Crowfall Review – The Throne War Simulator?
Crowfall is a PVP-focused MMO with an action-combat system, which appeared for the first time in 2015 on Kickstarter, and launched its open-beta in 2021.
The game describes itself as a throne simulator game, where three factions are fighting for the power to control lands and resources, therefore Crowfall is mainly focused on PVP contents, sieges, crafting and gathering resources. One particular feature makes the whole game unique: Upon starting the game you’ll find yourself in a campaign, and the campaign ends as soon as one faction wins the war, and everything starts over.
The player can choose from 12 different races and 11 classes. There are some quite interesting races, such as the Elken, Centaur, and Minotaur – the classes are the usual healer-dps-tank with some minor twists, but the character customization is rather limited and poor.
Crowfall’s cartoony world design wasn’t everyone’s favorite, there are little to no details in the scenery, and even the gameplay doesn’t make the whole leveling process exciting either. No spontaneous sidequests, no random bosses or events, just boring exploring, hunting, and gathering, until you reach an important milestone, which is lvl 25.
At level 25 you’ll be finally able to leave the starter/tutorial world, and dive into real PVP, but without guild, you’re gonna have a hard time. You are going to spend most of your time in PVP territory, so having a group to play with is mandatory. At this point you’ll be able too see the key content of the game, learn how your class works and how to specialize it.
Most of the reviews say the game has a low population, and Crowfall without playerbase is truly pretty much dead – I mean, all the games are dead without actual players, but Crowfall is focusing on PVP, and there’s really not much do to other than ganking and participating in PVP events. The developers need to fix a whole bunch of issues in order to get more players: Map and UI quality is still poor, combat is mostly a taste issue, but most of the people found it clunky and not dynamic enough, and I wasn’t fascinated by it either.
Crowfall is still an unfinished game, but it has a lot of potential, with a solid PVP system, nice ideas, and a deep character progression. Keep your hopes up!
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