Blightlands Blacksmith

If I could write a neutral review, I would do so. Blightlands Blacksmith, for me, has very good and very relaxed blacksmithing mechanics, EXCEPT for the assembly portion. Designing a weapon ( albeit with a limited amount of design choices) feels good, Hammering away a hot glowing ingot feels good, Sharpening sort of is OK but for the life of me I can't keep track of both tapping Space and A and D simultaneously. Mining is simply atrocious, pulling the cart is nauseating, and the combat is not at all there. You just craft yourself a high dmg weappon with enough eldritch damage and you're good. The mining portion becomes non-existent even, if you gather 10 of each ore and sell it to the quartermaster. The story follows an interesting premise, and I love that I am the manufacturer of weapons for the legion. I love that my work progresses to the "campaign" of the legion depending on what kind of weapon I sell to the banner officer. What I do not like about this, is that the scouting missions have an absurdly slow turnaround time and have rewards that are redundant. I wish that we have agency on what scouting mission to support. Overall, I'd say the crafting mechanics are close to what a relaxing but skill-based blacksmithing game must have, but the developer seems to have ceased the updates for the game. This doesn't feel like a finished product, and there so much things left for improvement and innovation. Is it a waste of time? Kind of. The crafting is relaxing, and a good way to past the time, but down the line it isn't very as gratifying as the first few hours. There is little to no reason to craft good weapons when the campaign is done, when the mines become obsolete, and when you've had scouting missions that give nothing new. Buy this game, but don't get your expectations up. It's fairly cheap, and I bet the dev just created this project just to try creating something. Overall I will not recommend a game that ceases to improve, but I don't completely discourage trying it if you're curious.

If you're looking for a relaxing Blacksmithing game then this is it. It has a natural flow to the core crafting loop, and is genuinely enjoyable. It has a surprising amount of objectives you can focus on, from map progression/exploration via selling weapons to the legion, Clearing points of interest by designing weapons to match the conditions and selling them to adventurers, fulfilling custom orders to customers specifications, or just crafting a weapon for yourself and exploring the mineshaft in camp. It also has the ability to apply enchantments to your weapons, and the metals used affect the quality of the weapon. This game has its quirks, but i feel like they just add charm to it. If you're looking to experience what its like to be a fantasy blacksmith crafting anything from mundane cheap weapons, to legendary weapons that would break any RPG they were added to, this is the game for you

As others have said the game is rough, but you can really see how much of a gem it will be with some polishing, I would like to see more options to spend gold on things other than materials to improve your forge or have the option to forge better tools, I do think lighting can be a bit iffy when it gets dark too, but for the core gameplay I think this is the best blacksmithing game out there, and for the price it's a steal, if anything after some polish I would say it's under priced given how active the dev is with patches and updates

i have been playing this little gem on and off for a bot now. The developer has been very active and has fixed every problem in a couple days(yes days, not weeks, not months!!) what i believe is the best part of the game is about halfway through you unlock many different gems and materials to smith with, making the combination of items crafted unreal, colors, textures, style all play in combination to make some truly unique items. then enchant them with elemental effects on top of that so as far as a relaxing crafting game with questing and light exploration(mines) its very good and easily worth many times the low price its selling for

I like the way i can relax and make something that progresses the game and my character can use as well. Making money is fairly easy but not like you can be a millionaire in minutes. Very chill atmosphere.

Great blacksmithing sim, scratched that itch that more robust rpgs or crafting games were never really able to. Only "missing" features are mostly QoL stuff which the dev seems to be rolling out all the time. If you're on the hunt for a good blacksmith sim then I highly recommend buying or at least wishlisting it and keeping an eye on it as it's only getting better from here.

I love where this is headed, keep it up devs!

solid fantasy blacksmithing game for a solid price