Roll For Initiative

It's free to play and very early access so I'm not giving it a thumbs down, but it is not super tolerable to play yet. PROS - It's D&D with the To Hit and Damage Rolls - It doesn't look half bad - Good visual cues on how far you can move CONS - Still buggy... hitting End Turn doesn't work very often and ultimately I had to exit the game because I couldn't end my turn - Moves VERY SLOWLY; e.g., the dice rolling needs to be about 2x its current speed. As is, requires a lot of patience just to move two guys around and attack. - The music, even if it's a placeholder, is intolerable - The bit I played doesn't seem to have any narrative or dialogue, so not very Table Top IMO

"Roll For Initiative" was a noble intention but at the same time it didn't quite work out... it feels from this that the developers weren't sure if they wanted to make a ripoff of Roll 20, or a really dry, boring version of Baldur's Gate 2. There's some content for players but it's only an hour long, and while CRPGs are welcome and sorely underrepresented on Steam, the way they went around this one isn't right. See, the idea with making a good CRPG, a conversion of a pen + paper game is to keep the exciting aspects of combat, puzzle solving, narrative and all that and abstract or streamline the RPG system itself... after all, the computer can handle that. In this "I can't believe it's not an alpha" RPG, the developers went the other way and put all the fun parts of tabletop RPGs on the back burner so they could focus on the boring bits like dice rolling and mucking around with miniatures to make sure the DM isn't being a jerk. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 2 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.

This looks like it has a TON of potential. That being said, here is the TL;DR: This is a REALLY early access game. There is a lot that appears to be missing. * The graphics need a lot of refining. * 3 graphics resolutions options and they don't appear to work properly. - No other graphics options at all. * couldn't find a map or inventory * the dice rolling looks good, but the number display for your rolls is badly placed and out of the way. You have to look fast, it only displays the rolled number for about 1 second. * Mouse doesn't click all of the buttons, you need to know keyboard shortcuts to end your turn - The attack, walk, and interact work fine with the mouse * no customizations yet I only played for about 30 minutes so far, so I'm not any kind of expert and I've probably missed something. But, I'll keep an eye on this and see how it develops.

Roll for Initiative, yeni oyuncular için sisteme giriş ve deneyimli oyunculara masaüstü oyunları kendi başlarına oynama şansı sunmayı amaçlayan modern masaüstü oyunlarının sanal bir çevirisidir.

Actually trash. Visuals like a game from 2004, controls barely work, you can't shoot across gaps, you can't partial move, action, then move again, basic actions like Dodge or Dash are nonexistent, enemies have no AI and don't move until you're within attack range, the End Turn button is buggy, picking up items is buggy, you can try to move and use up all your movespeed without actually moving. Oh, and the menu looks crap and the only graphics options are 480p and 720p. The 1080p button changes it back to 480p again.

Some design choices have been made that should not have been. Some things that I have to assume were not intentional also enter into the mix. Over all, free or not I can't recommend this. It's a bunch of little annoying things that all add up. But... It just seems poorly done. I'd avoid it.

Downloaded this game out of curiosity as it has been awhile since I checked on a free indie game. Supposed to be some kind of turn based dungeons and dragons sim where dice drop from the ceiling and the whole thing is meant to be a table top brought to life. Well that last bit certainly is true, as the game is as stilted and wooden as they come. Not gonna be too mean to the boys at Nerdzgarage as this is the first game I've seen by them, it was free, and it took me less than an hour to complete, but I can't really recommend this to anyone when it barely even works. By all means, please keep making games though - it will be nice to watch a developer grow as time goes on The glitches are probably the worst part of this game as they make this already mediocre game frustrating to play. The ranger's health looked depleted from the start of the first map until she was hit once - then it was like she remembered her health bar was a thing. Characters sometimes move and attack but don't show they have - resulting in scenarios where empty air is menacing the monster of the hour or where a monster is technically dead but doesn't realize it until they get one last hit in. Or the character eventually catches up to the spot they are suppose to be at by phasing through solid matter. The resolution is kind of messed up, trying to move out of the window causes my desktop to resize for some reason. Characters sometimes have red numbers floating over them as though the universe is ranking their performance and is very unimpressed with their sword technique. Then there are the bugs that… I'm not sure are bugs or if I messed something up. Like when I found a barrel full of potions and gold in the first map, but the potions didn't heal my character at all even though the text said otherwise. Or when I tried to disengage from a hammer wielding wraith, only for the wraith to decide that the hammer is a ranged weapon and attack my fighter from a distance where previously he had to close the gap. Not that he had any trouble doing the latter though as he just phased through my ranger to get at my fighter while my ranger was too stunned to do anything, locked in place without recourse or the means to resist. Weirdest part is that after beating both the town and dungeon maps the game sent me to a 3rd unlisted map against a single wraith - had a kind of desert temple theme going on. The only difference being that now the ranger had a spear. I wasn't sure where the game was going with all this but I played along, and bore down on my foe. With both characters at full health and a new weapon to play with it was going to be a quick fight, and I wasn't wrong. As soon as I set my fighter at front with the ranger using the reach of the spear to thrust at the wraith, the game crashed and I had to forcibly restart it. That's not to say the game was entirely bad, there was a little potential here, like when my fighter missed 5 attacks in a row and just kept getting beat up by cockney bandits as my ranger cleaned house. Or when I formed a choke point to force cockney ghouls to line up so I could fight them one at a time so I could make my way to their cockney wraith lord. All the characters have the same alert voice, by the way. The game is short, shallow, has no original ideas, and the few things that made the game interesting were either negatives or unintentionally funny to me. But this is to be expected of a fledgling dev team. Keep at it boys, while smothered by the kind of problems that require a team of workmen and industrial equipment to remove I could see a bit of character under it all, thrashing around in a fit to be free of this mortal coil. This case is terminal, but maybe the next can live a full and long life?