Recent reviews by Decstarr

If you haven't heard of this game, yet and have never played it, I recommend you rather get into crystal meth or heroin. They might be less fun but also very likely less addictive.

I stumbled across this game on accident and gave it a try. Here I am, 105 hours later, utterly in love with it. Now, I am not a huge fan of city builders and the only rogue lite I have ever played is Hades (which I love) so this game doesn't really tick my boxes. Yet, it does. The idea that every settlement is different and that sometimes RNG completely screws you over is strangely enticing. The growing complexity of this game just never ceases to amaze and even after 100 hours, I am still learning new things and constantly adapting my playstyle.

The cherry on top of this amazing game is the dev team which not only reacts quickly but also listens to the community and provides great updates and fixes for free. This game is an asbolute gem and needs more exposure!!

Running with 0 issues @ 4k on my system (RT is OFF, though), average 55 FPS is decent. Only encountered 2 "game breaking" bugs so far, both were easily fixed with a Re-Load.

Immersion is amazing, the end of ACTI blew my mind. Haven't played beyond that point yet, but it is an amazing experience so far.

I played all Heroes' since part 3 and so far, this is the best one to me (I have exclusively played the Campaign so far!).

The game is still almost as buggy as during the last Beta. Most of the bugs I encountered were of the game breaking nature and forced me to restart the respective mission. But I never had problems loading into the game and it didn't crash on me even once. Therefore, I am not overly affected by the bugs since having to restart a mission might be a big annoying but at the same time it is nothing horrible and allows you to optimize your farming pattern and readjust skillbuilds of the heroes.

Publishing a game with so many problems shouldn't be done and can be considered an insult to the customers. Yet, I am still recommending the game because the campaign is beautifully crafted, the mission design is pretty awesome and you instantly get sucked in by the typical Heroes of Might and Magic charme that makes it so hard to stop playing.

If you liked the other Heroes of Might and Magic games and if you do not care too much about missing animations during what "could" be called cut-scenes if there were animations, you will enjoy this. If all you want to do is ride around, collect stuff, build huge armies and strong heroes, then you WILL enjoy this game. The pace during the campaign is quite high, which is why this game clearly is NOT RECOMMENDABLE for beginners. There is no tutorial whatsoever, no introduction to mechanics, if you never played a game of this genre, you might be overwhelmed and pretty helpless. As a HOMM veteran, I think that is awesome, since you are just thrown right into the big epic fights!

One downside that has to be mentioned is the quite horrible AI. The fights are far from "hard" and even playing on heroic, you can easily defeat "deadly" enemies if you know how to play. The AI moves around confusedly, suicide attacks sometimes (without doing too much damage) and generally just isn't a real challenge. But then again, since HOMM3: AB no Heroes was really challenging and I still liked them, simply because the story is interesting.