Half Sword

Stick to the free demo

Not recommended The "It's Early Access" excuse does not work if you market it at 24€, when this was a demo it was ok, but at this price it's supposed to be a game. So, I've basically beaten the progression branch, after you get to "Lord" you just get the same tournament over and over and you can farm the Baron's Armor, which is cool i guess. Now for the problems. - Some weapons are just useless. Pick anything that's a sword, the rest is too unreliable or just boring. You can use the sword for actual techniques and somehow have a fight, but mostly you'll notice that with a sword whenever they rush you (and they only rush you), the sword will end up in a gap of their armor and kill them, while maces and hammers don't do that. With poleaxes the method is always the same, grab in the middle, swing the hammer part into the head from the left. Anything else doesn't work. - Most fights end up just being whatever. All AIs rush you and you end up in an armor ball, where you can't do anything but kick and try to get out. No bot tries to keep the distance and finesses, they all just rush you and you end up in a bunch, especially with multiple bots - The deterministic physics are just not there. Swords, pikes, maces and whatever skip through armor, don't collide or collide weirdly. If you're playing this to have nice realistic combat I'm afraid you're off, this is closer to "Totally Accurate Battleground Simulator", everything feels like that, like when you try to run in a dream. - The crafting ui is horrible, the weapons slide off the anvil, the stats break if you keep testing the weapon and then coming out of the test, then switching weapon type? Like you can get maces that weight 4 kg and such. Also if you try to go for some conventional designs, as i said before, they turn out useless. With armors, only a hit to the head does anything, and usually only from a polaxe - Shields are just awkwards to use. since they're tied to the mouse you can only move them with the weapon, you cannot keep the shield up and attack around it. Also spears are two handed, so classic spear and shield is impossible - I just don't get the point of the armor crafting at all, it's just cosmetics? but also if you have some parts attached you cannot wear other parts? What's the point of certain armor parts if they don't cover you enough, you would never use them and use the other parts, no? - Abyss mode is impossible. Maybe it's just me, but even with the slider for player damage all to the left, you can hit a zombie on the head with an axe let's say, miss him by little and hit the top of their head, they fall sideways and while falling they bite you on a leg, your character screams and goes down on his knees, other zombies jump you. It is very annoying. You either hit the zombie with a precise killshot or they just fall on you, grab you and bite you. This happens also through chainmail, which i found hilarious. Overall it's a great idea for a game, but it's sad to see that the implementation has a lot to work on