Master of Realms

The game is fantastic. It has a beautiful and rich collection of objects. You can use them for creating your own maps or building custom gameplay scenarios. The music is very well chosen and relaxing while building. However, placing objects can be a bit difficult because the pieces can only be moved freely. A feature that automatically aligns the parts would be really helpful, as well as a selection of different paths that you could freely place yourself. There are tiles that already contain paths, but that makes free building feel less flexible. If players could create their own roads and paths, building would become even more limitless, allowing for better landscapes and cities. The same goes for water. Pre-made water tiles are okay, but being able to draw your own rivers or waterways would be much better. That way, you could create small canals or lakes inside cities, for example. I really hope features like this might be added in the future.

was really expecting this... but this is a disappointment

As a backer, i saw the game being built from the ground up, and the lengths the team has gone to make sure it works and is what was promised is exceptional. I love it for my world maps, and im starting to figure out how to use it for local maps too. UI needs some small tweaks, but overall very good product

Master of Realms already shows a lot of promise. It is clearly still in Early Access, but the core idea is strong and the game feels like it has a real future. The map building tools are fun to use, and the 3D style gives it a very unique identity compared to other similar tools. The price also feels fair for the amount of work and detail already in it. I am excited to see how it grows from here.

As far as a mapmaking software for 3D printing, I guess the value is well worth it for the STL files, but if you intend to make maps to export and use on VTTs it's not worth the purchase as it stands currently. There is basically no weather variants so far, only green and desert, no snowy variants, dry variants for that autumn look, cursed variants, also there are no hexes for hills, The software is really neat, and it's really quick in making decent looking things with the tiles currently available. For whoever reads this review, the software is well worth following, but I'd wait until it has enough content to justify it's purchase. I've bought it, I like it, but I can't make much use of it in it's current state. Edit: The team has updated the game, and now it comes with a weather effect pannel, which was one of the features I deemed necessary, I'd still suggest some improvements to this feature, to be able to apply weather to specific regions. But the improvement in itself is commandable and it shows the integrity of the team to follow up with the project.

It's cool to play with, even if I don't really play ttrpgs. Lots of potential, especially with the upcoming tile designer. The 3d print export is crazy neat, and I wish that was an option others would consider as well. I'm slowly building a kingdom, bit by bit.