The publisher CubeGame honors us on Steam with another installment of the series after the Battle Royale The Swordsmen X in the West, which garnishes elements of its predecessor with survival ingredients. Sounds great, but for many, the interface is a real challenge.
What kind of game is this? After The Swordsmen X is already represented with a Battle Royale on Steam, publisher GameCube is now trying with another installment of the series, namely The Swordsmen X: Survival, to combine the tested elements with survival components.
In addition to sword fighting, this now includes gathering, crafting, and exploring an open world that – to be fair – still looks quite nice despite the now aging Unreal Engine 4. An update to UE4 has also been received by Blade & Soul.
You can watch a trailer of Swordsmen X: Survival here:
What is the problem? Looking at the Steam reviews of the title reveals a sobering picture: The reviews are “Mostly Negative” (via Steam). Some comments from Steam users shed light on this. For example:
- User Explicable: “The translation is ridiculously poor, much worse than anything Google Translator would do for free […]”.
- User Dr. Raw says: “90% Chinese. Unplayable!”
However, some comments also repeatedly criticize existing bugs, animations, or objects in the game world.
What Makes The Swordsmen X: Survival Interesting Anyway
What the game offers you: On the one hand, with a bit of skill, you can set the language to English. However, this translation unfortunately brings you back to User Explicable’s statement.
On the other hand, there are indeed some details worth mentioning:
- You can expect a lovingly designed martial-arts open world in Unreal Engine 4
- To survive, you must withstand both extreme heat and extreme cold as well as hunger
- In addition to gathering and hunting, other skills such as forging, weaving, making furniture, and cooking are important components for survival
- You can accomplish all this in your own home through housing
- You can expect a lot of martial arts paired with Chinese sword fighting
- In addition to the dangers in the open world, you will encounter ruins and bosses
- Last but not least, you can also form clans and experience the adventure together
You will also receive a similar setting with the MMORPG Swords of Legends, which recently seemed to have a bit of a hard time. Other games with this setting have also failed in the past and have been subsequently closed.
If you like Swordsmen X: Survival after the presentation, don’t let the language barriers stop you. With tools like capture2text (via sourceforge.net), you can extract the text from screenshots and use tools like Google Translate. Some smartphones also offer functions to translate text on an image directly.
