Disciples: Liberation – A Serviceable RPG Wearing a Hollow Mask Disciples: Liberation is not a bad game. Mechanically, it is a sufficiently competent, accessible RPG with serviceable tactical combat and a reasonably broad campaign map. Taken in isolation, it delivers a passable blend of party management, resource gathering, and quest progression. I’ll probably even finish it. But in bearing the name Disciples, it inherits a mantle it does not, and perhaps cannot, carry. The earlier Disciples titles were defined by a rare combination: a solemn and dignified cadence in speech, a formality that made even the smallest exchange feel like a proclamation, and a world drenched in moral ambiguity where no faction emerged clean. Dialogue was deliberate and ceremonial, steeped in fatalistic grandeur; victories tasted like ash in the mouth, and the conclusion of each campaign left the player with a sense of unease, as though doom remained inevitable and the slow, horrifying consequences of w...

The announcement of a new game made me feel like playing Disciples. I have played and loved most of the previous games but never got into Liberation. I have been trying to remedy that, but I am still not into it. Liberation is just very underwhelming. I can list a dozen issues with it, but the primary offender is the completely stale combat. And that's where you spend most of your time. I started dreading going into another battle, because I knew that during the early rounds where the enemy still has all of their units, my thoughts would wonder about what fun thing I could find on my phone instead of watching the screen. Even at 300% speed, combat is slow and lumbering. Balance is fairly good, but there's not much interesting to do. Magic is meh. Melee is meh. Ranged abilities occasionally are ok but you'll find nothing that you haven't seen before. I might be able to forgive the game for this if it had an engaging story, great progression and a lively cast. But 40 hours in and my c...

Nothing of the Disciples franchise exists in this game.

unplayable conversation loop

[h1]As much a Disciples game as [i]The Rings of Power[/i] is [i]The Silmarillion[/i][/h1] [b]TL;DR[/b]: As a light tactics-RPG comletely outside of the title, it’s serviceable. As [i]Disciples[/i], it’s a betrayal. No branching unit paths, no sacred terraforming, gods are NPCs and bosses, where before they were [i]mechanics[/i]. The narrative feels inflated yet hollow. This game [b]will not[/b] scratch the right itch for you. [h2]For the series fans:[/h2] If you love classic Disciples (I, II, III), this game is [b]not[/b] for you. The name promises branching capital-building paths and unit lineages, sacred land spreading in your god’s image, squads you grow attached to across a whole map, and factions whose magic, feel and battle tactics cohere into unique identities. [i]Liberation[/i] replaces that with flat kits and reversible choices: - Units arrive as a standard package of primary, secondary, and backline skills; you hire them directly. No more satisfaction of getting your...

Super fun! Love the game.

Slow in every sense of the word. It's got a lot of maps, pretty decent size. But you move so slow across them all. And you gotta keep running back to the life fountain because you can't use spells outside combat. And combat is slow. Tight confines and a lot of movement restriction powers and tiles means half your army often sits and does nothing. And getting better units is locked behind the really vague relationship builder. Also, once you leave a map you don't go back for the entire act, which makes side questing quite difficult. I have to say though, the amount of dialogue is great. They've got lines upon lines that you'll never see because they are all contextual on who you talk to first out of the entire game. This doesn't at all help the incredible sloth, but does make Liberation Mode a little more fun. Also gotta wonder how many takes it took for Narrator to say that boss name at the end

If you play this game always save and start by loading your save game, otherwise you will get caught in a conversation loop bug

Frankly it took far too long to play. Even with the sped up animations it plays very slow even for a tactics game. And the mechanic to build resources over time plays like a phone game with microtransactions. It doesn't have a place in a single player title. So I have to leave my computer running this to get some more magic dust? Then after 40 hours you're telling me new game plus is required for the actual ending? To do 40 more hours of this? Absolutely not. There just wasn't anything in this that was that good to justify it.

I like better disciples 2 ,but this is good either.If in the next game they will return some of the old formula it will be even better