Review roundup

Two of those lines are averages over a crowd and three are single opinions, and one of the three single opinions was written about a build that no longer exists. Averaging them would produce a figure that describes nothing. The Steam percentages move with every patch; the GameLuster score was awarded to a version with five factions, no custom faction creator and no multiplayer.

GameLuster scored it 8/10 and recommended it, calling it "a feast for the eyes, with some thick gristle on the bones," and praised the tide system, the faction design and the visuals. Read it with its date attached: the review says outright that it was played on the Early Access build, and its text confirms this by noting that only five factions were available, that a sixth was promised, and that the custom faction creator was not yet usable. Its gameplay criticism is still worth knowing because it concerns systems rather than numbers — the reviewer found that auto-resolving a fight would have won the battle at the cost of the hero unit, and that fighting it manually won without losing anything. That observation is used on /auto-battle/.

This site does not answer that with a number, because the answer depends on which of three readers you are.

• You played Early Access and drifted away. The 1.0 review picture is stronger than the Early Access picture, and the recent-review figure is higher than the lifetime figure. The change list on /1-0/ tells you whether the specific things that annoyed you were addressed.
• You have never played it. There is a demo on Steam, and it costs nothing to find out whether the Tidefall loop holds you. See /demo/ — but note what the demo does and does not include.
• You want it on a console or on a handheld. Check /ps5/, /xbox/ and /steam-deck/ before reading scores, because the reviews above were written on PC.

• Try the demo first
• What 1.0 changed
• Editions and prices
• Steam Deck report
• PlayStation 5 details
• Xbox details
• Reference index