Zoria: Age of Shattering

This is a standard fantasy CRPG with turn based squad combat. You have classes that roughly fall into categories of tank, ranged and melee damge dealers, and ranged and melee healers. Every class has a combat role it's best at, but they can all fill in other roles as well. There are companions with particular plot lines, but personalities are limited and the plot lines are not essential for the bulk of the game. There is crafting that you can take or leave. Armor building is probably the most important crafting, with potions coming in second, and food a distant 3rd. If you play at higher difficulty than I did, you might need to pay more attention to crafting. You can also build up a base where you can acquire and level squad members that you can substitute in for different mission, upgrade your crafting, gain access to extra quests. You may find that your initial companions are less functional in certain situations and the substitution can be helpful but it comes at the price of having the companions you leave out leveling more slowly. The plot is pretty standard fare. You are a commander in a newer kingdom, dealing with bandits and other monsters, defending villages, ente…

Big fan of turn based RPGs, saw this in the shop and was hyped to give it a go. Downloaded the game, saw that there's a class you can buy as DLC. Back to the store you go. Wonder how long it will take for devs/companies to try normalizing paywalling gameplay mechanics.

I played the Demo when that came out and it was awful. So I stayed away from buying the full game for years. But I actually enjoyed the full game until roughly the halfway mark. It becomes just too easy once you realise that drops are completely worthless and every green crafted item is better than drop/shop items 10 levels higher. Combat becomes tedious and boring at that point because your base stats outscale your skill scaling so much that autoattacking becomes better than any skill/buff you could use. The story is way too selfserious for me and it overstayed it's welcome with the end of chapter 4. I still give the game a thumbsup because we should have many more of these games that at least try to be good. This game would have been very good if it had the budget to get balance and pacing right but I can't and won't expect more from such a small team.

On the whole, worth it for the price. Save often, as it has bugs. If you have a case of FOMO like me, go slow and push Tab often as a lot of loot won't show up otherwise. The skill trees are interesting. There are enough quests to keep it fun. The graphics are nice, though they can be obtrusive, obscuring important parts of the main map.

This is a fun game to play, well worth the minimal asking price. Pay once, play forever - my favorite kind of game! The graphics aren't top-tier, but certainly not the worst I've played. Better than 8-bit for sure. The storyline is fun to follow, and there's no lack of quests to keep you busy. Definitely worth adding to your library if you're a fan of party-based D&D style games.

It's alright, pretty chill game.