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The Old Kingdom is your run of the mill medieval-era setting, with the addition of high fantasy elements like magic and other races like Orcs, Elves etc. Misery is the norm for most, death all too common, and even darker times are ahead due to war and the resurgence of old magic previously sealed for centuries. Legends foretell the coming of a great hero that will turn the tide of events, thus saving the reign - that indeed would be you.

Overall, the setting well-represents the grim quotidianity of the common folk in such times, and the stark contrasts between the various social classes in a kingdom that is still recovering from previous conflicts, and whose elite is selfish, unscrupulous. Each city, fort, outpost and dungeon is handcrafted with solid attention to detail, always in a style that reflects the region it’s located in, or the social status of its inhabitants. While the graphics may not be much modern, RoM makes up for them with detailed worldbuilding.

There’s an above-average amount of lore and dialogues for an ARPG: other than quest-related ones, those interested may peruse a great amount of books and documents, other than asking NPCs about plenty of topics. All of this is written competently, with a few dialogues that I found particularly clever or amusing, as well. The main story itself is nothing special and feels somewhat rushed in later chapters, but for this genre is more than passable.

RoM’s world is divided into tiles each housing a city, dungeon, or plain wilderness. While pre-made locations are ‘protected’ thus immune to your tools and blocks, sandbox areas can be built upon and modified freely. Many areas and whole regions will initially be locked, becoming available only when you either progress the main story enough, or find ten map fragments of that specific region (very hard to come by) - quest-related locations will still be locked in a region unlocked this way, though.

Locally, levels lack a map and always house a number of secrets in the form of shiny containers often placed behind destructible barriers or in particularly obscure locations. These will prove vital to your progression as they often contain powerful gear and other rare items. Generally you’ll be able to freely loot any container, even inside houses, as ‘stealing’ isn’t accounted for - just don’t expect to find great stuff in non-combat areas.

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Fights play out in real time, in an ARPG fashion where stats given by passive abilities, equipped gear and stacked buffs will be pivotal to your success. For this purpose RoM has several ability trees to pick, ranging from four schools of magic to specializations in diverse melee weapon categories, each with their unique active and passive perks and freely multi-classable. Respec is available for a relatively high price, but if you screw up your build it will be there (if you find the right NPC, that is).

Enemies are varied and have a wide range of skills, damage types and attack patterns that will surprise you more than a few times. Sure, some are ‘reskins’ of weaker ones, but always have some additional quirk - it’s a shame ‘powerful enemies’ (mini-bosses) don’t further expand this variety. The combat system expands with passives such as dodge-rolls, magic barriers and more which further the tactical possibilities and flexibility - you won’t need to strategize much though, especially later when most builds inevitably become OP.

Some NPCs will give you quests of various nature from assassination, investigating an event, to taking to someone and so on. There’s no indication of quest-givers, so talking with everyone is the only way to be sure. Most quests are linear, and will have only one outcome, although a few have different choices that may or may not influence the story ahead (but never in a major way). The dialogue system is nothing elaborate and has no roleplay elements: while some NPCs will react differently based on your race, the options and responses will be the same.

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Sandbox areas will allow building a custom base that can eventually contain farms, animal pens, NPCs that trade for you and also act as Trainers, increasing your profession levels for a high fee. The various jobs level up either that way or by crafting things related to them, for instance Cooking is leveled by crafting food. While on paper this is a nice system, it’s ultimately a marginal feature for the simple fact you’ll find most of what you need by looting enemies, normal containers or trading with merchants, since you’ll soon accumulate vast amounts of money. The farming mechanics are basic, with plants growing without need for care and animals producing goods over time if fed.

At first glance, you probably think this game is some Terraria rip off, but you couldn't be further from the truth.
Terraria HEAVILY focuses on finding rare things, mining, crafting and fighting difficult bosses, this game, however, focuses on a greater world, towns, story, questing, rpg mechanics and skill trees.
As someone who likes similiar games like Terraria and Starbound, I can tell you my honest opinion on this game.

The good:
+ Quests
You don't get many "choices that matter" but you do get a lot of quests overall.
The quests will tell you vastly different stories, but shamefully many of them are repetitive where most quests usually make you go to an area and kill all the enemies, or gather certain items for an NPC.

+ World-building
Each biome and town is different, with greatly varying people & motives.
As for the different biomes, they're lacking interesting enemy/animal types and underground variety that would make them stand out more. Also, this game has no water (yet?), which is a disappointment

+ RPG mechanics
I want to compare it to Runescape, and I can tell the devs clearly took inspiration from it, but I wish they did it with more intent. As the game is right now, you only level profession/crafting skills, and your character's level.
As for the combat skills, when you get character levels, you will get a talent point to spend on any different skill tree of your choosing.
You can level your character through everything, be it quests, mining, crafting etc, and you can even get talent points by collecting certain materials. (Found from specific enemies or when finding secrets)
Practically everything will build towards your characters level, which sort of ruins it a little because it's extremely easy to over-level yourself just by mining and crafting, quckly turning the combat too easy.

+ Music
There's not a lot of it, but all of it is pretty good.
Sometimes it reminds me of "Fable" but that might be stretching it.

The bad:
- Effects
The particle/skill effects look very out of place and extremely simple,
I think it would fit more with the aesthetic of the game if they were pixel sprites.

- Combat
As I mentioned earlier, the combat is way too easy and simple, especially if you want to take your time and do everything before you progress to the next zones. Doing this will very easily over-level you and remove all difficulty.
So far, in my 28 hours of playing this game (at this time) I have not faced a single enemy, trap, boss or quest that got me killed, mostly that's because I've always been over-leveled, but also because most enemies and hazards just don't hurt you at all. I'm currently playing a Fire mage with 90% cloth armor on and even that protects me so well that I've NEVER used a single health potion. At worst, the enemies are so weak that I don't even need to avoid them, at best, they'll take 1/8th of my HP but they die in 2 seconds without me even having to be anywhere near them.
If you specialize in to a tanky warrior build and take heavy armor, some of the armor pieces will grant you massive health regeneration stats that can make you invincible even if you stood still in front of a flamethrower trap or a cyclops smashing you with all it's might. It's absurd.

- Leveling
Currently, you level up your character and gain talent points, and with talent points, you can learn anything without a teacher. Essentially, you could play as a warrior for the entire time, and then suddenly just spend all your talent points on a magic skill tree and instantly become a wizard with no build up or learning - many games do this, but in this case I would wish it to be more fitting to the old-school-RPG style like Elder Scrolls games or Runescape that this game takes inspiration from.

- Artstyle
It has decent attention to detail in many things but it doesn't stand out or look unique compared to other similiar graphics 2D mining/crafting games.
At the moment, I like the more darker visuals it has, but that's about it, as far as the actual art goes, I think Starbound has most games of this genre beat, even if it fails in many other fields.

Overall, I would rate this game 7/10 at it's current stage in development (This was written on 17th of February, 2021)
I'm being overly critical, but that's only because I like what it has so far and I wish to see it get better.
It is an early access game, so anything could happen.
I do recommend the game, but regardless I wouldn't recommend buying it just yet unless you REALLY want to play it before it's finished.
I've seen too many early access games just stop updating, which is incredibly disappointing and rude towards all fans and customers.
Let's hope this one delivers, eh?

TL;DR: Great game if you're a sucker for nostalgic RPGs + Sandbox games like Starbound, Terraria and the likes. Still a bit rough around the edges but has undeniable potential.

Main Pros:
- Really neat progression, with incentive for a balance between exploration, crafting, gathering and questing
- Good sense of freedom, you get to choose how slow or fast you want to progress in the map regardless of the main questline
- Gathering materials for crafting doesn't feel too grindy or too easy overall
- Great amount of content, especially for its price tag
- Diverse humor throughout the game, even with the dark tone of the main plot. Had some good laughs :)
- Excellent variety in terms of equipment, allowing for varied playstyles
- Interesting talent tree, you can customize your character itself to fit your playstyle as well

Main cons (are less important, but got into more details):
- Geography of proc-gen regions (basically every tile other than towns/dungeons/POIs) is VERY monotonous. Although the type of materials, plants and enemies change, different areas of the game play pretty much identically. More could be done to make exploring sandbox tiles of the map more exciting and refreshing once you get to a new region, even though the designed locations are quite good
- The lack of polish is clear, and the devs are aware+open about that, which is great. Some dialogues and journal entries don't quite match, bringing a bit of attrition in some quests - mainly breaking the veil of immersion
- Weapons have different effects and very practical differences, especially with talents... but FEEL quite similar due to the swing motions and lack of more tangible, visual differentiation.
- The character race system feels unfinished, outside of the creation part and stat differences it doesn't impact the kind of playstyles you could have or how NPCs react to you.
- The narrative and dialogues feel a bit childish/stereotypical. NPCs could have more depth and personal motivations

Bottom line is, this game is definitely worth its price and the time you put into it. None of those cons really get in the way of having fun while playing :)

It has some serious balance issues (god forbid you want to use summons), and it is the type of game that would massively benefit from both steam workshop mods AND multiplayer, as well as needing a few QOL tweaks, but over all this is a pretty fun game.

It's... fine.

As far as terraria inspired games go this is middle of the pack - it's playable, but unexceptional and boring.

When/if all the bugs are dealt with (and there are a lot of those), the game will still be meh:
The sandbox areas are just boring, same pattern repeated over and over with few different resources and a few different enemy types, most of them reskins.

Some concepts and mechanics are either abandoned or just redundant, ex - notes about hidden treasure are useless since 90% of the time you can just see where they are when just running around and the last 10% you just see different material wall and break it open. Growing anything is also completely redundant since just running trough sandbox areas and collecting everything will be way faster than growing them, and you never really need that much resources.

Combat is okay, but unexceptional too - there is basically no unique equipment and not much combat skills, and since skillpoints are few, you wont max out even a few skill trees, and even if you could there is not much of a reason to since there is little synergy between them.

Idk what more to tell here, the story is fine but predictable, and i was hard pressed to read it since the text is hard to read, and with grammatical mistakes.
If i didint have a backlog of podcasts to listen to i would not have lasted more than a few hours in this game.
Also, why does this have open wold survival craft tag? It's neither open world (instanced areas, and even the map you need to unlock area by area), nor is it survival, unless survival now just means having hunger/thirst system, and here it just debuffs you, you dont even die if it runs out...

Meh/10.

Giving this a thumbs up more because I like the foundation or the vision they had for the game. Hopefully their 2nd game is able to push all these core concepts further and refine them.

Ultimately, I fell for the Splattercat meme because he can make mediocre games come off a bit more appealing than they actually are. The game has awesome ambition and premise; I genuinely feel like this kind of terraria/starbound thing could be great in a more grandiose RPG-styled setting.

But at the end of the day, the combat is pretty meh and unrefined, half the skills are pretty nice but overall most of the skill trees feel a bit shallow and unfinished, weapon variety, enemy variety, fetch quests--just overall it feels like they ran out of time/money to spend on this and threw together what they could as a proof of concept. And it's a good concept, so I'm willing to buy the game and play through it to support them. It's fun enough for atleast a single playthrough IMO.

I'm not very far in yet (that's what she said), but up to this point I'm only able to mine one (1) (a singular) block at a time when digging, and it's legitimately giving me finger cramps. I hope that changes at some point with new mining utilities but if not, Jesus H. Christ on a rubber crutch.

ooo - ooo When I do a review, even when it's on the top like this one, most of the time when I update or make changes, sadly it was because I had to warn people away from a title for many a reasons. I'm glad to say, this is not why I am updating this review. I'm updating it, because there is a lot more information I feel is necessary for the people planning on buying this title to know. It's the type of information that I feel can make or break someones decision. So you don't have to read everything all over again, just look at the reply section because I can't fit the additional inforamtion here.

***** When Early Access games like this come out, the first thing that comes to mind is how buggy is it, and will it end up like edge of space, is it a Terraria or Spacebound clone, or even worth the $9.99 price tag. After tearing the game up, and looking at the raw data like I do with just about every game I review, the only thing I cant say is if it will become abandoned like many others in the past. What I can say, and basically no one else knows, except the writers itself, is after looking at the content, the $9.99 price their asking right now is a complete joke. Even if they raise the price, and trust me when this is complete, they most likely will, not even $29 would be enough. I can guarantee many are going to beat themselves over the head if/when this gets complete for nor buying into the game when it was only $9.99. Why is this? Read on.....
***** When I looked into Edge of Space to find out why information was never posted in the forums and tore its data files apart, I found 80% of the content missing. I did similar with Realms of Magic, and when I did, I realized, this game unlike the others, has 80% of the content already entered. What they gave us to play with, while they remove bugs is just maybe 5% of the game. The rest, is locked out. For me to list what I have seen, would ruin it for many, including the developement team who is working hard to get a fully working game out and most likely want to release portions of the game or decide what else to unlock, remove, or even add.
***** The developement team made it clear, this is a one player game, and their concentration, is to work the bugs out for now, and decide later if they want multi-player. This I will say. If there were no plans for multi-player, why is it the program asked for firewall access? Steam already has permission. The type of permission the game asked for is the type a game server needs. For all I know, its their own patching server, or possibly a test to see how the game works through the internet. I havent fully checked the connections, you will have to decide on that part.
***** For the $9.99 price tag, the game is worth that price for what it already contains, which are a lot of quests, some bugs, but still extremely more playable than EOS ever was. The company who made Realms Of Magic, didn't release anextremely buggy game. They did their work, did a lot of teasting, more so than I can say many other companies have. They for now are using a small map, but from the hidden and locked content I have seen, there is so much more to come. ***** The only thing that would disapoint me about this game, is if they never put it in the workshop. So much can be done to expand the game should they do this. Even without there being a workshop now, I was able to mod this game and have it do things for me no one else has access to. The game is very user firendly and edditing your characters stats prior to starting the game if you so choose to is so easy, it can be done just using wordpad as each stat and skill basically says what it is when viewing the files.
***** Lets talk about game play. If you have played Ultima Online, you would feel right at home with this game. Not only does this game have a very similar skill base, like mining, fighting, blacksmithy, it levels up each skill much faster than the long and boring way of UO. Even the stat set of HP, Stamina, Mana, is similar. Remember those days of dying and having to run back to your corpse to find the dragon or other monster sitting on your corpse making it extremely difficult to get your STUFF back? This happens in Realms of Magic as well! The only parts of this game so far that is missing is multi-player and GMs telling you "Sorry, I can not help thee...." Building better weapons or even better houses requires you to get skills like blacksmithy, carpentry, mining, and smelting up, and it's extremely fast too. You don't even have to get your skills to 100 to be able to craft the best. 60% covers just about everything in game and as I said above, you level up extremely fast.
***** Leveling is extremely simple. Everything you do in game basically has a skill hooked to it, and every time those skills go up, you get points that help your character to level up and gain yourself more HP, Stamina, Mana. You get to decide where it goes.
***** The music is fantastic. It brings you back to the days of how music in RPGs used to be, like FInal Fantasy and the early Ultimas (Not the online versions).
***** The tutorial wasnt some quickly pieced together piece of garbage that no one can understand. The Tutorial obviously was put together with a lot of time and care, and just about completely flawless. Just like youd expect of a MMorpg, except this is an RPG. You can choose when making your character to bypass the totorial, but why bother? The tutorial is not only extremely fun where even I have made multiple characters just to find special hidden rooms, but also get items you either cant get till much later in game, or cant get at all unless you play the turtorial. You start out in a cave and must work your way out, with a narrator spelling out what you must do and at the right time when you need that information, not 20 minutes early and expect you to remember it.
***** If this game were to be abandoned tomorrow, I can easily say it was worth the $9.99. Dont expect this game to be in the bargain bin any time soon like the others with 90% coupons and 50 cent price tags. The price obviously is going to go up, so do yourself a favor and get it now before you berate yourself later when its $29+!
***** The only bad review this game got so far is by someone who thought it was fun to jump into a saw blade to see what would happen and said autosave got him. I'll tell you now, most likely autosave did not get him. He more than likely clicked the (x) which as a safety feature had he looked says that will save the game before closing it, so if you dont want something to save, I highly suggest ctrl-alt-del and end task it. Thats what I did because hehe, I did the same exact thing =P
***** Lions and Tigers, and Bears, Oh mY! Oh wait, there is no Lions or Tigers, at least not yet. There are some nasty bears, so make sure you wear plenty of armour!!! Maybe I should have marked this one as a spoiler?
***** The game is so good, you can actually not realize how much time has gone by, unless you have a kitty like I do. My wifes cat has the habbit of getting between me and the keyboard when I been on the pc too long >_<
***** This is the type of game that people like myself years back had to wait months on a waiting list just to buy the game and right now you can get it without the wait!
***** Right now there is no storyline but there are a decent amount of quests plus the ability to build your home the way you want to with no limit to size and that includes height! Boy, if they put physics into the building laws, my place is definately going to fall!
***** The only similarities between Starbound and Terraria are the house building, but thats where it ends. Everything else, is quite different. This game was released December 6th of 2017 and for it to be an EA title that is this good, in a long time is quite shocking!
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Could be good, but needs WAY more polish.

The Good:
+Decent pixel art. Somewhat plain, but good details, like equipment changing your look.
+Ambitious amount of detail in races, skill tress, skills.
+Dialog trees, though they could use some tuning to make them a little less dry.
+Large amount to craft.
+"Static" levels are fun to explore, as there's hidden chests.

The Bad:
-Doesn't seem to run great on my hardware (AMD 5900x/RTX 3080) on medium setting, 1440 windowed.
-Not every container is lootable, but you won't know if it is or not until you get close and manually mouse over every single one. The "hidden" containers are the exception, as they have a orange/yellow particle effect until looted.
-Sprint doesn't work half of the time, with or without stamina, when platforming on 1-2 tile wide platforms. This makes platforming rather tedious quickly.
-Limited weapon choices—axe, sword, hammer, dagger and spear. Some spells and summons, but from what I tried they are kind of weak. No bows, and no short term plans to add them.
-Game claimed it was autosaving, but there are no saves to load. I lost all my progress due to this, since the game pauses every five minutes to do this I didn't bother saving on my own. Technically my bad, but what was the point of pausing gameplay every 5 minutes, including in the middle of fights?
-Crafting's a bit overwhelming as there are a TON of dedicated crafting stations.
-Dialog is overly verbose for what it is, and super cringey most of the time. Things are either mundane, or borderline incel. Kinda... weird. The conversation about the lady's dress was one of the earliest moments of "wtf" for me.
-Basic combat is kind of easy to the point of being boring. AI isn't particularly challenging and you can usually just hop out of the hole you're in and pelt stuff at range.
-Everything is some variation of a fetch/kill quest. I'm only in the second town and losing interest in crafting tin axes.
-Can't mitigate janky feel of controls by rebinding them. Apparently, adding this in the future isn't possible according to developer.
-No co-op.
-Lack of feedback when using potions. No noise/effect at all on the character, just the buff icon (thought the health potion will pop out small heal numbers).
-Lots of randomly generated loot with little variations in stats that are a bit annoying to sort through, as there's no quick visual way to check if it's better than what you have (green/red color coding on the stats of previewed items, for example)
-Game economy seems weird, with things like tin armor being better than the town guard's armor in stats, but costing less. Not sure if this is throughout the whole thing, but it was pretty noticeable starting out.

As I said—this could be good, and the fundamental idea is interesting (Terraria/DnD hybrid), but it just needs way more work before I can recommend it. I normally can't help myself from playing these sort of games, but it's just not clicking for me this time around. I hope they keep working at it—I plan to check it out again in the near future once some updates come through the pipeline.

Summary of review: If your like me and you have thousands of hours in skyrim, and you haven't even beaten the game yet cause you love creating character concepts. Welp, then you as me is going to be playing this game until we get a heart attack from energy drinks.


Review:
At first glance of this game, it seems a bit boring, 2d Texture, the combat looks pretty repetitive.
I bought it and thought what the hell, ill try.
And oh boy was i happy to have been wrong on my first glance of this game. The 2d Texture, not the best, but the combat, the story, and the feeling of freedom while playing this game, is insanely satisfying.

I fist got blown away when i saw the character creation screen. There was several races? Many races to choose from actually, and all of them having different bonuses and different play-styles. For example the dwarf is sturdy, takes less damage and gains more exp from mining, which means he will expertly excel in building him tanky and focusing on mining, smelting and blacksmithing. While the orc for example has a berserker ability, meaning that every time he attacks he gets bonuses to damage, health etc. so him you want to build full on murder hobo build close range. While the elves have big bonuses to magic and exp gain, meaning they are perfect for building an arch mage.

And of course, the gnome....... the devs created this little bugger to create a hard mode. They have negative everything, i mean everything, health, mana, stamina, even regen. the only thing they are good at, is farming.
Ive seen a few reviews mentioning this game is too easy, WELL HERES THE BLODY ANSWER!!!! they made the gnome, specifically for you people, the hardcore people! play a gnome and cry!

The perk system have a few different trees, 2 Close combat, 4 Magic and 1 generic combat.
What i've seen so far, you can combo these trees to make insane builds, like: play Dwarf + Generic combat health perks + Wild magic armor and enemy less damage perks. And you will become a walking thick plate tank. How can you do damage? take some summons from the wild magic tree. and all you need to do, is walk up to enemys, spawn some creatures and watch them trying to hit you in their futile attempts, while they are being torn limb from limb by plauge rats, boars and bunnies...... oh god the bunnies......

Story wise, pretty good, it got me to laugh a few times. you also in a lot of quest have multiple endings to them or can delve deeper into the quests lore.

The map is humongous, every tile on the world map is a place you can travel to, there you can mine, chop wood, create genocides, and all the fun that comes with. And when you return to these places, they remain the way you left them..... that was mind blowing for me, since the map is so huge, i truly didn't think they could have that.

Last words: Its a good game if you enjoy RPG's where you create your own character and future. If your a hardcore Terarria or Minecraft nerd, then you may not like this game super much. Cause this game also revolves around doing quests, and following a story line, you cant just run to the final boss, you actually have to go from town to town, learning about the World and gaining exp to level up.

Nice Terrarialike game with level progression and skill mastering