RoR starts out nice enough. You build your little village, fight enemies, get loot. Throwing axes from stealth is quite fun. But after a while you're wondering - is this it?

There's not enough variety in weapons and enemies to keep combat interesting. I used the same attack for the entire game (throw 3 axes) because the (two) alternatives were worse. Loot is mostly just a numbers game with a handful of interesting legendary items. Enemies come in a few varieties but none of them require different tactics.

At some point i had finally gathered enough money to buy a mercenary. He obliterated most enemies by himself, with the exception of a powerful hero who was too high-level for me (took me forever to kill him from stealth). At some point i found out you can have multiple of these mercenaries. I thought the limit was 5 at first, it turns out it's 10. Even with just 5 NPCs i barely have time to see the enemy before they're butchered. So much for combat being fun.

The game has tons of other flaws as well. There's a pointless clicker minigame that gives huge rewards so you have to play it. Or rather, you have to let it run in the background while you do something else because it gets automated quickly. Savegames don't list time/date and can't be renamed so good luck remembering which slot (of only 3) you used. Assigning works to gather resources is boring. The storage limit is a pain. It's often unclear what objects you can interact with.

But wait, it gets worse. There's some truly terrible platforming in which you have to jump on platforms that push you off while you're desperately using the unresponsive dash function. You have to sit through terrible puzzles that are so poorly designed that you can't see all the elements involved while at the controls. The worst part is when you get the runeforge. From that moment on you have to go there, manually select every item in your inventory you want to unenchant, then walk back to the blacksmith to turn the disenchanted items into resources. And i put these two buildings far apart and just like in kingdom there's no menu to select a building or even a proper sprint function. Ugh.