Refunded due to misleading description stating that you can "relax in sandbox mode."

There is no sandbox mode. As far as I can tell there is no plan to add a sandbox mode, either. There's a survival mode that's endless, but it's, well, survival (i.e. waves of enemies until you lose) that always takes place on the same map with zero customization options according to what others have said in Discussions.


If you don't care about a sandbox experience, it might be worth getting still. I'm just refunding it since it specifically states having sandbox, and that was my main reason to purchase the game.

As many other reviews, and the game's own description says, this game very much is inspired by Majesty (in a good way). The campaign is fun, the hero variety at launch is decent to good, reward flags are useful, the way the economy is generated has an interesting spin to it, and overall plays well.

My only major critiques currently are replayability and the lack of a graveyard. The first they are working on with what sounds like a fun sandbox mode, two new (restored) campaign missions, as well as a new campaign DLC later on. The second, I have absolutely no idea why a graveyard system hasn't been put in yet. Majesty 1 with its expansion had it, and so did Majesty 2. I would just really like to see the ability to resurrect our heroes while also having the threat of undead come from said graveyard.

Some more feedback to read at your leisure (and mostly for the devs).

• A variant of the Temple of Krypta would be awesome. I always love playing with the Necromancer type. I know we have demon summoning in this game, but I just miss our favorite Priestess's of Krypta.
  
• More monster variety as time goes on. I like the enemy wave mechanic, but it starts to become a bit predictable and samey as time goes on. I know the game is limited right now with the number of monsters available, but having it be a bit more unpredictable as to what you are about to face would be cool.
  
• I think the sewer system should be a bit more like Majesty's, where you can have multiple enemies come out of them instead of 1 every time.
  
• Tradeposts are too rare in missions and too slow to be of real use.
  
• I don't see why I shouldn't be able to place buildings anywhere outside of the immediate castle area. If I want to build a defense tower by a trade post in the middle of no where, I don't see why not? Further, sometimes I just like to let a mission run for a while, even if it affects my star rating at the end of the mission. That means available wood/stone/iron tends to dry up. There's typically plenty of wood out in the wilderness, why can't I put a lumber post out there? Still would need to set up a guard tower to collect taxes with (maybe you also have to set up a small castle or something in the area to balance?)
  
• More party slots. Unless there is a performance reason, I don't see why we should be limited to 6 party's.
  
• More late game threats in general. We have the wave system sure, but in between waves there's not really any sort of threat to deal with 95% of the time in the late game. And even with the wave system, you have to wait a while for it to get to 5 skulls before the big bad boss dragon shows up (which is good in the early to mid game aspect). Maybe more waves of enemies the longer the mission goes on or based on average hero level?
  
• Something that Majesty didn't really have but wouldn't mind seeing evolved in this one, more hero requirements to fulfill their needs. I'm not sure what exactly, but just more stuff to lean into the sim aspect.

Overall, I do recommend this a lot one if you liked Majesty or the like the appeal of an RTS where you don't control the hereos directly. The devs seem to be eager to keep the game updated with their road map available. I hope for their continued success and a long development life for this game with hopefully many campaign DLC's!