Iratus: Lord of the Dead

I wanted to buy this game, and was so happy when GOG gave it as Give away for free. I played DD for 299h (just checked on steam), I played Iratus for 3h. As an experienced DD player I wanted to start with medium difficulty, NOT possible! You MUST start on easy and finish the whole game before you can start with medium(and finish that before you can play it on hard). Whoever thought that was a pretty and clever idea should be banished from designing any games! The idea of making different levels of difficulty is to make a game suit for all kind of players. So I started to play on easy, and that was so boring that I could just not stand it. We all know(or should know) that on Amazon and other platforms are paid comments,reviews and ratings for any kind of products. There are companies that sell those in packages. Somehow, naive as I may be, I didn't think that this exist on GOG, until I saw the very positive reviews here.

Hmm what can I say other than strange save game mechanic. After playing casually for around two hours and wanting to quit out for a while I could not find a save game option, so assumed on quitting out it would auto save my game, but on doing this no save game message was forthcoming and when I re booted into the game I found that what I had achieved was gone, no map position saved and my characters had been wiped, I had to start a new game from scratch. So if you like a game with no save game feature then buy, if you like a save game feature then do not buy.

If this were from the makers of Darkest Dungeon, I would be almost convinced that this will become a good game. But it is not, so I am not convinced. I really like the theme. But as it currently is, this has still a long way to go. Some animations are not as smooth and high quality as they should be. And the gameplay and balancing seems to be in early stages. Well, at least the creative and graphics design had some nice ideas so far.

Causes your computer to crash and blue screen, even possibly giving an error message that the PC can't find the boot device. Unforgivable. No game is worth the headache of trying to make it work without crashing your computer.

Looks interesting even if it does look like a ripoff of Darkest Dungeon.