Allie<p>February 15, 2024 - Day 411 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 447</p><p>Game: Fantasy Blacksmith</p><p>Platform: Steam<br>Released: Nov 16, 2019<br>Installed: Feb 1, 2024<br>Unplayed: 14d<br>Playtime: 33m</p><p>Rating: 1 - Nope</p><p>Fantasy Blacksmith is a first-person work simulator, where you get to play as a blacksmith in a fantasy setting, making swords for adventurers.</p><p>If it sounds like an interesting idea, that is correct. It's an interesting idea.</p><p>The execution, on the other hand, will push you to build your first sword so that you can immediately fall on it, and put yourself out of your misery.</p><p>It's like the devs on this game thought of the worst possible way they could do every single thing in this game, and then found a way to make it buggy as well.</p><p>Some games are so bad, they cycle through to being some kind of perverse pleasure.</p><p>This is not one of those games. This is a game that makes Snowtopia look like a masterpiece of UX design and user-friendliness.</p><p>This is a game that will have you longing for pixel art, just so the game is actually bright enough to see what you're doing.</p><p>It feels like something that was coded by a repurposed Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser, producing something which is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a game.</p><p>Every single game element seems to be a psychological challenge to see how hard you can push a user before they break and throw their mouse across the room.</p><p>While it doesn't reach the nadir of Edge of Twilight - Return to Glory, it does put in one hell of an effort.</p><p>You do not play Fantasy Blacksmith. You suffer through Fantasy Blacksmith. It's a painfully obvious:</p><p>1: Nope</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/FantasyBlacksmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FantasyBlacksmith</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FirstPerson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPerson</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Sim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sim</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ProjectONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectONG</span></a></p>