The Age of Decadence

I won't spoil it too much for you, except for saying that it's a really well thought out game in terms of story and C&C. If you like the Roman era, you will love this.

Game starts in tiny window. Changing the resolution istantly crashes the game. Changing to fullscreen instantly crashes the game. Continuing the game in its tiny window makes it virtually unplayable. I got it for free last year for some reason I can't remember, but I still have to warn people. DO NOT PAY FOR THIS BROKEN GAME.

theres better for cheaper. it looks, feels, and acts like it was made in someones moms basement. please, if you are out there devs, quit while youre behind

Reviewing just demo (didn't catch me enough to buy it now): this is interesting piece for me, quite different from other RPG games, so it was nice to refresh the way I look on/play them. But I don't like some of those changes. What went good: - combat looks interesting. Sort of unfair how huge difference can be made with different weapons/tactics to the outcome, also the random luck can make some fights, which are "on average" impossible, worth couple of loads, because sometimes you get trough with few lucky first strikes. But overall this was very enjoyable; at least when you fail, you know it immediately and reload. - story and optional paths, looks like somebody put lot of effort into it, and generally I did enjoy it, the settings, quests, many options/outcomes. not so good: - This game resembles an interactive book, where you read pages and choose on which page you want to continue to read (rarely interrupted with combat screen). A not so well written book, sorry. The writing is great for a computer game, but when you compare it to best books, it's just mediocre. Main problem for me is probably the density (too much reading over hour of game play). - a bit too few battles, even if you want to play as a fighter (unless you are very very skilled player, and manage to do even the hard fights, which look plain impossible at first sight, but I have seen videos of doing them = at that point the game has "enough" combat :) ). what was annoying to me: - dialog options: sometimes it's hard to foresee where your hero is going even within single dialog, and sometimes the consequences of your choice become known to you even later. And with so many options being destructive to your progress in particular quest (or even whole location). You will find yourself "backtracking" the options tree most of the game play time. Which brings me to save/load UI, which is tedious in demo as well. I can imagine to really enjoy this with walktrough help, saving me the backtracking.

Just another unplayable indie game...