Dwarf Guild Mania

At time of writing (other than this one), this game has 5 total reviews (4 English, 1 chinese). All of them are positive. 3 of them have 0.6 hours total playtime, and the other 2 have 0.2 hours ptotal playtime. No one who "recommends this game" has played more than 40 minutes. OF A 4X GAME!!! These are fake reviews, there is no other possibilities, these are fake reviews to bolster a slapdash product. DO NOT buy this game! And even ignoring that, this game is just bad. I played the full tutorial, then played a regular match, and ran out of stuff to do after not even 10 minutes. The game stopped me from being able to sell gemstones, despite the fact that I clearly had them in storage. Either this was a glitch which seems obvious to encounter, or the game is so poor at tutorialising the player (me) that I got softlocked. Either way, this sucks. And that's all you can do too. You prospect an area, start mining gemstones, sell those gemstones, build a single fortress, and that's it. No combat, no discovery, not relationships with other civilisations, not even any interesting random encounters. Nothing.

This is fun, but it's missing a lot. The recruiting mechanic especially, Like 10 turns to recruit one dude that have six charges of abilites that are 5-6 turns each? You max out in the number of units you are managing really quickly, and are conseqentially forced to just wait for vast swaths of the game.

Ton of fun. Mixes great parts of Civ and paradox games while still bring its own unique game. I really like creating my own guild, flag, and ideologies (religious slavers is my favorite). By the time i have big trade networks in a few towns as well as a pretty big mining empire, the amount of money I make in turn is VERY satisfying. 10/10 would recommend.

The beginnings of something cool. The soundtrack is evocative and the 3D art is minimal yet expressive. I'd love to see more unit animations so I can understand at a glance what each unit is doing, and unique on-click audio per unit would help each dwarf feel distinct. The UI's visual design integrates nicely with the world — the pixel art icons are particularly strong. The game's biggest issue is communicating its state to the player. Successful systems-driven games consistently and unambiguously surface their state to the player, and also help them understand the actions they can take at any given time. Right now, Dwarf Guild Mania doesn't successfully explain what numbers mean or what the player can / should do on each turn. Audio cues, explanatory tooltips in the UI, and in-world alerts for significant events would go a long way toward delivering a comprehensible experience. The tutorial needs significant refinement too. The action required to advance should be highlighted in the UI and/or the game world, and tutorial modals and tooltips should open automatically at each stage. As it stands, the tutorial doesn't cover the full set of mechanics and is frustrating to play thro…

For the price, it's definetly worth trying out