Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come
NeocoreGames · 2009 · Strategy, Medieval, Singleplayer, Historical
PC
Mixed54% · 41 📉 Recent reviews down 45%
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About Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come
It all happened in the darkest century of the medieval Europe, when a visionary Pope ignited the flames of the first crusade and united the rivaling nations for one single cause: to conquer the Holy Land. Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come tells the challenging, mission-to-mission story of this great campaign through the eye of a chosen knight, and chronicles his struggles to rise higher among the ranks, gaining power and wealth on the road from Constantinople to Jerusalem.
- Heroes — Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come offers five notable personalities to choose from, from the five great nations of medieval Europe, each of them with different background, wealth, fighting skills, goals and dreams. The gradual development of the focus character must be familiar from the RPGs: he gains experience, ranks, gets stronger and more effective. Each hero has a different set of skills, which makes every hero different, even the ones from the same nationality if one decides to play the game again from the very beginning. The different skills and starting resources of the five main heroes require various tactics in the battles and offer numerous ways to the final victory.
- Huge armies on huge battlefields — Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come offers highly varied terrains that evoke the atmosphere of the faraway lands where the crusaders marched towards Jerusalem – from the Mediterranean pine forests to the barren rock deserts of the Holy Land. The topographic elements (hills, valleys, slopes etc) heavily influence the tactics and the outcome of the battles. It is also the first RTS where physics is one of the most important factors in the game (where rocks tumble down on the slopes, crushing into the ranks of the enemy and send enemy soldiers flying and sprawling on the ground and so on.) Weather conditions and visibility change dynamically, which is not solely a visual element, but it also affects the gameplay, specifically the abilities of the different units and the outcome of their actions.
- Management — The Management phase is set between missions. The management screen offers various ways to manage the troops, deal with supporting characters, upgrade heroes, spend the acquired ducats or distribute weaponry among the troops and assemble the army for the next battle. The growing army of the hero gets stronger and deadlier after each battle. Soldiers gain experience (just like in the legendary Panzers) and players buy skills for them as well. After several battles with the same old bands of soldiers players tend to treat their veterans more carefully then in most RTS games, which has a strong impact on the tactics as well.
- Factions — The crusader army in the game is about just as divided as it had been historically. The various power groups of the army are called factions, each with a strong nation in charge and they all offer various submissions for their allies. Players should be careful which the faction they prefer, as they forge ties with one nation they slowly exclude the others; however, a faithful ally will get precious rewards like ducats, special units and skills and finally a new, unique hero.
- Faith and Relics — In Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come Faith is an idealized concept of the religious background that sparked and legitimized the military campaign. Faith has strong impact on the overall morale. Christian relics have strong relations with the Faith score: the higher a hero’s Faith is, the more effective these relics boost their abilities. Each hero starts with a unique Faith score that can grow or decrease during the game, depending on his decisions.
- Historical Authenticity — Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come wants to be as faithful to the chosen historical era as it is possible in a computer game, which requires some restrictions and necessary modifications. With a colorful cast of supporting characters we present existing historical personalities from the era as antagonists, allies or vassals.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Worst crusader game ever. Archers refuse to fire when commanded to do so. Melee combat is slow and no way to flank enemies, they just stare at the enemies. Hard to pick a faction, no indication on what their strength or weaknesses are.4 found this helpful
[h1][i]“To Jerusalem, we pray It's time to meet you there~ 🎶”[/i] ~Alphaville[/h1] In June 2000, something cool happened – Creative Assembly released Shōgun: Total War. Why was it so important? Well, because Creative Assembly finally made it absolutely clear – one genre is just not enough anymore. Nowadays, games that combine different elements from various genres are rather common. Action games, for example, often include stealth parts, while real-time strategies incorporate a lot of the RPG elements. We take it for granted today, but even despite the fact that there were tons of the experiments before, the mainstream gaming was pretty strict. This here is, say, Sid Meier's Civilization with its grand strategy map, while this here is BUNGiE's Myth. Which is strictly tactics. Now, Shōgun? It combined both. The grand strategy screen allowed us to recruit units, manage the economy and taxes, deploy ninjas, trade, etc. And when the diplomacy failed (it a-a-always does), there was a time for tactical battles. People loved that, and up to this day, the Total War franchise is doing really well. What's funny, though, is that Creative Assembly wasn't the first to make such a game. Say wh…3 found this helpful
Terrible game, units walk extremely slow, not even fast forward makes a difference. Game crashed 2 times in the first hour of playing and i didnt have a chance to save so all progress lost.2 found this helpful
The pace in battles is painfully slow, and gamespeed can only be increased to 2x. I feel like they did this on purpose to draw out the game. Had amazing potential especially for the time, sad result.2 found this helpful
Cant be played anymore because of drivers issues.1 found this helpful
I love these games by Neocore. The camera is a bit wonky.
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