The Battle of Visby Reviews

The battle of Wisby is not really a game even if it has a few game-like scenarios, but rather a walking simulator of medieval Visby. It is beautifully constructed and rendered, but very narrow in that you can only walk the intended path and there's little or no room for free exploration. But from my many years in Visby it feels very much like every street I've walked so many times, and yet of course I have never seen them in this way. I'd have loved to have more options to explore streets and buildings. The story is quite simple and follows the historical events of the arrival of Valdemar Atterdag to Gotland, the invasion itself where the farmers were abandoned and killed outside the city, and a few battle scenes. The main focus is still on walking around town and seeing all the familiar places as they might have looked some 700 years ago. There are a few bugs, one in a climbing scene, where if you hit the right spot you can continue climbing into thin air, and what seems like a few graphical glitches inside the town, but they're all minor. What's more annoying are two things, the first and most important is that walking speed is so gruellingly slow, I ended up running all the time, but it's quite uncomfortable, and still slow, and the second is the cutover between scenes, where you believe you'd get a chance for a nice screenshot as remembrance, just up by _that_ wall, or _that_ street, and instead you're moved to the next scene. This would have been so much better with just a small question whether I want to proceed or stay and look around. I'd love to have a bigger simulator with more places to visit, or even a real game, though one with more focus on the action itself rather than now on finding the right key on the keyboard and seeing little of the actual battle this is supposed to be, still, for this price it's absolutely worth seeing even if it's very short. I love seeing Visby in this way, the way it might have looked.

very atmospheric game. Compared to its price I don't understand negative reviews and what they want?

Well, I like the idea and really want this to be good. I also like the setting, it feels good walking medieval Visby, especially when you have en interest in history. However, this game is poorly optimized. Even with a relatively powerful setup (an i7-9700k and a GeForce 2080) my computer struggles to reach even 30 fps (initially around 60 fps, but after you've slept and wake up the next day the performance goes down the well). So even though I really would like to recommend it because I like the idea and setting, I can't at the moment because of the technical issues. Hopefully they will be resolved in the near future and then I might change my review to a positive one. Also, as others have said already, the game crashes when changing settings, and you walk really slow (even when "running"). I understand the idea behind this game is not to rush it but take your time and walk the city, however in my opinion you move a bit too slow in order for it to be enjoyable.

Starts out great, but becomes unendurably bad when it becomes about clicking in the right place and pressing the right button fast enough.

As the description says: "The game is a narrative "walking simulator" mixed with "Quick time events." Not much else to say really, thats what it is. Made by one person (or small team?), for that this is impressive, but as a game? Not so much. Doesn't run well, feels slow and sluggish. If you try to set resolution to 1440p it immediately crashes. After the first 5 minutes I wish it would end but I forced myself to soldier through, lucky for me it only took an hour. The small things I liked: the overall visual style looks authentic enough to my eyes and the graphics are nice. Too bad poor optimization ruins it.

First off, this is a one-man production, and as that it is very impressive. The environments are well-made and detailed and sets a good mood throughout. Knowing the history that is being portrayed I immediately noticed the accuracy of the town. I wanted to explore more interiors because the one you sleep in is lovely. The beach is gorgeous and I especially like the wasd sequences which brakes up the fps gameplay in a nice way. A few things could be improved imo; faster sprint speed, an optimization-pass on graphics, proper voice-over and more stuff to explore. Overall a nice indie game and I want to see more from this developer.

The Battle of Visby starts out as a sweet little snapshot of a moment in time as the town of Visby prepares to be assaulted by Vlademar IV of Denmark in 1361. I love medieval history games and I enjoyed walking through the small section of town and feeling like I was getting a 3D history lesson. The way the characters talked was fun and the music was fitting and pleasing. There is plenty of build-up to the impending siege across multiple characters. Then the attack happens and the game makes no assumptions that it's any kind of action game and the combat is limited to hitting WASD at the right time. For a game created by one person, I was quite thrilled to play it. Then, just as I'm thinking I'm having a good time, the game just ends. I hardly got a full hour out of it. No conclusions were presented for any of the characters that were introduced. A quick text note of history was added with a screenshot of modern Visby, and the end. So even though this was only $2.11 for me to play, I felt that the game could have had at least a few more minutes of story added for the characters and for the general history of Visby. What was accomplished here was well done, it just wasn't enough to market on Steam as a game. This could have easily been made as a history lesson on YouTube and been received just as well. I can't recommend this game but I do hope the developer continues on to create bigger and better things.