It sucks that I have to give this game such a negative review because I was holding out hope for Isles of Adalar, but the truth is, is there's nothing here. Zilch. And what IS there is not very good and flat out broken, even the introductory tutorial island they have is woefully unfinished with a broken questline and tons of dodgy geometry. The dungeons are completely borked as you cannot save your game in them nor can you leave when you enter - it's an absolute shambles even a year after its initial early access release.
This hurts to write this review because the base of an excellent game IS here! Fully co-op supported, indie Elder Scrolls type of game with a proper built-in game editor? That sounds perfect for me and if this game was being worked on full time then I can see tons of improvements being made - however since the developer is working on the game part time and the asking price is incredibly steep I simply cannot recommend Isles of Adalar whatsoever especially when the updates are so glacial it will likely never get finished or even get past this initial starting point.
If this was a completely free and open source game where anyone can work on it and contribute similarly to games like Veloren and Sauerbraten, then I can see this really taking off in making lots of progress and gaining a decent following. But as it is now it's incredibly stagnant. I might continue to play around with the game editor and make a small little questline to get a little more out of Isles of Adalar as a creative tool rather than a game since it seems there is a lot to play with but considering how unintuitive and buggy that is, I'm unsure if I'll even stick with that.
There IS potential here for an absolutely amazing game but there's no way around it, this game is still nowhere near ready for release. Honestly if the devs are just gonna work on this part time then they should never have released it on Steam to begin with, rather they should have delayed it for several more years or even a full decade to get it to an acceptable, playable and enjoyable state where there's actually something to properly sink your teeth into. Because right now it's a load of broken nothing.
