Blacksmith Simulator (Potato Games)

20 something years ago, when LoTR movie was released (the first one, Fellowship) all of my classmates were pretending to be elves. I, from other hand, was dreaming of growing a long beard and finding a big axe... That's one way to say that i love mining and smiting. Since the days of "Ultima Online" i was spending time mining Valurite and collecting BODs... Anyway... Blacksmith Simulator is, well, business sim of medieval blacksmith. What did you expected? Well...what i didn't expected was my character to stuck during the tutorial. Twice. Another thing that i did not expected was the "Unstuck" button in the menu to be not working... Anyway, three is the charm, so i managed to finish the tutorial from my third attempt and actually started the game. It's a... Ok, so take an ingot of Ugly-but-at-least-optimized graphics, put it in the forge of Repetitive Quicktime Events and when it's melted smash it on the anvil of Barebones Gameplay. With other words, the blacksmith simulators are REALLY niche games and yet, i can name two games that are better than this one. Which is kinda sad. Anyway, it's not terrible and the achievements list looks easy, so probably i will keep playing it at …

This has potential, but it needs some polish. -So far, can't see what handles you have in your inventory. -There's also some bugs that seem to need some polishing -Could use some explanation of some things like the customer is not the only one you can sell things to. The knight by the mine will buy ores, ingots, swords...maybe more. He mentions the finest meats but he won't buy the raw meat and I can't figure out how to cook it.

Unfortunately, this appears to be a shameless asset flip money grab. The game is full of bugs and has basically no variety to the gameplay loop. And unfortunately the developer seems to have gone radio silent both on steam and on their own discord.

Game is definitely early early access, textures are buggy at best like why is there a pile of dirt stuck to the ceiling of out forge/house. plus as another stated why only give us access to the grindstone and the oil barrel during the tutorial without any sort of indication that we would need to actually upgrade it in order to use it like that makes absolutely no sense at all. I got it on sale and even that doesn't make me want to keep it on my steam so definitely going to refund it, would NOT recommend wasting the money on this.

Nice graphics, good mechanics and fun.

game needs work in my opinion its is like a worse fantasy black smith with a more open world. but with more work I believe it will be a good game that will be worth playing.