Tales of Maj'Eyal

I've been genuinely trying to love this game for weeks and I've finally given up. I love COTW and I like roguelikes in general but after 60+ hours of gameplay I've realized that TOME is utterly pointless to bother playing with such poor difficulty scaling and random "gotchas" that ruin every single attempt to progress or even have fun. A roguelike is supposed to reward critical thinking, strategic preparation, and careful planning. TOME does not. It simply kills every character that does not follow an extremely linear build path AND gets extremely lucky with the RNG AND is played very accurately and with prior knowledge of most of TOME's gotchas. Maybe that's your interpretation of roguelike, but it's not mine. In several games I had impossible battles blocking progress (once as early as the newbie area). Not difficult battles, impossible ones that were generated in such a way that my character could not possibly do enough DPS to progress or was artificially prevented from escaping, and progress was therefore essential to simply continue the game. Rod of Recall? Please girlfriend, you can't hide bad design that easily. I can't believe people waste their time on this sort of utterly banal stat tracking/dot connecting, because I find it more than tedious: I find it personally insulting that the developer wants to waste my time this way AFTER he took my money. It's worse because the developer constantly advertises DLC on the main menu (sold on a 3rd party site you must pay cash to convert to fake game currency) and nags you if you don't create an online profile so the game can phone home every time you do anything. All TOME did was waste my time while making me think that some fun was just around the corner. If I'd just keep at it a few more hours maybe the next char wouldn't get 1-shot from unseen offscreen. If I built my warrior just a bit better, a room of impossibly high lvl ice giants wouldn't mind lock me, preventing me from leaving the zone. Nah. Deleted.

Amazing game - insane amount of content

Well I looked over this title and played it for free. But what I found was frustrating controls and illogical game design mechanics that just made me think over and over...why the hell am I wasting my time on this crap? On the surface it looks like it would be a really cool in depth game with a great set of architectural elements to keep the player interested. But this is not really the case. While a game such as Neo Scavenger is great to go through over and over. Tales is just a work out in its self, for its own sake just to play the darn thing, with no real joy in playing it. While I like indie games, I cannot recommend this title unless you want to feel like you are at work instead of playing a enjoyable piece of entertainment.

seems fun. having an issue though. plays fine and everything, but when trying to exit. gets stuck and i have to log out or restart computer. pc. windows 7.

I was trying hard to get into it, but I have failed. Not for the true die-hard roguelike fans. Rather chaotic character development. Overall atmosphere is... I don't know... unserious? Even the cartoonish The Pit beats ToME easily. There are really better options around (and free!), like Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Only for beginners in genre.