Medieval Dynasty

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6.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 70 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 15 out of 70
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  1. Blue198
    Aug 15, 2023
    0
    So boring, villagers work so slow also dialogue is long and terribly written. Decorating you village is awful you basically grab items and place it like it's the elder scrolls oblivion but oblivion came out in 2006 vs this game that came out recently plus you can only play as a man do not buy
  2. somedevsaregood
    Oct 5, 2021
    0
    The sales price is just to high for this low thought game.
    Could this game be great yes. But at this moment nope and the devs of this game said nope. There will be no sand castles to build in this sandbox and they dont support mods being used for there empty boring game. Like there are many fun boring games out there. But this game is like tedious boring.
    This game is so tedious its not    The sales price is just to high for this low thought game.
    Could this game be great yes. But at this moment nope and the devs of this game said nope. There will be no sand castles to build in this sandbox and they dont support mods being used for there empty boring game. Like there are many fun boring games out there. But this game is like tedious boring.
    This game is so tedious its not talked about and it is not fun. I would be more of a fan of this tedious if like the long game i got to collect stone to build castles or a castle. But he only thing you can build are palasades and fences. What a barbaric era and not medivel. Cant i make pesants where armor and be town guard.
    If this game was more like a medivel sandbox where you build a village and city with castles. Craft Armor and swords to defend from bandits. If you could build villages and citys and castles all over the sandbox this game would of been and 10 for me no doubt.
    Gametrend lied and so did Pc invasion they get paid for this and i dont.
    This game does not deserve praise and shouldnt be bought unless its on sale for $20 or less.    … Expand
  3. MFT
    Oct 15, 2021
    3
    Very shoddy game. This isn't 1.0, it's barely even in beta state. They have a button for getting stuck right in the menu and every NPC's can be asked to "move" which is pretty much a clue to it's state, but even that isn't enough - NPC's will gladly get stuck or body block doors preventing you from both talking to them and exiting the building.

    Building your village is a tedious chore -    Very shoddy game. This isn't 1.0, it's barely even in beta state. They have a button for getting stuck right in the menu and every NPC's can be asked to "move" which is pretty much a clue to it's state, but even that isn't enough - NPC's will gladly get stuck or body block doors preventing you from both talking to them and exiting the building.

    Building your village is a tedious chore - you have to click 10-20 times on each wall and roof piece, then click even more to upgrade them. You need insane amount of resources for just one house but can barely carry enough which means you are going to run back and forth to storage or woods. Farming, handcrafting hammers and picks, transporting resources at the beginning - everything is a chore. There aren't even beautiful locations like in Subnautica to motivate and distract you from this tedium.

    Horses do not unlock until later, which means you have to travel on foot everywhere which takes forever, meanwhile you need to drink and eat like a hungry mule non-stop. Days are WAY too short, and it feels like default 3 days per season isn't enough to do anything, but then when you unlock most buildings and expand your village after a few years - you are left with nothing to do expect waiting for your child to grow up. On top of that game keeps randomly teleporting you each season to the closest village for no reason. There are also crashes.

    No one has any voice lines, quests are very boring, tutorial is lacking. Animal AI is insane and hunting is plain dumb - either you need an upgraded bow with poison arrows, or you will be forced to run around in circles chasing them.

    There are elements for a game in this, but they do not come together well enough to provide you any fun. At best, you will be motivated to build your village, but sooner rather than later you will get bored running back and forth to the same locations, constantly exhausting your stamina, talking to the same NPC's, waiting a season, then needing to run back to them again... and again... and again.

    The main point is - it's just not fun.    … Expand
  4. Peter1997
    Sep 27, 2021
    0
    1)If the main feature of your game is building and crafting you should be better and more logical on this properties. For example at beginning i can build an entire house and warehouse but i can't make a simple bow. Another simple example: i need 4 stones for stone ax and i need 8 stones for huge stone wall. If stone ax is made from 4 stone stone wall should be made from 100 stone or if1)If the main feature of your game is building and crafting you should be better and more logical on this properties. For example at beginning i can build an entire house and warehouse but i can't make a simple bow. Another simple example: i need 4 stones for stone ax and i need 8 stones for huge stone wall. If stone ax is made from 4 stone stone wall should be made from 100 stone or if stone wall is 10 stones, stone axe should be 1 stone. I hope you understand me.

    2)You need better optimization for this graphics or better graphics for this hardware power.

    3)Running for hours between villages with constantly running out stamina for oblivion like npcs who don't even have voice it's so much boring you have to add a horse to begining of game. Our man can be run with horse from war at the begining story for example.

    4Add enemies in game and a few monsters in later times. This will be so good for game because there is no any fear or threat elements in game and this makes the game little bit boring and purposeless. You can see so many people say it is being pointless playing after a few days because there is no any purpose in game.

    5)You need cutscenes, story, special animations for characters, characters voices for this price because it is not early access anymore i mean you don't have any of this even characters don't have sound but you are selling with same price rdr2 or ac valhalla.    … Expand
  5. sersimovi
    Nov 10, 2022
    0
    The games has decent graphics and it's a good concept but that's it, all the combat and inventory management systems are absolute garbage. Don't waste your time on this.
  6. Zick_Angry_Pota
    Jan 22, 2023
    1
    Basically it is not a game. There is no game play. There is no goal, no challenge, no reward - only boredom...
    This game is just a pile of bad game mechanics which are neither fun nor smart. Lets look into them:
    1. Building - boring. All houses are look the same, same inside, same outside, same furniture (Khem - no furniture). Also building a village is a gimmick - there is no such    Basically it is not a game. There is no game play. There is no goal, no challenge, no reward - only boredom...
    This game is just a pile of bad game mechanics which are neither fun nor smart. Lets look into them:

    1. Building - boring. All houses are look the same, same inside, same outside, same furniture (Khem - no furniture). Also building a village is a gimmick - there is no such thing as your village. You can build houses in one corner of the map, hunting lodge on the another - you can scatter your buildings all over the map - no problem. All will be working just fine. Because there is no village - only a calculator: there is lumberjack hut? Do you have an ax in storage - good, take your +10 logs per day. What? there is 3km btw lumberjack and storage - no, for this game it is not a problem.

    2. Crafting - boring. You have like 50 recipes, 40 from them just useless things to sell. Animation for creating a bucket and a spoon are the same. And there are only few animations, that is cheap. Crafting is dumb - you can make a house and few different buildings, but you can't create a bowl, a spoon, a bow. You need to buy schemes... from God I guess...

    3. Simulations - boring. World is dead, npcs are dead. They simulate same activities but again in a very cheap manner. They all look the same, talk the same - hello Oblivion. The can eat only 1 type of food and you will never face a consequences of that... Because there are none.

    * You can become rich by selling thousands of wooden spoons...
    * Animals behaviour just lol...
    * Take this quest and run for 10km just because.

    In the end i want to say - I am in absolutely love with such setting. But this game I think caused a rejection of medieval game setting.    … Expand
  7. Sinuage
    Sep 29, 2021
    2
    The store pages let you know that you live in a harsh medieval world where you need to "defend your settlement from bandits." A line you can find one minute into one of the videos. However that isn't in the game. Bandits stay static on the map and do not come and attack your village. There is nothing wrong with that as they also claim "there is peace here..."

    So which is it? Harsh    The store pages let you know that you live in a harsh medieval world where you need to "defend your settlement from bandits." A line you can find one minute into one of the videos. However that isn't in the game. Bandits stay static on the map and do not come and attack your village. There is nothing wrong with that as they also claim "there is peace here..."

    So which is it? Harsh medieval world or peace? Pick one and don't mislead customers. The survival aspect of the game is a joke. You are forced into working around a season mechanic that teleports you home after each season. No matter if you were just about to get to the place you wanted to be or not. If it is the end of the season you are going home. This just feels odd in a survival game.

    Further it is an exploit. You can simply mine until you can't walk and then be magically be teleported home. Who needs inventory management? Just load up and port home. Winter too hard for you (it isn't)? No problem just sleep through it. You don't need to prepare anything for it.

    At the end of a season you also get a full health bar and food meter. Yeah this isn't a survival game as you can't die from these aspects unless you are just standing AFK.    … Expand
  8. KAKAOSKOS
    Dec 1, 2022
    3
    This game is the definition of the phrase 'boomer trap'. With layer upon layers of shameless fetch quests, and endless of dreadful progression hoops and loops. The AI is archaic and the models are obviously asset flipped from unreal, and the sense of "survival" are 100% non existent. I'm not sure, but I assume the positive reviews comes from those who likes the Medieval setting... Dunno,This game is the definition of the phrase 'boomer trap'. With layer upon layers of shameless fetch quests, and endless of dreadful progression hoops and loops. The AI is archaic and the models are obviously asset flipped from unreal, and the sense of "survival" are 100% non existent. I'm not sure, but I assume the positive reviews comes from those who likes the Medieval setting... Dunno, it just baffles me how this gets so highly rated.… Expand
  9. gaynorvader
    Oct 12, 2022
    4
    Main story is really well written and interesting. Almost everything else is flawed, requires twiddling with the settings, or is borderline broken.

    Much of the game is spent walking between villages, which takes a lot of real time as they are moderately far apart. You can get a horse, but it costs more money that you will realistically have until very late in the game. There are also    Main story is really well written and interesting. Almost everything else is flawed, requires twiddling with the settings, or is borderline broken.

    Much of the game is spent walking between villages, which takes a lot of real time as they are moderately far apart. You can get a horse, but it costs more money that you will realistically have until very late in the game. There are also fast travel carts, but again, cost more money than you will have to spare until late in the game.

    Hunting is okay, though animals have too much health, making it a bit of a boring grind, luckily you can turn their health down in the settings.

    Your carry capacity is tiny, and you can't upgrade it at all until the early mid game, and even then it's tiny until you can unlock a mount. Somehow, vehicles like travois or hand carts or even the simple packs you see in illustrations. Luckily you can turn off carry capacity in the settings, even though i usually love inventory management.

    Your stamina depletes too quickly, making travelling, building and hunting small animals a chore. Luckily you can turn it off in the settings.

    Food and water are pretty minor inconveniences, there is water absolutely everywhere and it's safe to drink. While meat is pathetic for some reason, it's so plentiful once you find a bow, you don't need to worry.

    Crafting is pretty good except you can only use the workbenches at your village. Meaning you have to grind to unlock them, then travel back to your village every time your item breaks since your carry capacity is so tiny. Oh, and you can't fast travel to your village.

    By the time you have your village to state where you can have a child, you've basically finished the game. All that's left is building for the sake of building. There's no real end game targets. Your village just grows if you want it to.

    The game economy is broken. Not only do you have to travel to an established village to sell anything (workers at your village don't produce coin), but the more advanced items have nowhere near the return on investment needed to make them worthwhile. You invest heavily in workshops, travelling to find raw resources, etc and time crafting to make only slightly more on a copper dagger over a stone dagger, which you can spit out tens of in no time. Worse, the cost of blueprints needed to unlock the crafting means you will be poor right up until the endgame arrives.

    Overall, there's fun to be had, once you've played around with the settings to get rid of the outright bad part of the experience, but it remains a painfully below average game with a cool setting.    … Expand
  10. Widden
    Oct 30, 2021
    1
    I'd love to recommend the game. The idea is great, the game looks good, it runs well, does not seem to be glitching, etc. The game mechanics to build a settlement seems to be sound.

    Small nagging issues with the resource requirements for certain things (i.e. some of them seem quite out of this world) but I can live with that for the sake of balance. What I can't tolerate at all, is    I'd love to recommend the game. The idea is great, the game looks good, it runs well, does not seem to be glitching, etc. The game mechanics to build a settlement seems to be sound.

    Small nagging issues with the resource requirements for certain things (i.e. some of them seem quite out of this world) but I can live with that for the sake of balance.

    What I can't tolerate at all, is the grind. It's essentially a time-waster.

    You'll take hours upon hours to build small buildings, and if you happen to want to move it; tough, because you cannot carry nearly a tenth of the materials needed. And you need to hammer and hammer and hammer till your fingers are numb on the mouse.

    A short succinct description of the game:

    GRIND FEST    … Expand
  11. LLDownpour
    Mar 17, 2023
    0
    A very bad game with a weird community. Very boring style of gameplay but for some reason the subreddit community of this game is acting like it's the best survival game ever made. They will get angry at your opinions and feedbacks on the negative side of the game. I played it for a few minutes and dropped immediately. Good thing Amazon allowed me to return it for a full refund. The ForestA very bad game with a weird community. Very boring style of gameplay but for some reason the subreddit community of this game is acting like it's the best survival game ever made. They will get angry at your opinions and feedbacks on the negative side of the game. I played it for a few minutes and dropped immediately. Good thing Amazon allowed me to return it for a full refund. The Forest and Subnautica trump this game a thousand times.… Expand
  12. woa12
    Apr 11, 2022
    0
    Complete and utter eurojank.

    Looks like it was thrown together in a couple of months.
  13. PsychoMC
    Jan 26, 2022
    0
    This is an early access game sold as finished product. It is grindy. It is unbalanced. It is not fun.
  14. Paulystan
    Apr 16, 2023
    2
    It could be interesting but it is a long dull grind with limited interactions and no polish. MUCH better survival games out there. I was expecting some real fun here, I love base building but this is largely boring. There is a real load of 'meh' games going on for 2022 and 2023 so far. It's been disappointment after disappointment. I gave this a go hoping for something more but nope. DullIt could be interesting but it is a long dull grind with limited interactions and no polish. MUCH better survival games out there. I was expecting some real fun here, I love base building but this is largely boring. There is a real load of 'meh' games going on for 2022 and 2023 so far. It's been disappointment after disappointment. I gave this a go hoping for something more but nope. Dull and duller.… Expand
  15. deathclaw
    May 3, 2023
    0
    The most unintelligently and illogically built game ever... the techtree is total turned upside down, the simplest things are the hardest to make, the prerequisites are utterly dumb, like making a spear costs a whole log. really? to make a bow, a simple bow, that one can learn at the very beginning of the game, needs a linen string that is made in a midgame building, so no bows until that.The most unintelligently and illogically built game ever... the techtree is total turned upside down, the simplest things are the hardest to make, the prerequisites are utterly dumb, like making a spear costs a whole log. really? to make a bow, a simple bow, that one can learn at the very beginning of the game, needs a linen string that is made in a midgame building, so no bows until that. like did these guys ever se a bow? where was it made with a linen string? or an arrow, it needs 3 rocks, 10 sticks and 10 feathers. not like we don't know that an arrow needs EXACTLY one single stick one single rock and 3x half feathers. then the NPC-s are total dummies and have to be hand fed, like when I had my first villager, I had a house but I was living in it so he wasn't willing to sleep in it despite he was a homeless traveler, I had a well next to the house with a bucket but he was thirsty even though it was his allocated job to use the well, and while berries were growing right next to the house he wasn't eating, he was starving to death. despite having a forest next to the village, built a log shed, assigned him thinking he will go and cut trees. nope, he was just standing there and the logs were magically teleported into the container. the game already has everything, tools animations etc to just make that npc cut the tree and carry it home but no, they have chosen to teleport it...
    horrible. its a great idea in a pretty setting but awfully executed, zero point    … Expand
  16. methodyy
    Sep 4, 2023
    4
    No idea what is goal of this game, works better than asmr to put you into sleep

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Feb 7, 2022
    79
    Medieval Dynasty delivers a nice blend of survival sim and economy game with a story layer behind it. The only thing that’s lacking is social aspect: Stardew Valley proved how important are neighbors for a farming game, but in Medieval Dynasty they’re just puppets with some basic needs and no actual character. [Issue#258, p.56]
  2. CD-Action
    Jan 19, 2022
    70
    If you have a lot of free time (50-60 hours seem like a reasonable minimum) and are in no hurry, if you enjoy very complex, immersive games, if you’re willing to overlook numerous bugs and glitches and don’t mind a bland story – Medieval Dynasty is for you. Even though the constant backtracking might be a pain, I personally found the game’s slow pace relaxing rather than annoying and enjoyed my time with it. Plus there are a lot of options that let you simplify the experience and lower the difficulty level, so you don’t need to be a hardcore survival games fan to have fun with Medieval Dynasty. [12/2021, p.40]
  3. Multiplayer.it
    Oct 31, 2021
    75
    Medieval Dynasty is a big peculiar mix of survival, resource management and RPG that feels medieval enough to be worth a try, despite some huge balance problems.
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