Northmark: Hour of the Wolf

Okay I'm going to try to keep this simple as honestly I'm pretty confused how I feel about this game. I enjoyed every minute of playing it, but at the end of it I'm feeling empty. I literally did everything I could, fought every battle visited every location cleared every arena and got every achievement. The game could be finished easily a lot faster than my own clocked hours, I was crawling and searching through the dust hoping for more content. What is here is really solid, good battle system, a decent selection of cards. Replayability? Little to none, personally I doubt I will play through this again. There are no random encounters, just scripted story encounters. There are the arena battles which personally I found the most interesting as some of them had unique foes that could be a bit more challenging. Difficulty wise overall I would say it is a bit on the easy side. Not too bad but there is no difficulty setting option so one size fits all in this case beginner to veteran. So t...

This game lacks polish. I'm playing a female character but all the dialog refers to me as a male. There are misspelled words and some of the jokes are very lame. One of my quests is buggy. But you know what? I don't care! Regardless of all that, the story is still fun and the card battles are incredibly addicting. If you like fantasy settings or card games or stories that poke fun at themselves, you'll probably enjoy this quite a bit. And the best part - the achievements work just fine! If you're thorough in your exploring, it's fairly easy to get a perfect game in one playthrough. So if you don't mind an unpolished game, look for this on sale and snap it up. This is one game I'm very happy I decided to buy.

(Completely updated review after first completion of game) Summary: this is a good, fun game, but short with not a whole lot of replay value... Pros: Easy strategic depth with some layers of complexity, stable and efficient programming, decent story with variety of tone, pleasant surprises (riddles, hidden chests, etc.) Cons: Scope of game is quite small; not a lot of cards, characters, quests, etc... I beat the game just shy of four hours. Difficulty curve vanishes after you 'figure it out.' Would also be nice to have a text speed option; lots of clicking to get through dialogue. I still recommend as a good/fun game, and the price is fair. Interresed to see if they expand/develop a new (bigger) story line at some point... EDIT: The fact this game is short could actually be a PRO, because now I actually feel like I've completed a game in my library :)

[h1]IN A WORD: [b]MAYBE[/b] [/h1] [h1]IN SHORT:[/h1] [quote=] [b]OF A SIMILAR NATURE TO:[/b] Hero of the Kingdom [b]WHAT TO EXPECT:[/b] Very short. Story-driven objectives. Fantasy setting. Overhead map movement. Minor RPG elements. 31 locations to visit, some with multiple areas. 196 card deck battle system. Limited number of basic puzzles. Virtually zero replayability value. [b]ACHIEVEMENTS:[/b] EASY. [b]STATUS:[/b] COMPLETE. [b]WHEN TO BUY:[/b] ON A SALE.[/quote] [i]More info below....[/i] [h1]THE LOWDOWN:[/h1] Northmark: Hour of the Wolf is a short fantasy quest-oriented, adventure game with RPG elements, minor puzzles and a card-driven combat system. Travel across a fairly detailed map. Visit thirty-one locations. Talk to quest giving characters. Complete them, search for hidden stashes or fight in the arenas to obtain money. Spend cash on buying cards from stores and specialist buildings to increase the potency of the battle deck and possible deck-building strategies. ...

Hi all, The last update prompted me to write a review for this game. A card game, where you solve various quests and get more and more powerful card. While this is simple all is very good. Definitely something that will deliver few hours of fun. Game is not being developed further - author stated that sales were less than satisfactory and it's quite understandable. I have similar issue with my games here on Steam and I don't really know how to solve it - I have put a link on my own game page. I hope he will get few copies through that. Les

Really short, not great. The writers tried to be funny and failed. Other dialogue is dreadfully mediocre and poor at best. There is very limited strategy to the game. Most fights are really easy but a few are a bit rough if you tackle them too early unless you spent your points in the right places. Usually I just buff the snot out of one stompy unit and focus attacks on one enemy unit at a time. I also couldn't see the point in spending many stat points on defence since the faster I kill off one of the enemy's units the sooner I'd win the fight. Focus on attack and spread those points around to several different damage types and you're guaranteed to hurt anything you hit - even if only for a few points. Even though it's not a great game something made me stick with it until I played the whole thing through. If you like card-based RPG game mechanics, can put up with bad writing and a poor story line with "twists" you can see coming way before the game "reveals" them, so-so grap...

I normally stay away from card based games, but this is a cute little one. Its really easy though, and seems to be a mobile port. Besides that, its pretty fun. The rules are simple to learn, each stat has an attack and a defense, so like 3 fire magic -2 fire defense is 1 point. Theres basic attack/defense and then ice, fire, and poison. Your hero, of which there is a few classes to determine your starting cards and stats, also has base stats which boost the cards. You wander around a map, each location has little icons you can click (and hidden ones too with gold you have to search for). Theres also riddle chests (like in Betrayal at Krondor, one of the best RPGs of the 90s). The riddles are easy, but fun. The combat is all card based. YOu have a group of 12 cards that is your deck, and you can get "unit cards" which have a level. You can pick up to three units, as long as their levels combined isnt above a set number. So if your number is 10, you can have 2 5th level units, or a 5 a...

Better than I expected. You can skip every conversation and just check your quest log after but I thought the story was decent enough to read. If you learn the combat well then the game is pretty easy, if you struggle with grasping it then you'll probably have a ruff ride as it's very linear and 90% of the combat at least is unavoidable. A total deal at the sale price and not too bad at regular price. It only took me 5.5 hours to fully complete it, you can have 100% achievements prior to that too, so it's not too long. Some people, like me, like that but some don't so it's important to note that. Give it a try if you think that you might like it.

[h1]A card battler on the "lite" side[/h1] [b]What this game is:[/b] if you are looking for a very simple card "battler" system on the very light side with some RPG elements, then this game might be for you. [b]How does it work?[/b] You are tasked with uncovering what lies behind a series of attacks that threaten the peace of the kingdom with its neighbours the Elves and the Dwarves. You will of course travel to different locations, get to battle bad guys, and get as much gold as possible, thus becoming a stronger character, until you identify the apparent source of the problem. [b]How does it perform?[/b] Easy to play, it has very simple game mechanics. The storyline is OK and provides the needed background to the whole game. The battle system works well and is easy to grasp. [b]The good points:[/b] Simple, efficient and uncomplicated game, with a good storyline and some bits of humour. Getting the achievements is quite easy, all can be had in one playthrough (around 7 ...

Simplistic game made annoying by overcomplicating things unnecessarily. Long Text clickthroughs made unbearable by stringing out the text as it takes time to fade in letter by letter. you dont die, you just keep trying till u win. unbalanced fights and gold reqs. run here and there and click thru texts as fast you can. not much fun. short, but thats good considering. ending anticlimactic and you're back to menu without realizing you won unless you spend hours reading texts. seriously, pointless texts in small 1-3 lines at a time you have to click each time to go to the next one, sometimes they are 20, 30, or 40 clicks long. the format has some minor potential, but its like they started making a real game then half way thru decided to put cheap knots at the end of their tattered strings and call it a game.