6.7/10

Ora o que dizer do jogo, ele pode tornarce repetitivo mas para tal nao acontecer tens muitas magias e combinações para fazer o que pode dar um novo ar ao jogo.
A movimentação é rotica, dos inimigos é boa e a historia parese mais um pano de fundo para tudo acontecer, os niveis do jogo sao meio lineares podes ir por outros corredores que vao dar a sitios onde tens minibosses.
Recomendo o jogo para os amantes de magos ja que este jogo é unico neste estilo e com tanta posibilidade e tanas magias, sem falar das combinações que da para realizar.

Usually when I write a review, I start with all the good points and transition to the bad stuff. It seems like a more fair way to present information and makes the reading experience a positive one. But we're not going to do that here, because the one thing you need to know about Lichdom above all else is that it is too damn long. I don't mean in terms of time, either, because one playthrough will last you about 20 hours. However, those 20 hours are stretched over just eight levels, and three of them are simply continuations of the previous levels. There's a lost city level, two ice levels, two desert levels, two swamp levels, and a proper city level. With each of those lasting 2-3 hours, you're going to be wandering through seemingly endless stretches of glacier and sand and muck.

It's not just that either, because the level design contributes heavily to the insane drag. This is mainly an arena shooter, where you wander until you hit a big open room and then get stuck there as you splatter waves of enemies. Outside of these brawls there are no puzzles, no doors, no interactables, almost no alternate paths, and very little reason to explore at all. There are some side fights and usually one or two secret dungeons that can get you valuable piles of spell components, but in terms of gameplay you're just getting harder versions of the fights you're doing normally. All this means that what you get in the first two hours is what you're going to get times ten, with arguably even less variety as you progress.

I'm beating you over the head with this because it's a huge, potentially game-breaking flaw in an otherwise tremendous title. If you can get past the monotony of the prodigious levels and battles you will be treated to a vibrant, action-packed magical brawler. There are no swords or bows, just spells that do exactly what you want because you craft them yourself. Over the course of the game you'll unlock eight sigils which determine the spell's base, including common elements like fire and ice but also more curious concepts like corruption and delirium. Each sigil has three spells attached to it, and you can have three sigils ready to cycle through at a time. There's a targeted spell that can be built as a homing missile, a bomb you lob, or a channeled beam. There's an AoE spell that can be an explosion, a pool, or a trap that must be triggered. And there's a nova that has conditions for triggering it depending on your shield, which itself is a craftable defense that determines how you can block and teleport.

And we haven't even gotten to the spell effects! Your attacks can be direct damage, a status effect, or a damage multiplier, which also varies in its function by sigil. Fire spells can knock down and burn over time, lightning spells can stun and chain across enemies, delirium spells can mind control and make enemies flee, and so on. Spells can critically hit for additional effects, or be charged before casting for a guaranteed crit. Charged spells can do a special crits charmingly named "apocalypticals" which give you a bonus effect based on the inflicting sigil. You can craft special synergy spells that use two sigils instead of one and have awesome room-clearing effects like collapsing black holes or summoning exploding zombies or conjuring a hurricane. All the parts to make spells drop as Diablo-style tiered loot with different stats and effects, meaning you can spend a huge amount of time just learning the crafting system and making immensely powerful spells.

You'll need them to get through the thousands of enemies standing in your way, too. Your foes are a motley bunch of cultists and demons with some very creative designs and fair variety of attacks. They tend to have a lot of health, too, but this can be overcome easily with proper spell design and coordination. And there's nothing quite as gratifying as catching a bunch of skeletons in a gravity well, freezing them, and then blowing them to hell as you dance around the battlefield. The scenery for the action is lush and detailed as well, which helps make the long slogs through levels at least look interesting. Some of the setpieces are actually pretty inspired, and one even made me gape when I realized what it was.

The story could help serve as a motivator, but the real stars here are the voice actors. You get to play as Troy Baker or Jennifer Hale, and whichever one you don't pick becomes your chatty NPC traveling buddy. They're constantly sniping at each other with witty jabs, cursing like sailors and proclaiming their greatness. Your mentor figure is Clancy Brown (swarthy Lex Luthor from the Superman cartoons!), and the villains and side characters all turn in quality performances that admittedly veer more towards traditional fantasy. I will say that the plot does something dumb in the swamp levels that cuts into the voice acting fun quite a bit, but by that point you're probably just trying to power through to the end.

I'm not going to lie, I love Lichdom: Battlemage. It can be a hard game to love, because there really is too much of it and I was starting to burn out on it halfway through. But the magic crafting and giant, chaotic battles kept me going, and I'm glad they did. If you can beat the game there's a cool New Game Plus mode with randomized challenge maps (that really should be unlocked from the start) so if you can power through there's a more fitting way to enjoy the combat. With a game like this though, you really just have to give it a chance. I don't normally talk about price but pick this one up on sale for like five bucks and give the first level a try. If you're cool with more of that for another 20 hours, then enjoy depopulating a faraway kingdom with fire and locusts and zombies and time rifts. Forever.



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This game is exactly what it says on the box. You are a mage. You have great power. You have no responsibility.

I have one huge gripe with this game and it's that nothing is explained, which makes the crafting system a ♥♥♥♥♥.

I had spells with 10 different variables listed on them. After playing through the game thrice I only understand HALF of them.

I'm not even kidding.

Luckily, you don't have to understand the chemistry of flammable materials in order to pull a trigger and the spells work just fine even if you don't know wtf you're even doing.

Just find a combo that gets the job done, and stick with it.

For example, after skimming tutorials on crafting I made a build that allowed me to debuff my enemies, freeze them in place, set them on fire, explode them into bloody chunks, STOP TIME FOR 5 SECONDS, and then kill all their friends.

This pleases me.

On my second playthrough I made a build which involved infecting my enemies with the eggs of stinging insects, waiting for the eggs to 'mature' and then killing the first enemy, which freed the insects to attack the second enemy, which then spawned more insects to attack the next enemy...and so on.

This self-perpetuating insect cascade scoured the board clear of anything that irked me.

And if anything survived I electrocuted it to death.

And don't get me started on the kamikaze ghoul you can summon who breathlessly chuckles at you while he searches for enemies to blow himself up against.

"Huehuehuehue. Huehuehuehueueueuueuueueue!" - Dat Ghoul

11/10

Eu recebei um jogo gratuito por evento limitado. Neste jogo é muito bom obra de arte e gráficos. Sistema de combate é muito pobre e mesmo coisa. Os monstros são movimentos mesmos. Geral 6/10

For a game that I had 0 hype for and wasn't even on my radar, it's shocking how let down I was by Lichdom. The concept really grabbed me. I love wizards and the idea of a game that could really let you cut loose and let you wreck havoc with its entire focus put on making you feel like a mighty wizard among mortals seemed like exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately, you'll quickly find that the game's definition of "badass wizard" is extremely narrow, and even worse, they really don't deliver.

The game brags having thousands of spells, and while that may be technically true, it rings hollow. Spells are crafted by combining elements that you unlock through the story and spell modifiers that drop as loot, so you have potentially infinite combinations on paper. The result however is that you have 3 spell types with a million permutations that only change a few decimal points are on the numbers that pop up. Elements are meaningless, just pick what particle effect you want on your projectiles. If you were expecting some real magic, like summoning dogs, lighting them on fire and throwing them at your enemies, you will be sorely disappointed.

The gameplay is where things really grind down though. The levels are just corridors a mile long with the only interaction being busting up the game's equivalent of decorative vases. The enemies are mindless and predictable, and so is fighting them. You walk into a clearing, combat music plays, a bunch of skeletons pop up out of the ground, walk backwards and throw ice/fire/lighting balls at them until dead. As said before you only have 3 real spells. A basic fireball in whatever flavor of particle effect have on, an AOE attack/bomb in whatever flavor particle effect you have on, and a block that does damage if you time it right. In whatever flavor particle effect you have on. The enemies have little variation either. Melee guy that runs up and slaps you, ranged guy that throws ♥♥♥♥ at you, and sometimes theres a ghost that floats around and freezes you. Expect to see groups of about 8 of them pop up every 15 feet, about 30 times a level. No puzzles, no talking and investigating, just walking from one fight to another. The game promises dungeons and quests made specifically for a wizard, unhindered by needing to allow warriors or barbarians through, and all I could think while playing it was how much more satisfying it would be bashing skeletons to pieces with a hammer than dealing with the game's slow clunky combat casting.

The gameplay honestly just feels like skyrim's magic. Hold down button to charge fireball/aoe, point at enemy. Except in Skyrim you could dual wield magic. And you could summon creatures. And you could cast enchantments on yourself. And you could summon magic weapons and slash and smash enemies if you wanted. And there were more than 3 kinds of spells. And And And. The list goes on. When a game focused soley and entirely on one thing can't even do that thing better than a game that really only includes that thing in an ancilliary manner, you've got a real problem. Skyrim is NOT the best game to experience being a wizard, yet Lichdom has chosen to emulate its combat system more closely than any other game I can think of, puts its entire focus on that one aspect, and frankly only improves on it by a degree of maybe like, what %5? If that? But guess what, skyrim isn't 40 bucks, and it's got an entire everything else going for it.

Lichdom has some things going for it, it looks good and It's got a good working loot system. It's not painful to play or anything, but it isn't great, and above all else, it's not what it promises to be. It doesn't make you feel like you're an almighty wizard any more than sweepng the driveway will make you feel like a bulldozer.

Tldr: lichdom falls short of everything promised. Weak magic, repetitive gameplay, tiny scope. If you want to feel like a real unstoppable wizard, play morrowind and craft fireballs the size of cities. If you want frantic action with an interesting spell casting system and cathartic blow stuff up fun, play magicka and trap your friends in bubbles full of landmines and zombies.

{ ~ The Good ~ }

+ The visuals are nice, but that doesn't really matter.

+ It's one of the best first-person magic combat systems I've played. The way you build and customize spells is cool.

{ ~ The Bad ~ }

- The story is not great (convoluted and boring)
- No interesting NPCs
- No interesting objectives
- No puzzles
- Nothing interesting to take part in
- Your useless sidekick sucks and does nothing

In over 40 hours I've done nothing but cast spells at hordes of the same mindless enemies and walk through long corridor levels. There's nothing to do. You're a Mary Sue who fights the evil guys in an extremely repetitive fashion. At times I was actually falling asleep while playing hoping the level would soon end. Eventually I came up with a game-breaking spell combination but was still falling asleep due to the long corridor levels devoid of content.

{ ~ IGN vs Big YouTube reviewers ~ }

This is one of the few times I thought IGN was spot-on. Here's a small portion of IGN's review of this game:

"...The trouble is that this badassery too often takes the same form. This is a game that all but begs for puzzles and related activities to break up the routine of fighting, but for the roughly 24 hours I played, it rarely deviated from the same dance of mowing down enemies who mindlessly rush you or fling death from afar...
...By the time you've reached the New Game mode, the magic of experimenting with spells against the onslaught of samey foes has largely fizzled out."

I figured the popular YouTube reviewers would have revealed this and sadly I was wrong. They spent too much time talking about options menus, graphics, and giving you a spell-making tutorial. This is one time that all the big YouTube game reviewers basically failed their fans. I'm getting tired of bogus reviews and things like the "Review Beta" system. It doesn't matter if the graphics are nice, or if the magic combat system is great. If the rest of the game is devoid of actual content, it's not worth the money that I payed.

{ ~ Steam's Terrible Refund Policy ~ }

The reason why I didn't return this game is because the return policy is ridiculous. You spend your first few hours in-game getting the hang of the spell system and hoping for cool stuff to happen. By the time your 2 hour return window is up, the game turns from fun to repetitive and you realize it's devoid of interesting content.

I admire this concept. I was excited by it when I first read the description of Lichdom somewhere on the Internet. World certainly lacked a game where you could really feel like a mage, casting endless spells and wreaking mayhem around yourself.

You even feel wrong while playing it, because until now, in any other game, this kind of gameplay has only been available through cheating. You are basically immortal (in case of "death" you actually just despawn and spawn back at the nearest checkpoint), you have an abyss of magical energy that never exhausts, and you can just keep throwing orbs of fire at your enemy until it dies. Overall, it's all you could only dream of if you ever chose to be a mage in an RPG. Do you remember how you had to sleep in order to restore your mana after killing every_single_enemy in Morrowind? Feels like nightmare now.

Lichdom makes use of the old principle of making magic that you could find in certain games in the past. You need to 'craft' spells by means of combining certain elements: the basic source (like fire), shaper (like projectile) and effect caused (like damage). Shapers and effects have several levels of strength and can be upgraded to improve them. The crafting system is tricky: a lot depends upon your ability to analyze the spell components, understand the way they work, and pick up those that would make the spell the most efficient. Thus, your work on the spells should be scrupulous and meticulous. Certain people fail to understand that, and it's rather funny to see them complaining that enemies are too strong, spells are too weak, and they can't just come through the whole game with one set of spells they created at the very beginning.

Speaking of which, you can have 3 sets of spells at hand, each set consisting of a single-target spell, a multiple-target spell and a protective spell. Personally I could use more creativity and variability in both crafting and management of spells: you can't combine two different kinds of shapers or effects, for example, or have two single-target spells in one set. Still, I think it's fine the way it is.

People criticize Lichdom for making promises about thousands of possible spells that come out to be not entirely true. There's a bit of marketing manipulation in that, indeed; it would have been more technically correct to speak of hundreds than of thousands. The arithmetics is as follows: 3 types of spells - 3 ways to attune them - 7 main types of shaping - 8 basic sources; that's 504 in total. Also, unique and extra-strong synergy spells can exist between the basic sources, adding another 49. The rest of spell variability resides upon random modifications that come up with certain shapers and effects: damage boosts, projectile speed increasers, critical hit chance multipliers etc.

I have also seen a number of reviewers who believed that basic sources ("sigils" by in-game terminology) are all the same and only change the color of projectiles you cast. That's basically a bitter mistake of people who saw the first three sigils and decided that they've seen them all. I feel pity for them, because they will never know that you can hang your opponents in the air and smash them into the ground, summon an army of creatures to assist you, slow the time down, control the minds of your enemies, create black holes that tear them apart, cast meteor showers or whirlwinds of fire and ice etc. Also, each sigil is suited for a certain purpose, so by means of careful and skilled attunement you can create incredibly powerful spells. What do you think of killing the main endgame boss with all his monstrous health in a couple of minutes?

CryEngine obviously is not designed for open-world games, so this game has a strong resemblance to a first-person shooter where you just follow a wide but still limited passageway. I would have preferred a greater freedom of exploration and probably some other things that might make Lichdom more Skyrimey as well; but maybe it's not that bad, because you have enough trouble dealing with all those shapers and augments to care about grabbing loot or running around with a map.

There's also been a lot of criticism for repetitive gameplay. As one person had said, "you just travel from one pack of enemies to another". The trick is that Lichdom is a shooter (as I've just said), and any shooter can be called repetitive. Games of that genre are played for the action and for the process of killing enemies standing in your way. Take Crysis 2 or 3, that are built upon the same engine, as an example. Can't you say that it's travelling from one bunch of CELL soldiers or cephalopods to another? Meh, you can even call Half-Life repetitive: "oh come on, kill some headcrabs - solve a puzzle, kill some zombies - solve a puzzle, repeat ad nauseam".

I won't be saying anything about graphics here, because again, it's CryEngine. You know what I mean.

You can choose whether you'll play with a male or a female, but there are no editing options for the character. That's not a big problem, because the game doesn't have a third-person view, so you won't really get a lot of chances to enjoy their exterior. I enjoy the female character's voice instead; it's quite nice, and it reminds me of Commander Shepard.

I've said about things I liked and things I'm fine with, now I'll say what troubles me.

The game is still slightly buggy. It's not critical, it won't crash, freeze, or make you lose your progress, but there might be minor issues like character starting to move automatically in one direction with no way to stop it except for exiting to game menu and loading the game again, or birds hanging in mid-air after they were supposed to fly away. It's a new release, though, and probably these things will be dealt with in future.

It also seems to me that spells and their effects are not that action-like. It's a common trouble in many games, and it partially exists in Lichdom too. What happens if a fireball impacts an enemy and explodes? Yes, your guess was right: the enemy continues to run at you without even losing a step. This is a fireball, after all; it should knock the enemy off its feet and bump it into the nearby wall. If you decide to use a lightning projectile, be ready that your character will cast a slowly flying orb of electricity instead of a flashing lightning bolt. I'd like to see a swifter and more explosive gameplay. Maybe it's a matter of personal taste, though.

So,
the primary positive feature of Lichdom is its concept to unshackle the mage,
and the primary negative feature of it is that I do not actually feel badass. I feel cool, but not badass.

In general, I like this game, and I support it. To me, its virtues outweigh its drawbacks. If you like the idea behind it as much as I do, if you ever dreamed of limitless magical power, then don't hesitate and get it - it won't disappoint you.

On my second playthrough of this game and I have to say it is unexpectedly beter than I thought it would be.

If I had to try to classify it, I would say it is a mix of the old school magic FPS games like Hexen and Herectic with some Diablo loot collecting and some crafting thrown in for good measure.

Requires a decent rig, but it is great fun once you understand the mechanics of the game.

With 8 spell schools to choose from(each with 3 spell types) and three spell attunements to apply to each of those spells, there is a huge variety in what you can do.

The game is also more tactical and less twitch than I initially thought it would be which is also a good thing IMO.

In short, give it a try. Freeze, burn, shock, phase, corrupt, force and necro to your heart's content! Oh and craft new spells too...

Too many of negative reviews are way too uninformative. And I can totally understand why some people might be put off from this game. The game does have it's issues. And the game definitely isn't for everyone.


First and foremost, the game is hard. And by hard I mean dark souls levels of hard. It does return you to the last "checkpoint" and resets your "multiplier" for loot whenever you die. It does not fully explain all you can do. You have to put some of time into learning the game.
If you're someone who doesn't like games like dark souls, this isn't for you. If you're someone who doesn't like complicated skill systems, this game isn't for you. If you want to feel like a god because you're overpowered, this game may be for you.
However to feel like a god you start from the humble beginnings. You're given the means to become a god and become more powerful the further you progress. This game feels very rewarding, but only, if you put effort into it.

What makes it feel great? You get basically any possibly imaginable means to deal with enemies. Be it swarms of undead, squads of assassins, or just a giant beast. If you can think of any magical way of killing it, you most probably can do it. This however is also the game's greatest flaw. You HAVE to learn how to create spells. And you HAVE to learn what you need to get what you want.

I haven't played long enough to say much more, however if you like games that don't hold your hand the entire time, are actually challenging and let you customize your arsenal, this game is for you.

Game was a ton more fun in beta. Then they went and changed a ton of minor (but very important mechanics in the game, like how often you get upgrades. Which was decent in beta, now with release its almost never). They also did a major overhall on the ability to dodge enemies (unlimited unless you limited yourself but got other boosts, now it is 3 dodges max, with a long long cooldown). I had 10 hours in the beta and loved the game, just played an hour of official release and I just cant bother. Their whole thing about making mages seem strong was completely destroyed with the official release, and like many games (as a mage) with every encounter I am spending atleast 2/3 of my time running away and less than 1/3 attacking. Which frankly makes me feel against like any old squishy mage, and you might as well just throw in a mana bar that regenerates over time because its comes out to the same thing, if you dont spend most of your time running way you just straight up die before you can cast enough spells to kill anything beyond the weakest of the weak enemies. I seriously cant believe how much they destroyed their main selling point when they went from beta to release.