Elven Legend

Elven Legend

just a good fun game

I am 32 years old.

My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old.

When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand I desperately needed to ensure I could continue providing.

Upon learning the severity of the self-inflicted damage, I became almost suicidal. Keep in mind that just a few months before this, I was the happiest man, with no history of depression or anxiety. I had never experienced anger outbursts, nor was I the type to break down and cry, but I was in a tough situation that truly prevented me from seeing the light on the other side.

With nothing better to do, I looked for a game I could play WITH ONE HAND while recovering. Somehow, I stumbled upon this game and read some of the comments. I decided it was worth a try... I must admit I didn't beat the game, nor did I play as much as some of you. In fact, I may have played this game for only a day or two. That being said, after doing so, I had a new joy and hope for life. I managed to leave behind the pain and suffering that had been thrust upon me. I could experience the joy and happiness of other people. I relaxed for 5 ♥♥♥♥ minutes listening to this music, long enough to realize that I would be okay.

After realizing this, I turned off the game and went back to work. My hand hurt a lot, but I was motivated. I stopped feeling so sorry for myself and became the father I needed to be at that moment, not the weak boy I was behaving like.

Today, I am close friends with the mother of my children. We don't fight, argue, or say hurtful things to each other. We are parents and friends.

Now I have 3 children. My third child is, wait, ALSO 4 YEARS OLD. The woman I am with was going through a very similar situation at the time of my separation, and we just unexpectedly stumbled into each other's lives. We have been dating for a year and are very happy together.

Moral of the story: you never know what life has in store for you, and if I had given up when all odds were against me, I wouldn't be where I am today. This silly little game helped me realize that.

Thank you.

Easy to just kill time on relax mode. Challenge yourself with a time mode.

*** 3/5
The graphics are appealing but the lore could use improvement as that is the best reward for a time management strategy.

The game is OK for the genre, but after you finish it the grind for achievements is just plain stupid, bc the numbers are simply unrealistic and not connected to the actual numbers one gets while playing. Ex. from the first run one gets IIRC like 12 trees saved (those trees are distributed 1-2 per level). The achievement requires 25, 50, and 70 trees respectively, so you have to select a level that contains 2 trees, and repeat it like 30+ times... The numbers for collecting materials are even more crazy and disconnected from reality. Grind, grind, grind until you decide to never buy anything from this publisher

just a beautifull relaxing small minigame, under sory mode its interesting playing

Devs abandoned this game and the work to be done on it. Nothing works and steam successes are inactive.
It's a cute little game that doesn't work. i'm disappointed..

Nice little time management game with an elven theme I bought on sale.

Pros

• Cheap and good for a few ours
  
• Relaxing theme, suitable for little kids
  
• Runs on Linux (Debian)
  

• Crashed a few times
  
[*]Steam achivements didn't work for me

Well, I had never played a time-management game before. This game style is really relaxed and very straight forward. I have had little trouble getting the top rank on each level. Simply figure out the resources required, then make sure they are available, when needed. Use worker to collect resources, and use bonuses to aid in collection.

Overall, this game has some nice quality of graphics, animations, and level design. The music is a one track loop, and the sound effects are just okay, although the worker click-acknowledgement is pretty bad. Some of the resource timers have a sound effect, but I would have otherwise muted the game. Additional negs: there were a lot of typos in the story text and there were some rough edges to a couple of level designs. There is a known bug where the mouse stops working for 10 secs, but it only rarely happens.

I recommend this for those who like resource management games. At the full price of a couple bucks, you can safely try the game with little risk. This game is built on the Unity Game Engine, and I played this game on an old linux desktop without any issue.

Eleven Legend is a very cheap time-management game (price wise and playing wise).
This small market has many very good games (like the MOAI serie for example) and getting there isn't easy.

So, at first glance, I wouldn't recommend this. However, I didn't encounter breakdown while playing (I finished the first Island) with Win7 64bit. Granted, the levels would need some more polishing (the difficulty settings also) and if you don't mind a little flickering here and there when playing, I guess that's still a cute little game.

Elven Legend is a very enjoyable time/resource management game. Gameplay is pretty much the same in all games of this genre, repair, build, clear, collect in the allotted amount of time. There are better ones out there, but this one is pretty fun.

Game Information

"Elven Legend" is a Strategy game. The game was developed and published by Growing Grass Studio.

"Elven Legend" is the first episode of "Elven Legend."

The Game Review

Game Visuals

I want to mention that the visuals in the game are well done. The visuals can be adjusted in the game's option menu.

Game Audio

I want to mention that audio for the game is well done. Even though the audio is somewhat simplistic and repetitive. The audio can be adjusted in the game's option menu as well.

Gameplay

This is a strategy game, where careful planning is required, due to the limited amount of resources that are available.

There are three different difficulty game modes to choose from: Relaxed; Normal and Professional. The difference between these difficulties: Timer Speed and Scoring. The relaxed mode, no timer speed but low scoring. The normal mode, moderate timer speed and moderated scoring. The professional, high timer speed and high scoring.

There are five different landmasses with the total of forty levels.

The star rating depends on a couple of factors: How fast the level was completed. How much resources are leftover. The star rating system: Three Stars (Gold;) Two Stars (Silver;) One Star (Bronze.) There is an opportunity to replay all the levels for better score and star rating.

There are several special bonus power ups to help complete the level faster. These special bonus power ups come with a time limit. But they can be used again after they have been recharged after a certain amount of time has passed.

There are thirty-one different achievements that can be unlocked from playing the game. Each of these achievements does come with some requirements that need to be completed before they can be unlocked.

Miscellaneous

There are eight different trading cards to collect. Only three of those trading cards are given out by the game. There are several ways to get the rest of the trading cards: Purchased from Steam's Market; Trade with friends; Booster Packs and it's Booster Pack Creator.

Final thoughts: I have found the game enjoyable to a certain extent. The replay value for the game is low. I would recommend this game, but not at the game's full price value.

quite fun to play. better to buy on sale.

The sad thing is that I actually liked this game to some degree. It was fun to play a level here and there and unwind a bit. That said, this game is SO buggy that even getting through a single level could be a challenge at times, as I kept having to restart the game because it would freeze up on me. If you can put up with the bugs, there's something to enjoy here, but there's probably better games out there.

Cute little time management game, I had fun playing this. Getting all the achievements takes some grinding though, one playthrough doesn't even get you halfway there.

Elven Legend is a cute little strategy game, well worth the small price. You can choose if you want to play it timed or in relaxed mode, which is nice. The artwork looks good but don't buy it for the storyline. The few lines of story you do get to see are ridden with grammatical errors. Overal still a nice game.

Супер-супер-супер! Невероятно милая игра, красивая, с незатейливым и милым сюжетом, геймплей классный (иногда управление напрягает, сбиваюсь на привычку), сейчас еще сложность повышу - и совсем круто будет.
Хотя выражение лица принцессы иногда пугает:)

Very cute game for a little price.
Easy to master, take me about 10h to finish.
If you like game with a little bit of strategy and a lot of relaxing, buy it !

Okay, this game *does* have some issues:
- the English localization needs a serious copy-edit
- it bypasses the Unity configuration dialog (always a no-no)
- the in-game achievements screen is poorly designed
- it could really use more documentation and tool-tips

*BUT* it's pretty, fun to play, runs great on Linux, has an untimed difficulty level which makes it perfect for no-stress gaming or introducing the kids to strategy gaming, and it's only $2.

OK. So this is actually a surprisingly cute game.

The story is... well the story is mostly an excuse for plowing your way through the various levels. It is very thin, but the story is not really the point. Think Superfrog level of involvement in the story.

The gameplay is very simple, yet it is just involved enough that you will need to redo some of the levels on normal difficulty if you want full marks.

At a 2€ price tag this game is a great way to waste a couple of hours.