The Adventurers

I really like it. Very reminiscent of the SSI goldbox games just with a whole lot more added. The voice narration is a nice touch. The battles are also very reminiscent of the goldbox games and get just as tedious at later levels. Slogging through 20 trolls, or ogres repeatedly can get monotonous. I just hit a wall on the last big group of ogres I encountered. I can easily defeat them but I find myself employing the exact same tactics positioning the characters around the exact same way. Certainly still recommend, it has potential and what I played so far was fun until it was not. I think this can be remedied it is EA.

I want to clarify that this is a recommendation based off the 3 hours I've played so far on a $12 game. It is far from perfect, and by no means revolutionary in any way. This is not a sterling endorsement, in fact I'm going to highlight my issues with the game mostly. However, if you have a dozen dollars you don't want and enjoy the "tactical RPG" genre, you will not find this game offensive by any means. First of all, the name is horrible. It's still in early access, so I hope it's just a placeholder. Secondly, at this time, the tactics are pretty barebones. If you've played anything like this before, you'll learn the winning strategy pretty much immediately, and just continually employ it fight after fight. There are plenty of various enemy types, which is great, but running and gunning handles them all pretty much exactly the same. I like the overworld exploration, and the party progression as a whole. However, I find myself when the game gets monotonous, asking myself why I'm not just playing Wartales instead. It's not even that Wartales necessarily does the whole explore/craft/contract thing that much better, rather the Adventurers doesn't do much different, and what IS different makes progression a bit of a slog. I'm speaking entirely about the smithing mechanics, where breaking down items into resources takes in-game hours/days and money, and then smithing the item you actually wanted again takes in-game days and more money. Not to mention, you HAVE to return to the town you scrapped/crafted at, which makes sense but also keeps you locked down to an area for a while. Getting better stuff isn't worth the time to me. The narrator is a very nice touch, though I hope the AI is replaced by an actual voice actor like proposed. Nine times out of ten it sounds good, but then every now and then its awful garbage that takes me out. I'm not one to bash small dev teams for using AI during early access, but it's gotta be gone at full release. That and the gameplay simply has to be better. Overall, this game teeter on being a no, so you have to like these kinds of games to get much enjoyment out of it at this point. Maybe later after more updates, this will all be moot, but right now it's worth exactly 12 dollars, preferably less.