Highland Warriors Reviews

ok so the people who made this game uie, i believe were a subsidiary of data becker of germany, does anyone happen to know anything on if steam will ever bring America, no peace beyond the line to the platform? america was the best rts game and way ahead of its time

Highland Warriors is an ancient game from 2003. It's a whopping 21 years old at the time of this review. The game hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge, or just a cash grab to try profit from abandonware. It's a Scotland themed RTS where you do all the normal kinds of RTS things like train up your troops and go fight other troops and get in their base, killing their doods etc. Some context, this came out in 2003 and was trying to be a contemporary to other 2003 RTS games... Homeworld 2, Warcraft 3: Frozen Coke, and the almighty Command & Conquer: Generals (seriously underrated game, try it out). This was nowhere close to any of those games. The implementation here is of such poor quality, the developer couldn't work out how to make the game display in fullscreen, it only runs in a window, there's a Windows title bar across the top of the screen. I don't even remember games in 2003 doing that. Did they ever test the game? These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 9 players, and that was 8 years ago (!). This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? Highland Warriors is relatively expensive for an abandonware nostalgia gouge, at $4 USD, and it's not worth it. The game is just too old, hasn't been modernised. And as the old saying goes, you can't go home again. Even when it was new, this was never a triple-A game. This is the kind of game that went almost directly from the warehouse into the cheap bargain bins at the front of the shop. Now, on Steam, without any modernisation? This is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 11,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.