The Dwarves Reviews
While The Dwarves is an excellent story-based experience, the gameplay surrounding it serves to quickly sour most of the enjoyment that can be found, and most fans would be better off rereading the books.
In the end, what we have here is a game with a good story to tell, wrapped in a basic RPG system and a flawed tactical combat engine.
This is the kind of game that makes you happy Kickstarter is a thing.
The story, however, is fantastic and well written. This is a massive game with a ton of content to enjoy – and you can almost double your time with the game if you aim to get its Platinum trophy. Kudos to KING ART Games and THQ Nordic for all the work that went into the adaptation of The Dwarves for PS4 as they’ve given us a very entertaining release. Here’s hoping we get a sequel next year!
The Dwarves is a very good "save the world" adventure game. If you can look past the bugs and simple gameplay mechanics, you'll enjoy the story.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
An unsatisfying, forced march through the source material.
The Dwarves is a high fantasy RPG with great sound design and cutscenes but which is dragged down by its combat mechanics and short length. Fans of the books may feel differently about The Dwarves, however, to those approaching the universe for the first time through this title, some caution is recommended.
The Dwarves has a lot of heart and attempts to do a lot of things right, but a lack of polish and repetitive gameplay make it hard to recommend.
For all the time I spent enjoying the Dwarves, there was equal amounts of frustration, boredom and disappointment.
The Dwarves was a great concept on paper that failed to materialize into something that should have worked naturally when making the jump to a video game. I’d certainly like to see this type of crossover happen again, as I feel it could easily work. The Dwarves is a very hard game to recommend to even the most hardcore of fans, but there are certainly some out there who will find enjoyment out of what it has to offer.
A good story with good cinematics held captive by terrible performance and bad gameplay. There are some good narrative moments in The Dwarves, but they aren't worth suffering through the game. Just read the book its based on.
A fun romp through a world where Dwarves take the lead role. The great writing and dialogue make up for lacking itemization and RPG elements. Combat management can be tricky but the few skills in the game have some fun application. Anyone looking for a break from some of the more grueling mechanics of hardcore RPGs will find an engaging story-focused journey through an idyllic fantasy landscape.
Selecting areas you can’t go to resulted in a glitchy cursor bouncing around, and the UI in general lacks polish.
The Dwarves is an RPG game inspired by Markus Hetiz's best-seller. Despite having a nice story and a decent graphic section, the long-duration loading times and a very rough camera system, makes the game experience worse and worse.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
For $40, I feel like THQ Nordic might have an idea on their hands. If there was to be an integrated loot system, updates to the movement system, and general bug tweaks, I would be open to playing the game more. I love single player games and was really excited to try this out. However, I feel a little underwhelmed. It’s fun, and it has opportunity, but right now I feel like I was left with a half empty plate.
The Dwarves feels as though it's stuck between being an indie game and a triple-A game. And when that happens all sorts of bad things can happen. The game suffers from terrible cameras to glitches but it also benefits from a great story and voice cast. This game is a pure mix bag.
A strong premise that gets lost with a bad execution on its visuals and dull combat.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Everyone needs more beards and beer in their lives, but maybe not from these dwarves.
The Dwarves is a game that takes time to get to grips with and much longer to master. There will be plenty of game over screens for all players of all skill types and will ultimately have players fall back on the same strategies over and over again, until they succeed. If it doesn't work the first time then try, and try, and try, and try...
The world of The Dwarves is interesting, and maybe with some patches down the road this can become a game I can get behind, as it stands now though, this is a tough sell.