Medieval Blacksmith

Game keeps crashing

Really enjoyed the game, until I got to a point where some maniac woman killed me in my sleep for not making her a dagger. And the only options are to reload saves. Funny when you don't got any saves from before you told the maniac killer to shove it. Great decision by the devs... really makes the game fun having to replay from start after spending more than 30 hours in it. Never touching the game again, nice job making people instantly lose all the investment they had in the game!

I absolutely love playing this game its very relaxing and chill and the story line is by far the funniest i have ever got to play

tldr: It's a good game, if slightly clunky and unpolished at times. The main mechanic is great. I like hammering away at metal, and this game lets me do that very well. The game aims for realism, not a whimsical smithing themed minigame, and I can't thank the devs enough for that. I would have appreciated more control over the hammering process rather than "click until bar hits 100%", but that's a pretty small qualm, especially compared to the rest of this review. This is the main selling point of the game, and this is the main reason I recommend it. Now, for the problems. The main one is the dialogue. It's the weakest part of this game in my opinion, it just feels so unpolished, I get my immersion broken half the time when I talk to an NPC. Things like typos, less than classy uses of curses (to be clear, they can belong in a video game, but used smartly), and a weird obsession with using pronouns AND names, like "What do you have Larima?" (the potato seller), all feel very unpolished in tone. Then, there's the additional mechanics. A lot of them feel kind of pointless, like relationship points that almost never go anywhere, or the hill of ancients letting you grow your army (why would I get warriors with the reputation I obtained, when I already had to get 6 warriors to start the first battle to get that reputation in the first place? Especially ten warriors, there's 0 reason anyone would need ten warriors), even some characters like Zhendar, I was hoping he'd warm up and get more dialogue as the months went by, but after the second month, nothing. The interior upgrades are also cool, but pretty empty of content and so lose their novelty really quickly. Apart from the outdoor torches, I didn't find much use out of them. Also, some of the clients' requests were incredibly finicky, with my solutions being hundredths of points away from failing. I like the puzzle, but I can't trust my solution if I feel like hammering a fraction of a second too much during assembly can completely wreck the whole blade. I think the values displayed on the design screen should be indicative of a couple percentage points under 100% quality, so they're actually reachable in practice. Instead of punishing tiny mistakes by lowering weapon stats, reward incredible consistency by increasing them above what the design says. Finally, the economy. Usually, in a game, the more money you make, the more the things you need cost, like upgrades and stuff. Here, almost everything's around the same 1000-5000 price range, and after you've bought all the upgrades from all the shops, there's really only one worth going to: the miner's, and maybe the guest house ;). And that's by a hair, because at that point you'll have slaves mining away for all your needs, and if there's an ore you need but slaves can't get, guess what, the shop doesn't have it either, so its biggest use is the wood. But when you get to the end of the game, you suddenly have a ten million purchase on the horizon, a move that reminds me of Candy Box 2. Alas, after that purchase, it's over, there's no need for money anymore. Essentially, the economy goes from "you're always broke" to "you have more money than you could ever spend", with a very slight sliver of "you're making a living" that lasts maybe a few days or weeks. There was a page about a house on sale for 3 million coins on month 3, it would have been cool if you could purchase that house, maybe sell it to Griana in exchange for the blacksmith shop (and an achievement for the player). Wouldn't fix all problems, but it would be cool. Same goes for reputation, I didn't know you could get so much reputation from Hill of Ancients battles (500 per battle) so I just grinded for all the upgrades by selling things. By the time I had slaves ready to fight and armored to the teeth, I didn't really have a use for that reputation anymore. And, as said above, buying warriors certainly wasn't an option because I _already_ had 6 warriors, as a prerequisite to start the first battle. I don't need more warriors that will take hours to train for almost nothing, at best I'm buying one or two to act as fodder if my properly trained warriors fall in combat. To end on, there's a couple bugs that make the game feel even more unpolished, things like ingots often not properly settling inside buckets, or a "100%" during assembly being considered incomplete, forcing you to strike it again and destroy your beautiful creation. Even at 99.9%, just let me go "Ok it's done" and lock in that quality, rather than having to pass 100%. Overall, despite these flaws, the main mechanic is great. This is without a doubt a thumbs up, and I'm absolutely going to go for all achievements. However, it's not going into my favorites folder just yet, it's still gonna need a bit more work before that. Or an esperanto translation.

it good

Takes too much to mine and craft. Im tired of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ clicking.

if i have a time machine, i will never buy this game again. it has sooo many potential but devs fxxk it up. the mining is not realistic at all when you mine an ore, the stone shatters splatting on the ground, you have to find which part has ore and mining over and over again. you have to mine big stone like 10 times, and small chucks like 10 times to get one ore the forging is somewhat fun, but not realistic at all forging a dagger, dagger has 5 parts, two handed sword has 15 parts, and the value doesn't increase very much but the time consuming increased tremendously if you forge a two handed sword, so what's the point of making bigger sword? everyone is making dagger to save times. the metal price is fxxk up, making a iron or copper or any metal value like 300 coins, but GOLD dagger value like 3000 coins. so what's the point of making other metal dagger than GOLD dagger? let alone two handed sword which is time consuming but if you make it from GOLD the value increases incredibly high, like copper is 500 but gold two handed sword is 6000 coins game has alloy but still the same problem, alloy is hard to forge, but the value is little. the game has Lathe which let you carve your wood handle, but NO VALUE INCREASED, so what's the point of it ? but i still play the game, why? because i have no other better one to play with.

great game top tier

Game is good , but its like a alpha or beta version , need a few tweaks . I read that developer is thinking for new game or DLC , my advice is to use what you have now and fix few issues on step one - two . then make a DLC . If you fix issues like display bugs for cut rate and pierce , and recheck timers for mining slaves it will be good . Also based on reputation you can make player to unlock "secret plans for blades " or for shileds Nada don't sell shields . That game is a gem for people who want to try making a blage for fun or because they need something to switch reality between RL and Game . Also you dont make noise when forging blade. ( i,m having issues for noise ) .

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