This game as bad as people say?

[Landrick93]

The game seems to not be well rated on Steam, so I'm unsure of it's quality.

There's also some talk that the Devs pulled an Anthem (2019) on the game and killed it, which would make me really not want to play the game.

[Agonistes]

The problem is that it does nothing special. There are way better ARPGs that do what Wolcen is trying to do so much better.

Path of Exile, Diablo 2/3, Grim Dawn, etc..

[Sean]

Graphics and the combat I thought were 8/10. It's just the endgame that feels very lackluster. I think it's worth playing just for the campaign, lots of fun to be had trying out a few builds.

[The Undead Watcher]

Pretty much what Agonistes said, the game does nothing special, except maybe for the turnable Skill tree parts but you don't sell an ARPG solely on that.

But then again, you already have it so why not try it.
Otherwise the closest game to Wolcen would be Diablo 3, but to add another recommendation Lost Ark has some 10/10 snappy combat (if you can get past the weeb aesthetic) or there is also Last Epoch (not weeb aesthetic).

[Lockhart]

It's worse. The only thing the game has going on for it are the graphics, and graphics don't magically turn a bad game into a good one.

The store page claims:

Regular updates and seasonal events
We’re committed to make Wolcen a long-term game with regular updates and additions, including features, Acts, gameplay content, Quality of Life, PvP, Housing, and seasonal events.

There are no more acts, no pvp, no housing, no seasonal events, only minor QoL updates. They released one Chronicle over a year ago and that was it. Most of the updates the game has received have been to fix some bugs while introducing new ones and some balancing patches.

Their official Discord is barely kept alive by like 10 fanboys who think this is the best game of all time.

[TorinuxCthulhu]

If you have a powerful PC, you won't find another aRPG that looks as gorgeous as this one. But sadly, this is all this game is, a gorgeous looking game, with a decent combat system but a horrendous endgame system. Don't get me wrong, you can get the money you spend in this game back as entertainment hours for sure. But don't expect to be playing it for years to come.

[Seltin]

im enjoying the game quite a lot just got it recently, but im noty at the end game so i cant sapeak to that. I defnitely think its better then D3.

I played last epoch a lot rectrnyly too, its also good, but its still in EA and unifinished, no MP gameplay yet. And the build styles seem repetitive, but the loot/gearing is different. Hit or Miss iMO.

Grim Dawn is good too, though starting to show its age.

[Peredur]

Originally posted by Seltin:

I played last epoch a lot rectrnyly too, its also good, but its still in EA and unifinished

If they consider playing Wolcen, I don't think Last Epoch being unfinished is a big issue for them.

[LordOfTheBread]

This game is pretty trash, 50% positive reviews does not spawn from the void(and that's recent ones).

Add to that the fact that it is poorly maintained and still unfinished all tiem after release and theres no wonder why a grand total of 200 people play this at peak hours.

Lookinfg for an ARPG? Grim Dawn and Path of Exile are leagues better, so much so that theres no competition. I would even recommend Diablo 2 Resurrected over this.

[Ring]

The Game is cool. But there will be a lack of motivation beyond lv 60 in my opinon. Its a boring and a not very statisfyieing end game+ loot, further more the Crafting sucks hard. Absolutely to complicated....big issue for me.

[LordOfTheBread]

I mean 2 and a half years later and still not act 4 or 5, the story is not even complete yet.

It is not worth the price asked, especially with way better games on sale right now.

[Lockhart]

Originally posted by LordOfTheBread:

I mean 2 and a half years later and still not act 4 or 5, the story is not even complete yet.

It is not worth the price asked, especially with way better games on sale right now.

At this point, even releasing the rest of the Acts isn't going to matter because they'll provide only a few hours of new content and then you'll be back to Champion of Chorefall.

[LordOfTheBread]

Originally posted by Lockhart:

Originally posted by LordOfTheBread:

I mean 2 and a half years later and still not act 4 or 5, the story is not even complete yet.

It is not worth the price asked, especially with way better games on sale right now.

At this point, even releasing the rest of the Acts isn't going to matter because they'll provide only a few hours of new content and then you'll be back to Champion of Chorefall.

Inb my opinion the momet they released a totally different game than they had in early access (and was backed by a kickstarter) this was already it. Talk about bait and switch.

But in the full 2 years after release they did nothing in my opinion to redeem themselves. Teh game is still pretty much in shambles and an unfinished mess and theres nothing in the horizon that will really make people want to go back.

In the meantime Grim Dawn still receives free content and patches 6 years down the line. It reallyt comes down on who you want to back-up, my choice is made, this game has been permanently removed from my library and my only interest is to come here once in a while and laugh at the remaining 2 - 3 fanbois.

[Tower Dove]

The first issue is that the edit/developper is not the team that developped the game. There are massives signs that they don't know what they are doing.
- things that got fixed early after release were gamebreaking bugs(dupes, legendary conversion etc) but there was lots of others gamebreaking issues, that were less difficult to fix and stayed like that for monthes. To me it is a solid proof that it was a subsidary company on nda who did the work and were contractually obligated to fix certain bugs
- expansions contents I tryed got released with massive bugs that took ages to get fixes, like the yellow box in the season start ^^'
- game was redowloading itself for minor patches > there was no patch. It is something EXTREMLY easy to do in modern days. Wolcen team took more than a year to figure it out
- a dev blog post joyfully announcing that one of their new guy setup bug testing, and benchmarking internally. It is a 5+ years project.

tl;dr; kickstarter money gone horribly wrong, those kickstarters guys financed lot of coke prostitutes meetings in my humble opinion. Anybody with this kind of budget and timeframe can scaffold what the Wolcen team did, and probably do even botter. They should have stayed on the idle flash game market.

[Lancenig]

Yes...
Yes it is

[Havoc]

Originally posted by LordOfTheBread:

I mean 2 and a half years later and still not act 4 or 5, the story is not even complete yet.

It is not worth the price asked, especially with way better games on sale right now.

Wait what? I stopped playing but still have this installed waiting for the latest update to drop, hopefully fixing the immersion-breaking bugs, but I thought the game was atleast finished story-wise.

This is surprising, and if I could find a way to refund what I shelled out for this game, I sure would.