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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 10.8 hrs on record (9.6 hrs at review time)
Posted: Feb 24, 2016 @ 6:26am
Updated: Feb 24, 2016 @ 6:30am

Early Access Review
Suprising lack of content....

I bought into this game because of all the newer reviews saying that the game has been really coming along. I've had my eye on the game for some time, and finally took the plunge, and WOW was I suprised - for two reasons.

The game is even BETTER than I had imagined. It is such a great blend of RPG and City Builder.... but goodness is there a lack of content and so many features missing. Seemingly simple things like research options that are in the game, but not functioning.

For example, you can uprade your fishing huts to provide +1 fish per catch with 2 of the first tier of research options. But then at the second tier, the +1 fish research option is there, but says (not implemented). Why? How? lol, if the first tier is implemented, it's not like it's a new mechanic to have the code in there for +1 to each catch. There are a ton of features like this that are not there "just because."

None of the magical items tell you what they do, so that whole really cool feature is actually not there, which seems so easy to implement. Those are just a couple examples of features that are there, but not functioning (and actually say right in the game "not functioning" or "not implemented" or "broken").

In all honesty, this is one of the most promising games I've ever played. but for such a suprisingly great game, what happened here guys? I put no to recommending this game, not because it's not a good game, it's amazing, but it's worthless to buy, because for $30, you can get maybe 10 hours out of it before you're completely bored. And there is better value out there, especially with the sales.
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Developer response:
GF  [developer] Posted: Mar 11, 2016 @ 9:39am
Hi Johnny Edge,

Alpha 26 went live today (Friday 11th March) and I'd like to personally extend an invite to revisit Folk Tale to see what you think. Hopefully we can get closer to turning this into a thumbs up review. If we're not quite there, please let me know as I read all feedback. Have a great weekend.

Best wishes,

Simon
Project Lead, Folk Tale
3 Comments
w00t Mar 13, 2016 @ 4:41am 
@Romuless the day you make something of value to other people, let us know, and we'll thoroughly check your PR efforts ;) I think it's great they took the time to write bad reviewers, it might almost be a minimum, but they did. I work at a marketing firm, and one of the best parts of working with great projects, is that the inventors and innovators are nerds in their fields. They don't try to make great PR, because that is not their strongsuit, it shouldn't be. Cheer up mate, check the stuff out.
Romuless Mar 12, 2016 @ 3:32pm 
Lol you copy and paste this reply in the forum and that's you proactively trying to engage the people reviewing the game to change their minds? You didn't Address anything they said besides mentioning the patch. Maybe spend another 15-20 seconds of time using your brain to Think about what the criticism was, and if this patch addresses it, maybe say so instead of saying "Hey guys check out this Patch!".... Check out what about the patch? What made the game from nearly devoid of content previously to now entirely worth supporting ?
Pandaclysm Mar 12, 2016 @ 3:24pm 
A canned reply? :spycon: