Our December rewards for you

Posted By: GamerDating Team - December 12, 2018

Planet Coaster, Kerbal Space Program, The Banner Saga 2, Mafia 2 and the full Commandos Pack Each week we add more and more new games that are available with your subscription. With every first sign up you get to select a game or games to bundle in with you premium access. This month we've added even more games, even more options and some fantastic hidden gems. We offer 2 or 4 month subscriptions which allows you to read messages from f

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Fortnite Season 7 - New areas, Battle pass, creative mode

Posted By: GamerDating Team - December 06, 2018

Season 7 arrives as the Iceberg collides with the island continuing the narrative of the crazy island of Fortnite.   In season 7,  the new Battle Pass introduces the X-4 Stormwing plane and adds skins known as "Wraps" for weapons and items in Battle Royale. In addition Battle Pass owners will get early access to their creative island. The map has evolved so you can now discover new areas such as Frosty Flights, Polar

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Red Dead Redemption 2 Online launch date

Posted By: GamerDating Team - November 28, 2018

Red Dead Redemption 2 online multiplayer mode, Red Dead Online will go live on Friday, Nov. 30 for all Red Dead Redemption 2 players. The game access will be rolled out for server stability and testing. Full rollout details are as follows: Tuesday, November 27th: All Red Dead Redemption 2: Ultimate Edition owners. Please note, players who purchased the physical Ultimate Edition must redeem the Ultimate Edition code in the packaging to

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GamerDating Update - Console rewards, bugs and improvements

Posted By: GamerDating Team - November 23, 2018

PC, Xbox, PS4, Nintendo - We are all gamers This month we've rolled out improvements and fixes for mobile, including css fixes for desktop and some user accessibility improvements. Each week we take your feedback, bug reports and suggestions and plug them into our roadmap. We had a few reports from users who got stuck in a loop, or on the thank you page. What can we say? We just like saying thank you! However we have fixed that, s

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Moonlighter Loot and Sell - Review

Posted By: Alex - November 19, 2018

Moonlighter is a nifty top-down rogue-like hack and slash with a twist. After each dungeon dive you return to the sleepy town of Rynoka and peddle your wares as Will, the shop owner of Moonlighter. Will possesses a greatly sought-after pendant that allows you to go dungeon diving in one of the five randomly generated dungeons. As you explore each one, you are pitted against the need and greed of your own personal desires and profit. Dodging, r

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Spammers Down, Death of the fake profile: PT2

Posted By: James - November 13, 2018

Spammers Down Hey gamers, we wanted to give you an update on the Spam War, our ongoing battle against botters and spammers. Earlier in the year our growing userbase drew the attention of botters and spammers who started to sign up to our service and attempt to harrass our great community. We wrote about the start of the spam war. We were able to implement a few checks and this held back the tide. However the battle may have been won, but

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Our November rewards for you

Posted By: Alex - November 09, 2018

X-Com 2, Prison Architect, Reus and Hitman Full Experience. Each week we add more and more new games that are available with your subscription. With every first sign up you get to select a game or games to bundle in with you premium access. This month we've added even more games, even more options and some fantastic hidden gems. We offer 2 or 4 month subscriptions which allows you to read messages from free users, allow free users to re

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Warframe Fortuna update coming this week!

Posted By: GamerDating Team - November 06, 2018

Warframe, free to play game available on PC is rolling out their latest huge update this week; Fortuna. In this update you get to explore the frigid landscape of Venus populated with new Corpus threats, subterranean mysteries and an ecosystem on the brink of destruction. A similar set up to the open world Earth section, Fortuna will offer bounties, large creatures, more mini-games and tasks and transport options. Fortuna's story is set

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Black Desert Online: 10 Million Players

Posted By: GamerDating Team - November 01, 2018

Black Desert Online celebrates the huge 10 million player milestone with Halloween packages will be 50% off for one day. With the launch of the new Archer class, and the celebration of 10 million players the festivities are still going on in Black Desert Online. The Halloween festivities are in full swing as Black Desert Online is illuminated with an eerie red blood moon and jack-o’-lanterns that accompany a range of events where

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Settlers in Space! The Colonists - Review

Posted By: Dan - October 24, 2018

Excuse the title, but as an old fan of The Settlers series, right back to The Settlers 2, I was excited for the opportunity to review The Colonists. As the name suggests, the game focuses around a group of colonists and building up their settlement from scratch, but with a twist; The "Colonists" themselves are all tiny robots with their own names, unique functions and adorable little computer screen faces, created to simulate human n

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MapleStory 2 celebrates 1 million players

Posted By: GamerDating Team - October 19, 2018

MapleStory 2 announces a celeberation event for it's first 1 million players. MapleStory 2 is a party style MMO, complete with customisation, world building, grind and ARPG style combat. Featuring cutesy graphics and avatars, MapleStory 2 claims to offer an MMO Adventure merging a blend of action, design, creativity and all access fun. While it may not be appealing to the most hardcore of fans, the game does offer a bit of charm. It has

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Elite Dangerous: Beyond – Chapter Four Coming Soon

Posted By: GamerDating Team - October 15, 2018

Elite Dangerous: Beyond – Chapter Four Coming Soon The last update of Elite Dangerous brings significant additions to exploration, mining, multiplayer and more. Elite Dangerous: Beyond - Chapter Four provides all-new features and upgrades for every Commander, all completely free to every Elite Dangerous and Elite Dangerous: Horizons player on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Beginning October 23, a staged beta for Beyond - Chapter F

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Our October rewards for you

Posted By: GamerDating Team - October 09, 2018

Human: Fall Flat, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Magicka 2, and Max Payne 3 Each week we add more and more new games that are available with your subscription. With every first sign up you get to select a game or games to bundle in with you premium access. This month we've added even more games, even more options and some fantastic hidden gems. We offer 2 or 4 month subscriptions which allows you to read messages from free users,

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When to share your crazy

Posted By: Silja - October 05, 2018

5 Tips On How To Disclose Your Emotional Baggage Let’s face it. We’re all ‘crazy’. And that’s just a worse way to say ‘Normal is relative’. Your normal aint my normal, but that’s what makes us all unique – this is no more important than when we look for partners. As gamers your norm is putting in the hours for those achievements, taking that one last turn, playing that last match, whatever,

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Total War: Warhammer 2 - The Curse of the Vampire Coast DLC

Posted By: GamerDating Team - October 04, 2018

The Curse of the Vampire Coast, the next DLC to Total War Warhammer 2 is set to be released on the 8th November. Total War: Warhammer 2 - The Curse of the Vampire Coast DLC will be playable in both the Eye of the Vortex and Mortal Empire campaigns. It will introduce 4 new legendary Lords, including our boi lord Luthor Harkon. In addition, a new lore, Lore of the Deep will bring us new magic, probably with pirate music, krakens and other

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GamerDating Updates - Profile views, email notifications & plans!

Posted By: GamerDating Team - October 01, 2018

YOU'VE GOT MAIL. (Did you hear it in that voice... and was it Mayo or Mail?) Today we have a fairly small update, rolling out some minor fixes and improvements to your email notifications. Now when you are viewed you will get an email notification that you have been viewed by that person. We've set a limit per day is 4 emails to stop your inbox getting flooded, but if anyone wants that cap to go up, let us know. Getting notificatio

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WoW Classic Demo will be included with Blizzcon Virtual Ticket

Posted By: GamerDating Team - September 27, 2018

WoW Classic is coming! This year, BlizzCon Virtual Ticket holders will join BlizzCon attendees as the first people to play the World of Warcraft Classic demo we’re creating for BlizzCon at home. After the Youtube: Blizzcon Preview 2018 and the opening ceremony on November 2 (on or around 1pm PDT), players will be able to download the same in-development BlizzCon WoW Classic Demo that will be playable on the show floor. Players will ha

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Kingdom Come: Delivered in full - Review

Posted By: Dan - September 24, 2018

Three weeks ago I played Kingdom Come: Deliverance, an open world RPG from the fledging Warhorse Studios with the unique selling point of being true to medieval history in every detail, complete with clothing, armour, weapons and locations of the time. Having a passion for all things medieval, I was eager to jump right in. The game is set in Bohemia in 1403AD, and much of the action is centred around the city of Rattay (modern day Rataje nad S&aa

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Red Dead Online Beta

Posted By: Alex - September 20, 2018

Red Dead Online is set to come November 2018 for console only. Red Dead Online is set against the backdrop of Red Dead Redemption 2's enormous open world. We are not sure on the scale of "Red Dead Online" and if it is set to be a similar experience to GTA Online or a traditional MMO, or something akin to Warframe's open world levels. Will you have a real open world or instanced worlds with just 4 friends or randoms as a ga

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Mothergunshipped off - Core gameplay cycles

Posted By: James - September 17, 2018

It’s fair to say that Mothergunship was not what I was expecting. So what went wrong?   I wanted to start this review off with something really simple; An analysis of gameplay cycles. That's probably the least simple thing that you can do when it comes to a video game, but I'm gonna try my best because I think that when it comes to modern gaming a lot of games regardless of the amount of effort that's been put in, rea

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Fort Triumph Review

Posted By: Ryan - December 16, 2020

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Rarely do I enjoy physics-based gameplay so much.

As 4X, tactics games go, Fort Triumph is a largely enjoyable entry to the genre. Before going into the meat of the review, I want to state something straight away: this is NOT the game for you if you’re interested in a serious, expansive game in the same vein as the XCOM series. If you’re interested in a more light-hearted, but still challenging, take on the genre, this might just be something you want to pick up.

Fort Triumph Gameplay is certainly a treat

From such simple beginnings…

Visually, Fort Triumph is a treat. Lush, almost cartoony visuals are full of vivid colours and everything, for the most part, is easy to distinguish at a glance. The four main character classes are visually distinct from each other and retain enough traits when spread across the various factions that I rarely struggled to tell what abilities an enemy was likely to have at a glance based on previous experience or my knowledge of what my heroes could do.

Both the overworld map, itself full of points of interest, and the tactical map of the quests are easily understood for the most part (importantly it is VERY easy to tell where cover is, the direction of physics abilities and the areas affected by area-of-effect abilities) and cutscenes are presented as easy-to-read text with character portraits indicating the speaker. Unfortunately, the bright art style can contribute to some confusion. Key information, like which enemy unit is currently highlighted or which square is selected for an attack or movement action, can be lost among the visual clash between bright models, animations and gameplay indicators. On more than a few occasions I found myself selecting the wrong target because I didn’t have exactly the right camera angle to tell what I had selected.

You will randomly be treated to close up murder.

Where the visuals aim for a fantasy comic/cartoon feel, the audio is much more traditional fare: rousing action music and evocative weapon/movement sounds. Nothing really stands out as truly impressive, save for perhaps the unsettling spider movement noise, but nothing was a low point either. The music was good, if not particularly memorable.

The same could also be said for the UI and UX of the game. Obviously, there is little room for innovation within both the UI and UX of this style of game and Fort Triumph uses those who went before to great effect. The left-hand side of the screen shows your units, their health and their remaining Action Points (most abilties cost at least one Action Point), the bottom shows the abilities of the currently selected unit and the right-hand side shows the enemies visible to your heroes.

You can click on a unit card to select it and you can hover over enemy cards to see where that particular enemy is, something that is very useful when combined with the fact that the game shows the ‘to hit’ chance of each enemy when an offensive ability is selected, as well as any effects currently active on the units present on the map. Rather, it WOULD be useful if the red highlight the game applies to the unit whose card you are hovering over were easier to see. As hostile units have a red outline when they are behind cover, or otherwise obscured from the camera, the effect used to show the unit tied to that card is too subtle to easily see and I frequently gave up using it mid-quest and manually selected each enemy in turn to find the one I wanted. I also felt that the controls for selecting and using abilities could have been redesigned: a left-click selects an ability, but a right-click activates it. I found myself right-clicking to cancel an ability too often in the opening hours of the game and accidentally consuming the ability. This is, perhaps, entirely down to how my own brain works though, so your mileage may vary.

Fort Triumph steam gameplay showing the mid game

It looks like there is a lot going on here, but it’s easy to pick up on what’s really important.

Not that this really hinders the gameplay in any meaningful way. That is, largely, tried and true 4X, tactics gameplay. A couple of viewers who caught the streams live as I played through the main campaign for this review remarked that it reminded them of the Heroes of Might and Magic series and  a small amount of research revealed that there are similarities. Broadly speaking, the game is split into two distinct portions: the overworld and the quests. The overworld features a large-ish map full of random encounters, decisions to make for rewards and resources, and is played out in a turn-based fashion.

Each ‘turn’ is termed a day and at the start of every week your home base(s) are refilled with new heroes to hire to fill out your adventuring parties (you can have up to three parties of five heroes each). The start of each week also sees the hostile units on the map get stronger. When the player turn is complete, the AI then has a turn in which is claims resources and its own armies/groups move (sometimes absorbing the static units on the map and thus growing stronger). If one of your parties encounters a static unit, one of the enemy’s armies/groups or assaults an opponent’s base, the game switches over to the tactical system described previously.

Fort Triumph xcom fantasy with bodily physics

You’ll find a lot of things like this scattered around the overworld.

The main thing setting the tactical segments of the game apart from other games in the genre are the physics-based effects. Explosives can still destroy walls but more importantly, terrain objects can be manipulated to move cover or, in a more enjoyable manner, flatten enemies. If more tactical considerations are your concern, you can push certain pieces of the environment into enemies to stun them and cause damage, as well as pushing them backwards. It is very possible to chain stun in this way by cannoning enemies into each other/the environment and each class has a way of interacting with the map to unleash physics-based carnage/hilarity. It’s always worth remembering that whatever you can do, the AI can do as well so you should ALWAYS be prepared for one of your units to be stunned at the wrong moment.

This never gets old.

It is also worth noting that you can change the colour palette and name of your characters at any point and that they gain experience for taking part in quests. At certain levels, three abilities are randomly generated (mostly from the class but occasionally those from another class will appear and allow you to make flexible character builds) from which you can choose one, and each ability has a couple of upgrades to unlock when levelling. This results in a flexible character advancement system that means you can make the characters you want to use, rather than be forced into a specific class build. The various buildings available in your home base(s) also unlock passive abilities, but these, somewhat annoyingly, reset between each of the game’s three Acts.

Fort Triumph Character sheet

Whilst you can see your hero’s various ability scores here, you can (more importantly) customise their appearance.

All of the above is framed by a narrative worthy of Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books. This is a game that doesn’t take itself seriously and is full of humorous conversations, oddball characters and moments of reflection that I believe many people would benefit from. The story itself is nothing spectacular, although I would rate it as above average, but its delivery is wonderful and is built around the randomly generated characters in a mostly seamless manner (I remember only one instance of an incorrect pronoun being used). The characters, both player and non-player, are well-written and I genuinely enjoyed every line of dialogue. If the main campaign isn’t your thing, however, you can create skirmishes (both with local co-op and without) to explore the overworld maps and the tactical side of things at your pace without having to follow a narrative. If you choose to do this, you can play as any of the game’s four factions (each of which has access to unique passive abilities), instead of being locked into playing as human characters.

Fort Triumph offering sage advice to help you with your gamedates...  I think?

It’s important to now how to skulk properly.

Aside from the issues explained above, I found little else that affected my enjoyment of the game. It’s reasonably well-polished (the AI made questionable decisions a few times during my playthrough) and I found nothing that seemed to be a bug other than (occasionally) excessively long enemy turns whilst the AI decided what actions to take. There was certainly nothing that put me off returning to Fort Triumph after the 15 or so hours it took beat the main campaign (on Normal difficulty) and I can easily see myself playing many, many hours of the Skirmish mode against bots. At £19.49 on Steam (at the time of writing), I would whole-heartedly say that there is value for money here. Technically the game is endless, but even on the merits of the campaign alone I would say that the variety of difficulty levels, sheer number of ability options and enjoyable writing make the price point perfect.

Where are you going?!

Ultimately, of course, it’s up to you as the reader to make your decision but if you’re looking a fun, light-hearted tactics game with an enjoyable story and enough variety in its factions and enemy types to overlook the annoying soft reset of progression between Acts and the sometimes unclear visual presentation of the gameplay, you will not go wrong by buying Fort Triumph.

In the language of the internet: YEET! But strategically.

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