Wolcen Lords Of Mayhem Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · January 4, 2021

Wolcen Lords Of Mayhem

A dynamic hack’n’slash with no class restrictions. Choose your path as you level-up and play your character the way you want! Explore this shattered and corrupted world to uncover its ancient secrets and hidden truths.

Pros:

Decent dark Gothic graphics.
28767MB Download size.
Steam achievements.
Graphics-fullscreen, resolution, v-sync, fps limit, show fps, anti-aliasing, sharpening, chromatic aberration, vignetting, motion blur, lens flare, blood optimization, graphics quality, shadows quality, animation quality, objects detail, water quality, texture quality, and volumetric effects quality.
Streamer mode-hides your player ID.
Powerful soundtrack.
ARPG gameplay.
Auto equips option.
Hud scale slider.
Can rebind controls.
Online and offline mode switch.
Two game modes-story and Champion of Stormfall.
Two privacy settings-private or public game.
Two difficulties-story or normal.
Two-story mode types- Lords of Mayhem (original story) and Blood trail (story and new additional content events).
Character creator-male/female, face, hairstyle, hair color, facial hair, facial hair color, eye color (for each eye), starting gear-melee/ranged or magic and name.
Easy to learn controls complete with a roll/dodge button on the space bar.
Plays like Diablo.
Stamina/willpower will determine what actions and abilities you can use, it does regen.
Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
It looks absolutely gorgeous from the locations to the lighting to the ever gruesome enemies and bosses.
Can see enemy health bars.
Clear easy to read Hud.
Earn EXP and level up to get 10 points each level and put into the four categories-ferocity, toughness, agility, and wisdom along with a point to put into the gate of fates.
Character sheet-shows stats, exp level, damage output, and modifiers.
Gate of fates-use a point to add further buffs and attribute changes.
Excellent cutscenes with a mix of in-game and pre-rendered cutscenes.
Complete character build control.
Hack and slash combat.
Personal chest for stashing loot.
Loot has rarity and stats are randomized.
Shop to buy/sell loot.
Pets-will collect items and gold for you.
Full voicework.
A simple click to move and click to attack system. Can hold down the move button and do so without the constant clicking.
Camera-can zoom in and out.
Town portal-press to fast travel back to the town hub has a casting time.
Waypoints-discover them and unlock them as a fast travel point.
Spells-as you use spells you earn exp with them and every so often you can add a modifier to them like lower resource cost or do more damage.
Enneract- collect these as they are what give you spells and abilities, you can buy/sell/upgrade them along with changing them in and out.
Many optional side dungeons and missions.
Clear mission tracker on the screen.
Hunts- find traces that add modifiers to the hunt for both you and your prey but most importantly it lays down a trace for you to follow. Hunts end in a huge boss battle and rewards.
Gems-socket these into gear that can take it to add new buffs and/or modifiers to them.
Sell Enneracts in the town for affinity points that you can then use to level up other Enneracts.
Very addictive.
Innovates in very clever ways.
Big boss battles.
Defines loot lust.
Different enemy levels like elites and mini-bosses.
Breakable objects like barrels, pots, and boxes.
Loot chests to find.
Gore can be turned on or off.
Auto equips the different types of loot (armor/weapons).
Treasure spider that drops loot and gold but will run away all the time.
Offering shrine- pick one of the random rewards.