Alder's Blood: Prologue

The demo version contains only 2 missions (on different maps). The story is okay.

"Alder's Blood: Prologue" is is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Alder's Blood Definitive Edition". Alder's Blood Definitive Edition is a more e-book than game turn based tactical strategy (think Banner Saga ripoff with an Edwardian theme, yeah, me neither) that turned out to be an utterly dismal flop on Steam. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Alder's Blood Definitive Edition, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "Alder's Blood: Prologue" too. The purpose of this advertisement is to get you to shell out a whopping, eye watering $20 USD on buying Alder's Blood Definitive Edition, and I don't recommend you do that either. This game is fairly dated at 5 years old... and even back then it looked old and busted compared to contemporary, professionally made 3D games of the same period. It looked bad then, it looks worse now. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. As an advertisement, this is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. In terms of public reception, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts.

Слишком короткий пролог. Оружие дается просто так: вас затопчут враги. Просто будете по кустам прятаться. Ну и все. Все какое-то неудобное.

Very short, not very interesting, but a little insight in how Alder's Blood plays if you hesitate on whether to buy it. Nothing more to say about it.

[h1]Before I played Alder's Blood: Prologue, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

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Игра "Alder's Blood: Prologue" оставляет смешанные впечатления. С одной стороны, мрачная атмосфера, вдохновленная викторианской эпохой и мифами о монстрах, захватывает с первых минут. Интересная механика скрытности и подготовки к охоте, когда нужно внимательно изучать местность и запахи, чтобы выследить тварей, добавляет тактического разнообразия. Визуальный стиль, хоть и минималистичный, но прекрасно передает ощущение безысходности и опасности. Однако, управление порой кажется неуклюжим, а недостаток информации о способностях и характеристиках охотников в начале может сбить с толку. Prologue ощущается скорее как демонстрация концепции, нежели полноценная игра. Хочется больше контекста и углубления в историю мира. Несмотря на недостатки, "Alder's Blood: Prologue" демонстрирует интересный потенциал. Если разработчики смогут отточить управление, добавить больше глубины в сюжет и раскрыть возможности игрового мира, то полноценная версия может стать достойным представителем жанра тактических RPG. Рекомендую ознакомиться, если вам интересны нишевые хардкорные проекты с акцентом на скрытность и выживание.