Regions of Ruin: Runegate

I really want to like this game, but it suffers from the same problem as Sons of Valhalla, the game loop isn't enjoyable enough and the game is a buggy mess. there are plenty of things that are frustrating, like heading back into the map from wherever in the Dwarf hold, and I can't see my resources until I go to manage workers. theres no clear indication of what's going on in many of the locations. and the blacksmith guy is stuck in a jump loop. I've played for 6 hours and it's getting increasingly worse. C'mon guys fix them.

FOR THE DEVS: As soon as the GLARING issues are fixed, I will change this review to an in-depth positive one explaining everything good about the game. I love this game series. I love the original, I love what the devs with this one. This game could be amazing, maybe it even is. I wouldn't know though, because it's currently borderline unplayable. The ice skating movement is bad enough, even after their initial "fix", which only limited it so it doesn't scale too much with your movement speed. Gone is the precise movement of the original, now you're sliding everywhere, even when not sprinting. This combines with the second, and bigger, issue, to make the game an absolute pain to view and navigate, and it's a HUGE accessibility issue. The camera movements are atrocious. They are smooth, sure, and they look nice, but the swinging and swaying of it is nausea-inducing, and turns complex fights into utter guesswork - I have to close my eyes and imagine where the enemies are, because if I'm dodging and jumping and looking at the screen, I'll throw up. This is a 2D metroidvania RPG with soulslike elements. You NEED precision. You NEED predictable movement and clear vision. Save the p…

The combat (which is 80% of the game) is not at all appealing to me. Either way you skill useless stuff like throwing your weapon away or dashing in the midst of enemy hordes and you will have a bad time or just heavy stun lock attack everyone, making this game a cookie clicker basically. It got so easy and boring i restarted and went other skill points, just to get disappointed (as mentioned above). even using a combat option thats far worse just to make the game challenging is not feeling satisfying at all.

getting rick rolled instead of actual content - pretty funny

Did not care for the story, game is not long enough, did not feel skills/crafting having enough impact. Combat is quite boring as well.

Funny little game, way to short for the price. That said: could be inproved a lot on the content side with not too much effort.