Ironsmith Medieval Simulator: Prologue

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So far from what I've played, and this is not accounting for the graphics: What irks me the most starting out is how the game treats iron, as though it is brass or bronze. Cast iron as that is the material you are making your weapons out of in this game, is about as sturdy as a cardboard box. The only thing you're actually forging are the guard and pommel. Now I'm not sure exactly how "historically accurate" this simulator wants to be, but please, for the love of all things metal, make it so that blades are actually forged and not cast.

Ironsmith: Medieval Simulator - Prologue, orta çağ gerçekliğinde yerel demirci olmanızı sağlar. Çeşitli sosyal sınıflara yönelik araçları ve silahları durmaksızın üreterek becerilerinizde ustalaşın.

鍛冶屋シミュということでデモをやったあとでも最終版では期待していますが・・・ 素材を集めるところから完成までかなり幅広いシミュレーターのようです。 が、私が過度に期待していたせいでがっかりした箇所が 各加工工程を凄まじいほど省いているところです。 特に高熱の鉄を叩く行為は鍛冶屋の象徴とも言えるポイントのはずが なんと叩く箇所にマークが付いており決められた箇所しか叩けない。 そしてマークを1回叩くとそれだけで形状が変化し、余計な部分は切り取られ 3回目のマークで作りたいものの形状が完成する。 鉄は熱いうちに打つ行為が3回で終わっちゃうんです。 叩く行為は単純作業になるから省いたのかもしれませんが ここ重要なポイントじゃないんですか。 左手でいろいろ角度を変えて、右手でハンマーを振り下ろし 叩いて形状が完成していくのを楽しむ・・・という部分は一切ありません。 3回で終わり。完全に省かれていてすごく残念です。 気になる方は絶対デモしたほうが良いです。

UI needs a little improvement, there should be a audio setting in-game, more variations on sword engravings and sword types are needed for sure. It's promising at this stage. 8/10

WHEN IS IT COMING TO STEAM

I do not recommend

"Ironsmith Medieval Simulator: Prologue" is is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Ironsmith Medieval Simulator". Ironsmith Medieval Simulator is a promising but disappointing blacksmith job simulator... the graphics look tolerable but the game itself is a shallow, clunky, and bug riddled mess. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Ironsmith Medieval Simulator, 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 "Ironsmith Medieval Simulator: Prologue" too. The purpose of this advertisement is to get you to shell out a whopping $10 USD on buying Ironsmith Medieval Simulator, 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.

Honestly I Like This Game, But.... Its not ready yet. I played until the 2nd job from notice board and i stuck because i cannot cool down the blade. Seems bug, i cannot interact with the water barrel. I hope an addition can be added for inventory management. Like scroll to choose items, because to open and drag to slot is so much hassle. And sometimes i stuck when talking to npc, and when pouring melted iron to sword form. Last add some save function. After All The Game Is Great. Thank You