The Technomancer

STEAM VERSION REVIEW: Spiders seems to have mastered the "AA" space of game dev, which is sorely lacking in the modern gaming landscape. Per most games by them, there's a lot to love in the story and concept. They even outdid themselves in the visual department, especially if you use ReShade to improve and sharpen the image. Unfortunately, the game itself has issues working on any rig that has more than 8 cores. I've tried using Control Panel and 3rd Party software to limit how many cores the game uses, but the only way I've been able to get it to work is to go into my system's own msconfig and limiting the cores, while I play the game. Granted, I read somewhere that Steam forces all cores, so this might not be an issue with the GoG version, but it's still worth noting. Still, if you are willing to troubleshoot the bug, and can appreciate the concept for what it is, the game is well worth your time. Especially since Bioware style games are so few and far between nowadays.

Main thing that stopped me playing this is the horribly clunky combat! You have a setting here with guns, but you can only fire them once every five seconds. You can shoot lightning out of your hands, but it does nothing more then slapping someone would in real life! You have three combat modes for melee, but they don't really help. One is staff combat... hit multiple opponents per special swing, but you can only dodge, not block, so you are guarnteed to die if you fight with this. Two is one hand melee and a gun... but again the gun does minimal damage and overheats witha few shots! The last and most useful is one handed and a shield... which you will want the majority of the time so you can counter enemies attacks. I think it's trying to be dark souls, but it's just bad! It's kind of ironic the combat is so bad, because everything else is very good! The music, the people, the stories that happen in-world are all very immersive and pleasing. I want to see what happens in the story, but I never will because of the horrible combat.

Potentially good game but too boring. Upleveling and skills are good in theory but too useless at practical using. Stupid rolling map - very "usefull" thing. You hardly can understand where are you now and where you must go. Too much such things. May be it's not really bad game but for me it's not worth playing.

STUCK

wasn't doing too bad, the combat was clunky, the interface unexplained, the skills unexplained, no indication of how crafting worked, but ok, i can handle that. then i reached the first boss, and that was....ludicrous. i cant see ever playing again. play time says 1h 43 minutes. would not recomend unless you like chewing your fingers off.