So, yeah wtf is this?

In a world desperate for a great blacksmithing game we get another entry. Another ray of hope in an otherwise bleak and meaningless world of no blacksmithing games. Another challenger rises to take the mantel of best smithing simulator.

And as he moved to step onto the podium and challenge all previous successors he falls into a pile of horse manure. As the crowd of hopefulls laugh on in horror he slips and falls into more horse manure.

As the people start to feel sorry for the pathetic challenger he falls into horse manure again. And now people are walking away.

Yeah this game sucks.

It looks ugly.

It sounds ugly.

It plays ugly.

It's got absolutely nothing going for it. Well actually I take that back. The actual smithing mechanic in the game is cohesive and makes sense but everything else around it is awful. It's like the game devs said to themselves "What do gamers hate?" and came up with a list then added all that to the game.

I could really go into detail about all the issues I have with this game which is NOT in early access. A fully released game this empty, this badly designed, this unfullfilling but I'd rather not waste ya'lls time. Obviously I don't recommend it but if you'd like more reasons and more in-depth as to why then feel free to check out the review on my YouTube Channel (link below).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuLJv2604T0

Otherwise, thanks so much for reading and I hope I managed to help some of you out there spend your money wisely.

So, I kinda like these type of games. Blacksmithing is somehow funny, and a bit boring at once.
This game is... if it would be an early access, it would be very early. There are so many things which are weird.
Example? Sure!
You start the game with the tutorial.
Grab an copper ingot and make a sword. So you put it in the oven and you heat it. The tutorial says you should press the bellow for heat increase or click the water bucket for heat decrease... the heat increases, but when you click the bucket it says "Bucket empty"... ehm okay.
Anyways, you grab the ingot and put it on the anvil. A bit clicking and its down. After that put it in the oil, then water, then mount everything and then sharp it.
After you finished this little tutorial and you take your first order you go to your mine and grab some ore to make it into an ingot. but you cannot see how hot the ore is, so you heat it up, and it overheats, especially copper, in overheats like always. so the quality decreases. Okay, how ever, next step, oven -> anvil -> into the oil... but what? The oil is gone, you have to upgrade that oil barrel from level 0 to 1 first, it was only there for the tutorial. Ok, than into water to cool it off. (If you fill the barrel with water to the max, it can cool like only 2 sword, then the barrel is empty... ). You build the sword together, then you want to sharpen it. But again. The grindstone was there only for the tutorial, you have to build and upgrade it. How stupid is that? A blacksmith without a grindstone? You need to sharp the sword, else you get less money that it cost you making it... Stupid

Than you can carry only 1 ore. So you have to walk. A LOT. When you have the money ready you can build up an lift that can be used with the minecart so you don't need to walk that much. On an ingame note is written that the ores you mine will be stored automatically in the cart, which is not working. Than it is written that the cart/lift can take up to 5 ores in level 1. But it can't. It can take 3 ores max....

There is much walking and much grinding. For example. The handle and stuff for an shortsword costs you about 25 gold. when you finish it with 79% quality (which is not that easy since the melting is not working properly) you get 42 gold back. You start with 1000gold. Building the mine, which is mandatory since it is the only source of ores for you, costs 500 gold. Building the grindstone costs 350. So acutally you start with 150 gold. Which you will invest mainly into buying handles, crossguards and so on. So hopefully you don't mind grinding a lot.

Then I walked around and I met someone who looked like a thief, and when I wanted to speak with him he said "My actions are not implemented yet". Funny, but as far as I see here, that game is not early access....
And all NPCs are whistling if they see you, that is so annoying...

Overall, this game needs a lot of work. Maybe take it off, release again as early access, and than listen to players and provide a lot of work into it...
In this state I cannot recommend to buy it.

This game neeed patches. A lot of patches or one really really big one.

First off, I want to thank the developer and publisher for the free evaluation key for this game. Sadly, giving me a free copy of your game doesn't mean that you're going to get a positive review with me.

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This game is blatantly and egregiously trying to steal the concept and from the success of the much superior "Medieval Blacksmith" game and this dev or devs actually have the audacity to ask a dollar more for this inferior-in-every-way product. That game can be found HERE:
https://steamoss.com/steamstore/app/2732100/Medieval_Blacksmith/
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My first impressions look can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFgNifjLo2E&t=571s

This game offers a little bit of fun for the first hour or two, but then it quickly becomes tedious and loses its appeal. Even the gorgeous scenery of the birds in the sky and rugged mountains do little to help at that point. If this game was priced at under $5 USD, then "maybe" but there's another blacksmith game from 2019 that I played that is only $5 USD and is actually better than this game as well. Look up "Fantasy Blacksmith" if you're looking for a better game than this but you're on a budget.


NOT RECOMMENDED. In the end, this is a pathetic attempt to leach off the success of a much superior game in "Medieval Blacksmith". Sorry guys (to the dev & publisher), but free keys have and never will earn you a fake positive review with myself.