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• gamedeal user

  Jun 16, 2019

  This is an RTS for old and slow people who have given up on the RTS genre, like me. Warning, the pacing is really, really slow, but I'm the kind of gamer that wants to smoke a cig and drink coffee while he plays. I can do that here. The game is practically begging you to pause and give orders, and that works perfectly. Plenty of time to mull over your next move. Zooming out puts you in map mode, and I swear, this might be the best map mode ever. It communicates much more information about your situation, and does so much more clearly, than the 3D view does. You could easily play the whole game from there, and again, it's much more efficient than the 3D mode. Especially in combat, the models tend to clip into one another making it hard to see who you're firing a fireball at. Incredibly enough, zoomed out lets you pinpoint the guy with low health. All while paused. The UI will take some getting used to (why did they put those tabs at the bottom of the window?) but once you figure out how everything works and where everything is, it is very efficient as well. Example, if you want to check on your numerous farms, open the build menu. Right clicking the Farm button will cycle through all your farms so you can quickly see their position on the map and their level of upgrade. There is a bunch of stuff like that to make your life easier. Very well done. There was a patch a couple days ago that got rid of one of my few annoyances with the UI, pop up windows that would cover up places I wanted to put an Explore beacon. They fixed it. Easy mode will let you figure out stuff without too much pressure. Just keep Urias alive. :) I got it for 33% off and consider it a steal. BUY AT FULL PRICE.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 30, 2017

  A new RTS by a dev team with no other games out, priced affordably? I had my doubts about the quality. TL:DR It's a great game at an affordable price, that feels like Northgard and Majesty had a baby, but that baby will one-day grow up to be better than its parents. (And the baby has a hobby involving sticking islands together, which is awesome.) First off, I'm going to go ahead and say that the quality I'm seeing, is on par with Northgard. If you're not familiar with Northgard, keep reading. Driftland is like a beautiful mashup of (I'm going to say Northgard again) and Majesty, with floating islands that can be bridged together to create a kingdom. Driftland fulfills all the 'promises' that it seems to make, with its description and the overall premise. Floating islands can be smooshed together to create a kingdom, the economy in the game is fluid, but easy to figure out, but is also has depth that allows you to approach it in a few different ways. I wouldn't go as far to say that the economy is settlers-like, but again, I'd say it's more like Northgard in that you have to play a balancing act of where your people are gathering, what they're gathering, and making sure they're fed. The more islands to 'bridge' together (witch actual bridges) the more your empire grows, the stronger your economy gets, and the greater your military potential. With each island, you actually feel like you're becoming stronger (and on a normal-sized map, I felt like there were plenty of islands, but not too many.) I was a little...iffy, on the combat, at first glance. My troops (which are majesty-style, in the sense that they do their own thing unless you set a flag to send them somewhere) were flooding one-by-one into a nearby AI controlled territory. I didn't know what to do to stop that from happening. Just-so happens that those bridges I mentioned, were able to be destroyed. So you can cut-off another player from their own islands, by destroying their bridge. You can build towers to protect your own islands, but...the AI can still just re-make the bridge, which brings me back to the problem of my units flooding in one by one, if they have access. So, maybe that'll get worked on during development. Aside from the few oddities with the combat, I can't find any issues with the core gameplay, after 2 hours of play time (which, you don't need much more, to figure out if the game is solid or not. Apparently a campaign is being worked on, as is multiplayer. I think the game (in its current state) would totally be worth a $14.99 price point, but it's currently $17.99 on sale, with the default price being $19.99. Once the game gets a campaign, its last 2 factions, AND multiplayer, it'll easily be worth $24.99. So, currently it's not quite a steal, but pretty close. I did not receive this game for free, I paid for it, I don't have any stake in giving this game a decent review. It simply earned it.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 23, 2021

  I actually really like this, though keep in mind driftland is much more like... a city building game with a little bit of RTS on the side, than it is an RTS with some base building, and it's not the best at either of those things. It's more of a slow paced, relaxing game that's actually not bad at all as a casual RTS for when you're tired or if you just don't want something that demands extremely high actions per minute. Think closer to a 4X game with a more shallow tech tree and shorter games, than an RTS. So the basic concept is, hey, magic blew up the world a few hundred years ago, and everything's just floating islands now. "Oops, our bad" say the mages. Whelp, new mages are now being born again, hey you can control the islands and pull them together, rebuild, and make a nation out of them, yay! The gameplay is very heavily centered on the islands. Even at the very start of the game you can pull and move islands around, reposition them, and claim and build upon them. Later on, it's even fairly easy to poof new islands into existence at will, or to destroy ones that are in your way. There are a looooot of different resources, but they're fairly straightforward, easy to keep track of in the UI, and once you can access a given resource once, you can never truly run out of it because of how the market system works. It's just more efficient to mine off an island is all, and you do still have to find that resource the first time before you can upgrade the market to buy it with other resources. There are a lot of different buildings, upgrades for them, and things to spend people on. Getting too large in population is kind of a soft cap on growth, so you can't really just sit there and claim the entire planet sadly, and it may even penalize you to silly degrees if you try. For the missions and multiplayer though, by about the time you have a good economy and everything you need, you'll be just reaching about the optimal point of how many people you can sustain though so it works out fairly well most of the time. Almost everything in driftland is carefully built so that the problems that arise only really show up outside of fairly normal play. If you start trying to get too big, play too long or stuff like that, yeah, it starts breaking the game, but if you try to finish a level or skirmish when you have the resources to do so, then it goes pretty well. 3 of the four races play almost identical to one another, except for dwarves who just do everything radically different from the others which is kinda awkward because it doesn't make much sense why the dwarves are so different from everyone else. It kinda feels like the dark elves and the wild elves are only half-finished given they're pretty close to the humans. Still not horrible, but the variety of factions really comes down to either human or dwarf play styles and that's about it. The other two may as well be humans with minor variations. It caaaan be kinda crowded to build on your islands, and you can run out of space pretty quickly. It's not that hard to get new islands, though they can be pretty cramped at first too if you don't want to just destroy some of the resources that are on them. It's not thaaat big of a deal to just destroy a forest to build some housing, but if you hate wasting the wood, it can take awhile to clear stuff out to the point that there's building room. The game's pretty slow paced though, so this isn't a huge deal, but for players who are looking for something like starcraft levels of action, they're going to be frustrated and disappointed. Overall, it's a nice game though. Go in expecting something like a more streamlined and faster form of sins of a solar empire than starcraft, and you'll probably enjoy it. Go in expecting a grand strategy or RTS game, and you'll probably be disappointed. Also, it is PRETTY. AS. F..oh I can't say that in a review I don't think. But it's definitely pretty. The way buildings use water wheels which pour waterfalls off the side of islands, or watching an island burst into cracks and explode then get swallowed up into a hole after a spell is pretty sweet stuff. Music's not bad, but nothing special. There's no real voice acting in the campaigns other than the introduction, and the campaigns are all fairly short though they do have different styles for each of the races which is kind of nice. Not exactly an in-depth storyline, though, which is well below par for an RTS, but significantly above normal for a 4X, so make of it what you will. Overall, it's enjoyable, and a nice, relaxing game to do a sim-city thing with floating islands, then send some people on dragons to torch the enemy base and capture their land. It's a bit overwhelming at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty simple and well put together in general.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 3, 2018

  I absolutelly love the game concept and execution so far. With as many hours as I've spent within it, I can summarize my impressions after playing a couple of maps, mostly medium and large varieties. The plus side: > Very well structured tutorial. I actually found it funny how the tutorial simply kicks off on any skirmish you start and adapts to give tips as stuff happens (aka attacks, famine, resource lack), basically swapping the usual linearity of most tutorials of "Do X, then next scripted event part of the tutorial happens." > Visuals are amazing. Very few times did I choose to tab into the 'map' view, sometimes just to make sure my field of view on surrounding islands was encompassing. > Although not fully mechanically diverse, each faction has its own unit types that differ through model. Which is really appreciated! > The magic! All the spells I end up trying always look so colourful and well designed. Even if most are just reskins of the same shared spells, it's really immersive and thematic to have (in an early access) so many icon and colour variations, when most of development has to go into adding features. > Biomes actually affect your output. At first I was a bit indifferent on the biomes when playing dark elves and humans, but only when I ended up playing wild elves did I notice the biomes give advantages and disadvantages. So the transmutation spells made more sense afterwards, and their value to the game. > The upgrades system! At first it was confusing, but once you got into how it works, it's easy to remember in following playthroughs. The problem however is that most of the time you might be more compelled to leave the upgrades to mid-game and then begin mass-upgrading and buying them. > Self-destructing buildings! I know, this SHOULD be bad in any situation you try to think it, but when you have a resource deplete, the associated gathering buildings will demolish themselves too. That way, no more micromanagement to worry on what building is or not gathering stuff. Good on you!... Just make sure to change the message, too frequently did I think those blew up because enemies were attacking. The issues (this is mostly constructive criticism, I'll try to give ideas on what can be considered alternatives) : > First and foremost, while the 'flag' system works well for small raids and such, once you get a few islands, the units roam around too much. Only when they choose to go to a campfire can you really expect all of them to gather up and be prepared for an attack. That being said, maybe add in a 'rally' option? Not useable on islands you don't own or have structures on (so that way it can't replace the 'flag' system), only works on an island that you have built on. So in that way you can rally your army and make portals to where you wish to invade or make them wait for the bridge to build so they can march in, without having them roam around like silly. They end up a lot of times far away from eachother, taking extra time to arrive where they are needed and thus funnel themselves alone/one by one to the enemy and get obliterated quickly. > Please make spellcasters stop running from a magical task. Far too many times did I have barbarians or enemies roam over my islands, and even if my army was massive enough to make the threat be nearly null, often my spellcasters decide to interrupt their casting of either biome change, destruction or creation spells to help in. This gets really frustrating if you are targetted frequently by enemy raids, making any of the second, third and fourth island spells practically useless due to the immense cast time that resets whenever a spellcaster decides to quit the job to fight off some raiders. > Resource redundancy. Namely the resource allocation per island. It's fine when you have like 500+ resources, it gives a reason for you to try and mine them off than waste and destroy them. But when some islands have between 10 and 400 resources, it often makes it hard when you have more islands to manage and a lot of decissions to make on where to mine what. For gems and rubies and the rarer resources it works well, but for wood and stone it kind of feels a bit useless to mention them. Maybe hide the resource all together if under 500? > Currrently island variety is a bit limited. I'm sure there are plans to add more things like events or such, so I'm not holding this as a full negative. > Mounted units love to fly to their death. The AI seems very keen to literally fly 1 or 2 mounted units at random due to exploration purposes. That I can understand. But I feel maybe a quick fix to this would be for the AI to 'mark' out an area as off-limits for exploration if it's a player encampment? Most of the times and especially early game, these AI scouts don't do much other than fly over and aggro your army, and are too quick to take down unless you have many archers, so perhaps dividing exploration and scouting could fix this issue? > Rebelling troops have a glitched name. This will likely be patched, but when you dive into famine for too long and begin to have citizens rebell, their names display an error code "Not_Scripted_Unit". > Conquering islands is confusing. Whenever I would have the army ordered to attack and destroy everything on an island, the units would march on and sometimes not even capture the eagles nests, pursuing enemies even if they run back to another island. Which is a bit inconveniencing since it often means 1-2 soldiers at a time walk into instant death. But the worst part is that the islands you cleared out arn't "yours" untill you destroy the bridge connecting them to the rest of the enemy islands. Perhaps make it so that once an island is cleared, your units can capture it by building a flag? Even with all the issues listed above, I have good faith that what I have seen so far is a great example of what to expect. I want this game to really shine, it's unique especially with the mechanic of interacting with islands. Sometimes I feel the islands should also be in some even larger chunks, but often it's not that much of a headache to have small ones too. So yes, I very much recommend people to try it out and support development!
• gamedeal user

  Apr 21, 2019

  [h1] The Potential for Greatness [/h1] [b] What I Liked [/b] The city building aspect is the best part of the game. It's a unique way of doing it and really makes the game shine. It's a shame it's overshadowed by everything else. The campaign is barely okay, it's not meant to be invested in or to care a lot about what happens. It's an extended tutorial, and I use that loosely because some things just aren't shown to the player. I already had to Google a couple things to find a solution. [b] What I Did Not Like [/b] I tried skirmish mode and I didn't like it at all. The campaign I did on medium and I am doing fine, but in skirmish, I was trounced quickly by an enemy. So unsure what is going on there. [b] Why I Stopped Playing [/b] This is a game that really needs to have a "neutral" option when it comes to the review, as there are things I like and don't like about the game. I really wish the city builder aspects had more of a focus than the fighting, because it's fine trying to get resources, figuring out where and how to build, pulling in more islands, etc. If anything, I'll do a skirmish mode of that and just have fun expanding my islands. It's what I like about the game, it's a very unique take on the genre it's trying to do. But the combat, while fun in campaign, doesn't feel the same in skirmish. I lasted maybe an hour before I was wiped out. Is the game good? Yeah, I think so, but not at the $30 I paid for it. It's worth $20 right now. If things change and more is added, I could see the original price being worth it. Do I regret getting it? No. I enjoyed the city building aspect of the game and hope to explore it more. [b] Disclaimer [/b] I have been a gamer for over 30 years. I tend to play mostly PC games. I also bounce around between games A LOT. I may purchase a $60 game and play it for 2 hours or spend $10 on a game and spend 50 hours on it. Even if I played a game a short time, it does not mean it is bad. It just means another game caught my attention. I also complain about flaws in games a lot, even about the littlest of things. Keep that in mind when reading my reviews. If I do not have a complaint, then the game must be special!
• gamedeal user

  Sep 15, 2020

  I'm all about games that have a large element of magic in them. Driftland completely promised to immerse me in a magical realm. On the surface, this appears to be the case. However, like many others, my complaints are similar: - Boring storyline - Repetitive - No depth beyond the repetition even with different factions/races The worst thing about Driftland: THE MAJOR GAME-CRASHING BUG THAT SEEMS TO HIT ME AROUND 40% INTO THE GAME!!!!! I stopped playing Driftland back early 2020 after the game continued to crash. I'd play for an hour or two, BOOM, fatal exception error. No fixes for this, no work-around, no solutions, nothing. I shelved the game. "Pulled it from the shelves" on 9/13/2020. Played it for about an hour or so.... BOOM! Fatal Exception error! Now, if you ask me, "Did you try to continue the game from where you had left off?" Yes, I sure did. What happened? Play for maybe 10-15 more minutes..... BOOM! Fatal Exception error. Game crashes, that's it. Can't get past this problem, again, no fixes/solutions/issues reported. Shelving it again on 9/14/2020 and will consider playing it again in nine more months if they make a few more patches. Can't recommend for the price I paid, which was, sadly, full price. I wish I could get my money back at this point. It's unplayable...unless I like 30-minute unfinished games (Spoiler Alert: I don't)
• gamedeal user

  Jan 8, 2020

  Similar to Majesty, but lacks a lot of it's charm in the actual gameplay currently, I can still sit for hours watching my heroes level up and aggravating me on Majesty. However this is a very nice clone-ish game with a lot of potential and I certainly don't regret the purchase. Highly recommended! Takes a bit to learn the ropes, but once you've mastered the basics, it's a golden game.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 30, 2017

  Driftland is in Early Access at the time of writing so my review considers it not a finished game. It looks like the campaign mode is missing, bridge upgrades, certain building upgrades, etc. With that being said, I loved the old Majesty games, this feels very much like an updated version of it with cool new features. The biggest of which is the island gameplay. You move islands into your realm and harvest them for resources. You can also build farms for food and cottages for people resources on the islands. You are also able to create new islands and destroy old. It is a really interesting gameplay mechanic bringing island resource management into play. Gameplay is pretty fast and doesnt feel like epic 4x games. Pros: The UI is easy to navigate. Gameplay is fun already. I love the Majesty like gameplay. Island play is an interesting mechanic. Cons: Obviously still in early access. Some of the upgrades seem too easy to unlock / quick to unlock. No real camps of monsters to level up your characters on. AI bugs where units got stuck, and a few crashes happened. No way to make groups of characters that I could find. Overall I would say its close to the early access price worth of fun. However I am extremely excited for the finished product.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 13, 2018

  I played the game for 17h now and can say it's really fun and you can see the dedication of the developers. Little details like the interface and background music are amazing. The art and visual representation in general is really good. Definitely worth buying if you like strategy or city building games. Unfortunately the game is (for now) lacking content to keep playing it much longer than that. But the finished game should have multiplayer and a campaign, so that'll solve this eventually. Problems I had: (Mostly putting this here because the devs might read it) - The tutorial only explains the very basics. It took me quite a few tries before I knew what I was doing. - The game assigns hotkeys simply by mouse-clicking something while holding the key. I like scrolling while selecting buildings though, so I constantly (unintentionally) assigned w a s d as hotkey for something. - First skirmishes happen too late. By the time you can really start exploring and looking for your enemy, you already have a totally stabilised economy. - The island creation spell feels too cheap. Both the theme and mechanics of the game suggest, that islands are precious. But with this spell they really aren't. The spell should take a long time to cast, and be a lot more expensive. Maybe even require a special (very rare) resource.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 9, 2020

  The idea is appealing, the world looks fun. I jumped right into the dwarven campaign and as I would in general recommend this game I have two really big issues with it: 1) it is extremely slow: the main idea with getting islands, the economy, the micro armies - all of that slows things really hard, but on top of that you get AI controlled army - extremelly slow in reslut... 2) the game is too easy. I picked the highest difficulty and expected the game to destroy me, but it was a piece of cake, which tells me any lower difficulty has to be a joke. the missions are tedious, especially the fifth as dwarves, where the map is so big. Id give it a 3 out of 5, because I love dwarves and the idea is fun. I bought it with a 75% discount and that price is somewhere about the actual worth of this game - I'd never buy it for full price. update: after another 20 hours of playing, which puts me on 29hours in total, the game annoys me to no end. I finished the campaign and after the game started to kill me with boredom, I thought that at least I will go for all achievements. little did I know, there's an achievement for a multiplayer game which I don't think is achieveable, since there are no games to join. the campaign is short, plot is quite easy, there's a plot twist, but that's all. the game had a lot of potential that got wasted. the fact I won't be able to get all achievements because nobody plays this game is kind of a cherry on the top. I changed my review from 'yes' to 'no' with the recommendation. I'm still internally crying on how slow this game is and I have a feeling that this could have been fixed easily just by removing 2/3 of its flaws. UI looks pretty and these radial context menus look fancy until you have to use them - sending in forces from 6 pitch camps is pure torture. sending in a convincing force to make a coordinated attack is pure torture as well. the game tries to act like Majesty in terms of army control, but does it a lot worse. this makes not being able to directly control your units a real pain, especially when it goes to scouting and if you want to ommit something, then boy are you in a time to be disappointed... the single thing that didn't bite me a lot harder the more time I got into the game was the economy. you will have to deduce some details on your own, because the descriptions nor tutorials won't tell you about them, but once you know all of it, economy makes you feel relaxed with it, since it's so simple and smooth as long as you go with its rules.