Low Magic Age

This game's a steal for the price. Typically I find tbs roguelikes and games similar to this boring, but everything is well made. Skills and combat seems deep. There's a big map to explore. I haven't spent too much time with it yet because I don't have the time, but from what I played the quality is top notch. If this is the foundation the finished product might be a masterpiece.

This reminds me of the brilliant Phantasie series that I put countless hours into. This has amazing true to life graphics, sound and animation because it plays out in your imagination. These are the games that are 100% addictive and 200% immersive. Simply put, it's game-play at it's best. For the silly price they are asking for it, why don't you own a copy?

I bought this game hoping for a cool sandbox game based on 3.5 D&D rules. The character creation process was decent, but after that it all became disappointing. The dungeons are all the same grey grid squares with nothing to make them unique or interesting. Adventure mechanics are poorly explained. For example, my party constantly set off traps and there was no explanation as to this gameplay mechanic, leaving me feeling helpless and uninvolved. Combat is also vague and a left me with a sense of helplessness and confusion. For example, sometimes I would tell a ranged unit to just shoot an enemy, but he would automatically move and then shoot. Other times I could move and cast a spell, but not cast a spell and then move. I know 3.5 rules well and even so, combat felt random and punishing because it was unclear what would happen automatically. What I instructed my character to do and what they wound up doing were two very different things. I'm also not one who's big on plot and world building but this game has no story telling whatsoever and is just fantasy tropes and cliches. "Shipwrecked on an island trying to join the adventurere's guild"is the plot so far. The dialogue is also poorly written and doesn't always make sense- I suspect it's being translated from a foreign language. It also contains random swear words that just seem out of place and detract from the immersion of what little fantasy there is. This is, in essence, a weird sorta 3.5 D&D, combat simulator with nothing else really going on.

As the title suggests, I wish I've found it much earlier. The game feels just great, sound design alongside gameplay is probably the strongest side of this title, battles are satisfying to play. min-maxing players or classy RPG fanatics like me will feel just like in the home. While playing you can feel the heart, soul and the passion developer(s) put into the game and continue to do so. If you love RPG, replay value and like to support such hidden gems, definitely an instant recommendation.

I tried it out when I first got it and my first impression was 'meh'. I gave it another chance tonight and 4+ hours I do like it now. My only gripe so far is inventory management..this is still "in development", but I've just gotten into a perpetual state of not being able to carry anymore when I don't even have a quarter of a bag of inventory full. Update: 2 hours later and I forgot to hit save to post this, but inventory management is soo annoying because you can't prevent yourself from picking up low value high weight trash so it's constantly destroying stuff in a slow and annoying way just so you can keep progresssing in a dungeon. I have next to nothing in my bags and I hit this constantly.