Legacy: Steel & Sorcery
Last updated: 2025-02-22
- Visually appealing and immersive experience.
- Skill-based and engaging combat.
- WoW-like PvPvE, fun with friends.
- Harsh death penalty, gear loss.
- Numerous bugs and technical issues.
- Class imbalance, Rogues overpowered.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 1034
- Helpful reviews
- 79%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 19%
- Protest reviews
- 1%
- 71%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 29%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 1474
- Negative points
- 1383
- Gameplay points
- 244
- Perf. points
- 208
- Rec. points
- 700
- Misc points
- 127
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Visually appealing and immersive experience | The game is visually appealing, with a vibrant art style, detailed environments, and smooth animations. The dark fantasy aesthetic, combined with well-executed sound design and music, creates an immersive and engaging atmosphere. Many reviewers highlight the game's potential and fun factor, especially for an Early Access title. | 74% |
| Skill-based and engaging combat | The combat system is engaging and skill-based, requiring strategic thinking and quick reflexes. Classes feel unique, with different weapons providing alternate movesets and weapon-specific active skills. The game offers thrilling PvP encounters and challenging PvE content, with a good balance between skill and gear. | 43% |
| Responsive and communicative developers | The developers are highly responsive and communicative, actively addressing bugs and incorporating community feedback. They release frequent hotfixes and updates, demonstrating their commitment to improving the game and creating a positive player experience. This responsiveness has led to improved stability and playability. | 39% |
| WoW-like PvPvE, fun with friends | The game offers a unique blend of PvP and PvE elements, reminiscent of classic MMOs like World of Warcraft and extraction games like Dark and Darker. Playing with friends enhances the experience, with challenging PvE encounters and chaotic PvP battles. The game provides a high-risk, high-reward dungeon crawling experience in a persistent world. | 27% |
| Engaging mechanics and rewarding gameplay | The game features a solid foundation with engaging mechanics, including a simple yet deep crafting system, rewarding PvP, and enjoyable PvE. The world is fun to explore, with plenty of activities and content to engage with. The game's mechanics are challenging and fun, offering a mix of deep RPG elements, satisfying combat, and an engaging world. | 26% |
| Innovative and fun extraction gameplay | The game offers a fresh and innovative take on the extraction genre, with a unique PvPvE style. It is considered a fun and engaging extraction experience, with a solid base and quality of life features not found in other extraction games. Many reviewers state this is the most fun they've had in an extraction game. | 18% |
| Massive potential and solid base | Reviewers consistently mention the game's significant potential and solid base, with an impressive roadmap for future development. The developers have a great vision for the game, and it is headed in the right direction. The game has the potential to define a new genre. | 11% |
| Worth the price, fun experience | The game is considered worth the price, offering a fun and engaging experience, especially for fans of the extraction genre. Reviewers have been hooked after winning their first rounds and have enjoyed playing solo. The game has a low barrier to entry, making it accessible to new players. | 11% |
| Well-developed progression system | The game features a well-developed progression system, with a focus on developing NPCs, advancing the mainline quest, unlocking the lodge, increasing crafting options, and leveling up characters. The looting system is tiered behind progression unlocks, which feel achievable. The game offers a lot of PvP, crafting, and character progression. | 9% |
| Refreshing alternative to Dark and Darker | The game is considered a refreshing alternative to Dark and Darker, with a new approach to the extraction genre. The PvP is significantly more fun and less janky feeling than Dark and Darker. The game is easy to learn and play, not as difficult as Dark and Darker. | 8% |
| Beautiful and explorable world | The environment is lush with hidden loot throughout the map, with each POI offering unique challenges and loot opportunities. The world is beautiful, fun to explore, and filled with secrets, keys, and hollows. The map has a lot of dungeons and castles to explore. | 6% |
| Skill trumps gear, balanced gameplay | Skill is more important than gear level, with skill expression able to overcome raw stats. Gear primarily increases HP, resistances, and combat resources instead of raw damage, allowing for a decent TTK and strategic plays. It's possible to defeat players with better gear by outplaying them in PVP, even using starter equipment against crafted gear. | 6% |
| Smooth performance and stable FPS | The game runs smoothly, with stable FPS and no stuttering. Many reviewers report no crashes or lags during gameplay. The game runs much better after some fixes. | 6% |
| Resolved initial audio and crash issues | Initial audio issues and crashes have been resolved quickly by the developers. Reviewers report no issues with sound or connectivity after the fixes. | 5% |