Solasta: Crown of the Magister

I really enjoyed -- nice pacing and story development. You can form your own party of up to four characters and there's a fair amount of variability on classes, abilities, looks, etc. The story was totally fine -- nothing off the charts creative, but that's hard to do these days with the number of CRPG games bouncing around. And the political element is a nice inclusion. UI is terrific -- very intuitive and easy to grasp, can't praise it enough. Also loved how closely the game hewed to the D&D world which really made learning and playing the game a lot of fun and easy to learn. And the final battle added a great twist, imho. There aren't any major flaws. Allowing character editing -- if possible -- would be a big plus, Ditto with editing armor and weapons. Voice packs and character head choices are a bit limited, but Solasta is not a big budget production so no complaints. Finally, I love how upfront and honest the developers are regarding their product (check Reddit). It was great to see a post where a developer wrote (about Lost Valley) basically "we realize where our game did not turn out where we wanted it to, but we needed to operate within some financial and time constraints." Be sure to add the Unfinished Business mod to the game and give Tac Ad kudos. Between the very solid Solasta framework and their commitment to their product, they should be doing some great work going forward!

It's a game by a small studio, and it shows. If you care about graphics, VA, effects, and overall polish, you can take another half a star off. It's not BG3-level by any stretch - neither the writing nor the presentation come close. It is, however, a fun DnD dungeon crawler romp, with good implementation of the game mechanics and tactical gameplay. Has a surprisingly lively mod community and good mods/fanmade campaigns. Worth it in my opinion, very much worth it at a discount.

Amazing D&D PC game. If you are looking for the classic RPG in D&D setting - this is very solid choice.

I've bought this game after the cooperation was added to play with my friends. As a DnD 5e tabletop player I must say that it's almost exactly the same as DnD rules. I won't compare it to BG3 in opposition to others, because BG3 is still early access and I'll wait for the final game to release. Solasta's story is nice, not the best I've seen in my life but still this is engaging enough, getting better with time in Crown of the Magister and Lost Valley as well. The characters we created with friends were very sacrastic and cynical and we had lots of laughs with the dialogs - sometimes they are really great and there were moments where we couldn't wait to see another cutscene with our player characters. Compared to DnD rules though, I didn't notice the cover mechanics being implemented but maybe I didn't pay enough attention(?). When playing on the tabletop ruleset, the game is sometimes hard and forces you to think about your tactics. So far there are 12 levels only but both the Lost Valley and Crown of the Magister campaigns are still long enough. Really fun game. At this moment I have both campaigns completed with 88 hours of playtime and we are thinking to replay it another time with different characters. The great thing about this game is also the fact that if a player hosting the campaign has some DLCs, the other players do not have to, including the whole Lost Valley campaign. The soundtrack was a nice background, but I can't remember anything particular that wanted me to open youtube and find it after playing the game. Good, but nothing special. I'd give it 4,5 stars for its few flaws but it's not possible. I'm giving 5 because current 4,1 average is too low for this game in my opinion.

Currently is one of the best adaptations of 5E out there, I'm mean there are currently just 2 games adapting 5E, this one and Baldur's Gate 3 in development. But this one feels like a true session of TTRPG, at least on the combar side, the dice roll, the spells management, the movement, the story is pretty straight forward (thing they change a little bit on the second DLC) but it fits, its well presented and give you a motive to avance through the game, has some interesting art design with beautiful locations, a very robust character creation system with many options that will take you hours to decide between all the combinations (plus the new classes the DLC adds) and a great soundtrack. The base game is more focused on combat, I recommend it a lot, the DLC expand what the game offer and I recommend to purchase them too. Great game and looking forward for what it's coming next!