Recent reviews by Harkax

This game is fantastic, ignore the mixed reviews, people got salty that the servers got way too over populated and you couldn't get a server slot but I don't have issues getting in anymore, you might have to wait a minute now and then but I have been getting in pretty quickly now.

As for the game itself, play it (preferably with friends) and you will see.

I love this game, it gives you a real sense of adventure and wonderfully embraces the cultures and world it is set in.
I have found it to be very replayable, wanting to travel to each and every city and see what exciting adventure they may take me on there, not only that, getting around the world in 80 or as few days as possible is not the only adventure you may embark on, as I mentioned above, every city or every tranportation has it's own quirks that range anywhere from simple conversation right up to participating in a grand heist, or being kidnapped by pirates, or being in the midst of a terrorist attack, and beyond that there are even larger adventures, such as journeying to the centre of the earth, or travelling to the north pole.

My love for this game has had me reinstall it a couple of times, this latest time being to show my girlfriend and share and adventure together, she loved it and immediately after completing her own journey said "now you do one!" Eagerly listening as I read the new story to her.

This would be a good game if you didn't have to spend an hour watching unscrewing animations everytime you wanted to check if one piston isn't working. Then you have to watch and wait again as you rescrew everything back in, god forbid you forget a part because you then have to wait for it to stop screwing in, unscrew it and wait for that to finish, do whater you forgot, then screw it all back in again. I ended up quiting because it was so tedious and time consuming. Coming for Car simulator 2018 and Tank Simulator where unscrewing stuff doesnt take long at all and is not annoying this was really a killer for me with this game.

The major gripe with the game is the inability to progress past a certain point / skill level without paying for the cards needed to facilitate higher levels of play, a lesser gripe that personally affected me is that the game is very CPU intensive, and I dont mean its intensive for what is a simple card game, I mean its more intensive than most games from any genre. While my graphics card is high end (GTX 1080 TI) my processor is damaged and so is effectively a low end CPU. It still runs most games albeit some of them recieve choppy to low fps, while others run without a hitch. Artifact on the other hand allowed me to do the tutorial with stuttering animations, and as soon as the tutorial was complete the game crashed. Not the end of the world, I could just relaunch it and continue, or so I thought, it seems something about the main menu absoloutely tanks your CPU to the point where I could not get past the Source2 intro video, I have tried editing config files to lower settings to the absolute minimum and using steam commands to skip the intro vids and the likes but to no avail. While I can run FPS games, and games such as Star Citizen which is renown for it performance issues with little to no issues / fps drop, I cant run a card game at all.

The remainder of the review is based on my experiences on a different computer with a fairly high end CPU.

You will get 10 free booster packs at the start of the game, from that point on it os purely pay to win. The only way you can earn free packs is by winning 3+ games in draft without losing 2 games before winning your third. Even then the only way to enter these drafts is to use 2 tickets, which, you guessed it, costs real money to get. Otherwise you can get the tickets by the same process as the boosters. So basically if at any point in the time you play draft you must win 3 games before you lose 2 or you will never be able to earn cards again without paying for them.

If you could grind for boosters / tickets it wouldn't be so bad, but unless you net the best cards in the game on your first 10 boosters then get used to losing to people with deeper pockets. Its a shame because otherwise the game itself is enjoyable but not worth shelling out constantly to keep up with the meta as it changes.

Hopefully Valve will introduce some way to grind for boosters due to community backlash, but it seems there are enough people willing to pay out that it could carry the game.

TLDR: As far as games I have played go, this is the absolute worst example of pay to win and it has serious performance issues for low end computers.

As of writing this on 23/11/17 I have 1152 hours on record.

This game has so much replayability, do most anything to succed in what ever your goal may be.
Build a vast colonial nation, Unite your religion, world conquest, become the greatest trade nation, reclaim the holy lands, build a fortress country in the middle of europe. Or set yourself rediculous joke goals, eg. Colonise America as a steppe nomad and have jewish religion, or conquer all the sea provices in europe, but no inland provinces.

You are only limited by your imagination.

A fun game solving puzzles and solving crimes all from the comfort of your computer, track IP adresses, trace cell phones, hack into websites to access new information. Makes you think a bit, but not too hard.

Great game that is constantly being updated, what all Early access games shoul strive to be.

Great Strategy game. Attempt to conquer Europe through wars, marriage, assassinations and threats.

Has had me playing for over 700 hours and multipul games, Deffinetly worth $39 + the DLC for it.