![]() Roads greatly increase movement, so they’re critical strategically. Pioneers can also build outposts, which do not provide any bonuses, but they do increase our borders and, once upgraded with more pioneers, can fire upon any enemy in range, which is extremely helpful. Additionally, building any town or outpost will link it by road to the nearest other town or outpost. To settle new towns, we train Pioneers, but we can only settle on the fertile ground terrain type, which isn’t that common. Towns build buildings, which improve their own infrastructure or provide bonuses to the empire in some way, or they can train units. There are six types of sovereign we can pick from and depending on the type, we get access to a different special ability, there are different spells we can research and there’s a different starting army we get. The button to start a new game first takes us to the sovereign selection screen. This tracks our score and rank, which I’m not too interested in personally.įinally, Quit should be pretty self explanatory. Metarealm takes us to our online profile page in a new browser tab, so it doesn’t have much to do with the game itself. This one basically means, “if there is less than X units in the enemy army, just auto-resolve it”. Also of not is the quality of life setting called Tact-Battle Threshold. Of note is the option to skip the intro video, which is something I did immediately upon watching it for the first time, hoping I’d get to the main menu faster that way. This second screen consists mostly of things we wont touch too often. Still, for the sake of providing the information, here are both options screens. They certainly didn’t help with random crashes that also happen far too often. Next up is the Options screen, which offers plenty of things to configure, but none of them really helped me with weird slowness and hiccups that tend to happen throughout the game. There is no option to load a previous save from within the current game at all, so the only option is to get to the main menu first and use Load Game from here. However, as far as I can tell, there is no quick load. There is an undocumented Quick Save keyboard shortcut in Sorcerer King – Ctrl + S. I have a bone to pick with game saving and loading. That being said, I enjoyed it well enough, so I have high hopes for the regular game. As I said, most reviewers seem to agree that the campaign is weak compared to a regular game. The quests in the campaign are arranged in such a way that you are able to slowly progress through some sort of loose story. The map and features are fixed, as are sides and pretty much everything else. The Campaign is basically a preset new game. The first thing I notice is that it’s not an extremely fast load to get to the main menu. ![]() It will be completely new to you, the reader, but also relatively fresh for me, since the campaign map, as far as I can tell, is not random at all. Because of that, I’ll start a new session of a randomized game and guide you through that. Now that I’m reading various reviews, though, it seems that many reviewers agree the campaign is the weaker part of the game. Instead, I played through the campaign, which I found entertaining, albeit slightly too long and repetitive towards the end. I haven’t played through a regular skirmish game of Sorcerer King. Still, it comes very close, even if we don’t ignore the many technical flaws the game has, so it was good enough for me to play through it entirely, and good enough to write about.Īs usual, I would like to do a walk through, but I have some explaining to do first. As any other game of this type I’ve tried, though, it fails to capture the feeling Master of Magic was able to offer decades ago. As far as I can tell, it’s placed in the same universe as Elemental: War of Magic and Elemental: Fallen Enchantress, and it’s pretty good, fun game. Sorcerer King is the latest game in the series of 4x games made by Stardock. It’s been a while since I wrote anything here and honestly, this was mostly because I didn’t play anything to write about until now.
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