Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin

Get this on sale for the best Video Game version of Age of Sigmar. When on Sale this is IMO the best introduction on a budget to Age of Sigmar. I had more fun playing this than AOS Spearhead on Tabletop Sim.

I would not recommend getting this game, especially at full price. If you are a big Warhammer fan, wait until it is on super sale - but you will be disappointed. The Good - The story is excellent, I love the "Sigmarines" and they make for exciting characters against some really fun villains. aaaaaand that's about it.... I guess having different color skins for multiplayer is cool too? The Bad - Gameplay is atrocious. Enemy units will literally stand next to each other and do absolutely nothing unless you directly intervene. The campaign's story might be fun but several missions have undefined objectives and can be quite frustrating figuring out what to do, other missions are so basic and small scope that they felt more like playing LoL and not a RTS. The AI does not have bases, so they will just spam units on you with no logic. The lack of basebuilding and variety of units is also a complete letdown. You are basically guarding your nexus where all unit creation and upgrades are made and have no options of secondary bases or any true tactics. Finally, the worst part of all is that once units are in combat, they are locked to the death or until you decide to have them retreat all the way to the nexus - which costs resources for some reason. It is so frustrating not being able to direct a unit to flank or do anything tactical in a TACTICAL game and just be locked in combat with whomever attacks first. IF they ever make a sequel to this, an entire overhaul will be needed. More unit variation and base building. Better AI and combat mechanics. Better level design for the campaign. This could be such a good game, but they fumbled on just about every aspect

Realms of Ruin may not have the best gameplay, nor innovative level design, but the art of AoS was at least done justice. The writing is competent--certainly above par for a video game--recognising the tragic tone of AoS, but in its execution through actors, animation, cinematography, and editing, it does British game-making proud, a style that utilises Britain's rich media industries to bring worlds to life, and life to the concept of games as cinematic story-telling.

It's been fun. I got it on sale, which you should do for every game. A lot of levels in the campaign can be difficult at first but changing your approach and strategy is usually the key to victory. It's also very important to build the right buildings at any claimed victory points, based off of their location to your muster point, the map and the objectives of the level.

This game is a Micro-focused RTS like Dawn of War/Company of Heroes/Halo Wars set in the Warhammer Age of Sigmar setting. This game has mostly negative reviews because RTS fans expect new games to be better than what came before, but this game fumbles some of it's combat systems and simplifies alot of the RTS experience with some of it's design choices. Said design choices are the slow movement speed of units, Melee combat locking participating units in place unless you retreat to main base at the cost of resources, and the lane like map design. These three design choices in particular cause the micro in this micro-focused RTS to feel clunky. Unit abilities also cost resources making most choices a player could make have some kind of cost that generally makes it not worth it. I cannot recommend this game to RTS fans that primarily play games for their Skirmish Modes. That said if you just play the campaign, then it's a solid experience. Multiplayer is dead though so I wouldn't spend more than $10 on this game. Things being slower and simpler than most RTS also makes this a decent place to jump in and see if you like the genre.

7/10. A deeply flawed RTS game with a campaign worth playing. Get it on a deep sale. It is in no way worth 60$.

I tried this game on PS5 at first, and the controls with a controller are just not great IMO. Bought this on sale for less than $10 here for PC, and it is a MUCH better experience. If you give the game a chance, it can actually be pretty fun; however, with only four factions, and with relatively limited rosters compared to what is currently in the lore, there is a lot of missed potential with this one. Perhaps the lack of new additions is a reflection of how the game's sales have turned out; a pity, since I've been enjoying Conquest, Skirmishes, and the 4 missions I have played in the Campaign so far. Buy on sale and give it a shot, since at this price, it's more than worth it.