My gripes with the game.

[Brother PaciFist]

Here i played around with Niffelheim a little and came up with this observations. This is not written to hate on the game but to give a little feedback. I apologize if this sounds rude or too harsh. I am not an english native speaker.

The bosses seem to be scaling to your level or some other stat. I am day 76 my character a valkyrie gets three hitted by spider bosses or 3 hitted by bears. The valkyrie is wearing mythical armor or golden dragon. The best i can possible afford or build loot. The character has 500 hp and gets 3 hitted by spider bosses that attack impossible fast. I tried spider brew but it does not help at all. The bosses get too strong too fast. Bosses that can three hit you in a dps race with high end armor is not balanced right at all. My castle is completely build up, all workstations researched i can hunt the highest tier animals without problems. The only problem i have is the diffculty scaling inside the dungeons. Those bosses are now just impossible to win against. When i tried dungeons before, eg. the main dungeon, it was easier. Now at day 76 everything two shots me.

The level scaling of bosses makes the game unfun and not even worth playing. There are no tactics you can use against bosses like avoiding attacks you can just hammer it until it dies and try to block to migitate some damage. But the enemies have NO warm up time or warning signals before attacks so it is really hard to get a block right.

Exploration is a joke. All dungeons look the same. The bosses get too strong too fast. The combat is simple and boring and the castle defense minigame is time consuming and boring. The loot is mostly boring and useless. Beside high level armor that is very rare.

The ultimates from the witch and the death priests are pointless. If you dont do them you get a demon skeleton attack your castle that is easily killed. If you ignore the witch, you get a debuff. The debuff actually hurts your ability to kill bosses later severely. 20% less damage is hard if you have to kill someone in 5 swings before he kills you :). After the third ultimate i am asked to get them 20 high level priest offers or 20 light tokens. For a light token i need an amber. i have never seen such an item. So it is impossible to get the later ultimates right. The priests and the witch have no appearance in my game. So they make little sense to me. Why are they even asking ridiculous items from you? Should you get something usefull in exchange if you do their biddings? Real quests to do would be cool.

The 4 2d overworld levels you can explore are just too little content for a fullgrown pc game. It was fun to play around in the beginning and a little bit addicting too. But now that i encountered the ever stronger growing bosses i lost every interest i had in the game. If you place challenges in the game you should have the tools to overcome them.

Or perhaps the goal of the game is to build up your castle fast and rush the bosses as fast as you can. That is boring too. Such a race to power to end the game does not feel right for me. I like to take my time to prepare and explore.

The survival gameplay is somehwat interesting but not really that deep. Could use a little more work. I like the aspects of the different potions to help against different enemies. But not that the enemies get so overpowered over time that you can not defeat them.

As tip for the developers, if you want to make your game more interesting and fun: Take a look at games like terraria or metrovania games for interesting boss fight mechanics. To just left click on enemies in fights is not fun.

Another point are the classes. I tried the classes and it seems to me beside the hunger meter all classes play exactly the same. The passive boni you get with some classes is pointless very fast. The defense plus of the valkyrie or the better dps of the berserker. You can not really feel an impact. And it is a little disapointing that the shaman has no special skills at his disposal. Like rituals or magic spells. Or i did not find them.

What i like about the game: The music, the setting, the atmossphere are excellent.

Thanks for reading have fun.

[Andrew]

thank you for feedback. we are working on new balance. I hope it will be more interersting!

[Brother PaciFist]

Originally posted by Andrew:

thank you for feedback. we are working on new balance. I hope it will be more interersting!

Thank you for your answer, good day to you and i hope the game is a success.