Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $1.19.
- Story and characters: 60 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 41 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 32 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Crashes: 10 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Performance: 9 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Difficulty: 8 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 1k player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Rise of the Elves bundles the original content together with a substantial new campaign and new scenarios, creating what is effectively a definitive version for anyone interested in exploring the series’ moody, stylized universe.
Not all campaigns are included in Rise of the Elves therefore Gallean’s Return should be played first unless you just want gameplay and the custom maps.
The Rise of the Elves (ROTE) not only adds a new race but several updates of graphics, arts and mechanics which makes saves from The Disciples II: Gallean's Return (GR) sometimes unable to work so I recommend you to play everything but Elvens' campaign in the GR (my review of GR: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198075304418/recommended/1640/).
++Soundwork - 10/10 OST, amazing sound effects and what's more important - 11/10 voice over - seriously this game is the best example of how to make the perfect game.
Healer units are worse than Empire ones in terms of HP and healing potential but have Elemental ward buff which is maybe great in PvP but almost useless in the campaign.
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