Blood of Magic Reviews

A possible gem in the making. So far my experiences with this game are meeting my expectations and it has given me already a good value for money. Especially the fast and dedicated responses of the development team are well worth mentioning. This I have experienced myself in direct contact. I think that here is a strong focus and a strong motivation to make this project as best as possible or even beyond that. So I am glad I took the step and did investing in this game and the people developing it. For these reasons this game gets my recommendation! [UPDATE: 04-01-18] At this moment it seems that development has stopped and therefore I change my recommendation into a don't buy. [UPDATE: 31-05-20] Definitely a no go, no buy. Abandon Ware!! Still available on Steam shop, asking myself why Steam isn't taking this down and perhaps takes some kind of responsibility in these kind of cases! This industry needs a big change in regard to customer services.

I dont do alot of game reviews lately because there isnt much to get excited about out there, and then I found this game. Imagine a game that brings the old school feel of Dungeons and Dragons to the modern gaming platform. The world you will discover in Blood of Magic is full of mysteries and wonders. You will enter this world as the hero, an Arcanist. The Arcanist is a fighting spellcaster, using both sword and magic to deal with his enemies. There are quests to be completed to help the town you will oversee. You decide your character and your party members progression. You have the abiltity to build new buildings, upgrade them, hire new unique party members, gather resources, craft new items and more. You take control of your party members in turn based combat against challenging enemies. You decide who you want in your party based on their abilities and the situation. With the gear you craft and aquire, you can outfit your character and party members. There are unique and power items awaiting your discovery. Powerful bosses threaten the peace of your town, will rise to the challenge? The quick responses from the developers at Stoneworks Games have earned my trust in an early access. The game is currently alot of fun, and there are plans to make it even better. If your looking for a good old school style RPG but enjoy the beautiful graphics of todays games, give this product a try, you wont be let down.

Over full year with no updates, don't touch this game it is a hideous blot on my steam library.

Like many gamers, I have a lot of games in my library than I have time to play them. So, when I play this game 1 year later after I purchased it, only then I realized that I have bought an abandonware. This game is so poor that it is the first game that I would like to get a Steam refund for. Too bad that it was already 1 year too late for me to get a refund. On the upside, it was cheap enough to serve as a lesson learnt for me. To write a little on the gameplay, I only 1) walked around in the village and 2) played 2 combats and it was sufficient for me to determine that this game is rubbish. For example, I was told to talk to somebody in the inn at the second floor. I walked a few steps in the inn and the camera will swing 90 degree without making any sense. Moving another few steps and it will swing me another 90 degree, again for no reason. I have to find the second floor by strafing and walking backward in the inn. It also happend in another building, so it wasn't a flux. Enter any building and the game will take the camera control away from you. As I was fumbling in the in, the wooden walls reflected such a strong lighting that it hurts my eyes. And I did not even change any graphics setting in the game. On the combat section, a lot of the combat commands cannot be used and I certainly could not see any kind of "potential" the rare few reviews have mentioned before. I have always discounted negative reviews with less than 2 hours of gameplay as irrelevant as certainly, 2 hours is too short a time to give any fair review to a game. But this game totally changed my mind. It was bad enough to inspire me to write a caveat emptor review immediately. Do not buy. Not even for a few cents.

Had quite a lot of potential, but alas is one more dead game in Steam's Early Access graveyard... Gotta keep telling myself not to pay for an unfinished game.

This HAD potential. It was a pretty decent game when it came out. However we have not seen any updates or improvements made what so ever. At its current state I cannot recommend this game to be purchused, unless you want to have some fun for a few hours then realise thats it, nothing else will be added.

So I've clocked a good chunk of hours into this game, beat it 3 times, and did everything and have followed the updates stringently. For someone who wants a AAA rpg or a generic wrapped up dungeon crawler, look elsewhere. Blood of Magic is the definition of homebrew, but that is not a bad thing. The developers are kind and keep in touch, and every aspect of this game, flawed or fabulous, is unique. I reccomend this game to those who enjoy some good turn based combat, or even town building, as raising up a small woodland town to a big fortress is a very satisfiying feeling. Watching this game grow is going to be awesome, and I'll be in Auguston (main town) for all of it.

Has potential but it's very early days. The controls are clunky with no remap available for several keys (such as run - which you will need often), you cannot turn left or right whilst running and run will randomly lock giving you no option but to mash keys in the hope it stops or reload from your last save. The very first quest is impossible without grind, collectable resources respawn almost instantly after you collect them, there is no map that I know of, and there are many other minor issues at the moment. Steer clear for now but keep an eye on it. Usually I would refund something that is this early in development but as long as they keep working on it this could turn out to be a real bargain. Fingers crossed because as it is now you are likely to just spend two hours running around picking up plants and rocks then dying.

This game sure has potential, but it seems totally abandoned by the developer. If you read the last update news, the developer states that this game is to be developed together with the players (what a farce!). In reality there is NO communication, no updates and nothing on the discussion boards. The only thing that is happening, is an ever larger discount on the game, which leads me to believe its a final attempt to cash in on a failed EA game. I hope the developer proves me wrong and gets the updates going and I will change my review in an instance but until then... STAY AWAY and save your cash!!! (P.S. There seem to be no Steam Trading Cards even though stated on the store page!)

This game had a lot of potential but it's far from a finished product. Unfortunately it appears to have been abadoned. No word from the dev since August. Not even a peep.