Recent reviews by Slunko

Fun games, but the performance issues are real. We got a pack with 3 of us, and all three have our PCs melting down in one way or another with this game and nothing else. I'd avoid it, despite it being interesting.

25 hours to finish what scenarios there are currently, so here's my review of that.

It's Settlers 3 updated, minus the army. It's a promising start but not even close to the final product. A lot of polish is yet needed.

But if you want to support the game as it develops, it's very, very promising and our best chance of ever seeing Settlers V.

I've gone back and forth on this. The game was buggy, but the atmosphere was great, so I figured I'd overlook A LOT of them. But then chapter 4 and 5 happened.

The game is nothing short of unfinished. It may seem great at first, but last two chapters have a score of game-breaking bugs so you can't actually progress and finish the damn thing. Despite how good some aspects might be, this sort of product should not be sold. Shameful. Exploitative. Inexcusable. You can't actually finish the damn thing, which is at least for me even worse, since by then you actually get invested into the whole damn ordeal.





The first Owlcat game that didn't release broken.

Only two bugs so far in 35 hours. It'll melt your GPU on high settings for some reason, but even if you dump the graphic presets it'll look about the same, so that's fine.

Other than that, the game is good. The setting is good. The whole thing is true to the lore. There's no modern nonsense in it that'll disrupt the experience. There's just a good warhammer 40k game. And there are very few of those out there. If something changes as I keep playing, I'll update the review, but up to chapter 2, I'm enjoying it and find it worth the price. Highly recommended.


Well Never Bloody Mind. The most important class (officer) has his main ability that grants extra turns broken so that it locks you in a never-ending loop of officer pre-turns. There's your game-breaking bug. I suppose you technically -can- play without any officers or without their cornerstone talent, but it really feels like you shouldn't. And yes, this happens EVERY combat.

You know what, no, screw it. Despite the gamebreaking bugs. It's a good damn game. Probably the best 40k game made so far. Yes, better than Dawn of War 1. You can get past most of the bugs with mods and despite it being somewhat broken, I'd still recommend it.

So yea, the price hike. We get to pay more for less. Fine. Whatever. I was upset, but not enough to not buy into the Changeling hype.

But here's the thing. Even if I overlook all the unfixed bugs, the company threatening me to buy their stuff -or else-... The Changeling campaign ends up being completely damn pointless.

Mechanics are fun. Tzeentch units are fun. But here's the kicker. Your army is hidden. Always. The AI CAN NOT attack you unless you really go out of your way to die. Same goes for your cults (which are your settlements). Unless you're really trying to loose, you literally cant. So yea. I've won my campaign the moment I started it. So I keep asking myself "What's the point of playing it then?"
There's no stakes, no reason to ever play beyond turn 1 where you've already won it.

I really thought I'd love the changeling, and I mean... I kinda do, but there's just no reason to play the damn campaign.

Oh and there's also some crap for Kislev and Cathay, but it's all beyond trashy. Honestly, if I cared at all about those factions I'd be offended.

Changing review to negative until the horrible RNG patch is reversed. It goes from a great game to rng trash.

If you wanted Baldur's Gate 3, this ain't it, chief. If you wanted Divinity 3, yep, go right for it. Because that's what it is, barrels, poison vents, leaping and jank "flying" included.

...oh and there's a lot of kink. Very... odd kink. But hey, it is the current year, so I guess I am the weird one here.


Edit after a good 120 hours:
- The kink seems just poorly coded so if you were like me and didn't rest often, all the romance stuff gets dumped onto you by a certain point in chapter 1 which makes it seem ridiculous as pretty much everything is trying to bang the player all at once. There isn't as much sexual content after that point. At least there isn't any if you're not actively looking for it.

- More importantly however, in typical Larian fashion, the final chapter remains unfinished and generally a buggy mess. All the positive buzz you see about the game is mostly from people who didn't get that far.

In short, wait for the Definitive Edition.

One of the best city builders with a rogue-like twist. Highly recommended. Though It's not a game where you can lean back and chill. It requires focus and quite some thought put into every match.

Screw this game.

It's a "strategy" game where you have to make your every move count. You keep losing cards and eventually you'll run out for a game over. The difficulty is pretty rough, so you really have to think about how to avoid taking any damage while still dealing some in return and possibly controlling some enemies and so on. So you stare at your deck, at the enemy, calculate the best possible scenario, plan a few moves ahead even, ready up and then the game decides that nope, this turn all of the melee mobs will throw daggers instead and your whole plan goes tits up.
And then the same ♥♥♥♥ happens the next turn after, except now a bandit decides to multiclass into a necromancer and summon a skeleton instead of being a bandit, because why not. So I wonder what the point of having a strategy even is.

Oh and then there's the campaign, full of random "fun" encounters where you get two arbitrary answers to a pointless scenario and both of them lead you down towards the game kicking you in the nuts irregardless of what you picked. Fun.

I really tried to enjoy this game, but I firmly believe that it was made by people who actually hate fun and want their players to be as miserable as humanly possible.

Yea, just no.

I wanted to love this game. I really tried. I watched guides, I've grinded for most of my hours playing this game, but the sad reality is that you're either forever stuck farming low tier safe zones which gets really mind-numblingly repetitive, or you'll head out into full pvp zones where you'll get scouted or have your location pinged by hackers. Moments later, a full zerg will descend on you to stomp you and take your ♥♥♥♥♥♥ gear because why not, git gud scrub.
No matter how much you farm in your safe zones and no matter how good or geared you are, you're not surviving getting zerged. So then you're left with more mind-numbing farm to try again and get zerged again. Because that's what Albion is. Zergs deleting solo players over and over again. But hey, at least you can swipe a credit card to buy new gear if you want to skip hours of farming to replace your stuff!

Or hey, you can try and join a guild where you'll work as a mindless worker drone so that a guild master can profit off of you.

And don't even try trusting randoms in this game to team up. They'll backstab you and lure you into their friendly zerg every time where they'll stomp you and take your stuff.

In short... as a new player? Stay away from this game unless you really, really, really love running in circles on the same three maps, picking up stones. And even then, it's hundreds of players doing the same for some reason, so... I guess if that's something you really love doing, have at it. Everything else? Nah. You're not getting anything but frustration from this game.