Recent reviews by OGCroflAZN

Before I say anything, my hours played (0.6 hr at writing this review) is totally wrong. I played offline so my friend could play in steam-share. I've spent 15 hrs to complete the prologue and about 25 hrs in Early Access 0.5.16 Open campaign. I've reached the edges of the playable map but I still have maybe 10 more hours of content to have done everything within the playable area.

I'm making this review because the recent review score of this game is lower than it should be, and some of the negative reviews are just invalid.

1) Dislikes because the writing was bad/boring...?!? The writing is fine. It's not below average, it's not average, it's good quality, what you'd expect it should be. This person even refunded. They should have just played the Prologue demo to see.

2) Dislikes because the setting has slavery and is grim and cruel? This person should have just played the Prologue demo to see.

3) Dislike because of the cost of supplies? The game is still fairly early in development and most others, including myself, find it not that difficult to play smart and make lots of money. What'd they expect? This is a game about a caravan, and trading. Of course costs of operation are going to factor in.

4) Dislike because of poor performance? Most others aren't experiencing that at all. They should have played the Prologue demo to see.

The Prologue was good, what's currently available from the Early-access build is good, and if they maintain this quality through the rest of the development [of which they are consistently making update every ~1-1.5 months] this game will end up just fine.

Play the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ demo. That's what the game is going to be like, with the entire rest of the map with all of its locations, factions, npcs, and quests.

What can I say that hasn't been said already, by many of the other negative reviews? ( http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/id/Areanynamesnottaken/recommended/262060/ )

If you go by the "$1 per hour of entertainment", then I suppose the game is worth it.

But after playing for 20 hours, getting some of my dungeon delvers to resolve level 5, I'd say that I've experienced most of the game.

I'm honestly disappointed with seemingly how little the game has changed after reaching massive success after entering early access a year ago.

This game is a meat grinder, and really, a grind fest for resources. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, except the combat get's stale quite fast, after you have remembered the types of enemies you fight. In almost all of the battles, you are fighting far inferior enemies and are never outnumbered. There are a handful of bosses which change somewhat when you fight them in higher difficulty dungeons.

In the more difficult dungeons, you have to carry more into the dungeon, which means you have less space for loot, making looting take longer later on, and at this point the game gets tedious. You have to go in, one party at a team per week, just wasting your time.

I really don't want to write more. I'd rather be playing some vidya. Other people have written more in other reviews.