Mordheim: City of the Damned

I enjoy this game and yes it can be brutal and the RNG definitely tests your patience but in the end I still really enjoy this game. I love leveling up my warband and unlocking the new character types. The real challenge is the learning curve as somethings are not said explicitly in the game. I wish this game had been more popular because I feel it really deserves a sequel that could polish things up a bit and add new content.

Terrible, clunky, slow, boring, repetitive, not unique in any way game. Wish I could get a refund

There is an undeniable amount of jank in Mordheim: City of the Damned. From the sometimes unclear and often cumbersome UI, to the way movement works and sometimes units get stuck on invisible terrain for no reason so you have to move around a bit to squeeze past. Sometimes attack animations will not play either, so you just see that the enemy missed if you check the combat log. Most of the jank is in the AI - from how it builds its warbands with seemingly no rhyme or reason, to how its units will sometimes remain stuck on a balcony for the entire battle. But none of that is truly a dealbreaker, and underneath the jank there's an excellent game system and a very addicting gameplay loop. Combat is pretty complex with the variety of both passive and active skills (lots of different builds to try out), and also tense as time to kill is very short so every mistake can be fatal. The enforced ironman mechanic, along the risk of permanent injury when any unit gets knocked out, definitely adds to the tension. Mordheim is punishing and unforgiving - you have to be prepared to lose your precious little characters when (not if) things go wrong. Better accept it from the start if you don't want to join the myriad of delusional conspiracy theorists trying to cope by blaming the RNG for their failures. Graphics have aged pretty decently for a decade-old indie game. The writing is pretty decent, though it tends to be shared via massive info-dumps before and after every story mission which some people may not have the patience to read or listen to. Speaking of, the story missions are definitely a weak part of the game - they have special objectives and endless reinforcements, making them a bit of a boring slog as you run around bringing quest items from one corner to another while fighting off enemy waves. There's also only 8 story maps in total which are recycled in a slightly different way for every campaign (2 acts of 4 missions each). So the first time it can be somewhat interesting, but by the 6th time (if you want to play every warband) you'll definitely be annoyed any time you do one. To this day, it's one of the very few Warhammer games featuring playable Skaven/Chaos/Undead (and the only one featuring playable Sisters of Sigmar to my knowledge) which makes it an additional incentive to get it if you like those factions. But even if you don't care for the fluff and the Warhammer universe at all, it's still a solid 8/10 as long as you enjoy difficult tactical games and can get past the jank. My only regret about the game is that they never made the Beastmen warband that was teased from the start by the intro cinematic.

Excellent gamer, I lost 100 happy hours in it, wish there was a sequel. Definatly worth it when its on sale.

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I love this game. Bummed it never got more DLC or a sequel.

Meilleur jeu d'escarmouche med/fant à ma connaissance. Les défauts ne peuvent faire oublier la créativité et la modularité