Some dude in the reviews called this game "pixelcrap" and I think he should lose his Steam account for it.

Alright, haven't played this in a long time, but I'll add my take.

This game is kind of a miracle!

Yet, unless you like seeing units you spent hours (because even medium difficulty campaigns will take hours lol) building up just die in front of you and needing to save scum so frequently that Fire Emblem's rewinding time/turn features would seem mandatory for this genre, then sure play this game.

It's the kind of game where 80% chance to hit might as well be 40%, yeah yeah statistics can feel off anecdotally and if you grinded a million times the results might look more statistically accurate, but at the same time 30% enemy chance to hit might as well be 60%. Feels bad man. Even after years of gacha games I still look back at this game and shiver.

But if we set aside gameplay, and I love story games so I'll happily do that, this game is surprisingly well written. The music is on point. Some of these stories, like the Warlord Kapou'e and how he proved to be as great a leader as his father, or... oh wow they removed several of the awesome parts of The Hammer of Thursagan like recruiting mages (yeah I get it balance issue) or removing the mission where you fought human bandits with Orc allies, yeah that's one more reason to not play this game lol

Wow. They basically butchered my favorite scenario. Well then this review's a bit easier: the gameplay is hex-based Fire Emblem, complete with permadeath, so if you don't like seeing your veteran dudes die, and think save-scumming is inappropriate, you shouldn't play this. Hopefully any new scenarios that became mainline/official have similar writing quality because In terms of taking typical fantasy and making it more compelling (but, I'll admit, I liked Neverwinter Nights, most JRPGs etc so my taste might differ from yours) this game is a masterwork. And the true miracle is that it's all free, not just free in terms of cost but free in terms of free software, no intent to scam you in any way whatsoever beyond unit hit percentage!

Even with my gripes, I think everyone should at least try this game. You can see what happens when people with passion and drive but no greed or need for attention make a video game together. Truly, a work of art.

I have owned Steam for nearly thirty years… yet I have never written a review or even given a thumb. This is my first! I am so grateful to people who made this game. So far I have only played the tutorial and yet I can already tell that it is going to be a “lifelong game”. For what is worth, I like the likes of Civ 3 (not those that came after), X-Com (the original), Pharaon and Caesar (from Sierra), …, those kinds of games. If you like those kinds of games, you will like this one as well… Thanks to the developers, truly a gift to the world, very commendable!