Alder's Blood: Prologue

Cool game. + Easy completion

"Alder's Blood: Prologue" is is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Alder's Blood Definitive Edition". Alder's Blood Definitive Edition is a more e-book than game turn based tactical strategy (think Banner Saga ripoff with an Edwardian theme, yeah, me neither) that turned out to be an utterly dismal flop on Steam. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Alder's Blood Definitive Edition, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "Alder's Blood: Prologue" too. The purpose of this advertisement is to get you to shell out a whopping, eye watering $20 USD on buying Alder's Blood Definitive Edition, and I don't recommend you do that either. This game is fairly dated at 5 years old... and even back then it looked old and busted compared to contemporary, professionally made 3D games of the same period. It looked bad then, it looks worse now. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. As an advertisement, this is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. In terms of public reception, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts.

Слишком короткий пролог. Оружие дается просто так: вас затопчут враги. Просто будете по кустам прятаться. Ну и все. Все какое-то неудобное.

Демо игры очень понравилось, это смесь моих любимых игр Darkest Dungeon и X-Com, еще и в сеттинге Лавкрафта. Куплю полную игру, пройду и поточнее распишу плюсы и минусы. Демку однозначно рекомендую к ознакомлению. 10 плачущих охотников из 10

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Doesn't worth wasting time with, simply too many broken or flawed mechanics. Uninstalled.

Very short, not very interesting, but a little insight in how Alder's Blood plays if you hesitate on whether to buy it. Nothing more to say about it.

[h1]Before I played Alder's Blood: Prologue, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

Meh, I don't like it. Hide, stealth, downwind, limited movement capabilities. I got bored quick. Don't think Alder's Blood is a good fit for me. It's similar to a board game with the movement and actions you can take, stamina reduces for each of those actions then enemy attacks. Once detected there is no retreat. You also cannot fully see ahead - what you think is 1 monster could be 3-4. If this is your thing, it's something to try

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