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.
Steam User 5
Rock and stone!
Steam User 3
The good about this game
Fantasy dwarves are cool, I love them, there aren't enough quality games with this loveable race in them. If you like dragon age origins dwarf playthroughs you might like this. The story in this game is based on a best selling book, so the story has some good characters and interesting elements and plot twists. Although I'm sure the book would be better storywise. The combat is quite challenging and the normal difficulty may be too difficult for a lot of people. I do quite like a challenge myself. Its an easy game to get 100% of achievements on, only took me 20 hours and a little bit of reloading and guide reading. Got most of the achievements playing the game normally. I actually love this game.
The bad about this game
Generally not that many hours of gameplay compared to many other videogames. I assume maybe 15 hours of actual content if you didn't get stuck on certain battles and refuse to lower the difficulty like I did. Part of why this game is so challenging is its strange combat system, being not turn based, but still using abilities and multiple characters in a kind of fashion that implies it should be turn based. You cant queue up abilities, you have to babysit each character, very often pausing it, making sure they are using abilities (They dont passively use any) and aren't running to their death stupidly. Combat is chaos that you have loose control over. There aren't any choices you can make that change the main story of this game, though I do feel bad for not strongly advising a farming family to focus on building a hiding bunker instead of harvesting their crops.
Should you get this game?
Do you love dwarves? Get it
Is it on sale for 10-15 dollars? Get it
Do you enjoy a challenge? Get it
If none of these apply to you, maybe take a pass on it.
Steam User 1
Worth it on sale. Good story, fantastic voice acting.
The combat has been described in detail in other reviews. I believe it is a good thing to try new mechanics etc unfortunately the fights were more frustrating than fun. If friendly fire was removed it would solve most of the issues. As it is, the skill effects hitting your own guys is frustrating as it can cause insta-death.
Besides some frustration with friendly fire, I enjoyed the game. Would like to see a part 2 with more overworld map features/events, longer game, and no friendly fire.
Steam User 1
I wouldn't recommend this game at full price. I got it for $4 and I did enjoy it overall but left lacking a better ending
The initial two hours of the game was really interesting. The story captivated me and I was interested in seeing more. I was dissatisfied with the lack of exploration vs reward. There was some side quest content, but there was no real fun in seeing the world that the developers built. The game was linear and your actions do not really have consequences in the end.
The combat was clunky at times and it was "ok". I sometimes got a character stuck in battle. However, i came here for the story, and everyone here agrees that the story is awesome.
Overall, after completing the game in 7 hours, I tried to explore as much as I could and I did all the side quests. I cannot recommend a short game like this at full price. In addition, after i completed the story, it was super rushed and I was left wanting more content...and this sucks.
Steam User 1
Big fan of dwarves so I was looking around for a game about them and picked this up. I really enjoyed it. Great story, cool character designs. If you're a fan of dwarves and wish there was a game where they're the main focus, highly recommend giving this game a try. It's not very long but what it has to offer is great.
Steam User 1
I just finished this game, and I loved it!
Steam User 2
kaliteli oyun, sardı, sonlara doğru combat azcık baydı, ama güzel, spoiler sonda kadın dwarf ile mc ilişki falan filan öyle bi şeyler.