Angry Troll Simulator

This is overall a great game.

Gameplay:
This short, simple game has a basic fetch and return style of quests. These manage to have interesting characters, where their story is so in-depth, and the reward they offer leaves you wanting to retrieve their item. Guidelines are often vaugue, leaving you having to use your head to locate the item, rather than a quest marker. For example, a quest left me having to retrieve a mushroom, but it didn't say where to find the mushroom. Using logic, i figured it would be located in a dark place as that is where mushrooms typically grow, so i searched in a cave.

Characters:
The game has you playing as a troll which is angered as some aggresive, drunken campers have intruded his enviroment, possibly a reference to the famous 'Shrek' line, 'Get out of my swamp!'. The characters are in-depth, and had me intrigued to find out their story, which was often found in a humourous way throughout the quests and map. The characters left me wondering what would happen next, and were overall a great addition to the game.

Combat:
The intriquite combat system is in-depth, allowing for upgrades found around the game. The combat is balanced, and i found myself in fair fights against the various and unique enemies.

Graphics:
For a development team of 1 person, the graphics are great. I played on high settings, 1080p, although it offered a wide range of graphical and resolution settings. The game looked great, but kept with the overall style and feel of the game. Would look execellent on 4k ultra settings.

Recommendations:
I often found myself wandering around trying to find characters to bring the items back, with no way to find them. It could be a lot better if there was a mini-map with with or without markers. DLC would be nice aswell

Conclusion:
For $1, this game a definite steal. The game offers a great story, characters, combat, and graphics. I would recommend this game to anyone, especially RPG fans.

This game is truly a magnum opus. it has many nuanced and complex theme hidden within its bowels. all one must be willing to do is stomach the horrors to come. In the game you play a troll whose homeland is invaded by humans who settled down nearby and you must collect parts to assemble a weapon and blow them to smithereens. If looked at from a postcolonial mindset one can clearly see the resemblance the humans have to the British empire, settling in a new land, attacking the natives, and being incoherent are just to name a few. One may be foolishly tempted to say it is a fluke, however I say it is a sign, that more imagery is hidden within. The consequences of your action are shown by how in chapter one an enemy guards a water bottle that you must take, and in chapter two that same enemy is in a wheelchair with a cake beside it that you must take again. This shows the brilliancy of one face studios in making this game for they know that most players will "kill" the enemy in the first chapter to get the item rather than soaking the damage and how they twisted that expectation and molded it into a subversion showing that he lived and yet you the player have utterly ruined his life. I could continue going on and on about the masterful subversion and humor but I shan't so as to be concise, i shall give one final example the meme cemetery. Someone who is but a fool may say that it is merely a pun based off of the phrase dead meme, but I say it is oh so much more. The oxford dictionary defines meme as, "an element of a culture or system of behavior passed from one individual to another by imitation or other nongenetic means." this shows that the cemetery isn't really a throwaway gag, but instead commentary. The commentary tells about how the end is inevitable and that all thing we know will die, for you see even our own culture and way of life shall perish same as us. Beside the cemetery you find the ancient dragon and this implies a sort of connection, perhaps he knew those memes and he has had to watch the ever quickening march of time slowly take everyone he knows and yet not him. An so he lurks beside his friends tombs. Waiting for the end. Although that is just my thought on the matter. 10/10 game would buy.



I changed my review so i am sorry if the comments don't make sense

**Title: A Tedious Mess - Not Worth Your Time**

I had the misfortune of playing *Angry Troll Simulator 2018*, and it's easily one of the worst gaming experiences I've had. The premise of playing as a rampaging troll sounds like it could be a fun, mindless romp, but this game manages to make even that boring and frustrating.

**Graphics**: The visuals are outdated, clunky, and poorly optimized. It feels like a game from 2008, not 2018. The environments are bland and repetitive, with muddy textures and lazy design. Even for a simulator, the lack of attention to detail is glaring. The troll itself looks awkward, with stiff animations that make movement feel like a chore.

**Gameplay**: The core gameplay loop boils down to smashing objects and attacking villagers. Sounds fun, right? Wrong. The controls are unresponsive, and the hit detection is laughable. There’s no satisfying impact when destroying things, just a lot of frustrating moments where you miss targets or get stuck in awkward places due to poor level design.

**AI**: The NPCs have the intelligence of a rock. The villagers either run into walls or stand there waiting to be squashed. There's zero challenge, which makes the whole experience feel hollow and pointless.

**Performance**: Constant frame drops and random crashes make this a technical disaster. No matter what system you play it on, the game feels unfinished and unpolished, as if it was rushed out the door without proper testing.

**Longevity**: There’s no real progression system, no reason to keep playing after the first 30 minutes. Once you’ve seen the shallow gameplay, you’ve seen it all. There are no engaging mechanics, unlockables, or incentives to keep smashing things. It quickly becomes mind-numbing and repetitive.

**Final Thoughts**: If you're looking for a fun, chaotic destruction game, there are *far* better options out there. *Angry Troll Simulator 2018* is a tedious, broken mess that somehow manages to make being a giant, angry troll feel like a complete waste of time. Save your money and your patience. I wouldn’t recommend this game to anyone—even those who are fans of niche simulators or troll-related games.