Recent reviews by PerpetualCowlick

Bought in EA, and got my money out of the beta, but the mild list of improvements to 1.0 do NOT justify the price hike. If that patch list was twice as long you might have me but the game needs some severe optimization. Once that's done, you're probably getting close to your value.

This game is fun. However, they removed the "compulsively count" button, and that is an affront that we cannot stand for!

Okay, so this is early game for reviews, but i gotta say, this is my kinda game.

Pros:
Interesting story, not the best but certainly cool
Fun Gameplay Loop
Plenty of Content to keep you occupied.
KICK ASS SOUND TRACK

Cons:
Grindy. Trust me. (though i'm desensitized to that, so IDC. You might tho.)
Unfinished. - while the basic combat loop is Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V from the last game, the story and locales arent' done yet.
Scaling enemies.- Lotta people don't like this. I do, but you likely will find this to increase the grind for no reason.

I love this game, but you're probably gonna want to buy this on sale, or at least wait until release

Not yet.

It's not good **YET**

It is: Dwarfy, and interesting.

It lacks basic colony functions that some would call "QOL" improvements, but i'd say are just industry standard.

I cannot tell the quarry or the Smelter or any production, "we should always have XX of Y on hand at all times"

There is no priority system, and may the forge god help you if you uncover an enemy lair, as all of your dwarves will suicide charge it one by one until they're all KO'd or someone manages to get it,

Dwarves are stranded far too easily, but you can fix this by placing a brick four tiles over their heads, as they'll magically pole vault to it and climb out.

Dwarves will forget certain spaces or jobs exist. I assigned one dwarf to cook and haul, because they wouldn't cook the food, and she had the best ladle. I spent 20 minutes waiting for any dwarf to haul anything to the cookery and they were all starting to get mad because they were out of beer, that she wouldn't make and they wouldn't haul the wheat and water to, because "DWARVES ARE IDLE"

You get six dwarves. That's it. Because if you hire more you'll sell everything you have just to try to keep them satiated with coin. Six is barely managable, because i can't auto produce anything and I HAVE TO MANUALLY CLICK EVERY ITEM THREE TIMES TO SELL.

Bones. Impossible to find, or collect, until you reach the haunted caverns and then you've got like, five, total. Hope you didn't need lime.

Producing certain resources is impossible. you can't "make" timber, or boar meat, or whatever, you have to sell off your ingots for that, but you can't get infinite ore and mining into the extreme depths takes time. Way too much time.

WHY DOES THE ELEVATOR NOT REPLACE THE SCAFFOLD NICELY?!? NOW EVERYTHING HAS TO MOVE SO THEY DON"T SPEND FOUR YEARS WALKING!

I love the visuals, i love the theme, I like the concept. Has potential.

But I don't like this game until these issues are resolved.

Buy This Game. Do it. Do it now. ROR 1 is by no means a bad game, i enjoy it greatly, but this sequel makes the original seem like garbage. hot trash. i have spent hours reading item logs trying to theory craft, a thing i never do, i've done runs with characters with "impossible builds" just to meme on my friends. the new updated added the best new level, with new great items and MORE MEMES. BUY THIS GAME.

WELCOME TO YOUR NEW FAVORITE HELL.
YOU WILL BECOME TOXIC
YOU WILL BE ANGRY AND HAPPY
YOU WILL BECOME THE COLLECTIVE
YOU WILL LIKE IT.
DO NOT DO THIS.
YOU WILL HAVE BEHAVIOR THAT YOU WON"T RECOGNIZE AS WRONG.
YOU WILL SAY THINGS AND TYPE THINGS THAT ARE UNACCEPTABLE.
YOU WILL BECOME PART OF THE SLUDGE MIRE OF GARBAGE.

Extensive violence, Sneaky Beaky action, and you can port in John Wick Via DLC. Nuff said.

AAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! AHHHHH!- Cowlick's first five minutes in the game.

Honestly this game is well crafted, with a massive amount of time and care put into it. The game has also inspired levels of fear in me like some of the best horror games. "what if I don't find enough food?", "what if I can't fight off the next wave of hounds?" the investment into each run of the game makes dying a true and honest fear. Trying to balance your health, Sanity and hunger may cause you to lose a few years, miss a few meals, and drop some sanity in real life. The almost completely futile struggle to survive is amazingly fun and the best/worst when it all comes down to the last health point. Euphoria in a can. If that can was trying to kill you over and over again.

One sentence describes this game perfectly: Insanity in a 2-D platformer. Start simple: Bash a tree down like anti-environmentalist you are, and use that wood to make a house, a sword maybe, because logically, a wooden sword is better than a copper shortsword. then, delve deep into the madness of the caves, and hope you set your difficulty to softcore, because you WILL lose your items. Advance further to fight the dismembered body parts of cthulu himself, including his eye and his brain. this establishes to the local populace that you are the appropriate badass to save the world. Anyone who can beat the game on hardcore, expert mode, is either a badass, or a psychopath, end of story. if anyone wants to tell me it is "2-D minecraft" i want their name, so i can show them how wrong they are. 8 o' 8, would r8 gr8 m8.

WHY IS THIS NOT AN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED THING OF PURE AWESOME!!! i personally love the mesh of hand to hand combat, ranged, and mounted warfare, with general strategies and tactics throughout the game. if you play your cards right, you can be king. play them wrong, or even too soon, and you're just another fool, dying on the field.