Original Review at 174 hours:

The game I've been waiting for!

I've yet to see another team so dedicated to their game. Great updates that add a lot of content to the game and very often aswell. The game is not even done yet and I have put almost 200 hours into it!


In the game you travel in an open world map. You can take on tasks from the local town and faction leaders to help them with their problems. Some of these tasks are like: "Take out these bandits" or "Protect this caravan". You can also optionally go around looking for treasure in the remote corners of the world, in these places you will find many dangers, but also expensive loot items and unique weapons and armor.

While you are doing this, you will go from place to place looking for new mercenaries from different backgrounds. For example you can have a Militiaman who has better equipment and pretty decent starting stats, or you can have a farmer, who has higher max fatigue and hitpoints. But the interesting part is that any of these mercenaries can have up to three talent stars that make them stand out from the rest by giving them more points on those talents than usually, these talent stars are given randomly, so even a usually pretty useless merc can actually end up being better than someone from a better background.
After a while these mercenaries will gain experience and get levels that allow you to give them special perks and upgrade their talents.

The combat in the game is quite strategic. You take turns moving your mercenaries and attacking your enemies. You need to adjust to certain enemies by using different strategies and equipment.
Here those perks, talents and equipment of your mercenaries come into play!


TL;DR:

To put it shortly it's a 2D game with turn-based combat about running your own mercenary company in a medieval low fantasy world filled with all manner of beasts and bandits.

It's fun to play and has a lot replayability!


Updated Review at 470 hours in the game:

It's getting even better and better!

95/100