Dwarven Realm

"Dwarven Realm" (not to be confused with Dwarven RealmS) is a ripoff of Dwarf Fortress that somehow manages to be shallower, and yet more convuluted in terms of UI. Really grabbing the fail and abandoning the win. The graphics look nice because they're probably all asset flipped. The controls are a dogs breakfast and you can't customise them. The game graphics look better than you might expect, but that's just because it looks like some or all of them are "borrowed" from asset stores or wherever. Gamers can tell... and it comes across as insincere. There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development properly, too. This is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 5 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.

I feel like this game had mostly downsides, The key controls are weird ZQSD to move, AE to rotate, There were no settings for keybinds, or sound. The game was spent mostly as an idle game rather than a city builder, and there's minimal things to do. Within the first 5 minutes it went from doing city building to just sitting around waiting endlessly for resources. If the game updates in the future I'd be down to give it another try but as it stands it was an overall boring experience

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The controls are awful and confusing, and there's not much indication as to what you're supposed to be doing...

controls are atrocious, and keybinds can't be changed, don't even bother playing this junk

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Игра 'Dwarven Realm' оказалась приятным сюрпризом. Поначалу немного отпугнула пиксельная графика, но быстро привыкаешь, ведь геймплей затягивает с головой. Строительство подземного города, добыча ресурсов, исследование пещер и противостояние монстрам – всё это реализовано на удивление хорошо. Особенно понравилась система крафта и развития дварфов. У каждого из них свои навыки и специализации, что добавляет глубины и вариативности. Боевая система, конечно, не безупречна, но достаточно функциональна для такого типа игры. Стратегическое планирование обороны базы, а также организация экспедиций вглубь шахт требуют внимательности и грамотного распределения ресурсов. Из минусов можно отметить некоторую однообразность окружения и повторяющиеся события. Хотелось бы больше уникальных локаций и более разнообразных противников. Но в целом, игра оставляет положительные впечатления и вполне стоит своих денег. Рекомендую всем любителям строительных стратегий и игр про дварфов. Твердая 8 из 10.