Airship: Kingdoms Adrift Reviews

addicting

Cool game I like it

A good idea but poorly executed.

I really like this game, and do recommend it despite some flaws. Things went right with this game: - Story is unexpectedly quite good and extensive, with fun characters and some good voice acting - You can ignore the campaign and go off on your own (but I'd kind of recommend NOT doing that) - Modifying or building your ships from scratch is honestly pretty cool - Flying and fighting with your airships is fun and offers some tactical variety, especially once you've got some officers - The game is visually great to look at Things that went not as right with this game: - There's a lot of detail, and a somewhat steep learning curve for the deeper elements of the game - Cargo management, and by extension trade in the later game is a bit of a chore. You have to do a lot of micro-managing of finding the right cargo items for quests or trade routes, manually placing them on ships, and then waiting for those ships to travel, before manually unloading the cargo to sell. Trade automation only works to some extent and when it fails it's not easy to troubleshoot the breakdown. - Travel is fun when you're exploring and doing a lot at each stop to build up your ship, take contracts, bounties, etc. It can be tedious in the late game, as your ships may be slower, and it's impossible to avoid being pulled out of fast travel by enemies on your route. When you're just trying to get from one place to the next for a courier mission it can feel pretty slow. Advice for enjoying this game: - Focus on the story missions first and foremost, and supplement with low level cargo missions from the warehouses and bounties from government when they fall on your route. The story is fun and varied, but also a lot of advancements are locked behind the story chapters, so you can end up grinding your gears if you haven't been completing story missions. - Use your officers' ability to force enemies to surrender! You'll get a lot more captured ships this way, which you can use in your personal fleet, send off to do stuff for you in the background, or sell for a decent price. Also some battles' rewards aren't worth the cost of the ammo. I really do hope people give this game a shot because it's got a lot going for it, especially early on, and I hope the devs will continue to refine some of the rough edges in the late game. I'm still playing it regardless!

The game has trash mechanics that are all about meta building and unless you know what load out to use you will fail even on the easiest difficulty. The game doesn't explain what's best and much of the calculation is obscured. Without a guide it's not possible to get very far. Other than that, it's a typical linear game about resource building and ship fleet management. That said, I don't recommend it if you're looking for something easy and fun to play. Unless you don't mind cheating to progress because even on the easiest setting you'll get steam rolled if you don't have the right ships and loadout.