The Battle of Visby

Well, I like the idea and really want this to be good. I also like the setting, it feels good walking medieval Visby, especially when you have en interest in history. However, this game is poorly optimized. Even with a relatively powerful setup (an i7-9700k and a GeForce 2080) my computer struggles to reach even 30 fps (initially around 60 fps, but after you've slept and wake up the next day the performance goes down the well). So even though I really would like to recommend it because I like the idea and setting, I can't at the moment because of the technical issues. Hopefully they will be resolved in the near future and then I might change my review to a positive one. Also, as others have said already, the game crashes when changing settings, and you walk really slow (even when "running"). I understand the idea behind this game is not to rush it but take your time and walk the city, however in my opinion you move a bit too slow in order for it to be enjoyable.

Kunde spela i ett par minuter innan spelet kraschade när jag ändrade inställningar. Efter dessa 5 minuter så kraschar det bara. Spelet öppnar SteamVR när man startar det, och när man ska stänga ner SteamVR så kraschar det. Plus och minus: + Kul med ett spel med svensk historia - Spelet är röstskådespelat av TTS Microsoft Sam och hans kompisar. - Man går otroligt sakta i spelet, även med sprintknappen itryckt för kung och fosterland - Nåt skumt visuellt filter som inte går att stänga av, det är som ens karaktär har en plastpåse på huvet, eller att nån har smetat vaselin på ens ögon. - Går inte att spela

The battle of Wisby is not really a game even if it has a few game-like scenarios, but rather a walking simulator of medieval Visby. It is beautifully constructed and rendered, but very narrow in that you can only walk the intended path and there's little or no room for free exploration. But from my many years in Visby it feels very much like every street I've walked so many times, and yet of course I have never seen them in this way. I'd have loved to have more options to explore streets and buildings. The story is quite simple and follows the historical events of the arrival of Valdemar Atterdag to Gotland, the invasion itself where the farmers were abandoned and killed outside the city, and a few battle scenes. The main focus is still on walking around town and seeing all the familiar places as they might have looked some 700 years ago. There are a few bugs, one in a climbing scene, where if you hit the right spot you can continue climbing into thin air, and what seems like a few graphical glitches inside the town, but they're all minor. What's more annoying are two things, the first and most important is that walking speed is so gruellingly slow, I ended up running all the time, but it's quite uncomfortable, and still slow, and the second is the cutover between scenes, where you believe you'd get a chance for a nice screenshot as remembrance, just up by _that_ wall, or _that_ street, and instead you're moved to the next scene. This would have been so much better with just a small question whether I want to proceed or stay and look around. I'd love to have a bigger simulator with more places to visit, or even a real game, though one with more focus on the action itself rather than now on finding the right key on the keyboard and seeing little of the actual battle this is supposed to be, still, for this price it's absolutely worth seeing even if it's very short. I love seeing Visby in this way, the way it might have looked.

Trevligt litet spel där man får följa Visby innan, under och efter slaget. Svårt att rekommendera om man inte är en historienörd. Men en helt okej upplevelse på en timme. Fint hobbyprojekt. Kostar knappt någontin. Lite buggar här och där. Men stundvis rätt vackert. Men inte så mycket spelmekanik.

Billigt men kraschar ofta och är fullt av andra buggar.