Posted on: September 21, 2024
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The Thaumaturge
Description
The Thaumaturge is an isometric, story-rich RPG with a unique take on turn-based combat, character development features, and investigation mechanics, facing you with morally ambiguous choices – set in a world teeming with mysterious powers and strange ethereal beings called salutors.
The year is 1905. Warsaw lives under the yoke of imperial Russian tsardom. Its inhabitants constitute a diverse group of different ancestries, views, and beliefs with often conflicting interests: Russian soldiers, Jewish merchants, Polish townspeople, and more. Despite the circumstances, the city is a buzzing metropolis, where one can attend a breathtaking party with the high society, and later get robbed in one of the dark alleys of the Praga district. A city of great hopes and dreams on one hand and dark desires on the other.
A thaumaturge bears both a gift and a burden at the same time. This parallel holds true for Wiktor Szulski, the game’s titular protagonist, who is drawn back to the tumultuous streets of 20th-century Warsaw by family matters. The gift of thaumaturgy is intertwined with family legacy, passed down through one's ancestors. This mystical inheritance significantly shapes Wiktor’s life journey tied around a pursuit of unearthly entities and their hosts. As only a thaumaturge can tame these ethereal entities - known to a select few as salutors - utilizing their mystical abilities to discover secrets hidden within the human soul and speak to the Darkness, no one understands quite like Wiktor how everyone suffers their own demons.
Features:
- Shape your story – as a full-fledged RPG, it allows you to alternate your choices and make you deal with the aftermath.
- Develop your character – creating your own version of the thaumaturge will allow you to approach situations in different ways.
- Experience unique turn-based combat and defeat your foes using human attacks and skills as well as psychic strikes delivered by salutors.
- Influence and manipulate the temperaments of other characters to bend their will to your liking.
- Tame the power of salutors – use the unique set of their skills to gain an advantage while exploring the world and when bringing your adversaries to their knees.
- See the world that’s inevitably gone – explore the uncommon, heavily researched historic period of the early XX century Warsaw, where crime and luxury are often two sides of the same coin. Meet historical figures and learn about their involvement in the story.
- Created in Unreal Engine 5 to deliver a detailed & beautifully crafted world.
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Popular achievements
Chapter I. What Am I Doing Here?
Finish your business in the village and go to Warsaw.
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59.49%
Chapter II. Stakes and Costs
Learn about a particular court secret.
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32.01%
Fast and Nervous
Win a skirmish in 6 rounds or less.
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66.45%
Not So Fast
Delay or interrupt the actions of 50 enemies.
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41.26%
Factory of Pain
Inflict 1,001 damage to your enemies.
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35.3%
Complete Domination
Win a fight with full Health Points.
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41.11%
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26 h Main + Sides
41 h Completionist
26.5 h All Styles
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PC Gamer
82/100
The Thaumaturge might be a bit light for RPG lovers, but it's a gorgeous, incisive look at a world long past.
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8/10
The Thaumaturge is a slow, text heavy caper that is often curious and sometimes captivating, weaving revolutionary labor politics and mysticism together to create a unique and charming piece of historical science fiction.
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8.5/10
The Thaumaturge is a touch underdeveloped and rough around the edges in some respects, but it delivers where it counts, serving up a unique, immersive world, affable cast of characters, and a satisfying amount of freedom to chart your own course. The Thaumaturge bodes well for the upcoming Fool's Theory remake of The Witcher, but it's no mere audition. This is a memorable RPG that casts a strong spell all its own.
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Posted on: September 29, 2024
Andrew_Hadley
Verified ownerGames: 386 Reviews: 1
The Thaumaturge
Interesting premise and good story, but dialogue can be uneven in quality and combat is confusing and poorly explained.
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Posted on: March 6, 2024
euschout
Verified ownerGames: 238 Reviews: 5
I love it
This is a game that I love greatly. It look nice, with an eye for details. The game play is great and the story is rich. I have to pause the game sometimes but want to go on forever.
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Posted on: March 10, 2024
Finian75
Verified ownerGames: 94 Reviews: 1
Very disappointing experience
Although the game has some good features, various negative elements almost completely ruin the gaming experience. Pros: - the graphics are largely solid to good, but also have their weaknesses (see negative features) - the story is interesting in itself - Sound effects and music are good Cons: - popping up graphics that load too late, even on a high-performance PC - ugly Faces for 95% of characters - game controls are tricky, the game character often gets stuck on objects and then fidgets awkwardly until he gets free again - graphic glitches and a few black screens when interacting with other characters - game is poorly optimized and stutters even on a fast computer - wooden animations, especially facial animations, are often a real pain and absolutely unacceptable for an RPG in 2024! - English dub only - The characters are almost all unlikable and one-dimensional -practically no beardless men in the game, even your own protagonist can't have a completely beardless haircut at the barber - main story is extremely linear - The side missions are immensely boring and repetitive, you constantly have to laboriously search through all the maps across the entire area with the search focus, and then these are also time-limited, so you always feel like you're under time pressure - combat system is very clunky, overcomplicated and repetitive - around 10 different endings that depend on your gameplay decisions or dialogue choices. I tried 4 of them and then watched the rest on YouTube. I find most of the endings very unsatisfying, and I didn't even like the so-called "good" endings at all. - total playing time with all side quests was 30 hours for me, which dragged on like chewing gum Conclusion: The game leaves a really bad taste in my mouth! So think carefully about whether you want to accept the game's many shortcomings.
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Posted on: March 5, 2024
Aqustico
Verified ownerGames: 272 Reviews: 1
Polish thaumaturge with a book
Incredible climate. I recommend.
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