Stronghold: Caverns of Sorcery

Looking for a character driven story? Well despite the beginning where you're introduced to an established friend group and the numerous relationship stats bogging down the stat page, this is not it. Sometimes it even feels like the game forgets the side characters exist! You have no meaningful interactions with them outside of designated spots in the story that stops the plot progression to the point it feels like you have be removed from it entirely just to talk to the characters. They don't interact with the plot elements in any meaningful way. They don't comment on the events in any meaningful way or share insight. How does the story affect them? No idea! Fox will tell you how they like fungi though! How does this get represented in the story itself? It doesn't! You don't get group interactions. While in the story itself you may get one or two lines of dialogue from the characters per point in they story, they don't make me feel any sort of way about them. They just sort of... happen? Like I thought I was going to get a story about a friend group that is shaped and or affected by the events of the story in some way, but there are no characters arcs for the side characters outs…

You guys need to release these games with chapter checkpoints, like many of your contemporaries do. Its so frustrating to fail checks because of how vaguely you decide to word a choice.

This game is as dull as the original and feels very.. forced for lack of better term. Don’t recommend.

Although I enjoyed the first game, I didn't liked the story of the second one, after a few hours of playing it, I stopped.

Good

love it