#PORTAL KNIGHT PC FREE#

Portal Knights is a crafting game at heart, but on console the controls are a little fiddly with the UI systems feeling unnecessarily complicated.

#PORTAL KNIGHT PC FREE#

Visually, Portal Knights has a bright, colourful aesthetic with a cutesy character design that reminded me very much of the free to play game, Happy Wars. Each island is only a single biome though, if you want variety you need to travel to another one. A later island, AnglerвЂ™s Wharf, has lots of water sand and palm trees. Garnet Peaks for example has the appearance of an autumnal wood with bright splashes of orange and yellow. Islands are suitably diverse with a broad variety of biomes between them.

As you do so you can also start to find more interesting blocks with which to build structures on the island that you choose as your home. The core gameplay loop then is a process of hopping between islands to grind out materials to craft yourself progressively more impressive gear. At various stages your progress will be barred by a mini boss that you have to defeat to unlock the next set of islands and access higher tier resources which in turn allow you to craft more powerful weapons and armour. Each world has 47 in total, each with different enemies and resources. Your goal is to progress through the islands. Enemies and resources remain the same in Garnet Peaks though, regardless of how many times you spawn a new game. That is to say that island five will always be called Garnet Peaks and contain emeralds, but the landscape and dungeons spawned in that world will be different each time. The islands that spawn are all procedurally generated, but the story path is always the same. Coins can be spent with traders that can be found on different islands, selling things like new crafting recipes or consumable items. In addition for each 5 levels gained you will also get a point to spend in the class specific talents which provide additional statistics like increased damage with wands for the Mage class for example. By killing enemies you amass gold coins as well as experience points which can be put into statistics like Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence etc. Each class has a choice of three weapons, in the case of the Ranger there is a crossbow, a bow and throwing knives, the Mage can utilise a staff, scythe or wand, and the Warrior an axe, hammer or sword.

Each have their own set of equipment and skill trees to fiddle about with, but in practice none of the classes remain distinct enough to make that much of a difference when playing. The storytelling is loose and largely inconsequential as most of your time will be spent gathering resources to build and improve your equipment, hopping between islands for precious items and to destroy enemies for XP.Д«orrowing loosely from RPGs there is an element of role playing with three broad classes that you can choose from: Warrior, Mage and Ranger. By returning the portal stones (items that you craft from either killing enemies or mining for resources) to each portal on the island you will open up another island to explore and get closer to discovering what has happened. The premise of Portal Knights is that something has torn the world apart and created a sequence of islands that are only connected via mysterious coloured portals. It does so by blending in a number of different components to create a game that retains the sandbox appeal of crafting games, but filling it with a sense of direction and purpose that the behemoth in the genre tends to lack. It takes a certain confidence to release a game that inevitably will be compared to Minecraft, but Portal Knights does enough with the formula to create a game that stands on itвЂ™s own merits.

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