Ephesus

This game created an itch on the top of my mouth that only a shotgun could scratch. Ephesus is so bad, I decided to write a negative review for it, and I gave Battlefield 2042 a thumbs up on release, so that tells you everything about my standards. At first glance it might remind you of the game Forgotten City but don’t be fooled, calling it instead “Dollar store” Forgotten City would be an understatement. It’s bare bones concerning content and polish. Feels more like a demo than a game. This game is good in the first 5 minutes then it’s trash after that. It costs 5 bucks and its not even worth being on Steam. I would like to end my life after playing this. I have spiraled into moments of despair and pure depression. I will drink my self to sleep tonight and seek professional mental health services in the morning. Please stay away, don’t buy this trash. with love, Flavius Claudius Julianus

[spoiler] Busty npc var 10/10 [/spoiler] Hiçbir şeyi beğenmeyen malum tipitip, bunu da beğenmezse varlığını sorgulayıp, zırplayıp-patlayıp-kudurabilir. Zira bu oyun, tüm Türk indie tayfasının, senelerdir uğraşıp/başaramadığı her şeyi yapmış. Avrupa'ya kaptırdığımız, kırıntılarıyla avunduğumuz geçmişin içine dalıp, zaman yolculuğuna çıkıyoruz. Açıkçası, çok çabuk yayınlandığını düşünüyordum ama her gün patch yayınlayarak, optimizasyon ve bugları hallettiler. Bence, 'EEEY CD PROJEKT!' diyebilecek tek ekip :D Erken erişimde olduğu için, ana hikayeye tadımlık bir giriş yapmışlar. O yüzden, şimdilik yapacak pek bir şey olmasa da harita kocaman, haliyle lore da derin olacak gibi görünüyor. Şu haliyle ise ev yapıp, balığa çıktığım, yağmurda atımla koşuşturduğum, kupon yaptığım; tatlı bir hayatım var. Sesler geliştirilebilir ama modellemesi ve atmosferi harika. Pvp de getirecekler. Tamamlandığında çok yönlü bir oyun olacağı kesin. İzmir GameFest'e gelmişlerdi. Yazılımcılardan biriyle konuşmuştum. Yayıncı değilim ki dememe rağmen kod vermişti. Bu kadar yetenekli insanların, bir o kadar nazik olmaları çok hoşuma gitmişti :')

Açılın orta dünyanın ve roma kültürünün köpeği olarak söylemek istediklerim var. Roma dedin mi anında tüm içerikleri tüketen, roman empiren içinden 4 5 kere geçmiş, spartacusu hatim etmiş biri olarak oyunun atmosferine bayıldım. Evet abi ben oynarken efeste gezebiliyorum diyebiliyorum. He gelelim teknik olaylara, daha erken erişimde olduğu için oyunun optimizasyonu benim sistemimde bir kaç teknik sorun çıkardı. Ama low ayarlarda akıyor işte ya. 15tl ye alınabilecek vaktinizi antik kentte geçirebileceğiniz güzel bir oyun. et tu, brute? hee aynen çauv çauv.

Do not consider buying this abandonware. I bought this in Q2 2022 and there were two updates between then and December. The first completely broke my ability to play the game. Updates only ever come before a sale, and they never really fix anything. My assumption is that they are only there to try to trick people into playing this non-functional thing with a pretend update.

Picked this up on 1.0 launch day. It's really rough still. Possibly worthwhile for $10 if the theme and setting really grips you, but there is a lot to put up with. General performance issues - chugs more than I'd expect even on medium settings on a 3090. Also, the motion blur is wildly extreme. Recommend turning that off immediately. There is also some quite severe head bobbing when moving and performing actions, and no way to turn that off as far as I could find in settings. Lots of LOD issues with trees - meshes popping in and out of existence at seemingly random distances. Some trees look like their mesh is completely malformed with twisting trunks. The very first NPC I spoke too had dialog that just told me directly the game mechanics and still mentions the game being in early access. He also just directly references the game being a game. There is no tutorial to speak of, and the UI is clunky and sluggish. Building an open world game with quality game feel is a challenge, and I applaud a small team trying to tackle such an ambitious goal. However, it feels like there is a lot of work left to be done here -- this doesn't quite feel like what I would hope for from a 1.0 release.

At present, I cannot recommend this to anyone as it is. Early Access would normally mean that you've passed a pre-alpha stage, and could be consider either late alpha (pushing it), public beta stage (norm of early access). Here should've at least finished a private beta test suite of the the game play mechanism, and engine rendering. As it is now, it's quite hollow, it lacklustre of content, the entire game engine performance rendering is not well developed at all. Do understand that this is just an indie studio, but honestly, there should've been more thought put behind this. There should've at least been a kickstarter or something before just jumping and trying to get this publicly available, it should've come with a good set of road map for a proper public beta release. This could've even just been a prologue of the game just to give a scope of content (normally this is done freely and is meant just for feedback bases only, and you can keep iterations on the prologue as well to keep getting some feedback for breaking changes or so) I do hope that this comment will be taken for constructive feedback, and not seen as something that is a type of critical feedback to just damper on the work done already. It is hard to work on anything new and for that alone this is creditable, and do see that they have a good conceptual idea for a game.

This game is massively under-produced. I wanted to stop playing 20 mins. into it, but tried to give myself an hour to try it out. Unfortunately, the health bar did not give me enough time to do that and it froze upon reload, after my character died of starvation, shortly after running into a bear. At least I think it was a bear, because the graphics are underwhelming for what the Unreal engine can handle. However, the graphics are not as bad as some of the reviews make them out to be (That's actually one of the things that prompted me to buy this thing for 6 bucks - curiosity about the quality). The motion blur is plain annoying, the rain effects are not worth the drain on the hardware, the controls could be smother, and the whole thing feels awkward. Despite that, the creators did manage to build a beautiful city. It's obvious they put effort into the detail of the buildings, but otherwise the quality is something out of the early 2000s. They other reason I picked this up is that it set in the classical age/ancient Rome. There are not too many open-world games covering that topic. So, it is a market niche. Nonetheless, the game is questionably historic and does not make that up with entertainment value. I could forgive the super-bright cleanliness and potatoes in ancient Rome, if i wanted to keep playing. The "vast free world" is also questionable, on top of the large memory requirements. There isn't even a highlight or scroll-over feature to let you know what can interact with in that world. That made the first 15-20 mins. a guessing game. It was like playing King's Quest 1 all over again without needing to type (Yes, I'm old). Sure, it had potential and was one of those games I wanted to like. Unfortunately, I must to agree with the flak the other critics gave this game in Early Access. A word of advice to the producers - don't use your game intro as the brunt of your screen shots. It's false advertising. I know you worked hard on this thing, and I want to give you credit for the effort. I don't regret paying you to try this out, but you would have been better off giving out beta copies and working this for another year. Folks - Kingdoms was way more enjoyable and that was made as a solo project. Spend your money on that instead (if he ever finishes it), unless you're as curious as i was. Cheers. - TMC

Impossible de changer les touches dans les options ; les boutons "retour" des menus bugs ; impossible de jouer avec la manette ; graphismes dégueulasse (Warband et Fallout 3 sont plus beaux, c'est pour dire ! ) ; le décore est "figé" et aucun dynamisme à la vie environnante hormis quelques "mânes" (et chat) en mode automate ; chargement trop long ... bref, je conçoit que le jeu soiten early acces mais là, tout de même. Pour le moment c'est "de la merde" à 10€. Avis potentiellement voué à évoluer. Ah, et dernier point : C'est encore les Romains qui sont à l'honneur, dans une ville de la "Petite Grèce".

Ne büyük hayallerle aldım oyunu. Hem Türkçe dil desteği olması, hem de oyunun Türkiye'de bulunan bir antik kentte geçtiğini düşününce gelen heyecan hissi.. Optimizasyon çok kötü. Ne yazık ki iade ettim.

Very hard on system requirements for as low grade as it is. I have a fairly upper end gaming platform and it is almost unplayable. Has a long way to go to be a "good" game. Even for a $10 game,, was a mistake to buy.