Varthos - Heir to the Throne

so.. im going to recommend this game based on a couple things. for one thing the dev kept their word and added controller support, you dont get that very often. on top of that once you get the hang of whats going on its actually a fun game even in early access. i think a lot of the older reviews on steam from early access games should probably be removed after a while because they pertain to the product in the past, (ver.0.0.001 vs. ver.0.5.06) like progress HAS been made, the devs are not only active but reachable. i dont think its meant to be an "easy" game and as such i dont expect to never die (you are actually rewarded for dying up to a point). little by little you get stronger until you start beating levels and then difficulties. im told more features are coming which im sure will be interesting, lots more to unlock. the skills/spells are on the weapons which is nice too because the right weapon can change your playstyle drastically without being entirely alien. ive had a lot of fun with it knowing its only in early access. i wouldnt take TOO seriously reviews that are old or from people who only played for less than an hour (they didnt learn the game). try it yourself, it…

I gave it a shot and as of now i can't recommend it. The graphic style looks like an early 2008 game. The fights feel weird and sluggish you see that you did X amount of dmg towards the enemy but the HP bar doesn't go down till 2 seconds later and it makes you feel like you're hitting the enemies with a sponge that could probably even heal the enemies instead of damaging em. The World feels empty and boring and out of the sudden you're getting attacked by spiders, wolves, orcs or skeletons. The level design made me wanna quit already after 5 minutes max out of boredom there are no real goals you just get randomly XYZ item drop and then it might be better or might not be. Maybe try polishing the UI more by changing the weapon stats colors. -If you hover over em and the weapon has worse stats than your current one make the values display in RED if they are better than your current one make em GREEN. -Add a Enemies left Counter in the top left so so you know when its over. -Add a Rooms out of Counter in the top left so you know how many rooms in total you cleared. (currently it feels like an infinite boredom chamber) -For the level Design i would say try adding small OBJs into th…

Liking the game a lot, I still feel newbie, managed to finish dungeon only once, it has small learning curve for sure and if you will go with hack & slash mind to this game... you may be surprised. This feels way more like roguelite game, combat is very unforgiving and if you are unlucky with loot or distributing stat points wrongly - you will lose. I feel like game is really addictive tho, after every defeat I wanted go back to it anyway and didn't usually feel frustrated. Overall game feels straight-forward too, it doesn't have story, stats are easy to get used to, so it focuses on gameplay and delivers here - its simply fun. Even if it has level scaling with enemies, you can easily feel progress sometimes when acquiring new shiny piece of equipment. And there is a lot of loot, actually one of game's mechanic is "extraction", so you can stash your best inventory for future runs in rare chests (usually guarded with very hard elite enemies). Game has some problems like bug with very similar dungeon layouts (I asked devs on Discord and they know about it), warrior class for solo players felt very, very hard, too hard even, but maybe it's skill issue. And for now only two biomes, b…

Interesting setting and game idea. Like it.

VERY ENJOYABLE GAME

Enjoy playing the game!