Recent reviews by Ulq.Cifer

Wait for player 2 to finish a positive review.
Do not buy if you are going to play in an online co-op.
The only thing you will see whole game is "wait for player X to finish".
Camera is locked to both players like in an old games without split-screen so its just unplayable, the camera movement is even more discusting when waiting for player X.
When a weapon drops only 1 is pickable in co-op =)

Thats an top-down Terraria clone. In a good way.
This is literally Terraria but with infinite world generation. Even music is soooo close to the Terraria.
Bosses are fun, exploring is fun, progression is standart. A bit too grindy if you are playing coop and host controls ship, so you cant go farm something without host.
Fishing minigame is somehow unique, but a bit annoying with waiting time + sometimes you just cant collect treasure cuz you catch fish before you even have a chance to move your hook.
Cooking is terrible, there is a lot better ways to implement it.
Guide is terrible. There is no reason to hide recepies. Also its annoying that you cant check other items which is needed for crafting and how to get them/craft them (hello tmodloader "standart" mods).
Recipes system is kinda fine, I would like to see items that crafts only from dropped recipes to be....better not just a "small upgrade". I dont think you need recipes for peridote jewelery and e.t.c, I wan to get rare recipe and get something legendary and so on. There is no need to do 2 systems for "common items" - unlock from resources and unlock from recipes.
I dont know how it is on easy/normal difficulties but on hard I just get annoyed of non-stop spawning mobs right on my screen. Game just feels like you need to always move if you stop - you will non-stop fight. Im scared to use "swarm potion" and see what will happen, but I think default spawn rate should be the one with "swarm potion". Its just impossible to progress when you weak early on (and I played terraria on max diff tonns of time + max calamity and so on).
Mobs spawning on the rails....why. You need to place floor tile before placing rails or you will just always die from mobs that spawn on your rails.
Magic/Shooting in close horizontal spaces - impossible, while in vertical its managable.
Ship system feels unique and fun, but we need more upgrades and more features + better coop. Its good for EA but as it looks like a main feature of the game it should be better and more fun. Like adding crew, provision, random encounters during travelling. Even just simple fishing in the ocean and fighting some sea monsters would be cool.

Overall great game for EA. It is better than Terraria was during release. So I have high hopes for this one and wish good luck to the devs.

Thats more neutral review. 1.0 is unfinished and rushed update without any QoL changes and empty endgame (both gameplay and locations, since they are made for the "blue tit" mount)
The game is good but its still EA as many already said.
Without guides its really interesting to discover everything by yourself, world is huge at first.
But there are too many small gameplay problems that could be fixed easly, but for some reason they nor.

Like why you cant craft multiple times? I mean its anooying and its especially annoying when you get to the only "gun" in the game. You literally need to click 71 time to craft 10 ammo SEVENTY ONE!!!! (x10 sulphur, x20 saltpeter, x10(or x20) charcoal for powder, x10 powder, x5 charcocal for iron, x5 iron + x1 to craft ammo) to craft 1 banch of the ammo which you will spend faster than you craft it =)

Fighting is still boring after you get your first set of armor and weapons, block is useless you can just parry everything in the game with anything, so if you are good with timings you can beat the game with wooden sword.

Leveling system does nothing impactfull, I 100% the game and I went full intelegence....well...I was crafting for 3 guys in my group and we crafted every single set and we only saw 3 rarity types and it was like only 20% of the gear I crafted, what is the point of that? Its like max 5% better than original stats + without intelegence you cant repair or upgrade your gear.

Right from the start of the game you can unlock "hornet treat" aaand world is not that big anymore, with unlocking "blue tit" its even smaller... I mean thats one of the reasons why endgame locations feels so empty and boring.

The game was a diamond when it first came out, just tune few things, fix bugs and add new content, there was absolutly no need in adding and buffing such flying mounts they literally ruin all the fun of the exploring this huge world. At least add the setting to disable flying mounts. Blue tit must be disabled completly, hornet just a bit of the nerf to its stamina.

Creature levels means nothing, leveling your "pets" means nothing.

Factions are just pure crap. Why every single event gives you 6 points? Its like every ~30-40 mins you can farm 6 points. How the hell do you suppose to farm 1k for only ONE faction + farm for some gear to buy from them? 10 points for 5 hoods if I remember correctly, what is a point of that? You need hoods only in late game, in late game you get 5-10 hoods from the killing of NPC's + 5 hoods for 20 purite or w/e its called, that can be farmed like 500 in under 15 mins.

Final location with the final boss can be skipt entirely with blue tit, you can simply just fly straight to the boss.

I mean just a few tweaks to all of that and the game would be perfect (still many tweaks for the endgame, since its super empty and boring).

Is it fun? - well yea
Is it made with bunch of assets + their old game "Craftopia" (that is still EA for 4 years and still is just random assets) - yea
Same empty world, 90% of pals and items are useless, "automation" does nothing cuz of bugs.

The only main fun here is the feeling of completing your "paldex", its just better than pokemons. With all its negative sides THIS game is better than pokemons and thats reaaally sad.

Why negative? This game feels like scam. Its bugged, unbelivable bugged. Its same as Craftopia. And it will be in EA with 1 decent patch once a year-two. I dont belive those devs will ever fix and complete their games, I do hope though.

I guess it will be much better if they will fix pals automation.

"The base content lasts for roughly 3-6 hours, depending on player skill and luck, though there is a decent amount of replayability."
Yeaa.....13 hours to first time beat the game.....

Shortly this game is in "EA" status, Its absolutly bugged, not balanced and barely working in online.

If I would be the dev of this game I would be really dissapointed in myself.
Thats a huge downgrade from the first "For the King".
I completed only 1st act of the game and the only thing I want now is to go back and play "For the King 1".

Wait at least a year before buying it and only on discount.
I can accept everything that I described IF that was an EA launch, but no, it is not.

UI - thats just.....wow....I cant describe how bad this is, I was making better UI in my coursework like 10 years ago.
Fck this glossary. Why the hell cant I just read what the ability or buff/debuff does IN THE GAME? Why when I see some random words on the item/npc should freaking close everything press ESC open that dumb glossary and "google" wtf is that thing even doing?
UI always "resets" when you plaing in online. If someone is moving their items or selling/buying something - it will reset for everyone, so you can easly missclick or fail w\e u was doing.

Bugs - My favourite one is if you try to revive a party member while someone is staying on the place where he died - you will "revive" the guy who is standing (so you will lose 1 heart for dealing dmg to your own party memeber if he was 51%+ hp, cuz after revive you always on 50% hp + you lose all your concentration points).
Also bugged sounds of dead bodies that non-stop playing while you are in dungeon (everyone in online will hear that sound non-stop too).

Optimization - sucks too, well like in all "new" games. Random freezes, random FPS. 90% gpu and 15% CPU on starting screen and menu. Every single fight is 10 seconds loading in and back. Retarded camera going through walls in dungeons with freezes..... god why...

Adding this "new feature" like moving, backlines/frontlines and zone buffs/debuffs....I freaking cant sometime land my abilities just because I cant click where I want to (you cant move camera in the battle). Oh you double clicked on the same cell? Okay casting your ability.
Oh hi this is cell with "RANDOM STATUS". What do you mean what it does? Dont you see some crappy visual effects that were made by 15 years old student? You still dont understand what it does? Well you suck, have a 5 seconds freeze for that.
You have more than 4 buffs/debuffs on your character? Wow, we didnt plan that so you will not see what are those buffs/debuffs.
You want to check what buffs/debuffs NPC has? Well wait till your turn and click few thousand times so this small UI will open and if you will pixel perfect hit one of those buffs with your mouse then you can read what it does.

Why can I move 10 cells in first biom but I can barelly move 4 cells in 3rd one? The game will not tell you that, thats just fact.

Cuz of the UI and bugs you will never see correct number of your armor/dmg.

Okay, lets update it.
The devs are absolute scams.
I payed ~7$ (with my regional prices) for the main game. I tried to play in it for 3 hours and It did not work at all. Devs said they gonna fix their servers soon™.
So what they did? In a month they said that they are out of budget and they cant fix the game so it would be playable. They didnt delete game or contact Valve to refund the game (Steam auto-declined my refund cuz I tried to play for 3 hours and waited 2 weeks to get the game pacthed, as they promised).
And what we have now? Online co-op game for 7$ => Singleplayer only for ~2$, with no future cuz company is out of budget and they ask everyone to try the game again so they pop-up in steam, like its not a dead game.

Dear devs, I would gladly try your new singleplayer version if I did not pay x3 price for a co-op not working game + alpha tested your broken servers.
This is disrespectfull to the players who had faith in you and...thats basicly just a scam.

[OLD REVIEW]:
It could be a decent game, but not now, and I dont believe in those devs.
In short - steam version is a paid pre-pre-pre-alpha test.
They do not care about reviews here, main target - mobile (also game will be F2P later).

1) Only NA servers.
Do you guys really cant test your servers and publish game to steam after that?
If you are not ready to open EU and OCE servers so make a regional lock in steam, is that so hard?

2) Even NA servers not working.
You can play with 200+ ping, but servers crash and reset every like 10-15 mins.
So you will just play, 1 time you will get "freeze" aaand now all your level reset to 0, no powerups, you cant get new ones, nothing. Also you lose all your "meta" currency too.

3) Graphics are decent, but not really good.
Well, mobile-first...

4) UI is terrible.
I mean, if you making cross-play game with mobile, I guess PC players need PC UI and not mobile.

5) EA (Early access) means game is PLAYABLE.
Its you who should pay me for testing that pre-pre-pre-alpha build, that you are trying to debug and fix online (you can check their discord).

6) Decent idea, anime always good.
Your art and game designers did their work, but your devs - no.

7) Online only.
Not a problem for PC, but hell, solo action-rogue-like game where you need stable connection on mobile....

8) There will be wipes.
Expect to lose everything, propably multiple times, if you are planning to play in EA.

9) For 3 days there was a lot of fixes and rollbacks for the servers. (Still unplayable)
Well I guess servers backend was just ctrl-c + ctrl-v from stackoverflow. Exactly thats why I pointed that I dont believe in those devs. Dead production release for 3 whole days....wow, steam should ban such things.

Pretty good game, a bit desync problems with server and not yet perfectly balanced, but enjoyable coop with 3 friends.
But pricing for that is kinda akward. Game has ingame store for real $ and season system, so its strage for such high price.

Overall game seems nice. Its kinda interesting to play and grind, story is decent.
The main problem are devs. They prefer content over stability and fixes. Offline mode is playable, but if u want to play with friends - you are going to suffer.
Servers tickrate feels like 1-10 most of the time. You will encounter 1000 UI bugs, sound that will never stop till you restart game, missing textures, only 2 new spells (and 1 of them breaks ur audio and sends you to sound hell), and 100 gamebreaking bugs that they not even going to fix.
Oh, also about "new content", that "Chapter 4 update" is literally just balancing patch. Instead of proper story mode for chapter 4 they just ctrl+c ctrl+v their endgame mode and added few cutscenes to it. Dissapointment.

Good game, but its too boring for solo, and coop is just total crap in current version, nothing works at all. Cant recomment in its current state