Nox™

This game is a real craftsmen's title, well balanced and genuinely challenging. But most of all its exactly the kind of game to sit down in a dark room with a pair of beefy headphones and from the moment that main menu struts on to your unsuspecting screen your in the land of Nox ready to quest. P.S Sean William Scott voices the protagonist, and he does a surprisingly good round with it.

I just couldn't get used to the mouse and arrow gameplay. I'm used to using WASD method.. or the point and click method where the character moves to the location you click on. Other than that, the game itself was exactly what you would expect from this genre, a hell of a lot of fun! I think my experience would have been better if I could get used to the navigation, but I'm an old fart, and learning new tricks is hard.

Everyone claiming this is a "Diablo clone" has no idea what they are talking about. It plays NOTHING like Diablo aside from the fact that it's an action-rpg from a topdown isometric view. Beyond that it is an entirely unique game. Where to even begin... For starters, the single player and multiplayer are completely separate games. Each single player class is an entirely different story, which takes an entirely different path. And since the single player is it's own thing, it doesn't feel like you are "solo'ing a multiplayer game" much like Diablo often feels. There is no grinding the same area/boss over and over again, reloading the game to find everyone magically respawned even though you defeated them. To me, this makes the single player stand head and shoulders above Diablo. It also has it's own unique fog of war system, and movement system which includes jumping. There is far more emphasis on skill with both movement and targetting of your skills than there is in diablo. Diablo is more or less just a grind-to-win game where you level up your character, make an effecient build, hope to get lucky with items and then put it on auto-pilot. Nox is nothing of the sort - once you complete certain elements of the story it actually (gasp) affects the single player game you are playing. The towns are actually towns instead of just staging areas, and the quests are much more involved and the main story is much more deep than diablo. The spells are just ten times as innovative as well. I've yet to play any "hack and slash" style game that did spells as well as Nox did. I won't touch too much on the multiplayer seeing as I found it to be a bit weaker than the single-player, but the one bright spot was that it featured a "soccer" mode that was far ahead of it's time, in fact no game has really captured the style that this mode produced. Maybe rocket league, but that's about the only thing that comes close. All in all this is a great underrated unique game.

Love this game. I wonder if the multiplayer i still live? This game had the absolute funnest Capture the flag matches. It's much like diablo but more story driven and and is an absolute gem. If you haven't played this and are thinking about picking it up its totally worth it.

I'm not generally a fan of isometric dungeon crawlers, RPGs, hack-and-slashers etc etc. But Nox, even today, has heart. Compelling writing, combat, atmosphere, level design and world design. It's a blast to play through and, yeah I'm going to say it, I'd rather go back and play through this than Diablo. Because though Diablo absolutely deserves kudos for defining the genre, it does come across a little bland and soulless after playing a game like Nox, which is brimming with touches that show the devs loved making this game. Recommended.