The Thaumaturge

Just a wonderful game all around

The Thaumaturge takes players on a demon-laced journey through turn of the century Warsaw, rich in detail and character. Exploration is one of the games strongest suites, providing a plethora a fun notes, doscoveries, and observations scattered throughout the city. These really help to flesh out the events of the era, and provide valuable historical context. Don't be put off by the historical setting - it is laced with the supernatural, mystery, and intrigue. There's plenty to keep one interested and the experience is anything but dry. While the English voice acting occasionally misses sarcasm or a punchline, the overall quality is good and you feel connected to the characters. Well worth a playthrough if you enjoy unique RPGs that provide a fresh perspective, unusual settings, and forgo 'Tolkien-esq' tropes.

Disco Elysium vibes and really well written!

The thaumaturge Is an RPG game focused on dialogues featuring choices, manipulation pover with the power of one of our dimension, like the heart and deed, and the pride system, which can lock some options, but opens as much at the same time. Investigations and turn based combat, I know It has shortcomings, like the lack of inventory management, and the simplified detective part, It's pros far outweigh them. The historic mixes with the supernatural, the characters, (e.g. the main character, which became one of my favorite MC in gaming overall) and the adversaries we face are speaking specifically to me.

Pros: - Nice graphics. There's even an option to disable graphic "enhancements" like bloom and blur. - Original concept. Cons: - Bad performance. - The game world feels very small, and the camera always fixed in one position. You can't even rotate it. - The combat system is quite clunky, and there are quite A LOT of combat scenes. It gets very tiresome after a while. Most of the fights are mainly with hobos and drunkards for some reason. - The game doesn't let you feel like a badass mage. One of the features of thaumaturges is the influence on people's minds, but the game lets you use it very rarely. Usually, all problems are solved with fists. - Uncomfortable interface. For example it's very hard to read clues since they are very unorganized. - Lots of glitches. Dead enemies standing in place, black screen freezes, etc. - Thaumaturges don't fit into the game world at all. The world around is still Warsaw 1905. - The player's clothes and hairstyles are painfully generic. - 95% of characters in the game are ugly. Models of characters feel very low effort. - The game allows you to take sins from different characters, but in dialogues, you can only use your own Pride. Lost opportunity here. - Dialogues are sometimes inconsistent. - Feels slightly woke for the Warsaw in 1905. Regardless of that, I still liked the game. It has a few original ideas, but it looks like devs were really limited in time and resources to fully implement everything.