Warhammer: Chaosbane

Warhammer: Chaosbane

Update january 7th 2020:

youre welcome to read the full review, but let me say that after 130h clocked in this game, playing god knows how many relic hunts on chaos 3-5 with max modifiers, ive yet to achieve more than 3-4 greens on a char, out of 10 possible wearables.

this game is straight up just boring. i am a huge warhammer nerd, and ive had so much hope for this game, it had the potential, might still have. but its so much reusing the same stuff, main story is basically the same story and progression four times. were talking with so little difference you hardly see it.

Real player with 149.9 hrs in game


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REVIEW : WARHAMMER: CHAOSBANE

ACHIEVEMENTS : 43 / 43 (100%)

SCORE : 6/10

This game is if Diablo 3 had no expansion, was the first game of the studio and just threw a fine and well Warhammer coat of paint on it. This is by all means a good Warhammer RPG game, but this is no true Hardcore RPG experince alikes to POE or GD

… why should I even get this?

If you’re REALLY having a diablo itch and nothings doing it for ya, this will probably be a very good time for you. This is not a hard game with really not a whole lot of setting up to do with builds or complications with how things really work. This is a great introduction to the Diablo-Like Top Down RPGS for a basic, repetitive but overall fun experience

Real player with 127.0 hrs in game

Warhammer: Chaosbane on Steam

Warhammer Quest

Warhammer Quest

It’s an OK game but sadly when I play this I can only see the wasted potential of what could have been and the way it could have expose to others the warhammer fantasy universe like the Warhammer Quest (which this game is based on), Warhammer Fantesy Battles wargame or the Warhammer Roleplaying Game.

This game is a basic dungeon crawler where you explore the dungeon and kill monsters in order to reach to the final room and receive some rewards like items, gold, items and experience.

The game fall short in the amount of the random events you may encounter while dungeons crawling and sadly most of those events have negative outcomes so you will most likely try to avoid them if you can.

Real player with 182.2 hrs in game


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Summary

A poor implementation of a great board game.

It’s fun at first, but the developers have managed to take a great board game and turn it into a grindfest. It’s as if they were trying to make a free-to-play money pit game. To pile insult onto injury, the PC version is a crappy port of the mobile version, with clunky, painful keyboard controls, no option for remapping keys, and a ton of unnecessary clicking.

Ways the Board Game is Superior

  • You don’t have the absurd equipment restrictions of only being able to equip/ready 12 items, and, even more stupidly, only four of each tier (there are no item tiers in the board game). Access to bandages and provisions is critical to surviving the board game early on, but access to them is artificially (and absurdly) limited in the video game.

Real player with 87.6 hrs in game

Warhammer Quest on Steam

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

One of those few small indie 40k gems that really gets everything right. Gameplay is unique and fun, the mood and lore is 100% on point and the audio is some of the best that’s ever been. Really hoping for more games in this series, I’d love to see a greater variety of factions to fight and more intrigue in the future.

Real player with 90.7 hrs in game


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Not normally a fan of turn-based games. This, however, is an exception. It is so compelling in it’s atmosphere, sound design, and gameplay. The graphics are serviceable, but the art direction is immaculate; very true to the setting.

The story is not too notable, but the characters, and their interaction are well written. My only gripe is the difficulty for any of the default settings get pretty easy pretty quickly even on max difficulty. But, the difficulty is actually very customizable, from your starting resources, to perma-death, and weapon selection; so make it as difficult as you want.

Real player with 63.2 hrs in game

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus on Steam

Dark Quest 2

Dark Quest 2

Greetings jung lad. Come and take a seat. I will tell you from a time of darkness…

It all took place in a world, similar to one we know, but different enough to be worth another story.

Were a handful of heroes gathered to defeat the evil sorcerer Zantor. For ages he dwelled in the darkness, raising his foul minions unter his iront fist, and one after the other, free lands fall before him.

Mighty castles turned into lairs of terror, swarmed by his minions, til a few remaining heroes gathered:

The wild barbarian, the wise wizard, the studdy dwarf, the mysterious dark monk, the swift archer and the honorable knight. Together, under the leadership of the barbarian warrior, they march towards the darkest of all places in the world: Zantors Keep.

Real player with 75.3 hrs in game

Dark Quest 2 is a dungeon exploring game with very simple mechanics. Almost everything can be done with a click of the left mouse button. However, it’s not an easy game.

You start the game as a Barbarian, but are later able to change or add additional heroes to your party. There are a total of 28 quests. Each quest has its own maze of a map to explore, complete with gold, gems, magic pots, traps, and monsters. The gold and gems are used to buy potions, craft items, obtain temporary bonus stats, heal heroes, and resurrect them if they have fallen. Everything is expensive, and money can be quite scarce. The magic pots are used to upgrade abilities and skills. These are also relatively scarce. Traps can only be detected by a skill or by the use of a crafted item, and some traps are unavoidable.

Real player with 28.5 hrs in game

Dark Quest 2 on Steam

Mighty Dungeons

Mighty Dungeons

I enjoyed this little budget game so far. It feels like Heroquest but better. Done 5 of 8 campaigns already in about 5.5 hours. That being said, one playthrough and I think I’ll be done with it. I’m guessing I’ll get about 10 hours tops out of it playing with one of the OP toons.

For the price, if you enjoyed Heroquest as a kid, this is worth.

UPDATE: Underestimated this game. I was playing with permanent death and in the last map of the 7th campaign I was overconfident and ran into a room through a secret door with 8 powerful toons all giving each other gang bonus. First one smacked me around silly.

Real player with 25.1 hrs in game

This game sits in my wishlist for a long time but during this summer sale I decided to buy it. Started with a barbarian to learn the mechanics. Made some bad decision but I am able to finish the first 3 campaign easily. So far so good. I gathered enough points to upgrade so I have increased attack speed, attack and defense for my bloodthirsty barbarian. Rushing through Chaos Gods campaign gives me the first surprise: end boss wipes the floor with me. From 2 hits. WTF? OK maybe I missed something so let’s get back to Skeltor campaign. End boss kicks my butt. Again. What the hell is going on here?

Real player with 20.8 hrs in game

Mighty Dungeons on Steam