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• gamedeal user

  Jun 13, 2023

  This was such a fun game and it had so much potential. And after they released a map making tool I sure though that this game was going to manage to earn a place in my favourites tab... And then they abandoned it. The story/campaign was never finished and the devs cut and ran. After scrolling through my library and seeing this still in it, I was hit with some nostalgia but ultimately just felt disappointed. Save your money. Don't support people who don't complete projects that they were paid for.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 25, 2017

  [h1] First Impressions [/h1] After about five hours of gameplay, I'm through the first four quests, I've been in maybe fifteen battles, and I'm thoroughly enjoying myself! The mechanics are not quite like any game I've played before. Most of your time is spent in battles, which occur in turn-based fashion on a tile-based battlefield. Your characters belong to different classes (Vanguard, Valkyrie, etc), and each one has a unique set of abilities (including various different melee attacks, ranged attacks, heals, buffs, damage over time, area of effect spells, etc), new ones being unlocked as they level up. The battles demand quite a bit of tactical cleverness, and so far, each battle feels unique. It's like chess but, you know, cooler, and with vikings. The rest of the time you're voyaging the seas or in Norhaven trading in loot, recruiting new characters, and upgrading your ship. Aesthetically, the game is polished and very charming. The sound is clean, the writing is clever, and the art style strikes a nice balance between cuteness and badassery. Many times I found myself grinning at the quotes in the loading screens and grunting along with my vikings as they struck down their enemies. The developers have clearly paid attention to detail. I don't have much of anything negative to say about this game so far. It looks great, plays smooth, is light in its tone but surprisingly deep in its tactics, and is just a darn fun turn-based tactics game! A solid 5/5 from me. Nice work, Crashwave! [h1] Response to JimDeadlock's review: [/h1] You're right, it doesn't take long for the game to stop being easy. Personally, I'm enjoying the difficulty level. I haven't had any comparable setbacks (having to backtrack to a previous quest, renew my roster of vikings entirely, etc), but I've had some close calls, and I have lost two level 2 vikings (which stung!). I'm liking the fact that I encountered tough battles and real consequences pretty quick. [h1] Tips for new players [/h1] - Your vikings are valuable, especially those above level 1! Try not to get them killed - Pay attention to healing spells! Pick up a second healer from the Great Hall as soon as you can - You can run from battles! If you're getting overwhelmed, running away is a better idea than dying. Go level up and come back later - Pay attention to the suggested crew for the quest you're embarking on. Don't bite off more than you can chew... - Be careful about spreading your vikings out in battle... learn their abilities (so far I haven't found any that weren't useful) and have them stick together and support each other Happy gaming :)
• gamedeal user

  Jul 26, 2017

  This is a great little game. If you enjoy turn-based combat, give Iron Tides a try. The abilities for your units are varied and interesting. Combat is fun, and you'll be fighting 90% of the time. Jumping across impassable terrain with my Valkyrie, having my Vanguard buff her with an extra move to spear the flanked enemy to death is genuinely satisfying. There is an enjoyable depth to the combat. You'll be constantly figuring out what sequence of actions will be best. My favourite example of this is the Beserker. He lands a critical strike every first turn of the match, gains action points when killing a bleeding enemy, and gains health when he lands the killing blow. I use this guy like a self-healing bowling ball. I'm excited and hopeful to see a less linear character progression system, to customise my units based on their role (for example, one Valkyrie has a jump ability to flank as mentioned, and another has a HUGE aoe heal). I'm also hopeful for more classes. If anything, the combat is too easy. I have sailed through the campaign so far--no pun intended--with little resistance. The AI often outnumbers you, but you are given many more action points per turn. The enemy always flow towards your units, and they'll flow at different rates. This is easily exploited by defending choke points and picking them off one by one. I look forward to a more hardcore/ironman mode, where perhaps my units have less action points. To be critical to a degree most will think ridiculous, the opening text would benefit from a rewrite. The word "grew" is used five times in short succession, which I found distracting. Great game so far. Get it.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 12, 2017

  This is a great game. I normally play big productions like Rome II or the Civilization series but I found that this quaint little game is just as enjoyable. I really look forward to all the new features and levels. Thanks!
• gamedeal user

  Aug 28, 2017

  what a great game!! a must have for all vikings
• gamedeal user

  Sep 15, 2017

  A light tactical game with enough interesting and varied elements to keep you engaged without straining your brain or making you resort to obsessive record keeping or number crunching. Randomly generated side missions let you proceed at you own pace, giving you time to learn the game and improve your party before proceeding along the main quest line. The character mechanics are interesting. Characters are generated with randomized skillsets that you unlock with experience. Each character gets four active combat skills ( randomized ) and then a larger list of passive skills ( also randomized ). The passive skills provide benefits like more health, increased accuracy, critical chance, etc. Travel is by longboat which you can upgrade to improve character stats and also other game mechanics like food consumption and inventory size. The system is surprisingly intuitive and the different character classes work well together. The randomized skills lead you to inventive tactical parings. Battlefields vary as does team placement and allowed team size. Before the battle starts, you get to choose which members from your longboat to bring and where to place them. This adds another layer of strategy to the experience as you can see your opponents and their placement. Character death is permanent, but the loss of a party member is not a catastrophic blow to proceeding along the quest line. You can recruit new heroes at your main camp after each mission. Game difficulty is up to the player. Not only is there a difficulty setting in the options menu, but you can choose to tackle missions with a smaller size party than recommended, or use party members of a lower level. You can grind random missions for experience, or not. The overall effect is a feeling of freedom to play the game as you want to play it without the constraints of an Orwellian master plan you will be punished for not following. I'm really enjoying the experience and looking forward to the full game release. If you're searching for an engaging tactical game in a Viking setting, give Iron Tides a try.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 11, 2018

  Pros: + Nice atmosphere, + good writing + good music, + proper Vikings culture, + fun warrior voices + neat character progression makes me want to see this game completed. Cons: - Poor tactical scope. - Fights become too repetitive, because of simplistic square-based battleground, - most fighters cannot attack diagonally, just like in chess. - Screen shake strains the eyes - Small fonts all over the place, but the worst are the character sheets: if a character is a veteran with lots of skills, the fonts become even smaller toward microscopic, in order to list all their talents in the already smallish, pop-up sized character sheet window. - On the battlefield the leftmost row - where the players viking party sometimes begins the fight - usually remains almost off-screen: good luck reordering your fighters strategically, when you can't see, which fighter is there, they are pushed off-screen, without the option to zoom out the camera to see everybody perfectly. I love character development and progression in turn-based RPGs, that offer lots of reasons to play and invite to come back for more: I adore reading character sheets, skills and weapons descriptions, because its exciting to witness my fighters become stronger and watch their skills develop. In battle reading the enemy fighters' skills and my warriors' skills is crucial for successful tactics on hardest difficulty levels. This would give the real taste for this nicely developing game ==> ==> Unfortunately the small and - on the character sheets - tiny-microscopic fonts give me eyestrain and **headache** even with glasses after about 15 minutes. When I come home, tired from work, I want a leisure activity, to play a game offering unrestricted fun, where tactical descriptions are displayed in a proper size and I can read them effortlessly, almost without looking or squinting, so playing a game remains a leisure time and doesn't become a struggle. I would even wait for the developers to -- maybe -- listen to a suggestion to increase their truly small font size - which probably needs some pop-up window resizing. However the developer did not respond to these forums for six months. It appears only the community manager is active, relaying player requests. I understand early access too. But if a game gives me a splitting headache after 15 minutes of play, I cannot recommend it to older players. Not every turn-based fan is young nowadays. :(
• gamedeal user

  Oct 1, 2018

  Abandonware. Once it was a very promising turn-based game. There is no new content since winter 2017. Avoid this game and save your money.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 13, 2018

  The fights are repetative but the game seems interesting. No updates in 10 months though so it looks abandoned and I am getting a refund.