Arx Fatalis

I can say honestly that when this game first came out I had absolutely no interest in it, to me it just looked like Morrowind but not as deep. To my surprise I found that Arx Fatalis is an amazing game with its own unique world and ideas, I was hooked after the first ten minutes and so will you!

This RPG is still one of my favorite, as beautiful as Morrowind with a tiny world but very well worked. Some Humour, adventure and exploration!

about 8 hours in, I feel like I haven't gotten very far. Most of the time was spent back-tracking, or fighting the uncooperative (but interesting) spell casting system, where you draw runes with your mouse. It's very finicky. I can tell there's a bit more to see. There's an alchemy system I can't use yet so ingredients were just taking up space in my inventory. There's a cooking system I kinda like. Flour, water. Bread and pies. Other than that, it's a couple different cooked meats and a few vegetables I could only eat raw, but it's fun putting the food next to a fire and watching it cook. Not bad for such an old game. The combat system is pretty bad. Really slow and awkward. Enemies like to run away when they have low health, dragging the fight on longer. There's a stealth system? The only chance I had to use it was in an enemy fort and it was too easy to get spotted and watch them run off to let the whole camp know. There's a weird charm to the character models and facial animations. Like a bad foreign language dub, the mouths do not match what you hear. My favorite is speaking to a troll who moves his jaw repeatedly to say, "Raaaaaaaaaah" If you like the price, I say go for it. But I don't really have anything to say to recommend this game. It's an old janky mess and I didn't have a whole lot of fun in 8 hours.

give it its chance, get through the prison level and you'll see the sheer majesty of this game it's alongside skyrim in my heart

Great gameplay and atmosphere. Takes some time getting into it because of combat and magic system. Some annoying hard puzzles. But this is one of the best first person togs ever made.