Sword of Atlas

"Sword of Atlas" is one of literally thousands of student projects infesting Steam. It's from University of Utah in the US. While student projects tend to be better quality than most "amateur" made games, we must still question what value such projects have for gamers. As with all student projects, this isn't really a fully fleshed out game, it's just the result of an academic exercise, and as such it has much more limited value as a game than a professionally developed game would have. Educational institutions should not be using Steam as a dumping ground for homework assignments (especially if the students didn't even pass the course). Sure, it helps their marketing and helps the students feel good about themselves, but this is another case of a business putting themselves before the needs of gamers. The students made a JRPG styled RPG with grid orientated turn based combat. This is fine and could have been really popular but the visuals are a let down and of course, as a student project, this isn't a fully fleshed out game. I know you don't pay much for this but you also don't get much. The graphics aren't great, okay looking backdrops and character art that's ruined by ugly pixelcrap sprites for the characters in the combat part of the game. What a bizarre choice to torch your product by stooping down to pixelcrap when you're capable of better... a fine way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. And what a terrible thing to teach students, that it's acceptable to use poixelcrap in 2022. That's understandably a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve better than compromises. On the matter of pricing and value for gamers, most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's often nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of shady pricing schemes 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, or something you might want to spend your time on. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 6 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. It's important to note that, despite this being such a low quality product, there's a number of positive reviews that all appeared immediately after the game launched, from suspiciously inactive Steam accounts that have reviewed almost no other games apart from this. At least one of the reviews carries the admission that the breached US Federal Law by reviewing their own product. Review manipulation is never okay, and it's against FTC Rulings. Take the review score of this game with a grain of salt. 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? This is a "maybe" experience... if you have a lot of free time on your hands and nothing else to do, why not? But for the purposes of a review, this isn't something I can say everyone must try. It's not quite there. Valve doesn't give us a "maybe" option in reviews, but if they did, that's what I'd choose for this.

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уровень озвучки: Diablo Ⅱ уровень геймплея: Cookie Clicker уровень анимации: инди хоррор на юнити уровень текстур: А̴͖̖̠̹̏̈́͑͋͠͝Н̶̟̗̍И̵̨̙͔̙͉̪̂̓̍̎̃М̸̧̡̬̭̠̺̂̔Е̴̫̟̿̄̊̒́̏ немного напомнило старенькую Shining Force, (что появилась на свет раньше, чем я), правда её разрабатывала Sega, а этот проект был рождён в подвале кирпичного завода в Дагестане и получился неплохим, хотя я больше чем на 20 минут заинтересован не был..

It's a short and nice game... 3.6h It has problems (especially in situations where it tries to make two text boxes at the same time) and also that the text boxes don't stop the game... If this happens, you have to restart the level (it only happens at the beginning of the first level or the beginning of the last) In addition, you should know that in the last battle you have to wait for the eye to cast its magic and only then kill it.... It's not too hard and the game is free. So I recommend trying it.

Gotta admit this looked fun at first. I thought I was actually gonna play some Fire Emblem like game with pixel characters and 3D environments. All I got from playing this was not even a turn base game but a still move your character across the screen to some enemies and pray you have a faster reaction time before the enemies kill your characters. I mean hell I could barely see where I could move my character in Chapter 2 because the move squares blend easily with the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ snow on the ground. The voice acting was terrible its like nobody cared about their role nor the story and I've seen worse. This is just bad.

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Maybe it's just me, but Sword of Atlas seems to combine the worst traits of both RTSs and Turn Based RPGs: As RTSs, you control a bunch of units in a large map where enemies are moving and attacking in "real time" (they can pause while you're selecting moves if you select this Option), which means some of your units can get surrounded and killed while your attention is elsewhere. As a turn based tactical RPG, you move around slowly, one unit at a time, in the same large map. For me, this game would be immediately improved if it became a simple TRPG with a visible initiative queue that everybody obeyed.