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Not Recommended

0.0 hrs last two weeks / 124.1 hrs on record (22.9 hrs at review time)

Posted: Jan 16, 2018 @ 4:59pm
Updated: Mar 14, 2023 @ 9:10pm

First promise for christmas 2017:

New Content
- Conquer buildings
- troop management
- foreign wars
- MULTPLAYER
- 2 new maps

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/311260/ss_2b0cecf4f77c10550a7fef610e73a2c9d672f22e.1920x1080.jpg?t=1506431447

Second promise for christmas 2017:

New Content
- Conquer buildings
- troop management
- foreign wars
- MULTPLAYER

- 2 new maps
- working politics
- office meetings
- trials
- final AI

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/776246368098206996/D7E03DC688D3EE4AC79613198D39B491103F0C69/

What we actually got for christmas 2017:

New Content
- Conquer buildings
- troop management
- foreign wars
- MULTPLAYER

- 2 new maps
- working politics
- office meeting
- trials
- final AI

- Added a "trash can" icon in the production menu

http://steamcommunity.com/app/311260/discussions/1/1621724915775279408/

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UPDATE 1 Feb 2018:
They kept lying about their release date when it was blatantly obvious they were not going to make it in time.
"Our goal is still Q2 2018."

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/925923491965128712/77BD3756A83006809EC8E6F4E8C0D1F524BDC5B7/
and
http://steamcommunity.com/app/311260/discussions/0/1693785035830917746/#c1700541698683474498
Q2 ends at June 30.
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UPDATE 26 Aug 2018:
After missing the release date "goal" by at least several months the old development team GolemLabs was "removed". The new and more competent dev team Purple Lamp was hired.
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UPDATE 26 Feb 2020:
Just tested this again. The ai is broken, stat system is broken, market balance is broken, class balance is broken, economy is broken, politics is broken, court system is broken, guild system is broken, multiplayer is broken, no building interiors, time passes too quickly and the map and zoom levels are too big for any kind of immersion.

On top of that, the bugtracker you are supposed to use to report these, does not allow you to view existing tickets, your own tickets, communicate to devs for re-testing, feedback and validation of fixes, basically removing your ability to open tickets and track their progress in an efficient manner.
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UPDATE 28 Jun 2022:
So the game has finally been released. A complete product.

What's still missing from the original road map:
- Modding
- troop management (?)
- societies (?)
- soup kitchens (?)
- working MULTPLAYER, it seems. works for like half of the players atm
- office meetings (at least the mandatory ones)
- final AI (the AI pretty much unnoticeable in this game)
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How's the rest of the final game?
- The ai is unnoticeable
- stats system is useless (just put all points in charisma)
- market balance is broken
- economy is broken and boring
- class balance is broken (herbalist/fisherman/orchardist make 100k per round after round 10)
- politics kinda work and are boring
- court system is useless
- guild system is a waste of time
- multiplayer is broken only half of the time and there is no LAN functionality(!)
- no building interiors
- time passes too quickly and the map and zoom levels are too big for any kind of immersion.
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UPDATE 29. Oct. 2022

The G3 moderation now applies a full on censor mode claiming the things and screenshots that are documented in this very review are 'knowingly spreading misinformation'.
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1869583325948417878/B530150249A8FEC8100129F792F335170781CF92/

Avoid at all cost.

Feel free to comment.

[b]First promise for christmas 2017:[/b]

New Content
- Conquer buildings
- troop management
- foreign wars 
- [b]MULTPLAYER[/b] 
- 2 new maps

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/311260/ss_2b0cecf4f77c10550a7fef610e73a2c9d672f22e.1920x1080.jpg?t=1506431447

[b]Second promise for christmas 2017:[/b]

New Content
- [strike]Conquer buildings[/strike]
- [strike]troop management[/strike]
- [strike]foreign wars[/strike]
- [strike][b]MULTPLAYER[/b][/strike]

- 2 new maps
- working politics
- office meetings
- trials
- final AI

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/776246368098206996/D7E03DC688D3EE4AC79613198D39B491103F0C69/

[b]What we actually got for christmas 2017:[/b]

New Content 
- [strike]Conquer buildings[/strike]
- [strike]troop management[/strike]
- [strike]foreign wars[/strike]
- [strike][b]MULTPLAYER[/b][/strike]

- [strike]2 new maps[/strike]
- [strike]working politics[/strike]
- [strike]office meeting[/strike]
- [strike]trials[/strike]
- [strike]final AI[/strike]

- Added a "trash can" icon in the production menu

http://steamcommunity.com/app/311260/discussions/1/1621724915775279408/

-------------------------------------
-------------------------------------
-------------------------------------

[b]UPDATE 1 Feb 2018:[/b]
They kept lying about their release date when it was blatantly obvious they were not going to make it in time.
"Our goal is still Q2 2018."

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/925923491965128712/77BD3756A83006809EC8E6F4E8C0D1F524BDC5B7/
and
http://steamcommunity.com/app/311260/discussions/0/1693785035830917746/#c1700541698683474498
Q2 ends at June 30.
-------------------------------------

[b]UPDATE 26 Aug 2018:[/b]
After missing the release date "goal" by at least several months the old development team GolemLabs was "removed". The new and more competent dev team Purple Lamp was hired.
-------------------------------------

[b]UPDATE 26 Feb 2020:[/b]
Just tested this again. The ai is broken, stat system is broken, market balance is broken, class balance is broken, economy is broken, politics is broken, court system is broken, guild system is broken, multiplayer is broken, no building interiors, time passes too quickly and the map and zoom levels are too big for any kind of immersion.

[b]On top of that, the bugtracker you are supposed to use to report these, does not allow you to view existing tickets, your own tickets, communicate to devs for re-testing, feedback and validation of fixes, basically removing your ability to open tickets and track their progress in an efficient manner.[/b]
-------------------------------------

[b]UPDATE 28 Jun 2022:[/b]
So the game has finally been released. A complete product.

What's still missing from the original road map:
- [b]Modding[/b]
- troop management (?)
- societies (?)
- soup kitchens (?)
- [b]working[/b] MULTPLAYER, it seems. works for like half of the players atm
- office meetings (at least the mandatory ones)
- final AI (the AI pretty much unnoticeable in this game)
-------------------------------------

[b]How's the rest of the final game?[/b]
- The ai is unnoticeable
- stats system is useless (just put all points in charisma)
- market balance is broken
- economy is broken and boring
- class balance is broken (herbalist/fisherman/orchardist make 100k per round after round 10)
- politics kinda work and are boring
- court system is useless
- guild system is a waste of time
- multiplayer is broken only half of the time and there is no LAN functionality(!)
- no building interiors
- time passes too quickly and the map and zoom levels are too big for any kind of immersion.
-------------------------------------

[b]UPDATE 29. Oct. 2022[/b]

The G3 moderation now applies a full on censor mode claiming the things and screenshots that are documented in this very review are 'knowingly spreading misinformation'.
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1869583325948417878/B530150249A8FEC8100129F792F335170781CF92/

[b]Avoid at all cost.[/b]

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VoicedGamer

Nov 20, 2024 @ 10:22pm

W review, ill keep playing tg2r

Mr. Bear

Jun 27, 2022 @ 2:04am

TG3 IS THE BEST GAME I'VE EVER PLAYED SINCE TG3.

Mr. Bear

Apr 28, 2020 @ 3:23pm

This series is so cursed.

robi19420910

Apr 6, 2019 @ 10:13am

who made this game it is so full of bugs i can not play

shogunsmurf

Feb 28, 2019 @ 7:49am

Still ♥♥♥♥ and unresponsive devs in 2019 ? or is there hope ?

AaronUK

Oct 20, 2018 @ 6:54pm

just a good single player experience would be lovely

AaronUK

Oct 20, 2018 @ 6:54pm

we dont wanr multiplayer ruins the game thanks

MMOJunkie

Aug 28, 2018 @ 8:10pm

there's a really old saying,originally in latin, it goes something like this.... " Buyer Beware"

Mar 23, 2018 @ 3:24pm

This was the one game I was eagerly waiting for years. It is a crying shame the devs released it like this, in a barebones mutilated form. At this pace it will be another cash-grab which won't even be able to come out of the Early Access properly.

It doesn't help that their communication is essentially non-existent. Bad for their own PR. And Early Access is not free beta-testing scam grounds, publishers need to understand this.

Guild 2 was lame at release but got better (it took years though), and it still lacked a few features and details from Guild 1. I hope they don't repeat this obnoxious cycle.

ROFLpl0x

Feb 20, 2018 @ 2:35pm

First of all, Talavar, you assume THQ is stupid enough to be swayed by a handful of fans. "Everyone" didn't ask for them to do ♥♥♥♥, only a comparatively few people posting on their forum did. They released it, though, knowing it was a broken mess that barely qualified as a pre-alpha.

Second, most people aren't pissed because they asked for an Early Access game and got one. They're pissed because they were lied to about the actual state of the game vs. what THQ claims on the store page, and this after so many years of development and delays, and because nobody seems to know what they're even doing, as evidenced by this person's review.

But yeah, they lied to everybody and told them it was fully playable and only needs the final touches, and then released a piece of broken early alpha trash that won't even run for 10 minutes before it crashes!

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