A fantastic RTS!

The artstyle and music are phenomenal, even if there is not too much of either. The campaign is fantastic with loads of little secrets, hidden resource pickups, sidequests with good rewards and in-map interactions. There is a solid skirmish mode with a variety of maps and challenge maps, both single-player and multiplayer.

The story is intriguing, showing the Baltic crusades but with lots of Baltic mythology, while still showing Christianity in a fairly good light as well.

You have access to heroes with a bit of a skill tree, pick between 2 different abilities per level with stronger abilities at higher tiers. You can choose to sacrifice early power and save up skillpoints to pick more of the later abilities. Macro is a bit simplified compared to older RTS titles, you can auto-send workers to collect resources or build buildings with the press of a button, but you still need many buildings to have a high population cap, speed up your army and research, as well as boost your economy.

The micro is a high point, with some very interesting units, and fairly low army damage output, giving you lots of opportunities to lead away wounded units, use some abilities or retreat and regroup with reinforcements.

The game is not yet done, there is a commander missing and there are still a few missions planned for the campaign, but what is here already is of extremely high quality, one of the best RTS campaigns I have played!

Highly recommended, 9/10, a bit short, but 100% worth the asking price.

the positive: a very nice melt of age of mythology with warcraft, simple to get as well as simple the master. the resource system makes you wanna go and fight even if they have a resource cap, they dont have end on that. there is no micro required ll units cast their spells when required. good use for walls and towers and making units able to enter them like towers makes defense a bit better.
My critic: requires a bit more polished on the story , feals like it was cut into some parts specially from chapter 3 to 4. the relations betweens the gods are not explain in detail soo im not soo hooked to them. it feals on some of the races that required some siege units wich they dont have. some power on the gods feal either too simple or inefective (in my case the emo god doesnt feal that its sword lifesteal attack works as it use)
Final thoughts: for a small indie studio its beautifull, descently paste easy to learn and even for a rts easy to finish. but lacks a better campaign intro soo other players now how does building works or how to or why you should build certain buildings

An early access review:
Very good.

A great showcase of the team's passion. It does the right things to inspire trust on the (two people) dev team. For every streamlined aspect of gameplay it shows willingness to trust the player to experiment with the more unique systems.

My problem with some more recent entries in the genre is their artificial nature: they feel like they were designed to mimic starcraft's multiplayer scene with no room for the actual fantasy of it even in the campaign. This is the first one ive played in a while that evoked playing warcraft 3 for the first time.

Cant wait for the full release.