Nox™

Nox is often overlooked by RPG fans ... and rightfully so :) It wouldn't be fair to say that Nox doesn't have any historical value. It's a great case to study "what makes an RPG?" as it hits so many points on the RPG-elements checklist but is never makes it to be considered an RPG at the slightest. It just feels that the developers treated RPG mechanics as an actual checklist pushed down by management and never intended for gameplay to revolve around said mechanics. The only character development choice you make is when you pick the starting class. Leveling up raises the stats in a pre-determined way. The story is there but it serves as little purpose as it does in classic DooM games. Once you start the chapter you can forget about the short briefing entirely. Going down the RPG checklist there are even NPC interactions and dialogs... well monologues. Interacting with some NPCs will give you a couple of sentences of poorly voiced text and that's it. Well sometimes you will run into a shop. That's an RPG thing, right? Balance and core mechanics are all over the place. You never feel like your character is really progressing. Spells cost a lot of mana and have a warmup delay (animation is somewhat cool I must admit) and one would expect that magic should wreck havoc but it is actually nothing to write home about (apart from fireball spell) - it's faster to just beat most enemies with a stick. There is a wide variety of utility spells but a lot of them are close to useless or are not worth the effort to switch to in combat that is a little bit too fast for such decisions. As a final word, expect a top-down arcade (yes, there is even plenty of platforming!) instead of an action-RPG and you might feel less disappointed. If you are going in for the later, it's best to skip this title for something better. Unless you feel like locating secrets hidden behind destructible walls as a core gameplay mechanic is your thing.

so i installed this game that i loved so much in my childhood played for hours on end multilayer with my friends. which no matter what i used (tungle, Hamachi, GameRanger)i couldn't seem to get it to work. hell being in the same room we couldn't get it to work over lan. but what really irked me was that it would constantly be flagged for viruses by both my virus detection as well as my friends even after uninstalling i couldn't seem to get rid of it from rearing it's ugly head having my virus detector say hey we caught nox doing bad things. eventually it pissed me off so much i reformatted my whole computer. i feel this was a waste to spend money on a virus on gog

I got to see the intro, and the title screen, but then nothing more. Did not even get to see the main menu. Just a flashing title screen. Intant uninstall.

Paid, downloaded, and stuck with nonsense. this game did not work at all. I love Nox but this is the worst experience i have had to deal with. will not use again. thank you.

The game cannot be played with Windows 10. Simple as that. Tried every "fix" mentioned on the forums and nothing....thanks GOG for selling a scam!