Bellwright Steam Charts & Stats

7 hours of struggling later, I've reached the point in which I can confidently say this game isn't worth the time it takes to play. Very little is rewarding, and there is a LOT of running across the map and cursing your limited stamina. Worse of all, the combat is bad. Enemy AI will just snuggle you to death and your companions bug out half the time are and only worth it as meat shields. Once they make combat fun, might be worth a return. But for now skip this.

I really enjoy this game. Think dwarf fortress but you are playing as one of the dwarfs. It is more of a colony sim than a survival game.

While the game is early access and I have run into quite a few of crashes, bugs, and other gameplay issues, overall the game was playable, and fun. If you're not willing to roll your save back a few minutes or if you're the type that is intollerant of losing time in a game, it's best to let this game a mature a bit more before making a purchase. But, if you're a fan of Skyrim, Life is Feudal, or Bannerloard, and you don't mind dealing with a few issues, you'll have a lot of fun in this game. For the most part, I played this game in co-op with my wife and son. At the outset, my son got a little concerned when we had to build our first houses to sleep in that night. To quote him (He's 20 and I'm 40+), "This seems like it's a very tedious and grindy game". But then something changed. We gained a follower - an NPC we could give orders to and have tend to things at our base automatically. After a few more followers, it became very obvious my son had demonstrably mischaracterized the game because just about 20 hours in the game, we had a crew of 10 followers (companions) that were bustling around the little town we had built and were constructing buildings, gathering food, gathering wood, and doing other various tasks while we focused almost exclusively on expanding the territory and making it safer. There is also a story that the player(s) go through that is quite interesting and entertaining with custom quests and fully voiced dialogue, abet, some dialogues sound like it was AI generated and there is no randomization of idle chatter between NPC's, if one NPC comments on how well your town looks, they all will as you run past them. I believe the AI in this game is something they could polish up and become a very unforgetable game. The combat is also unique and seemingly modeled after some VR sword/shield games with the way in which you control the direction you swing your weapon. The "Army" system in this game is both it's greatest strength and currently it's greatest point of issues. To say you can have an Army is an overstatement, but you can have a platoon or more followers all equipped in the same gear you're equipped with. Even more, not only will they fight for you, you can give some basic orders to have them harvest a cotton field or loot bags from a recent fight and then have them return to base and automatically sort all of that loot into their correct containers most certainly showing off that my son had entirely mischaracterized the game. But this system is plagued with pathing issues in higher-end areas where it seems there has been less polish on pathing meshes leading to stuck followers and considering how much time is required to earn enough renown to hire just one of these followers, essentially losing a follower to a pathing issue is quite a critical ordeal and the only way I've found to get them unstuck is to simply roll back the save. On normal settings it took a little over 200 hours for the 3 of us to beat the game. At which point we found there is no real ending yet and simply there is just nothing more to do when you reach a point of liberating all of the villages. There are a few other systems that I found very interesting. Bandit migration was one of the most interesting systems I've seen in a game so far. Essentially, as you ignore a sector of the map, bandits increase patrols in that area, and if left long enough, they will establish a base which increases patrols in neighboring sectors which will also increase the likelihood they establish bases there too. This gave rise to some truly dynamic gameplay that I've not yet seen before in a game. As we began to clear the map and push the bandits further and further south, we found the stronger and more unified they got. As we pushed them into the lower quadrant of the map, we found we needed entire squads to deal with the near relentless barrage of patrols on the roads to push further and further to the last 2 villages. This is where the game really became fun but it sadly didn't last as long as I had hoped. All in all, this game is a solid 7/10 and I'll be willing to give a few more points once the bugs are ironed out and promised end-game content is added and expanded upon. This game has the potential to be a 10/10 game.

This game is great. Both casual and not. It'll be nice to watch its progress but I'm enjoying my time through the game improving my character and village. Building a village is always the desire in RPGs.

Fun and chill game to play. combat is simple and easy to get good at.

前期bug多导致评价褒贬不一，还好还是入手了。超级好玩，比某某王朝完成度高很多，村民用处也多，再不用自己当农民养活一堆刁民。可玩性非常高，更新频率也很高，期待正式版！

The game is great until you find out how stu*** it is once you have to liberate village : Once you achieve to liberate a town after a **** hard fight, it gets instantly taken back by other bandits and while you were free to move in the village before, even if they take back the village they will all attack you every time they see you, so they can communicate in between your death but also already have mobile phones to warn the whole country you've just attacked them. Not to mention that to have enough renown to recruit some of the apprentices you need in the village you have to **** farm to build the same facilities multiples times and break them down each to get renown as there are not enough quests in the game to do so.

One of the best games ive actually played. Immersive and highly addictive. A good blend of strategy, survival and warfare, economics and politics in a medieval setting

With the last update this title moved squarely into the a positive experience for me. I was a little hesitant at fir;st because I am not a huge fan of directional combat, but that being said I took the leap and realized that it was not all that difficult. It is my hope that the dev's will continue down the path that they have taken so far. AI can get jammed up from time to time, but its not hard to avoid. I am really liking the strategy of it all. Don't get me wrong there is nothing here that will earn you a diploma in medieval history, just loads of fun. If you are looking for seat of the pants action and battle you won't find it hear. But if you like the idea of building your own town, and defending it against raiders and the like I don't think you will find anything not to like. At times it can seem a bit grindy, especially when you want your town folk to do one thing and they have other ideas. With patience and a bit of thought you will manage the priority system and things smooth out. I have not run into an issue with resources although I have heard there is a finite limit on some. Survival, once you get the hang of the directional combat isn't really the challenge. For me the challenge was setup the village so you can keep all the town folks healthy and happy, with plenty of armor and food. If you are looking for a game that will keep you entertained without making you breakout into a sweat I think you will like this one.

After 142 hours, I can say Bellwright is an absolute blast. The combat may be a little clunky, but it’s still fun and satisfying, especially when leading epic battles. Village & Outpost Building? Addictive. Watching a tiny settlement grow into a thriving hub is incredibly rewarding. Clearing the Map? The Best Part. Taking out every bandit camp and claiming the land as my own was pure strategy-driven satisfaction. Final Verdict: 9/10 – Highly Recommend. If you love village-building, tactical combat, and total domination, this game is for you. Now, time for round two.