Eschalon: Book I

The character creation screen alone pissed me off. Like if you give the choice to customize a character do it the proper way. Give me the option to play as either male OR female. The "story of book one revolves around a male character is just pure nonsense. Just give a set character then. Can't be that hard to keep it neutral. I'm male, I'm not a feminist but this kind of stuff just doesn't make sense. In a ROLEPLAYING GAME I wanna ROLEPLAY aka play a role different from real life. One that I DON'T identify with. This may appear as some minor detail to some but to me that's a two stars off, especially since the story is really thin and being male adds NOTHING to it. The story is barely there. If you go for the edgy "Create your own character" path, do it properly or not at all. If I had paid money for that I would want it back. I read about if the later installments improve on the matter, otherwise I wont play them

For a simple indie game, that seems like it was made on a javascript applet, it seems overpriced. It runs slowly on by 1.06GH Duo Core Machine, and it's a simple hack/crawl CRPG. It seems like it should be ak $1 game. Too GOG, maybe put the Linux version, and mutiple languages on it.

Just if you are seeing my review then please dont waste your time this game i a absolute pice of trash

Actually, it wouldn't be if not for the HURRRRRRDURRRRRRRR difficulty. Why do you developers INSIST on ruining games with this horseshit? One of the BS 5-star reviews claims "it is perfectly balanced". BULLSHIT! Your character is weaker than a damp leaf of lettuce even when levelled up to 7 (which is a far as I got before giving up). Even common "thugs" beat the living shit out of you. There is just no fun, and no progress. It is all frustration and tedium. Your time will mostly consist of aimlessly wandering around the uninspiring scenery. And it's sexist, you HAVE to be a "male" character despite the chargen page having a "Gender : Male" box, which you can't change..... like in shits such as "Two Worlds" and "Gothic". Must be an Eastern Europe cultural thing. Bohemian Interactive were terrible with that kind of mysogeny in all the Armed Assault games. Will NOT be even looking at Eschalon Book II and III.