The Lost Heir 2: Forging a Kingdom

Achieve 95% of every possible help, still get pummeled. Nope, the system is broken and unbalanced -in a text based game!.

Not bad and not good, mostly a pain with the lack of saving and required guessing to waddle through the events. Choices do matter tho, and choices made in the first one have an impact on your ending in this one, i got a bad ending. I can only wait until a third game is released and hope that atleast some of the people i care about is still around. I would say a 5 out of 10 tin stars.

Went back to replay and remembered all the reasons why I didn't play through multiple times. My review for Lost Heir 3 pretty much chops up this part as well.

Great game, can't wait for part 3

Boy this was a tough one for me to like, it's really nothing like part 1. Most of the game is recruiting and managing your army. BUT there's no customization, just a right way and wrong ways to do things. The biggest problem for me was the lack of adventuring with my companions. Your old companions are still there, but you just don't interact with them much. Instead many new characters are introduced, but they're generic and you don't get to know them very well. Another big problem is the need to rush through things. There are a number of side quests, but the main story puts timers on things. For example you need to reach your objective by winter, but each side quest will slow you down and cause negative effects. This is a world I want to spend time in and explore I don't want to rush through it. Also it's very difficult to train a secondary skill, but some things you need a secondary skill to succeed on. A few of my skills go over 100, well most of them are stuck in the useless 20s and 40s. Final Verdict: The replay value is good. But I have issues with the mechanics and change in direction from part 1. HOWEVER part 3 makes it worth buying to continue your story.

This game had a lot of the same issues as the first Lost Heir game. It is clear the creator learns from these mistakes in future games, but this game still has too many unimportant stats and relies too much on maximizing single stats, causing you to fail a lot of skill checks. The army mechanics are interesting, and the story progresses well, but it's still not a very engaging game.

I honestly cant wait for the third book to come out on steam! it left me on such a cliff hanger again and im aching to get the sequal, i hope my friends survived the attack.

Probably the best of the three games in the series for me. The hook of managing a campaign is ever present and just a really cool background for the game. The other two games don't really have anything similar. I really wish it was longer, with more big combats where you gotta manage your army's time and strategy. If I'd have any criticism, its that you don't really forge a kingdom! Oh well, its the first steps :p

A worthy game , like a long session of Dungeons and Dragons with a good (albeit not stellar) gamemaster.  Basically a series of small puzzles, but most have multiple solutions, each of which has plausible effects on subsequent play.  For example, if you lead your army's charge, despite your general's advice to remain safe behind the lines, you not only risk injury to yourself but also hurt your relationship with the general and boost your army's morale, each of which affects how later choices will work out.  NPCs, as that example suggests, are thoroughly  characterised though they don't get so many great lines as in Lost Heir 1.  A lot of the attention is on logistics - no matter how big and strong your army, if you run out of food or time, you fail.   Indeed a larger army needs more food so can be less effective.  Overall it is quite hard to get most of the achievements, which makes multiple play-throughs worthwhile.           The "show the numbers" function tells you the effect of your choices on your stats (e.g. Enemy army reduced by 10 to 70/100) and, if you try something and fail, what you needed to succeed.  That is an engaging glimpse behind the curtain if you are more interested an solving problems than in story;  I recommend avoiding it on at least the first play-through.  The problem is it often doesn't work, so you sometimes get numbers when you didn't ask for them and often don't when you did ask for them.  Other minor flaws include some clumsy lifts from Dungeons and Dragons (prestige classes?  Dire crocodiles??).       You really should play Lost Heir 1 beforehand, not only to follow the plot but also because choices in the first game affect the second even beyond your stats and inventory.

Let me tell you, I had my doubts of this game in the beginning and when I saw it on steam for 4$, I was hesitant. I had to buy the first one and I didn't wanna spend 8$ on two games I might not like in the end. I like my gameplay within games and the graphics too, but this game exceeded my expectations and placed a golden pedestal within my heart and mind for one of the best text based rpgs! I love this game and the second with the heart and love of a true gamer, reader, book writer, and lover of romance and strife within a good story. So excited for the third, this game is a 5/5. Everything you expected from a text based game, I am not dissatisfied with this game and look forward to the finale in a year. Enjoy reading and a good story, progression, romance, and/or action? Get. This. Game.