Robin Hood – Sherwood Builders Preview (Steam Early Access)

Robin Hood – Sherwood Builders Preview, an action-adventure RPG with base-building elements, where you take on the role of a classic hero who stands up to the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. Fight, craft, steal, and of course, help the local people grow and prosper.

Robin Hood – Sherwood Builders Preview Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 58.84GB Download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Graphics settings – window mode, screen resolution, resolution scale, brightness, gamma, view distance, FSR, max fps cap, v-sync, volumetric fog, depth of field, lens flare, grass shadows, rain, and directional lights.
• Advanced graphics – graphics preset, ambient occlusion levels/radius/quality, shadow quality, cascaded shadows, shadow resolution, shadow render distance, reflections, clouds, grass density, fire bloom, and texture pool size.
• Three difficulties – Easy, normal, and hard.
• Blood can be turned on and off.
• Combat mode can be set to precise or dynamic. Precise has no movement while attacking and dynamic has free movement while attacking.
• Tutorial tips – on/off.
• Controller support and you set which button icons it uses.
• Can remap the controls for the keyboard.
• Full 3D world, with 360-degree camera control.
• Action adventure gameplay.
• Full drag and drop inventory system.
• Anything Interactive or lootable will flash.
• Button prompts show over points.
• The compass at the top shows markers, objectives, points of interest, etc.
• Third-person perspective.
• Feels like a Robin Hood Skyrim.
• Excellent voice work and soundtrack.
• Feels very atmospheric.
• Play how you want.
• Beds allow you to save and advance time.
• One awesome thing is these pictures on the wall of combat, hovering over one will show you a video pop out of said combat move and how to do it.
• Hunter vision lets you see any enemies, friendlies, and interactive points temporarily.
• Slow motion can be triggered to help with combat and Stealth.
• Five save slots and three checkpoint slots.
• Radical dial menu can have items put in it for quick access.
• Has and uses the food and thirst mechanics.
• Day and night cycles with different weather effects.
• Conversations can be fast-forwarded.
• Initial quests do a great job of explaining and showing you the mechanics and tools at your disposal.
• Uses the traditional rock and stick method of building an axe to chop a tree, a pickaxe to break rock, etc.
• Handy collect all materials around your button.
• Stamina system for running, combat, and actions like mining and chopping down trees.
• You can craft basic items and weapons from your inventory.
• Traversal is quick and easy, especially with the grab ledges and climb-up actions.
• Collect flowers and herbs in the world and get XP for them.
• Loot all buttons in chests/barrels/bodies.
• The combat can be hack and slash but it does open up, you can do cool combos and finishing moves.
• Stealth is a big deal as you need it for combat but also hunting.
• There is different trees that give different wood types.
• Earn exp and level up to get points into a massive Web Of a skill tree.
• Unlock fast travel points around the map.
• Senses like hunting and scouting are important in the game and you can improve these as you level up.
• Great looking locations.
• You are in charge and getting supplies like food and resources for your camp.

Robin Hood – Sherwood Builders Preview Cons:

• The controller when in menus has the right stick used like a mouse which is not always ideal.
• No benchmark test for the graphics.
• The game can look blurry in a lot of places.
• Tutorial pop-ups are usually always a seperate thing meaning you have to come out of the action and read them then go back.
• The compass is not easy to read and doesn’t help with navigation or distance.
• Cannot save when you want.
• I accidentally clicked no more tutorials and the menu option was greyed out so I could never turn them back on.
• The performance is a bit up and down especially in built-up areas or in large combat sequences.
• It can be really hard to make things out or see too far ahead no matter the graphics setting.
• On the controller, at least the aiming and general bow use is very loose and unwieldy.
• Doesn’t offer any Colourblind options which can make finding loot and drops quite hard.
• Even with the radial dial, it’s still a pain to manually swap between tools and weapons.
• The skill tree is massive, so much to look at plus you have to manually click apply on the far side whereas most games now have it where you can click apply when selecting another menu.
• The camp is huge and a real pain to traverse as you try and stock up the many boxes with resources.
• Some cheese line delivery and writing.
• No option for the first person.
• It feels like a collection of great RPG mechanics in one but has little identity.
• Had a few updates where it downloads the full game again.

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Robin Hood – Sherwood Builders:

Official website.

Developer: Meanastronauts

Publisher: PlayWay

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Steam Early Access