The Dwarves
The Dwarves is a fantasy role-playing game with a strong story and tactically challenging real-time battles. 15 playable heroes, each with individual skills, are to be deployed cleverly. Take on superior numbers of orcs, ogres, älfs, bögnilim, zombies, dark mages and many more foes, to give them the low-down. Based on the bestselling novel “The Dwarves” by Markus Heitz you’ll experience a fascinating tale revolving around the coolest fantasy race ever: The Dwarves! Tactical real-time battles: You’re fighting hundreds of foes with just a handfull of heroes. You can pause anytime to tactically plan the next smart move. Crowd Combat: All creatures on the battlefield are rendered with physical complexity – that’s why the battles feel especially dynamic and “real”, and enabling a lot of tactical finesse.
Game Discussion
Steam User 9
Combat is clunky and sometimes confusing.
And sometimes your guys feel weak,
But the game itself is very fun.
Story is engaging.
And there's dwarfs.
Steam User 3
Story is great, it hooks you right from the beginning
Game play needs sometimes to get use to. Pause button and position of your team is key.
Steam User 7
I've seen a lot of negative reviews about this one, and while its true that its not perfect, it's by far as worst as those reviews make it.
Yes, I'll start by saying that the combat is not easy to get used and requires quite a few pauses in between special attacks, but its so satisfying seeing tens of orcs and goblins flying all over.
Now, while the combat isn't wow, what this game shines is the story which follows the first book of The Dwarves Series(Just bought the first four books, so hopefully they will be as good as the game's story was)
So, just for the story and the gameplay that I got to enjoy, I'll recommend the game, but if this janky combat is not your jam, watch some youtube videos before buying it.
Steam User 4
This is a hidden gem but unfortunately there are a lot of annoying bugs.
The game is short but in my opinion thats a good thing. You can easily complete it under 12h.
The combat is a bit clunky and the progression is as deep as a puddle. But it was still satisfying to mow down hordes of orcs.
The story and narration are very good and definitely the best part about this game.
Steam User 1
do you remember old games from the 2000's ? the ones so bad it's so good ? .. that is precisely that kind of game, not a big budget behind but still able to deliver a decent product .. nice story and nice world building (as in description, taken from a series of books), nice technical level, for me te only flaw is the combat system: real time action fight is not well made and doing it turn-based would have been better .. still enjoyable if you set difficulty very easy and avoid combat as much as possible ... in summary is a good game imho
Steam User 1
This VERY BUGGY game was genuinely fun! The story was nice, choices you made actually mattered, combat was amazing, items were impactful (not Potions, sell those), auto-saves are well placed and made for quick re-loads when you either lost or the game glitched.
This game was given to me as a gift. The campaign took me about 15 hours, including letting the credits play which its-self took about 30 minutes. The optional challenges to gain 100% Achievement completion took me about another 2 hours. That is 17 hours of content. The game is absolutely not worth the full asking price.
Steam User 0
I love this game and the Books it's based on. The gameplay isn't perfect and can be buggy sometimes. But that could be due to age. Easy recommendation!