Eyes Of War Preview (Steam Early Access)

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Eyes Of War Preview, is a real-time strategy game set in the medieval era, offering both single-player and multiplayer experiences where you can control every unit in character mode. Build your castle, lead your army, and dominate the map. Eyes of War invites you to epic battles of the medieval era!

Eyes Of War Preview Pros:

  • Decent graphics.
  • 5.08GB download size.
  • Steam achievements.
  • Graphics settings – graphics quality preset, max fps limit, v-sync, resolution, window mode, anti-aliasing, upscaling method, upscaling quality, shadows, reflections, ambient occlusion, and global illumination.
  • Can remap the controls for the keyboard.
  • Mouse sensitivity for character and strategy mode.
  • Optional tutorial option.
  • Can play the game offline or online in multiplayer.
  • DLSS support.
  • Full 3D game world with 360-degree camera control.
  • Strategy mode goes into an overhead view and here you can build structures, train soldiers, repair buildings, etc.
  • Hack and slash-style combat with an emphasis on blocking and countering.
  • You can train soldiers, queue them up, and place a banner where they spawn.
  • Scrolling the map in strategy mode can be done with WASD keys or by hitting the edges of the screen with your mouse cursor.
  • Drag and select mechanics for troops.
  • On the main menu, you can change the location of the scene shown.
  • All of the camera control is done with the keyboard.
  • The map fills in as you explore.
  • You can become any character that you have in the game.
  • It’s cool where you go into a massive battle and call out attack and then it all just goes Lord Of The Rings.
  • Building walls is fast and you press once to place and then drag the cursor around until you’re happy and then click the build button again.
  • When a wall is built you can still add to it like towers or lookout and archer spots.
  • You watch things get built.
  • Building structures like mines and camps can have the people working them upgraded, the structures themselves upgraded and you can set priorities with a handy slider for different resources.
  • Every structure or person can be upgraded in some way.
  • As you build up your kingdom gold comes in passively.
  • Play how you want.
  • Structures can be rotated and placed using the green for good and red for not a chance placing guide.
  • Technology is attached to buildings and structures and these can be used to do things like increase soldiers health.
  • Training soldiers and troops can be queued up and stacked.
  • Impressive body count on screen making for truly epic fights.
  • What I do like is when selecting and moving a group of troops you can easily press a button to change their formation.
  • You can play the game using both views or by just doing strategy.
  • Multiplayer has a server browser.
  • Four game modes – strategy (construct buildings and an army), Arena (select your army and fight), battle (place your army in pre-made battle scenarios), and the coming soon mode survive.
  • Four armies to choose from – Veridia, Silveria, Norvion, and Solvong.
  • The battle has three locations – Sands OF Destiny, tears of River, and Glacier of Glory. You select which troops and how many to take into battle.
  • Arena has three locations – Lions Roar, Hopmgang, and Green Garden.
  • Strategy supports up to four players (both Ai and/or bots), the bots have four difficulties, and there are six maps to choose from – Serpents Pass, frozen harbor, barren dunes, two rivers, rapids, and flat river.
  • Every mode can be played with bots or against real players.
  • Shows a lot of promise and is fantastic when it is running well.

Eyes Of War Preview Cons:

  • No controller support but the dev does say it’s in the works.
  • Very small text even when on a laptop close up it’s hard to make out tutorials and pop-ups.
  • In the tutorial, I put barracks too close together and the troops couldn’t move, I couldn’t demolish the barracks and with all that, the tutorial would not progress.
  • The game’s tutorial is very basic and doesn’t go into much detail or give tips on controls.
  • Third-person fighting is sensitive and very unwieldy, with a lot of flailing attacks and lucky blocks. (could do with a lock on for fighting).
  • It all moves rather slowly from general movement to building troops and moving them around.
  • A lot of looking and waiting for progress bars.
  • The music is up and down.
  • You don’t always get a good indicator that something is built.
  • The performance overall is very choppy especially when jumping between strategy mode and fighting.
  • Combat movement is lightning-fast compared to the quicksand troop movement.
  • The AI is not great on both sides, the enemy will just stand there and take it whilst your men will usually always go the wrong way.
  • Has strategy games start and stay as a black screen meaning I have to quit out.
  • Hardly anyone playing online.
  • When playing against bots in the battle mode you still have a battle start countdown.
  • It just always feels like the game is going to fall over at any point as I’ve had it not work properly in so many situations.
  • I couldn’t find any way to group troops up into smaller armies and then have them assigned to hotkeys.

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Eyes Of War:

Official website.

Developer: Good Mood Games

Publisher: Good Mood Games

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Steam Early Access

Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!