Fit check
Is Age of Reforging: The Freelands worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- CRPG players who want to build a character without class restrictions
- Sandbox fans who enjoy managing a party, caravan, and castles
- Players who want survival needs alongside real-time combat with pause-and-order tactics
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a tightly directed story may find the open-ended sandbox structure less focused.
- Players who prefer low-maintenance combat may not enjoy pausing to issue squad orders or managing hunger and fatigue.
- Players looking for an economy system available now may find its gradual major-update rollout limiting.
Our take on Age of Reforging: The Freelands
The description gives the economy a prominent role, but says that system will arrive gradually through major updates. That leaves the current scope of the economy unclear compared with the already described exploration, combat, and management activities.
What is Age of Reforging: The Freelands?
Age of Reforging: The Freelands is a medieval sandbox CRPG built around exploration, survival, and party combat.
Travel through eight ecological zones, nine towns, and 30 wilderness locations, while taking on side quests and exploring dungeons and ruins. Hunger and fatigue affect the party, and combat lets players pause time to issue orders or use a tactical AI trigger and editor. Character origins, attributes, traits, and more than 200 combat skills and 100 magic skills shape each playthrough.
Players can recruit companions, assemble a caravan, and occupy and manage castles. The game currently lists 2,500 items and equipment, more than 200 monsters, over 700 named NPCs, and 150 handcrafted side quests. Its economy system is planned to arrive gradually through major updates.
How Age of Reforging: The Freelands plays
- 01Pause-and-order combat
- Time can be paused to issue precise commands to the squad during real-time fights.
- 02Origin-based characters
- Origins such as a magically gifted character, bandit, or mercenary offer different opportunities and challenges.
- 03Caravan building
- Recruit caravan members to form either a merchant operation or a mercenary group.
- 04Survival needs
- Hunger and fatigue drain energy from the player character and party, including while camping.
- 05Castle management
- Players can take control of medieval castles and manage them.
Age of Reforging: The Freelands compared to similar games
Back to the Dawn centers on surviving and investigating inside a prison before attempting an escape, while Age of Reforging: The Freelands focuses on open-world exploration, party management, and castle occupation. Hard West is presented as a Wild West game, whereas this title uses a medieval setting with survival needs and real-time combat that can be paused for squad orders.
Age of Reforging: The Freelands: platforms & release
Is Age of Reforging: The Freelands worth it?
It is worth it if: CRPG players who want to build a character without class restrictions. Skip it if: players seeking a tightly directed story may find the open-ended sandbox structure less focused.
Where can I download Age of Reforging: The Freelands?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Age of Reforging: The Freelands's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Age of Reforging: The Freelands on?
Windows only.
