Weather Lord: The Successor's Path

Weather Lord: The Successor's Path is Alawar Entertainment's most recent time management simulation game released to Steam and is a welcome entry to their casual game catalog here. Although the game play is very similar to other titles in the genre, I found it just as engaging and fun. I've only recently gotten into time management games, and for the most part they all play pretty similarly: gather resources, construct buildings, beat the timer, etc. etc. However, Weather Lord feels a little more involved than the rest as there's quite a bit to keep track of between battling monsters, utilizing your weather tools efficiently and assisting NPCs, and that's on top of your standard gathering and building fare. The number of objectives for each stage is also quite high. Not that any of this is bad, but if you're like me and always aiming for perfection, you're going to need at least 2-3 tr

If you've played time-management games before, you've probably played something really similar to Weather Lord: The Successor's Path. In this game, you help the heir to a kingdom rebuild, and you use weather-related "artifacts" to help your workers complete tasks as you progress through the story. For example, the rain artifact regrows crops or trees, allowing them to be harvested again by your workers to get additional resources needed to complete the level. The sun artifact dries out swampy areas, which will remove obstacles blocking your workers. There are several different artifacts unlocked through gameplay, but they function essentially like the other resources and are on a timer. In addition to gathering resources, constructing buildings, and clearing obstacles, enemies roam the paths and attack your workers. You can hire guards to protect them, and they essentially patrol the p

A nice time management game. The graphics are very detailed: swans swim in the pond, chameleons on the rocks in the underground, little bunnies in the snow land. You have to balance obtaining the items you need for your goal (i.e. 15 food, 20 gold, etc) with defeating random enemies by hiring fighters or building attack towers. Certain enemies are weak against certain elemental attacks. So you will have to drag the sun icon onto your fighter or tower to defeat one enemy, then maybe the wind or water element for a different enemy. However you also need the elemental icons to refresh your crops and trees to gather more stuff. Or to melt a frozen patch of ground. It takes a few seconds for an element to refresh after it's been used. The story is the usual epic of a young man who must prove himself and defeat the evil Uncle who has usurped the throne. However, this game gives it a twist wi

Short version: 56% The Successor’s Path is a quite fast-paced time management game with strict goal times, repetitive level design, and surprisingly lot of combat for this genre. Long version: Although it is the earliest one on Steam, The Successor’s Path is actually the fourth instalment in the Weather Lord series. This present a mild problem, since the game expects players to know its core mechanics, so it is slim on tutorials. Luckily, the essence of the game is the same as in most any similar ones: use a set of tireless servants to run around the level collecting resources, which you then spend on clearing obstacles or meeting generic level goals. The devil is in the details, or, in this case, in the series-specific mechanics of using different weather powers to help the servants in different ways—and those may take some time getting used to. Another problem is that the game works

Weather Lord is a series of casual time management games, with Victor as a young hero able to manipulate the weather. However, Victor wasn't always the hero there as previous games were showing more humans and less cute animals. Remember my previous review on the series, which was Following the Princess? Well, The Successor's Path is just the game before it. It's chronicling how Victor came to the throne of his kingdom, by defeating his evil Uncle Wagner. Beginning in your land, you're going to visit different landscapes. I'm currently in the snowed levels, however, given the fact that I've played little of the game in the year, it's no wonder. The gameplay is simple: you have several objectives per level and you have to fullfill them. To do that, Victor is as any hero of a casual time management game, helped by his allies, the workers and the warriors. The workers are collecting resou