Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness

Great nostalgic game similar to the Baldur's Gate games of the past. I like the graphics, it's much more refined than I first thought and so far am enjoying everything. Nothing beats the classics, and anything that emulates them will get my money

Great game made by a team that clearly wants to give the player the best possible experience. Excellent ambience, music has BG vibes, inventory has D:OS vibes, armour has Witcher vibes. Interesting descriptions of items and plenty of stats to nerd out on. "Drying" and "Brewing" options are quite cool additions. The monsters and character portraits are really excellent. Like really creepy looking ghouls not your generic cartoony look. Sometimes lags slightly when running through a GPU intensive scene but otherwise extremely smooth for a game in development. Super smooth scrolling in map mode. I'm already way more interested in these characters and the story than in some other top shelf RPG's that have come out in early development over the past year. Way more content and of course as a BG fan I love the isometric style. Personally I'm having a great time playing and I would definitely recommend the game. Did I mention it's under 30 bucks?? Seriously guys, get this game.

I'm sorry but while this game has some interesting/promising features it's dreadly not enough in comparison as to the amount of frustration it has brought me. - Loading time takes way too long for maps that aren't even that big (between 22s up to 2minutes). - Quests are meh, go there, fetch that/kill that, come back. - Supposedly it plays on greed but while you have options to be greedy or not you can easily stuff yourself and have tons of money while always taking the non greedy option, plus no real "evil" way of resolving quests or what not. - The camera frustrates me, not movable and sometimes it's needed because of the mess. - Spells are so so at best, melee characters with high res will always top a mage even with the summons. - Time goes insanely fast for such small maps. - Craft and brewery system looks nice but ain't worth the time you would put in by either getting the recipe or trying the combination thus rendering the skill useless. - I find many skills to be useless or not absolutely necessary. - I can choose what spells the spellweaver gets but not the cleric? And it's confusing what spells the cleric gets (NPC). - Stats won't move after character creation except for items bonusses (this one i'm not sure if i was warned or not). - The setup is cliché, now i know it's not easy to do something entirely new but c'mon. - I don't really mind the no quest tracker, but what's written in the journal is not always useful. - No real sens of item progression, plus there's load for fighters but the rest can frolick naked in the plain. - Characters are bland, not really much interactions with them, the only thing i care about my party is their neat efficiency. That's pretty much it, i'm sure i've forgotten some points but it definitely isn't worth the price in my opinion.

This game really has the potential to be the true BG Successor. It just feels like BG1 from the music to the graphics, to the story and the locations, everything oozes BG. Unfortunately there are loads of bugs, minor bugs I could ignore as it's early access but it has a plethora of game ending bugs, 2 of which have just been fixed in the latest patch, however I have now experienced a new annoying bug where characters gear and weps simply vanishes from your inventory, not technically game ending but might as well be. So I have had to end my playing of this game after about 15 hours of enjoyable rough around the edges game play. I think I'll leave it until it's full release in 2022. As it stands I still think the 15 hours of enjoyment was worth the asking price, and when the game is finished and fixed it should hopefully be amazing. I'm giving it 4 stars as I have really enjoyed what I have played up to this point, but this will probably be 5 star game if it lives up to it's potential in the future.