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You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Dawn of Defiance is a early access, open world survival craft and online co-op game
developed by Traega Entertainment
and published by Fireshine Games.
Released on August 15th 2024 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 1,419 reviews of which 1,102 were positive and 317 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 or Higher
- Processor: 2.3 GHz Quad Core Processor
- Memory: 12 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 1060 6GB VRAM
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 18 GB available space
- Additional Notes: HDD supported, SSD preferred
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Dawn of Defiance is a deep, absorbing sandbox that kept me playing for hours. The mix of questing, exploration, base-building, and resource gathering gives you plenty of ways to play, and the variety of mob strengths and encounter pacing keeps combat feeling fresh and balanced. There’s a satisfying loop of expanding your base, pushing into new zones, and tackling ever-tougher threats. The developers are clearly engaged with the community and actively improving the game, which shows in steady updates and thoughtful tuning. My one concrete request is more Steam achievements: with so much content and so many playstyles available, a richer achievement set would reward creative play and give additional goals for long-term players. If you like open-ended survival/strategy hybrids with strong progression and developer support, Dawn of Defiance is well worth checking out.
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Exceedingly jank. There's nothing in this game that isn't jank. The combat and movement is VERY stiff. Base movement speed is too slow. Attacks don't stagger. Movement acceleration feels off. flying isn't floaty enough. Dodges don't interrupt attack animations. Some enemy attacks have very little build-up making them hard to dodge. Your camera is locked to your character's rotation. No drag and drop in inventory. Arrow drop is so bad it feels like the bows all have a 5lb draw weight. Durability loss on items is too high. Very little replayability value. Why then am I thumbing up? Because despite how clearly unfinished and unpolished everything is, it has some really good ideas and even in it's current busted state, is quite enjoyable. I am quite hyped on what this game could be and am more than happy to support the devs and let them cook. Final conclusion: "We will watch your career with great interest..."
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Ok for those of you that have not played this game yet or purchased it, well it was already an amazing game. They have made huge updates to this game and every craft or survival game needs to follow the method they use for the intro. Nothing is more frustrating then being put in a tough world and not at least going over the basics. Great job. Now the game is gorgeous, and the add of variety of types of characters was a huge add as well. It looks like they have many more options coming as well. Think Enshrouded, but Roman times and more realistic graphics. Game mechanics have been improved, and the enemies are enjoyable to fight as well as the fighting style with various weapons feels really good too. This game is top notch and it will only get better. The team working on this has stuck with it and constantly added and listened to the community.
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I think this could be the best survival game since Valheim, when it is released fully. Combat feels decent, blocking and dodging are responsive and each have their benefits. Only 3 melee weapon types currently - spear, sword and mace with a bow for some ranged. Each has a slightly different heavy attack and have differing attack speeds/animations so they feel different enough to be worth trying. There are currently only 13 skills in total in game split between combat and others (mining, lumberjack, sneak etc). Each skill can reach a maximum level of 10 right now. Each skill also has 1 skill bonus which improves as the skill levels. For example, my spear is level 8 and now gives me 40% more damage (5% per level). Lumberjacking is lvl 9 and now consumes 45% less stamina per swing. There is room on the interface for 4 more skill bonuses for each skill, but they are currently place holders with a 'coming soon' so looks like there will be more soon. The areas (or biomes however you want to term it) all look good and are very different in appearance. Some creatures appear in multiple areas and some can be a challenge at first, with varying special attacks/mechanics. The main questline I finished after 20-25 hours of play I reckon. And once the final part is done there is a message saying this is as far as the quest currently goes, but feel free to continue to explore. Fair play to them for telling us. Higher tier mats/crafting are available and kept me playing for a chunk of time after finishing the main quest. There are a decent number of side quests as well. Which while optional, some do unlock new crafting recipes so are worth doing. (I still haven't finished them all after 50 hours in game. But I do like to explore so haven't been rushing) There is a good selection of crafting benches to make things with and building looks very promising. The game isn't too grindy either, not requiring stupid amounts of materials to build things with. Once you have progressed a bit you can unlock crafting from mats in chests which is a godsend. Equipment can be crafted from 4 or 5 different materials (metals for melee weapons/armour and woods for bows). Each looks different and can be enhanced to offered improved damage/protection with "runes"(can't recall what they are actually called). Gear can also be changed cosmetically so if you are playing with friends you can potentially all have the same gear on but look very different. There are some real head scratching moments, the main quest has you solve some different puzzles to progress. I found these original and fun to work out. There is also a dungeon (more to come hopefully) which is a significant step up in difficulty. First time through I spent over an hour in it and died multiple times. My only real criticism is the light sources you can place in your house are very underwhelming and have a rediculously small area they light. They don't fuel at least. Cooking could be better - no matter when animal corpse you have, they all produce the same food when cooked. Would be nice to have some more variety there. There are a few plants you can eat as well but they share the same buff slot. Would be nice to have an additional food effect. Wood tends to burn very quickly as well in fires and smelters. Would be nice if it lasted a bit longer. So apart from a few minor ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, the game is excellent. I've had no crashes and noticed no bugs. It plays well. Yes it is limited right now in what you can do, but it's early access. Well worth the money already and it will only get better.
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Great game. And let me say its the first game that really gives you the color Black when building. Total Black, no light reflection, very cool.
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Dawn of Defiance is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.
Dawn of Defiance is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.50€ on Steam.
Dawn of Defiance received 1,102 positive votes out of a total of 1,419 achieving a rating of 7.45.
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Dawn of Defiance was developed by Traega Entertainment and published by Fireshine Games.
Dawn of Defiance is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Dawn of Defiance is not playable on MacOS.
Dawn of Defiance is not playable on Linux.
Dawn of Defiance offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Dawn of Defiance includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
There is a DLC available for Dawn of Defiance. Explore additional content available for Dawn of Defiance on Steam.
Dawn of Defiance does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Dawn of Defiance does not support Steam Remote Play.
Dawn of Defiance is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Game modes
Multiplayer
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Online players
14
Developer
Traega Entertainment
Publisher
Fireshine Games
Release
15 Aug 2024
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