SHOULD I PLAY THRONEFALL?
Play it. Thronefall is a beautiful and engaging game that brings something different to the strategy genre. It plucks out the best parts of real-time strategy titles and takes elements from tower defense games to create the perfect combination of both genres in a challenging and wildly fun experience—resulting in gameplay where I’m attacking oncoming waves of enemies and building a base full of towers and farms to survive. TIME PLAYED
I played Thronefall for three hours. I managed to complete seven runs with each one lasting anywhere between fifteen to twenty-five minutes. I’ve unlocked nearly a dozen perks, as well as three weapons. I’m currently making my way to the fourth area in the game.
WHAT’S AWESOME ABOUT THRONEFALL?
• Defending a village. Thronefall adds its own pinch of tower defense gameplay in the form of mercenary attacks that come in waves. I got to choose when these waves approached, but I couldn’t continuously farm gold or expand my village without them and their resources. Defending my village from waves of enemies and building a town off of their sweet deaths was exhilarating.
• Upgrading towers and buildings. Bolstering my army and building one heck of a fortress has been my favorite thing to do in Thronefall. While I wasn’t free to build wherever I wanted, I still enjoyed placing buildings at designated spots across the battleground and upgrading them as much as I could.
• Planning the perfect approach to victory. The greatest and most satisfying feeling of playing any strategy game is winning because of your own successful tactics—and Thronefall has been the perfect stage to test my wits. I absolutely loved planning strategies on ways to win different matches using a wide range of playstyles, perks, and units. In one level, I utilized ranged units and towers to quickly take down enemies from afar, and in another I used spearmen and heavy swords to slash down whatever came my way.
• Coming prepared for a battle. Before entering a match, I could choose to bring stuff into battle like weapons, perks, and even buffs that provided experience at the cost of a disadvantage. Even though it does take a while for new perks and weapons to appear, I had a blast experimenting with all the different combinations.
• A stylized medieval look. Thronefall uses a low-poly art style with cartoonish, medieval characters and a lot of heavy shading to provide depth. While simple, these unique visuals are beautiful and pleasant to look at.
WHAT NEEDS IMPROVEMENT IN THRONEFALL?
• Takes some time to open up. A lot of the content and customizable perks in Thronefall appear over time after multiple matches. Despite this slow format continuously keeping me surprised and engaged, it was a little disappointing that I couldn’t try out different things because I hadn’t played long enough. The game could benefit from a sandbox feature or mode in which all structure upgrades, perks, and weapons were already unlocked or an update that sped up progress.
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2024-06-30