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- Black Maple Games
- Black Maple Games
- Black Maple Games
- Black Maple Games
Craft the World
Released On: Nov 24, 2014
Metascore
Available after 4 critic reviews
8.2
Where to Buy
Where to Buy
You don’t have to invent anything new to achieve success — just take the best ideas from your competitors and wrap them in a slick package. Dekovir Entertainment did that in Craft the World, and I don’t want to criticize them for this approach, as the end result is a nice game.
Craft the World has a lot of personality, but like the layers of earth it gives you to explore, it’s surprisingly shallow.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 62 User Ratings
8.2
68% Positive
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
29% Mixed
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
3% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 62 User Ratings
8.2
68% Positive
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
29% Mixed
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
3% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
I love and hate this game at the same time. First of all, when I started playing, I figuratively "screamed with joy" that I found this type of game: Craft, survival, skills + items, fantasy monsters and characters, isometrics and, most importantly, a very pleasing visual style to my eye. I know what ratings and reviews Factorio has, for example, but I myself will not play it, because the graphics are overly simplified for strategy (I love pixel art and other simple indie, so you can throw away the stone), the point is in the combination of the genre + personal taste + graphics + maybe something else. This game became "manna from heaven" for me, and I fell in love with it. Each new World was for me like a "kinder surprise" for children of the 00's :) ...but any fairy tale ends sooner or later. And it's good if the author skillfully finishes it. In the context of this game, this did not happen:
1) AI is stupid. This is, frankly, mainstream, because from year to year, for many years, literally everyone writes about it, but this does not change the situation... perhaps some points are being corrected, and QA's are working, I understand that such things are not done at the snap of a finger (I myself am fond of QA testing, if I may say so), but this does not change the fact that SO much time has already passed, and the gnomes are STILL STUPID! ... get stuck in place, even in an empty square sometimes ... running into a crowd of monsters, and when you call them back, some idiot can get stuck again. Recently, a sore appeared that they "can't get to..." some hell knows where place. A separate cauldron in Hell for flying into the portal, where nothing already needs to be done, in the last seconds of the portal, or when I cancel it. THERE'S NOTHING TO DO THERE, IDIOT! ...well, and other minor things, like the fact that a crowd of loafers stands near the farm, and a dwarf is going to kill a chicken from hell knows how far. And some DLC add their own problems.
2) DLC: some are good, some are average (but not expensive), but I, physically, mentally and spiritually, cannot force myself to fully appreciate these add-ons, because all these bugs infuriate me. I can't help but think of it all this way: before you make a bunch of add-ons, one by one, finish already, damn, these bugs and the intelligence of the dwarves.
3) Heroes: the idea is great, but I think two things are stupid, and this is the impossibility of dressing them, and the fact that they ignore the warning sign.
4) I’ll add a couple more things in detail: I don’t like that you can’t disassemble any things (well, except for the second tab with ingots, but ... I can disassemble one column into a stone, but not the next one? wtf?). I don’t like that you can’t do anything with extra skill books, such as selling or disassembling on paper, for example. I was extremely infuriated by the huge number of werewolves in the snow World (they are interesting in themselves, but the infection and their constant respawn and raids at my place!). I don’t like that they still haven’t made it so that the crafting branch for each World has its own unique items. Yes, I wrote it this way, because what is there is minuscule. The inability to move / delete the statues of heroes ... what the hell is this? Seriously?! ...and when attacking the pyramids, it was not possible to make a retreat, or a "general gathering", since it is considered as a magic, which is prohibited in the pyramid.
...So it turns out that I love this game ... but what a relief I feel, finishing and deleting it for f*ck. 80% due to the fact that the cup of my patience and love was filled with stupid and buggy gnomes. 8 out of 10.
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Это хорошая 2D стратегия которая поддерживает моды, и эти моды улучшают игру не сильно хуже дополнений, которые я советую все же приобрести так как без них ира чувствуется не полноценной, так же гномы которыми вы управляете не очень умные а те кто играл еще в ранние версии говорят что они стали даже глупее чем были, но в целом игра вполне хороша
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Хорошая красивая забавная игра, в ней совместили много мелких интересных решений из разных игр.
но жанр не мой, я был слегка обманут изначальной информацией и описанием игры.
Это банальный Tower Defense, который очень не мой.
Если бы я хоть где-то увидел намёк, что это TD, я бы не стал приобретать эту игру.
Хотя возможно, когда-нибудь, благодаря именно этой игре я попробую пересмотреть свой взгляд на TD-шки
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Feeble game. I bought this game as soon as it was released and really enjoyed it for a brief moment
There was a lot of bugs, 2 levels to play, small number of monsters and limited amount of "possibilities" of construction... but again, I had fun for a while because the game was incomplete. I decided to give more time to the developers to finish the game, so here I am 11 months later and this is the game:
Lots of bugs, 3 levels to play, average-small number of monsters and less-limited amount of possibilites of construction.
I paid the full price, so I demand the full game. Had to score this game a low rating due to their lack of respect. You'll receive only half **** with lots of bugs.
Dwarves are dumb and will often kill themselves by falling in the same hole 100 times, exhaust your teleports by running from a monster or taking the stupidest route.
The variation between levels are the "annoying" factor, there's more waves of monsters and even snow falling in the middle of your path. Construction is not fun since every material is hard to obtain.
**** game, don't buy it.
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Summary A sandbox strategy game, a mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Platforms:
- iOS (iPhone/iPad)
- PC
Initial Release Date: Nov 24, 2014
Developer:
- Black Maple Games
Publisher: Black Maple Games
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