Fellowship Preview (Steam Early Access)

by Jim Smale · Published November 1, 2023 · Updated September 29, 2023

For this Fellowship Review, we play a survival action-roguelike game where you assemble a party of 5 heroes to combat hordes of monsters. Utilize unique skills, formations, and synergies to liberate the world of Eldrida from the shadow cast by Goltar, the dark sorcerer.

Fellowship Preview Pros:

Decent graphics.
1.71GB download size.
Survival action gameplay.
Graphics settings – display mode, resolution, v-sync, and fps limit.
Five characters to play as – Holy Knight, Lancer, Priest, Warrior, and Archer.
World map level select.
Each character has their own set of abilities and unique stats like health, damage, and movement.
You only control movement and abilities and attacks happen automatically.
You can rescue and have other characters join you with a max of all five.
When a character dies, or many of them you can get to a shrine to resurrect a character of your choice.
Earn gold from enemies and spend it on upgrades and gear.
Power-ups can appear and grant things like temporary damage boosts or movement bonuses.
As you kill enemies you fill the bar and then trigger bosses to appear.
Bosses can keep spawning in terms of if you hit two of them on the bar then both are alive.
Impressive on-screen numbers of enemies
You can see enemy health bars.
Fast loading times.
Simple controls – movement on WASD, shift is a run button and the mouse is your aim.
When you have more than one in your party you can swap between which character you control.
Party formation can be changed with a button press.
Urns can be broken for items like health or coins.
Earn exp from picking up the gems from killed enemies.
Every level up has you choosing 1 of 3 random upgrades.
You can upgrade an upgrade with the current level shown on each upgrade choice in the game.
Synergies can be formed by who is in your party and where they are in the formation.
Cool enemy types.
Every character has a load out with things like amulets, rings, and clothing which can be earned and equipped for bonus stats.

Fellowship Preview Cons:

No Steam achievements yet.
Doesn’t support a controller.
You don’t get to pick your starting character and instead have to choose 1 of 3 random choices.
Very slow pace, it starts off slow and kinda maintains that “safe” speed.
Cannot rebind controls or change sensitivity slider.
The rate at which you get gold for upgrades is insanely grinding and slow.
You don’t get to aim everyone’s attacks only yours when in a party.
Only one location to play on.
Your characters can get stuck on the scenery and it breaks your party.
No real tutorial and you get no info on synergies.
Hard to rear and manage party members’ health.
It just takes so long to get powerful, killing enemies takes too long and boss battles, even the smaller bosses are marathon sessions.

Fellowship:

Official website.

Developer: Elraim Studio

Publisher: Elraim Studio

Store Links –

Steam Early Access