Worlds of Magic - Review @ Softpedia

A new review for Worlds of Magic was released on Softpedia this week that gave the game a 3/5 which is very good considering the last few reviews last month

There are a ton of small annoyances that collectively detracted from my overall experience with Worlds of Magic, mainly because the game was still unfinished. Glitching tooltips and crashes (which happened less often since one of the updates), together with the obfuscated nature of how things work, made the game unsatisfying.

Once I did figure some of the basic things out, I was still under the impression that it was an antiquated title with a clunky interface and rudimentary game systems, and not a game released in 2015.

There is a certain sense of chaos when you first launch a 4X title, due to the sheer complexity of the genre. Usually, that feeling subsides as you get used to the game and learn its underpinnings. Unfortunately, that is not the case with Worlds of Magic.

The good thing is that it is getting better constantly, but there simply is too much wrong with it. It's not a game that pushes the genre forward, but instead takes things back a few steps.

Granted, it had a minuscule budget, and it still had to stay true to Master of Magic, its inspiration, but overall, Worlds of Magic was a big disappointment for me. Fans of the classic might have a pretty good time with it though, even in its current unpolished state.