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Epic soundtrack. 🦇

If you enjoy the game, all the DLC's are a must have to add to the collection.

If you enjoy the game, all the DLC's are a must have to add to the collection.

If you enjoy the game, all the DLC's are a must have to add to the collection.

If you enjoy the game, all the DLC's are a must have to add to the collection.

If you enjoy the game, all the DLC's are a must have to add to the collection.

I received this game as a gift from a friend online who just found out that the game is no longer playable offline. I'm grateful, it's a great game and series as I played the first one growing up. But I cannot recommend this game because people don't own games when it requires you to be online at all times to play it. If they change it, I'll recommend it.

If Skyrim, Valheim and V Rising had a baby, this is the outcome. Great game.

General Early Access Thoughts : Whoever said they completed it in 100 hours or less is lying. Or they just didn't care for the building aspect and only built a shack with whatever necessities they needed. As of now, the game has plenty of quests you can get just by starting the game, getting them from NPC's or finding locations.

The saves are stored on your local drive but are somehow tied to their servers. So if you go completely offline and try to load up your private server and character save, it'll act like you have no world or character save. Wanting you to start a new character and world. This needs to fixed so players fully own their saves for those who want to play solo on private servers. Or want to play offline.

Open World : The open world is beautiful and vast. Each location makes you feel like your discovering a different climate with different wildlife, enemies and plantations for resource gathering. When not fast traveling, gliding from location to location is fun. Especially when gliding with others by your side. Swooping down to your destination to do battle.

Even in early access, it still feels full of life, but it could use a little more love. You can look in all directions and see a "man-made" structure that will spark your curiosity enough to go check it out. Most times finding rewarding discoveries. Almost the whole world can be destroyed and built upon besides main locations, which makes sense, so players don't skip locked doors and switches by blowing a hole through the wall or digging their way through.

Enemies : The enemies vary in difficulty, strategy and type, depending on climate or location. Of course, when starting off, the enemies are difficult in easy locations. Even at a level cap max of 25 Wizard, I fight enemies that are challenging and entertaining. But when you visit locations that are easy that used to be hard, it's like you can run up and punch them and they die in one hit. Maybe some kind of enemy progression would be nice, so they are difficult according to your character level.

Building : You decide where you want to build. Outside, or dig caves and caverns in a mountain. If you love to build like I do, there's an assortment of a variety of different blocks to choose from for walls, floors and roofs. Some vanity decorations are just for looks. Others offer a comfort level. Allowing you to return home from a quest so that your player can replenish his or her comfort level to be ready for another adventure. I could spend 3,000 hours just building my own homestead to make it cool looking and beautiful.

Crafting : Pretty straight forward. You can craft by yourself with resources found in the world. Or you can rescue NPC's in which each has their specialty. Blacksmith, alchemy, hunter, carpenter and farmer. They craft little when rescued, but enough to help you feel rewarded. Each NPC comes with quests that can benefit the NPC and the player. Upgrading their crafting stations with additions. Unlocking better crafts. Weapons, potions, armor, food and items for your homestead.

Skill Tree : Similar to the Skyrim skill tree layout but with a little more freedom to really customize what type of character you really want to create. There are a variety of classes of skill tree's to choose from, but you can mix and match them as desired providing you have the points to unlock them. Mine is mostly wizard mixed with battle mage.

Each class skill tree has abilities which can enhance combat, defense, travel and resource gathering. I have not browsed all of them yet because I mainly focus on wizards and mages in games.

Combat : You have long-ranged weapons like bows, wands and staffs. Short-ranged weapons like swords, axes, maces and more. Being a wizard, you are offered a long staff which has no blocking capability, which you can unlock teleport skills to dodge attacks or plan your next move. Or just switch to wand and shield. Defending a block with a shield uses stamina, so you want to watch the meter. You can also parry or stun enemies, leaving them vulnerable so you can perform a lethal attack.

Combat can vary depending on the skill you unlock according to your class build. Unlocking the special abilities mentioned above.

Conclusion : More love is needed and I'm sure more love it'll get. I recommend this game even at early access. I'll edit this review when the game is completed and out of early access.

Have fun Flameborns. =)

You establish a homestead, collect or hunt pals. You level up and are able to unlock skills and crafting materials. You can ride and fly with these pals. Even treat them like servants to help you gather and craft materials. They also protect your homestead. Cave systems, boss battles, a beautiful open world and more. The more you level up, collect some fierce-looking high-ranked pals, the better and better the game gets.

Can't wait to see what the complete version will entail.

Reminds me of Pokemon meets Valheim.

If you enjoy the game, all the DLC's are a must have to add to the collection.