I’ve got a very casual 72 hours logged in CtW over the past 6-7 months. 99% of that time was spent in the first map of the campaign, which I still haven’t finished! Having said that, I agree with most of the complaints mentioned here and elsewhere. CtW starts out fantastically, like your first job out of college, with so much excitement and promise of a long, successful career! And then somewhere, probably right around when you realize there’s no more coal or iron nearby and you have to use MANA to open portals to fetch new veins of the stuff, all the while watching the clock tick down for the next wave of monsters and suddenly everything seems like WORK…tedious, boring, mind-numbing work.
Honestly, with 72 hours I feel like I’ve gotten my money’s worth but it was a slog for many of those hours. The only thing keeping me going is that I’m doing a full playthrough for Youtube and want to complete the mission. I’ve got all the techs already and now have to face the 5 big dead elf dudes and fix the portal and then I’m done with CtW for good. I have no interest in carrying on as it seems like the game has little replay-ability once you’ve done it all.
The worse part of it all seems like with just a few changes this game can go from mediocre to amazing. My gut feeling is Dekovir is working on their next project and just want to see this done.