too, it feels weird that you'd get more XP from gossiping with a random villager than from killing a wolf pack.
Edit: I don't consider active abilities to be perks, that's not what I'm talking about.
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76561197997839820
Not Recommended2 hrs played (2 hrs at review)
The controls using the controller are very bad.
the Fog of war in the exploration is not well implemented.
The fighting and the gathering (or any action) are very clunky.
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76561198070616040
Recommended33 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
It's just a good old school turn based RPG but with many interesting features and modern quality of life. It's kind of like a Gothic Atom Rpg if you want a very short description.
I played the demo and now i recorded the first episode of my lets play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rulNYTC0nfU
The game has all the complexity of character creation and progression like in ATOM Rpg but the setting is in a medieval low fantasy setting. There are magical and weird enemies but not too exagerated, magic is in the form of artefacts or enchantments. You are not a wizard but a specialised adventurer, sort of speaking.
I wouldn't call it's a CRPG because it's a lot more fun than that with a lot more choices like making a Solo build or a party based build. Using speech skills, crafting, lockpicking, pickpocketing or other skills to progress in the story.
PROS: complex, specialised, nice setting, cool mechanics. Everything you would expect from a good rpg, the team used all their skills learned during the making of the 2 ATOM RPG games. Fun to explore the big maps, you can even fast travel between certain points(sign pots). Quests are everywhere and you can really improvise while solving some of them.
Game was kickstarted so it will feature a lot of cool content and many nice things acording to the roadmap.
CONS: Sadly this is version 0,3 so the game has a long way to go until it's ready, the devs said they need 12 months to finish the game but i am sure the game will recive more content over 2-3 years after being finished.
One of my biggest complaints is how the game looks, it's very fuzzy sort of speaking, if you look at how amazing and crispy Trudograd looks and how beautiful the light and weather is... you will be dissapointed at the 2010-ish graphics the game now has. They are probably waiting for higher textures from their team.
The UI has a few problems as well, some items don't have their final icons, the game is not really balanced.
The game has only 1 Difficulty now, Normal and the other 2 difficulties(easy and hard) will come soon.
Final note: the game is worth the asking price for sure, the game will be great next year so if you are a fan of ATOM RPG jump right in. For newer players it will be overwhelming and hard to learn but probably they will feel dissapoint on how hard it is to learn it and then find how many missing stuff there is.
Another problem for newer player is that the game features a ton of reading, text and even the tutorial is just text. Don't be discouraged, you need to mostly read everything the first time.
I would say wait for the next BIG update to jump into the game and ignore some of the ugly textures and graphics for now.
Another BIG problem is that the game mostly features English language now so if you expect eastern or western european languages you will have to wait. I guess the devs are a bit stubborn because of some situations in Europe right now so many people will be dissapointed. I showed the curent languages in my video
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76561198000818368
Recommended25 hrs played (7 hrs at review)
GOOD.
Update after playing longer:
VERY GOOD.
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76561199170316086
Recommended4 hrs played (2 hrs at review)
Early Impressions: Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy nails the classic CRPG vibe right out of the gate. The writing is sharp, the combat is fun and the music is charming. It feels deliberately paced and confident in its identity. No hand-holding, just solid role-playing. Very promising so far. I'm excited to see where this goes yet I want to savor the experience. Nice job AtomTeam!
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76561197999507238
Recommended57 hrs played (40 hrs at review)
Really like what they have done here. Some of the quests are well written and creative. You can get surprised here and there from various things. I think in some ways it is better than BG2, so far.
I wish these Devs had of handled the enhanced versions of Baldur's gate 1 and 2.
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76561198157354670
Not Recommended8 hrs played (5 hrs at review)
Not enough arrow, expensive price to craft, no documentation about how stealth work and how to get material for crafting.
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76561198071316708
Recommended14 hrs played (14 hrs at review)
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76561197970683872
Recommended4 hrs played (3 hrs at review)
It's got what youre looking for if youre reading the reviews.
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76561198352248292
Recommended302 hrs played (138 hrs at review)
Play as a medieval adventurer. Save the world. Kill eldritch horrors, dinosaurs, and the ninja turtles. 10/10.
P.S. Devs are fantastic and very responsive.
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76561198316124190
Recommended0 hrs played
Big fan of their previous game. Can tell that this one will be great too! Let's wait for the full release:)
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76561198091090291
Recommended21 hrs played (6 hrs at review)
A diamond in the rough crpg !!!
The world building is great, the dialogue choices are plenty and it has the feel of old school crpg`s
Love the setting in this mostly (as far as we know) low fantasy world. The game features both turn based and real time with pause combat. there`s alchemy crafting and pretty much what you would expect out of a game like this.
If old school crpgs are your thing, if u love lore and world building, this is the game for you!
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76561199280725649
Not Recommended1 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
I've spent almost two hours making animal control: I've fought lizards, wolves, rats and bees. I was lured by the 'low magic' advertisement, but I was hoping it to be more real and less fantasy. I should've trusted the game's cover. It's not for me.
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