Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin

I want to like this game so bad, but I have to be honest with you guys. It's really bad. It's janky as hell and has overly simplistic gameplay you would expect from a F2P mobile game. It's VERY basic; even something simple like disengaging your units is discouraged and impossible without spending command points or whatever. Once your units are committed, they fight to the death. I can't understand this design choice at all. It's like the devs were against micro-skill or something. Which is so strange because they're pushing this game like it's a competitive multiplayer RTS. But all the RTS elements are awful or just nonexistent; it's slow, it's tedious, and it's just so boring. Everything about this game is dumbed down to the point where you basically click your way across the map and capture waypoints. It's really too bad. This game has the building blocks for an incredible game and they would have knocked it out of the park DoW2 style, but its just so simplistic and bare bones. I bought this game on a deep sale and I still regret buying it.

是不是史，朕自有定夺。 呀！快退！吃了个大的，这个操作手感，这个配音，这个画面，艾查恩，救救我！

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.

This is a hard game to rate, I love the setting and the lore. But the gameplay is quite slow for an RTS. Its a nice game to play on steamdeck on a flight when you have lots of time to kill. But playing it on my desktop I find the pace of the game a bit frustrating. I think it has potential, so a sequel with some quality of life improvements could be a very good game.

Good isn't good enough. In my twelve hours of gameplay, this is the conclusion I kept coming back to. We could speak of the simplified RTS mechanics, the slow movement and melee lock-in, the cookie cutter story - why, if you know anything about any of the Warhammer settings, you'll know the wizard's plot arc end from the very start... but no. You don't need the fine details, even if I could keep talking. You're a busy person, so I'll keep it short. Realms of Ruin is a game that's all around good, but never great in the bits that matter. In fact, I'd call out only two things which this game is great at: the army painter, and the cutscenes. Everything else is thoroughly competent, workmanlike, and little beyond. This just isn't enough to appeal to people, and "people" probably includes you, reader. I'll give one concrete example: the voicework. Nice, well voice acted, proper variety of British accents, yeah, yeah. But you've played Dawn of War if you're reading this, have you? Even if you haven't, there are good odds you have a couple phrases stuck in your head. [i]"Witness your doom! The cadre will crush them. EVEN IN DEATH, I STILL SERVE."[/i] Classics like that. None of voices Realms of Ruin has to offer stuck like that. Not enough intensity, not enough silliness, not... enough, which is a bleeding shame for a setting as larger than life as the Age of Sigmar. At the sixty dollar price tag this game launched at, no wonder it flopped. If you can get it for cheaper, it's still an iffy use of your time unless you want to see a fraction of what the Age of Sigmar has to offer to you. Such a shame, too. Perhaps there's a world in which this game came out with a touch more commitment, where it would have grown from a competent foundation. But this is not that world.

Still giving this a like as an AoS fan! Sadly this game is just not that enjoyable. It is areal rough 6/10. What is worse, the campaign is just absolutely ruining the experience. You can see in the achievemnts how less and less people actually finish the campaign! And now I am in the second sneak mission, the one for the kruelboyz, and it is maybe the worst RTS campaign experience I have ever witnessed.

This game isn't very good. unit response time is slow, the AI in campaign will cheat by spawning units on your previous objectives or somethines just spawning units to snipe your main base while your army is on the battleline and ending your mission instant;y. The triangle of sword beats shield, shield beats bow, bow beats sword isn't actually true. Bow get two unites of sword or shield to keep the enemy busy (can't control a unit once it's in melee) and just spam bows to finish off any enemies. There is no strategic thinking just overwhelmin A.I. numbers and slogs of missions. It also crashes a lot. This Game hates windows 11, so don't play it on that, you will not have a good time. Objectives in missions won't be shown where they are, good luck finding some of them. there's also invisible walls on some missions, can't take the tactical path, you WILL take the suicidal path, that's what the writers want, your input doesn't matter, you'll do as you are told. The main complaint I have, the camera is constantly yanked around in mini cutscenes in battke, you cannot control your army when that happens, the enemy can. Can't lose hero unit or lose the mission? tough! your hero was fighting overwhelming odds but manading with skills. ah, can;'t use skills because the orc warboss on the other side of the map farted? oh well, reload it is. It's so bad that sometimes you get your camera yanked around for a good 3-4 minutes straight and the enemy controls ALL objectives on the map after that, no recources for you, and no units left, they have died off screen. Have fun! the undead faction looks pretty bad, the units look decent, but you can't really tell if you are looking at your melee fighters or your archers, as they look exactly the same. orcs have this prolem too, but to a lesser degree. They would also like you to believe this is the offspring of warhammer fantasy, but it's just fantasy 40k, it has space marines fighting for a god emperor after all. I installed it 4 times to give it another chance as I love warhammer, but this game is an excersize in frustration, Best of luck if you want to give it a go, do not buy at a price over 5 dollars.

I'm agree with the bad review, the multi is bad , the game is unbalanced and i fell like they a are no test quality before the release ( the game is so slow even for rts/rtt and you got some pic of difficulty) But the solo is not so bad, classic warhammer story with good cinématic. If you can take for cheap and you like warhammer you can have a fun on solo for 10 hours.