Exanima

Exanima is the only "modern" game that tickles the spot in my brain occupied by old school real time dungeon crawlers such as Ultima Underworld. I've been deeply enjoying my time with it. Go watch footage on Youtube and such to determine if you think it's for you. That will be much more useful than any written review for figuring out if you want to buy it or not. That being said I can definitely say that I would only recommend it if you have paitence for games that demand a lot of learning, and hinge on a lot of stupid physics-based lunacy. What is fun for one moment will be infuriating in the next. i believe this is exaggerated by some of the systems, and lack therof, that (in my view) handicap the game. -The controls should be rebindable. -The camera should follow the mouse cursor, or the direction your character is facing. (I know about the INI file thing. Better.) (-possible target-locking system.) Here's why: Your character faces toward the mouse cursor, and this is how you orient your directional attacks and tank-control movement. You read that right. Tank control movement with physics-based jank. in combat. Prepare to stumble and trip. You must wrangle these things while also juggling the physics engine, and also adjusting the camera. In the heat of combat this is all a bit much, and pulls focus from gameplay. I do not find it fun to lose control because my character lost all sense of direction due to trying to track the cursor being moved over his shoulder. This really drags down on the game for me. I will note that perhaps this can be solved with a tightening of the agility of characters in tight space turns. (I've also experienced repeated crashes at higher graphic settings which seem somehow related to the lighting and particle effects.) Early Access Rating: 3/5 stars. +Interesting gameplay concept. +Hand crafted dungeon crawl. -Unfinished mechanics. (magic.) +Captivating combat. -Needlessly rigid controls. +/-JankyAF (play at own risk)

This game is in early access for 10 years now. Last actual update happened 3 years ago. At what point is it shameless? This was a really cool project and I was hyped for it, I was patient but enough is enough. Don't spend a penny on it, it should probably actually be removed from the store at all. Demo of an alpha of an indie title for 10€.

You either really love this game or you fint it awful, there's hardly a middle ground. First I want to clarify that the reviews from new accounts that other reviews are saying it's fishy it's because the had the game on steam for a long time before it came out on gog, I recognize a lot of these guys from the community. There're 2 things I love about this game, the atmosphere and the physics-based combat, the atmospehere because it's really dark and appealing to me, it really has a medieval feel to it. As for the combat, I love physics simulation, the most fun I had in games have to do with this, and while it's hard to get used to the controls of this game, once you learn to fight well enough it's really fun. You have two main modes to the game: story and arena, the story is not finished yet and is being expanded with each update, and the arena is just as it sound, you manage your fighters and gears and participate in different types of battles: Boxing, 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 1v1v1v1v1v1, 3vMonster, etc

This game is not for everyone. It will take you numerous hours to come to grips with the controls and learn how movement works. You will die countless times to things like physics based planks over an open mine shaft or tripping and being beaten senseless by a skeleton. There are countless items in the game world that serve no purpose other than to make the world feel alive... and you will trip over them. These are all features, not bugs. Put some hours in and when this game finally clicks you're in for a hell of a ride. *I own this on steam and will happily be buying the GOG version for archival purposes.

Not a meme game at all, gets infrequent updates but is still an ongoing project. updates are usually targetted at improving the engine behind the game. This game is atmospheric, challenging, technical, and has a grounded feeling and theme. I would also consider it a technologically outstanding game, aside from being a unique experience all around. It almost reminds me of playing amnesia: dark descent sometimes. Game has some very unsual characteristics and requires technical skill, so don't walk in expecting your experience from other ARPGs to carry over, or you will be disappointed.