Loria

Fair warning: I've never written a review before. Phew - no. First and foremost: I love RTS games, I earned my money playing them and creating content for them, I enjoy to play them and I love grand fantasy stories which is why I always take it with a grain of salt that most of the better RTS of recent years have been in sci-fi/modern era settings. The trailer for Loria came along and I was interested - the graphics weren't necessarily what I would have liked but the whole thing was charming enough. I bought it with the launch discount, which gave it a very fair price and just finished the campaigns while travelling with my old-ish laptop. [u]Gameplay[/u] The [b]basic mechanics[/b] work alright, you can select up to 24 units, there's attack move, you can tab through your units. The devil's in the detail: The [b]pathfinding[/b] is alright as long as there aren't any ramps, rivers, trees, fences, fairies or pebbles in the way. Especially on later campaign maps your units just te...

[u][b]TL;DR:[/b][/u] A solid homage to early RTS games such as Warcraft 1+2 that also borrows ideas from later RTS games. Kinda like a lovechild between Warcraft 2 and 3. Great game if you grew up with those oldies and you like being nostalgic... but it might fall a bit short if you've never played any of these old games back then due to things such as janky mechanics, which are completely normal for games like this. (terrible pathfinding, units getting stuck, etc.) [u][b]Performance & bugs:[/b][/u] Thanks to the nostalgic look, this game does not require a powerfull system to run and I personally did not encounter any game breaking bugs yet. Others have, but that's normal. Depending on your operating system and hardware, user specific bugs can occur in any game. Still, the developer is paying great attention to bug reports and suggestions and is working hard to fix them all and make improvements when the demand is reasonable. [u][b]Gameplay & Design:[/b][/u] It looks, sounds, feels...

I'm the voiceover guy who did all the voices for all the 'male' voice range characters. About 25 in total. It was super fun. Special nerd love because I was obsessed with the Warcraft games. -Alexei Ryan

Loria is an RTS game in an age where the genre is mostly centered around Starcraft and Warcraft, two extremely old blizzard games. Loria wears it's inspiration on its sleeve, looking, sounding and playing very much like an updated Warcraft 2, and for that, I love it. It really does stratch the nostalgic itch that I had for that game. It might be similar to Warcraft 2, but it brings a lot of modern inprovements, such as being able to select a total of 24 units rather than 9, pathing improvements (although it still feels very Warcraft 2 like). The campaign so far, (I'm only 3 levels in so keep that in mind) has been fairly easy going, in the sense that I have not been instantly crushed by an AI that builds and gathers resources 3 times the speed of sound like in Warcraft 2. It is still challenging, don't get me wrong, but so far the level of challenge has been just right. Dalt is a fairly interesting character in just how full of himself he is. This is clearly not a game that takes itse...

Hello RTS my old friend This new RTS is openly a shout out to the great RTS games of old and it shows in what for me as an extremely fun game. My only criticism with this game is that the asking price is high; I fully understand that indy games have limited budgets and sometimes it is better to see if the game will sell well before deciding to create servers for multiplayer (and sometimes it isn't even a choice) but I fear that the developers created a catchj 22 for themselves Now being honest about the review I love Warcraft 2 and I was shocked by the game not feeling just like Warcraft 2 and think these really did make it feel more original than expected. 1. There are autocast spells which is something that never existed in Warcraft 2. 2. The roster is rearranged in a way that makes the factions play differently. For example in Warcraft 2 it was Knight-Paladin Paladin had healing and you had to order each heal. Now there is an autocast on a weak elven priestess making it a diff...

[b] Loria [/b] is essentially a Warcraft 2 tribute, but it also borrows a few ideas from Warcraft 3, such as hero altars and auto-casting. Each of the 2 factions has 3 playable heroes that can gain levels and unlock new abilities. You can even fight neutral camps around the map that will drop different artifacts, pretty much what we had in Warcraft 3. Since the game does not have a multiplayer at the moment, you will have to rely on the single player campaign which is relatively enjoyable. It has a skirmish mode but it does not have many maps, and there is no incentive to practice without PvP. I actually think that voice acting is pretty good, considering that it's RTS game from some indie dev. Most of the units and heroes have some voice lines, and they are not as cheesy as you would expect. Overall I would say that this game is probably better than the original Warcraft 2 - kind of the same but more complex. Actually, the last time I played Warcraft 2 was probably 20 something years...

Excellent game if you are looking for a classic RTS experience. The game feels like Warcraft 3 done on Warcraft 2 with some extra cool features like troops that can level up and much more!

Like most RTS old school gamers I enjoyed Warcraft II back in the day, so this tribute to Blizzard’s masterpiece is a pleasant journey to the past. If you enjoy traditional real-time strategies and don’t mind cover versions sounding almost the same as the originals, give Loria a try. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1670622159 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1674484692

Good RTS for people who liked 90s RTS games, good games don't need to be in 3D, 2D is a very good choice for indie developers, there is a selection limit up to 24 units which most of the time not noticeable. this game have campaign for the two factions and skirmish mode vs AI currently have 5 maps more maps coming as promised by the developer.

I really wanted to like this game, but it's hard to recomend it at all when my characters were getting stuck every. single. map. There wasn't one match that i played where my guys didn't get stuck in the graphics and i'd have to kill them to reset them. If this wasn't so buggy, i think it would be a great take on WC2/3