Well the thing I don't think people are getting in this game is up until the point you kill the Stag Lord it is just like Baldur's Gate. However once you become a Baron and own your own Kingdom it is now more like Rimworld.
The biggest complaint about the game in general is "once I got my own Kingdom it failed and now the game is over"
So this game is like Baldur's Gate in how you execute the D&D portion of the game but it is primarily about using D&D mechanics to keep your realm from sinking. My first Kingdom went down in flames and I have to start over. When the Kingdom dies so does your character. Game Over Man!
Like Rimworld (which I was never a fan of the randomness of that game) you have a Kingdom and random shit happens that you have to manage in order to keep your realm running. However I find that since I am developing characters in a way that makes sense to me (D&D Style) and I am dealing with the issues D&D style I am perfectly happy to play Rimworld D&D.
When your Kingdom is running ok you can go out an adventure some more.
To give you an example.
I thought my kingdom was running fine so I went out across the map to chase down some quest and explore a bunch of the map I hadn't seen. When I got back I had numerous Troll raids that happened to my Kingdom that my advisors couldn't handle which sent my stability spiraling down to zero and my Kingdom collapsed.
You have to balance sitting at home running the Kingdom and going out to adventure (leveling up, getting gold etc).
On my second play through I had a Kobold attack on my Kingdom that I just flat out lost and died in. That immediately ended my game.
So... I really have no idea just how bad the events get or how random they are. I have no idea if really it is just a matter of time before your Kingdom fails. I guess it depends on the difficulty you play it. However I can tell you that from my perspective this is Rimworld D&D. That is my take anyway. It depends on your settings but in general I don't think it is as brutal as Rimworld but I don't have enough experience with the game to make the long term judgement of it.
It is entirely possible once you get the Kingdom management piece down that running a Kingdom is a piece of cake. I am not good enough at it now to judge that. However if that happened I would just up the difficulty anyway. Even if the Kingdom portion does eventually become mundane at higher levels I have no problem just going back to the Baldur's Gate of exploring and questing.
If you liked Rimworld you will like this game but not as much as Rimworld. If you didn't like Rimworld because of bullshit then you will like this game more than Rimworld.
If you love just RPG's like Never Winter or Bulders Gate and you hated Rimworld, I don't see that crowd liking this game. People don't want all the RPG investment to just go down in flames because the Kingdom failed.
The biggest complaint about the game in general is "once I got my own Kingdom it failed and now the game is over"
So this game is like Baldur's Gate in how you execute the D&D portion of the game but it is primarily about using D&D mechanics to keep your realm from sinking. My first Kingdom went down in flames and I have to start over. When the Kingdom dies so does your character. Game Over Man!
Like Rimworld (which I was never a fan of the randomness of that game) you have a Kingdom and random shit happens that you have to manage in order to keep your realm running. However I find that since I am developing characters in a way that makes sense to me (D&D Style) and I am dealing with the issues D&D style I am perfectly happy to play Rimworld D&D.
When your Kingdom is running ok you can go out an adventure some more.
To give you an example.
I thought my kingdom was running fine so I went out across the map to chase down some quest and explore a bunch of the map I hadn't seen. When I got back I had numerous Troll raids that happened to my Kingdom that my advisors couldn't handle which sent my stability spiraling down to zero and my Kingdom collapsed.
You have to balance sitting at home running the Kingdom and going out to adventure (leveling up, getting gold etc).
On my second play through I had a Kobold attack on my Kingdom that I just flat out lost and died in. That immediately ended my game.
So... I really have no idea just how bad the events get or how random they are. I have no idea if really it is just a matter of time before your Kingdom fails. I guess it depends on the difficulty you play it. However I can tell you that from my perspective this is Rimworld D&D. That is my take anyway. It depends on your settings but in general I don't think it is as brutal as Rimworld but I don't have enough experience with the game to make the long term judgement of it.
It is entirely possible once you get the Kingdom management piece down that running a Kingdom is a piece of cake. I am not good enough at it now to judge that. However if that happened I would just up the difficulty anyway. Even if the Kingdom portion does eventually become mundane at higher levels I have no problem just going back to the Baldur's Gate of exploring and questing.
If you liked Rimworld you will like this game but not as much as Rimworld. If you didn't like Rimworld because of bullshit then you will like this game more than Rimworld.
If you love just RPG's like Never Winter or Bulders Gate and you hated Rimworld, I don't see that crowd liking this game. People don't want all the RPG investment to just go down in flames because the Kingdom failed.