ThroneForge - The Fortress War Reviews

EDIT: I believe the other reviews are just fake, maybe friends of the developer or his alts? EDIT 2: Guy seems to have abandoned the game. No updates since the bad review was posted. Kind of creepy that he wanted to add me as a friend on Steam too, not going to lie. I never post reviews but for this game I feel like I have to so I make people reconsider buying this dump. Holly molly this is one of the worst games I've ever come across on Steam. This game has the depth of a flash game from back in the day, only difference is, those games actually worked and had settings. This one doesnt have ANYTHING going for it. GOOD: -TD game. Turret go boom. Happy. -Music is nice BAD: - The UI doesn't respond at some times. Just wait and click right mouse button again. Maybe 5 times and it works? !!!! The UI does NOT correspond to the ones you see in the images! - No quality of life (if that is what you want to call it) - no speed settings, no information about ANYTHING (again, NOT what is shown in the screenshots). You have no idea how much wood, gold, food or steel you earn. It's a mystery and you'll just have to keep track yourself - or just wait untill you have the required stuff. - The units are bland. The textures are really bad and the moving animations are VERY few. Just moving JPG's across your screen?? so fun. They all have the same HP. Different unchanging sprites with static HP and move speed. yay. - Audio issues. The game just queues and plays all sounds at once without nuances (where youre looking, no different sound files: just one MP3 on repeat for e.g. cannons, units dying, etc) as if you're playing a game in 2000 (for free...). Another thing with the audio: not all sounds in the game are affected by the sound settings. Set your sound level to 10%? nice! let me play some of the sounds on 100% anyway just for fun! - No depth beyond just sprites moving across your screen and upgrading the turrets. Just 3 turrets, mind you, with a combined total of 5 trees with 1 entry. Different way to phrase it: 5 turrets you can upgrade some stats for. whoop whoop. Strategy? nah, just plop m down on predetermined spots and upgrade them. Trade some e.g. food for coin. That's it, that's the gameplay. TL;DR: I do not understand why this game has been released for early access already. There is no content, less than a flash game. NOT worth the money. Requires an insane amount of updates to become something even remotely worth spending your time on.

Play here: https://youtu.be/sjH4PmBt1Ag For a $1.19 it's not bad for something I'm assuming is made by an indie developer. I like that it's a tower defense with actual mazing, but it's pretty bare bones and some things aren't explained very well/work right for instance the heavy tower is like 4 times more expensive than the most basic tower, but on the stats does less damage less fire rate and less range I'm not sure if it has splash or not to make it worth it. It would be nice if the towers were more differentiated with splash slows fast attacking with low damage slow attacking with high damage the more variants with those stats the better. If you have some wc3 custom game tower defense itch like I do I think it's worth the dollar even though it's not near as good as those games were at the moment.

Really enjoyed the game while I was trying to work out my combinations of towers - kept drawing me back for the first four and a half hours. However once I settled on a combination it became a bit too easy, albeit we only have an easy setting and it looks like there is room for a normal and hard. I had to "self destruct" on level 51 of Monarchs Maze (with no lives lost) as I became bored. To this end, i think there needs to be some re balancing (some disrupters in the maze area??) as I think it could develop into a really good Mazing Tower Defense title. Will watch with interest.