Drova - Forsaken Kin

Well I'm having fun, clunky as the "original" but in the same way enticing.

First open world game that doesnt feel like a chore. Great not having automatic marked maps and babisitting gameplay. more like this

1. If you know what is Gothic 1/2 and you played it and you loved it - get this game, you will feel like "at home" for ~15-20 hours with true pleasure and fun. Then, you will be most probably tired and a bit a dissappointed as you will get to the "not so good aspects of the game", but it will give you another ~20 hours till the entire and complete end. It is unlikely that you will replay it though. 10-20 EUR is a good price for the experience it offers. 2. If you don't know what is Gothic 1/2 - I would advise you to get and play them first because they are just better in all aspects, and only if you really wish to play isometric RPG over 3D, then you can try this one right away. 3. Now some additional thoughts: they tried to use Gothic 1/2 formula in isometric game and they almost achieved it, but in any aspect of the game there are some flaws. Fighting is interesting at start with nice learning curve for every enemy type (2-4 attack types) but it gets boring later and requires too much "click left mouse button 100 times to get him down". Magic is tied to fighting, appears too late and you cannot really play a mage. Balance gets you to the point that after 20-30 hours of playing 3 bandits still can get you down when you already have best weapon and best armor in the game. You will never get to the point of feeling "I got it, I am God here, like it was with death cycle spell in Gothic and with killing top enemies with one blow of 2H sword", but this is all about playing an RPG, this world is for player to conquer. World design is good in starting locations with secret corridors and hidden caves/items here and there every a couple of minutes if you screen it all with right mouse button, but in the mid/late game you see a bunch of almost empty locations and you are just getting tired from running around already cleaned world (ADD TELEPORT runes to such games! Gothic had them, why devs which copy it think that they are smarter and do not add it?) Etc.

Beautiful pixel art, easy to follow story and very rewarding exploration.

Despite being a 2D game, everything works perfectly