Review: Citadel Forged In Fire (PlayStation 4)

Citadel: Forged With Fire is a massive online sandbox RPG with elements of magic, spellcasting and inter-kingdom conflict. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to investigate the dangerous world of Ignus. Your goal: create a name for yourself and achieve notoriety and power among the land’s ruling Houses.

Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 10.84gb download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• Settings-invert axis, sensitivity sliders, FOV slider, autorun, camera smoothing, and motion blur.
• Set server XP mod bar 1-5x.
• Player options for World creation-unlimited resources, weight restrictions, flying mode, throne decay, build restrictions, time of day, lock, and player damage.
• Action survival gameplay.
• Earn EXP from everything in the game like killing animals, building, collecting resources.
• 3 skill trees-magic/furniture/everything else and you use skill points to unlock and level up skills.
• Feels and plays like Ark survival fantasy edition.
• Tutorial pylons and missions.
• Day/night cycle and weather effects.
• Ui is compact and has loads of handy shortcuts especially useful when crafting.
• Upon death, you drop most of your stuff in a bag and can reclaim it.
• Map-uncovers as you explore and you can put markers down and see in-game icons.

Cons:

• Small text.
• The tutorial is messy and not well communicated.
• A lot of slowdowns.
• A really slow burner.
• Doesn’t get going properly until you play a handful of hours.
• Sense of bombardment of screens and pop-ups.
• Constant difficulty spikes.
• Controls take getting used to.
• Combat early on is messy.