Mirthwood
Embark on an enchanting journey and brave ferocious creatures in an immersive medieval fantasy world. Will you settle a new homestead to live a life of farming and trade, or pick up the sword and take up the adventurers' path?
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- 7 users have this on their Wish List
- 2 users are currently playing this game.
- 8 users have backlogged this game.
Game Details
| Release Date | Q3 2024 |
| Developer | Bad Ridge Games |
| Publisher | V Publishing |
| Genre | Role-playing (RPG) |
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| Platform | PC (Microsoft Windows) (PC) |
| Popular Tags | PC, 2024, 4 (Least Priority), Coming Up, Dropped, Enchanting, Farming, HDD-Own |
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Most Popular Reviews
Playtime: 5,5 hours
Intro
Mirthwood is a farming game in which you build up a farm, improve your skills and equipment, do simple quests and fight enemies.
The Good
- Cute graphics.
- The monsters and bandits give this a very different atmosphere compared to similar games.
- There's a single, fairly big, open map.
The Bad
- Melee combat is incredibly clunky and bad. You'll end up just using your bow.
- Resources including trees and rocks regrow on your plot. It can never look like you want to.
- Balance seems pretty bad. After ~5 hours i finally had enough gold (750) to buy a tool upgrade kit. Turns out it only works on a single tool. And i needed more iron than i had acquired in the game so far. There are five tools with four upgrades costing 53.750 gold total.
- Also there's weapons and armor that can be crafted/upgraded.
- And even decorative elements are weirdly expensive in terms of resources.
- Enemies will sometimes chase you relentlessly and one spawns right next to the fast travel point in a camp.
- You basically have to guess where you fast travel to because half the points have vague names and you can't just select from a map.
The Ugly
- Optimisation seems non-existent. The game regularly lags and becomes almost unplayable when it snows. Even reducing the settings to 1K/High/no shadows had no noticable effect. For comparison, i can run Horizon Forbidden West in 4K Ultra with 0 problems.
- I've had (at least) four crashes in 5,5 hours. Fast travelling back to the farm caused (at least) three of these. This is especially bad because...
- There's no autosave. Or quicksave. You have to go in the menu, click save and close the menu. Constantly. Because the crashes make you …
Playtime: 5,5 hours
Intro
Mirthwood is a farming game in which you build up a farm, improve your skills and equipment, do simple quests and fight enemies.
The Good
- Cute graphics.
- The monsters and bandits give this a very different atmosphere compared to similar games.
- There's a single, fairly big, open map.
The Bad
- Melee combat is incredibly clunky and bad. You'll end up just using your bow.
- Resources including trees and rocks regrow on your plot. It can never look like you want to.
- Balance seems pretty bad. After ~5 hours i finally had enough gold (750) to buy a tool upgrade kit. Turns out it only works on a single tool. And i needed more iron than i had acquired in the game so far. There are five tools with four upgrades costing 53.750 gold total.
- Also there's weapons and armor that can be crafted/upgraded.
- And even decorative elements are weirdly expensive in terms of resources.
- Enemies will sometimes chase you relentlessly and one spawns right next to the fast travel point in a camp.
- You basically have to guess where you fast travel to because half the points have vague names and you can't just select from a map.
The Ugly
- Optimisation seems non-existent. The game regularly lags and becomes almost unplayable when it snows. Even reducing the settings to 1K/High/no shadows had no noticable effect. For comparison, i can run Horizon Forbidden West in 4K Ultra with 0 problems.
- I've had (at least) four crashes in 5,5 hours. Fast travelling back to the farm caused (at least) three of these. This is especially bad because...
- There's no autosave. Or quicksave. You have to go in the menu, click save and close the menu. Constantly. Because the crashes make you paranoid.
- This is a "cosy" game. In other words, a fairly casual game that you want to play while listening to music/videos. But there's only a single volume slider. And you can only rebind about 10 keys and the entire options menu is pretty barren:
Conclusion
I was actually going to post a status update as a warning about the "ugly" parts of the game but while writing it i realised i was actually done with Mirthwood. This is not an early access game, it just released for €25 while clearly being unfinished. And this is after earlier delays. Apparently the game only has two developers too so who knows if this ever gets fixed. And that's a shame because this definitely has potential.
