Spawn Kings

Alright. Im going to start this off by saying i dont do reviews. Never have, but i may start more with these indie titles. Im going to run thru everything that ive seen good, bad, and needs work, in hopes that the dev may see this and take some notes. First and foremost. This is a FREE GAME. The dev has NO obligation to do anything else with it if they so choose. The game is NOT listed as an early access game, which means everyone should take it as a completed project. So, anyone who sees this game should go into it with absolutely no expectation or bar. You will be disappointed otherwise. Ive only put a little under 3 hours into the game because unfortunately that is ALL there is to offer at the moment. So lets get into the good, bad and ugly of the game. Good: -Graphics are surprisingly crisp for a free game. Movement can be a bit sluggish at times because of quick spinning, but otherwise, spot on for free. -Sound is moderate. Its interesting at the first few minutes, but gets to be boring and otherwise useless after. -Music is generic. Soothing backdrop melody when roaming around, and only a bit more agitated when in a fight. So not bad, again, for a free game. -Monsters and…

The E to open works most of the time but stops working sometimes. game is fun but gets boring fast.

"Spawn Kings" is a third person action/turn based hybrid RPG where you run around and "fight" monsters and things. Run around in third person, then engage monsters with lame JRPG style turn baed combat. The whole thing looks like it was assembled by throwing a bunch of Unity Asset Store assets in a blender, the models are all mismatched with varying degrees of quality. Some things look like the more expensive asset store assets, the trees and rocks are low poly jokes... it's a visual mess. There's an ugly screen filter on high quality you can't turn off without disabling all the other UI features because the developer couldn't work out how to enable finer grained graphics customisation. This feels really unpolished and unfinished, so I was surprised to see this isn't still in Early Access but is apparently a "finished" game. The game isn't completely free, either. Going some way to excuse the poor quality of the game, the developer made this free to download but they have an expectation that players will provide them a financial donation. The quality here is simply too low to recommend.

3/10 A seemingly in-development bare-bones RPG. Good: - the 3D models and the textures are quite nice. The environment looks great, especially for a free indie game. Trees and other objects have a black contour (post-processing?) which adds a certain style - the music is fine So-so: - it seems to have the common RPG elements like an inventory, quests, crafting, trading with a vendor and battling monsters. But there is no story (?). The starting cutscene shows some planet and ends with "tyrannies" but it's unclear what's all about - 2D art of the UI is passable but not great Bad: - mouse cursor disappears at random. E.g. when I first launched the game it wasn't shown and I had to navigate menus with WASD. During the game the cursor would sometimes appear and sometimes disappear. Also, initially the mouse controls the character's facing. But then suddenly it worked like in WoW: drag left mouse to rotate the character. I don't know, it's just broken - the fonts are atrocious: there is some Gothic-style font used for longer texts that's too hard to read (e.g. the first quest is just a huge single paragraph). In other places it's standard Arial (?). Also, text labels don't fit the di…

[h1]Before I played Spawn Kings, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

Spawn Kings is a really neat free single player game, I'm a big fan of the turn based combat. Love the party system where members of your party actually appear in the world and run around the world with you, that is so cool and awesome! A minor suggestion I have is to allow the player to name their heroes and party members once they have joined. This game reminds me if World of Warcraft was single player w/ Turn Based Combat. It has quests, gear, loot, party member who you collect and unlock plus its turn based. I look forward to this games future updates.