World of Feudal Reviews

Really poor very basic game. Unplayable

Still requires a great deal of work. Adjusting the sliders and then clicking on next turn over and over until you have randomly saved enough money to do another action is repetitive and becomes boring. More interactive and consequential actions are needed. And actually playing Santa Paravia and Fiumaccio enough times to understand the mechanics (or looking at the programming which I think was in BASIC) might aid the further development.

PROS: + Fairly nice 2D artwork, reminiscent of the Amiga versions of Cinemaware titles from the 1980s and 1990s. + Simple interface and controls. + Extremely inexpensive. + Could be run on any system. CONS: - No options menu. There's a sound icon (in the shape of a trumpet) in the lower right-hand corner, but that only gives you the choice to turn on or off ALL sound. - Can't save your game. There are no manual saves, quicksaves, autosaves, checkpoint saves or save points. If you need to leave for any reason, expect to start over the from the beginning. - Interface is simplistic to a fault. There are two sliders and four icons to push. That's it. - The instructions and objectives you're given in-game are shown once and you can't ever see them again. - Virtually no gameplay to speak of. At best, you'll adjust one or both sliders and maybe click one or two of the buttons each turn. - Text is center-aligned (a huge mistake itself) and appears almost jumbled. - The English translation is absolutely abysmal. Broken sentence structure, poor spelling, haphazard grammar, and completely incorrect words are used all over the place. For instance, the icon to move ahead to the next day is labeled "next stroke." The word "stroke" can mean a number of things in English, ranging from a medical condition to various physical actions, but it certainly doesn't mean "move ahead to the next day." - Even the achievements are lazily created: some are just letters (no, seriously, that's it) while others show misspelled or nonsensical titles, such as "qwest" or "casarm." - No Steam Cloud, but then again, that's not a surprise. The game needs to save something for Steam Cloud to be of any use. VERDICT: World of Feudal (a game title that makes little sense in its own right) is, quite honestly, a horrendous game and should never be bought by anyone. I'd refund WoF if the price weren't less than a cup of coffee.