Star Sonata 2
I cautiously recommend this game only if you can look past its shortcomings. I have been playing since ~2008 when I was only 12yr old.
The Good:
There is something about this game that can get you addicted like no other. The player base is very close (admittedly also rather small) and everybody knows everyone else and that makes the community very strong. You can create your own team join a team (aka clan, faction, country) and take control of start systems and use the resources within them to build ships, weapons, space stations, and become an industrial powerhouse. But you better be prepared to defend what you own. Much like a country in real life, your team could become a true superpower with all the fame and infamy that comes with it. You can exercise your hard and soft power as you see fit. Politics are very real in this game and I love it. Likewise, if you upset too many players they may declare war against you. Every solar system you own and space station you build is at risk. In a worse case scenario you could lose all of your territory, all of your industry, and be forced to surrender which almost always results in the death of said team. This is something I really like about this game. You have a lot of freedom and the choices you make can make you insanely rich, respected, and powerful. But you could lose it all.
– Real player with 4273.5 hrs in game
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TLDR - A decade+ after the game’s initial launch there is still nothing else quite like Star Sonata on the market today.
The game is heavily influenced by the Star Control series and combines 90’s style arcade action with MMO character development and an almost limitless item progression that rivals many modern MMOs. It has in-depth base building that is basically a whole different game unto itself where you can make money doing colonies, making gear, selling industrial commodities and more. The PvE content is typically fun and offers a variety of solo and group style engagements.. The PvP and team vs team combat probably needs the most improvement but the game doesn’t really revolve around those.
– Real player with 3859.9 hrs in game
Trove
I’m changing my review, because as of right now, it’s not a game that I can recommend. It’s very hard for beginners to reach high level, and it’s almost impossible to reach end-game if you dont spend countless amounts of money in the game. If you’re a free to play player, you’re going to need litterally thousands of hours to grind the different resources needed to advance to higher levels, better gear. The gem system is AWFUL, and it needs you to grind time gated resources which obligate you to log in each week and do your weekly quests and challenges. The game gives you no incentive to continue playing, because of the ridiculously useless rewards you’re given for being in the higher tiers.
– Real player with 1563.0 hrs in game
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Pros:
Great community
Great sandbox options
Smooth gameplay
Vibrant, colorful, happy environments.
Player-driven economy.
RNG loot drops.
Fun bosses
Great zoning out while listening to music game
Catchy music. VERY catchy music.
You can be a pirate riding a dragon.
You can be a dragon riding a dragon.
There are like a million dragons now.
Seriously. Dragons.
Classes are unique in design.
Fae.
Cons:
Takes a million years to grind 20-30 on a single class. (Runescape level experience curves near the last few levels.)
– Real player with 1184.8 hrs in game
MASD
Welcome to MASD!
The main goal is to survive at all costs!
Collect resources, make friends, fight, build shelters and craft weapons. All this and more is waiting for you here in MASD!
All activities in MASD will bring your character a valuable gaming experience. The higher level your character reach, the more game features and locations are available to you.
Don’t forget about trading with other players to earn valuable coins, which you can spend on resources or new equipment.
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8BitMMO
Several months ago, I wrote a review for this game and said that I have not abandoned my willingness to change this game for future players.
Now I have.
In the past, I talked about the various changes this game could use because I cared enough to believe this game can be improved. I truly thought there was hope for improvement. This game left me with nothing more than disappointment for my own inadequacy to change it, and the frustration that it has been left unchanged. With no omission of detail, I will describe all the injustices of this game I have endured and eventually, what led to my eventual retirement.
– Real player with 3684.1 hrs in game
I have put in a lot of hours into this, almost 2,000 hours to be precise (played on 8bitmmo.net). I am a rather popular player and I have seen alot of things come and go in this. I joined around about june in 2014.
| What it’s all about |
8bitmmo is game is an 8bit styled mmo, the game is in third person mode and follows your character around, which is pretty much a square with legs, arms, and a square head. To accompany the retro look it heavily features chiptune while you’re playing the game (for all you nostalgia nerds out there!).
– Real player with 788.3 hrs in game
MMORPG Tycoon 2
Its hard to say anything bad about this game. At first I looked over it and thought “Well this is going to be dumb, there’s no way they’ll be able to expectations with what they say they’re making.” I saw it a week or so later and took another look. Thought to myself okay, lets check this out. It’s reviews, mostly positive, it’s a cool idea. Let’s look it up. Watched some videos on-line and saw the magic. This is one of those games that yes, it is early access and it shows. There’s a lot planned but not in yet. Totally understood. Bought it. Started it up, the whole virtual desktop for starters was a really cool thing to see, I’ve never seen a game with anything like that just for a main menu. Used the Discord link on it and joined the group. I can say honestly, after joining that group my worries dissipated. This game is something so unique and so amazing I can’t say I’ve ever played anything like it. There is so much in the pipeline for it it’s hard to imagine it ever being complete. With such a active developer though who actually listens to their community and adds stuff based upon what players want its impressive. The community alone is enough to make playing/buying this game worth it. For what this game offers at this early stage as well it is so much fun. So yes, is there negatives to it such as a lack of overall content, yes! Yes there is! For what there is though you have so many fun hours of play ahead of you. The amount of development from the one full developer on the game is absolutely mind-blowing as well. Use the test branch of this game, and you’ll see. Even if there is just a lot of little updates this game is constantly receiving updates and fixes. This is not one of those games that makes it to early access takes people’s money and dies off. This truly is something special. I know I am rambling here and repeating myself a lot but if you actually take the time to read this, do yourself a favor, look it up online watch a video or two on it. Take a chance, if you like tycoons and mmorpgs I promise this game is what you’re looking for. The best part, if there is something you’d want to see in the game. Drop it in the community Discord, the developer, Trevor, will see it and comment back on it. To give an idea, I suggested a hide ui feature added. Something small simple whatever not really necessary right? What happened? 2 hours later it was functional in-game. This is a game by a developer who actually cares and isn’t here just to make a quick dollar. This is just such an underrated game for the magic it truly is.
– Real player with 110.3 hrs in game
If I remember correctly, this would be the first review for a game in which I will try to properly make. With that being said, it should be noted that since this is a review, I believe, it should be taken subjectively for it illustrates my experiences and opinions.
Well, what can be said of MMORPG TYCOON 2?
1. The Game:
From what I’ve gathered, it’s a neat little game in which the player (You!) are tasked with developing, to some extent, of course, a Medieval / Fantasy MMORPG of your liking, i.e.: with your own quests, classes, spells and locations, to name a few. In essence, you can create your own miniature version of WoW or the like.
– Real player with 32.2 hrs in game
Fasaria World: Ancients of Moons + Server
This game is an awesome old school mmo. Highly recomended. I love it.
– Real player with 23.4 hrs in game
Game is not worth the $20. it reminds me of phantasy star online a little that was one of the reasons I wanted to get it. upon playing I had to make changes to how the character would walk to w,a,s,d. upon wanting to run my own server which is cool that we can do that for this mmorpg but the player base is really small or not even there. I wanted to run my own server with custom configs for exp, drop rate and other things but there is not really any guides that would tell you how. asking in the forums how to make changes to exp, drop rate and so on won’t get you anywhere.
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
Wurm Online
The hours in kind of speak for themselves here…. so I’ll pro and con this….
pros:
You can modify everything in the game visually. If you don’t like the mountain, you can mine it down to the ocean level and turn it into a lake. If you don’t like the lake you can back fill it to become a mountain. You can make a lotr moria style underground mine city, a king arthur style castle, a church, a whatever you want.
There are no classes, you are what you decide to do. Want to make armour? You skill it up, be it cloth robe mage armour, leather armour, chain mail, full plate, dragon armour, ect. You want it better? Improve it yourself or take it to someone who is proficient in making said armour. Same with weapons, making bows, arrows, houses, fences, gardens.
– Real player with 2733.6 hrs in game
I’ve played this game for 10+ years prior to it’s introduction to the Steam Community.
Let me first start by saying this game is not for everyone!
Wurm Online is a very slow paced game, it is best paired with someone to talk to, Netflix or another task. You will spend time and real effort into everything you do in Wurm and is not for the faint of heart in this manner.
If you are hoping or expecting anything to be quickly achieved or obtained in Wurm Online, this already is not the game for you!
– Real player with 1579.9 hrs in game
Xsyon - Prelude
Long time player’s review of Xsyon
Buy To Play No Sub - I say this here because a lot of people do not understand this.
This game has been in early access for 10 years. It’s been worked on by pretty much 1 person for that long, before early access they had a team but they seem to have cut that down since releasing it into early access.
I’ve played this game a lot. There are 2 servers PVP and PVE. PVP server is pretty much dead and really no reason to play on it as it does not have anything that would support PVP play.
– Real player with 3724.2 hrs in game
THis isn’t a game that has you learning everything in a couple of hours. This game is a GRINDER. IF you want to buy it make sure you realise that you need to put some work into it to enjoy it. It’s NOT for people who have no paitence.
Read the latest reviews. Players who have invested more than a couple of hours into this game come to realise how enjoyable it is. The screenshots show what you can achieve but that won’t happen in a couple of hours. Maybe a couple of days or three if you join an active tribe or put in the work.
– Real player with 822.1 hrs in game
Stash
This game is unbelievably dry. There’s a serviceable tactical combat system but strategy and positioning don’t really seem that important. You can pin an enemy between yourself and a piece of terrain and that reduces their damage. You can flank and surround enemies also. But even with all this, it’s just rudimentary tactics. It doesn’t really do much to excite me. Also, the special abilities and spells are functional but not exciting.
The stash in camp starts with 20 slots for your character and 1 slot shared with your characters. It costs 7000 Medallions to add ONE slot to the shared stash. Adding a slot to your individual character’s stash is also one slot at a time but you can use in game materials and Triads, the money that drops from monsters and shopkeepers. Everything is similarly monetized, “do you want more than ONE crafting skill per character?” “That will be 5000 Medallions please.” The coins are priced at this moment at 4000 Medallions for $5 USD. These space upgrades and character upgrades seem to be too expensive. Giving a character just one crafting skill seems to be a little too strict.
– Real player with 63.5 hrs in game
This isn’t really a review so much as an extended comment on someone else’s review, but I thought that this would help clear up some misunderstandings about a game that took me a little while to get into, but that I’ve completely fallen in love with, and will continue to play for the forseeable future.
The original review can be seen here: http://steamcommunity.com/id/metsushiro/recommended/466660/
As a recently joined player that got past the first hour or so of this game, I’d like to point a few things out to you. I’m not saying you’re wrong to be disappointed in the first little bit of the game, because you’re probably used to how games throw everything at you all at once and force you into a handholdy tutorial in which you learn maybe a tenth of what they show you because it’s throwing so much in your face. This game’s main feature is that it doesn’t do that. It’s intentional.
– Real player with 56.4 hrs in game
Citywars Savage
Features
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Fight together in the wild and complete dungeons
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Explore a world filled with unique mechanics
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Gather resources, Mine minerals and Fish! All the world is filled with treasures.
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Go on adventures and complete quests to level up your gear.
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Build your own city and furnish your house with your friends.
What Else?
Join our community now and get involved in the development of the game.
The game has a unique editor that let our community improve the game at runtime. Which helps to deliver new content every month!
You can also apply to be staff and moderator in-game. Contact our admin at staff@citywars.ca