Posted on: January 21, 2025

BreadPoznanski

Games: 92 Reviews: 3

Worth to spend your time on

This game is far from AAA, but who tells it has to be to have fun while playing. It is obvious that the budget for this game was limited and some aspects are medicore, however overall experience is worth recomendation. PROS: - world map and exploration as well as unique aproach to magic aspects - nicely written characters and overall plot - decisions made have consequences CONS: - combat system - characters face models (expression and mimicry are not so great in comparison to the city you explore) FOR WHOM?: For everyone, who doesn't like overpriced games with cut content and generic world telling the same story about saving the world. Nice story compensate shortcomings and keeps you in front of the screen.

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Posted on: February 10, 2025

shadowslance

Verified owner

Games: 707 Reviews: 5

Glitches aside

Graphical glitches aside this is an interesting little story of a game so far. The concept is good but the execution makes the gameplay very linear feeling. Maybe that will go away the further I get. The graphic glitches are mainly just annoying. There has be nothing persistent just seems like when cutting between scenes the character models don't retain their post and just for a split second have to reset to the proper view. The audio issues when it comes to conversations are a little more jarring. Usually happens if you go out of order on your choices that the audio and video desync momentarily. The video seems to be the primary cuplret would be my guess.

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Posted on: December 21, 2024

Nephelin

Verified owner

Games: 115 Reviews: 2

Neat, but with problems.

QoL could be better, an the story while fine, does not really me. but 1 had only one small bug, the VO is good, and the combat fun.

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Posted on: March 11, 2024

Schlaumayr

Verified owner

Games: 1352 Reviews: 44

20th century occultism

Usually the setting in which this game takes place is not my cup of tea. Everything slightly historical bores me to death. But the demons really make up for it. This game has the exact amounts of horror and tension for me to be totally captivating. I love the characters and the world, the story is well written and exciting. If I had the time, I would have been "binge-playing" the game, like it was my favorite netflix series. I love reading in games, like the Pillars titles, like Disco Elysium, Torment, BG series, so this game is what I was looking for. The turn based fight were good and most of the time doable. Only one fight for a salutor or the other hat to be taken several times until I succeeded. I had 2 or 3 hours of boring grinding, since I could not interact with locked items, but I did not notice at that point, that I first had to get a salutor in the main campaign, before I could actually access these hints. Could have spared me sometime with a littel tutorial heads up, but I don't mind in the end. Great Game, fully recommend it.

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Posted on: January 18, 2025

deusvult_1095

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Games: 107 Reviews: 18

Decent 4/5 game. Good story and combat

Just finished the campaign. Took me around 47h with almost all side quests I was able to find. I liked the game, especially the combat system with salutors. Story starts off slow (sometimes it's reeeeallly slow in Act 1 and beginning of Act 2), but picks up in pace at the end of Act 2 and in Act 3 is really interesting with high stakes. What I really liked here is these seemingly random fights that come up from nowhere, like bunch of randos start asking questions and you know it's going to be a fight there. This works wonders to break the slow pace in the beginning of the game, so good job there. Voice acting is decent, but don't expect AAA performance here. In few dialogs it almost feels like AI generated bland and soulless (but this is exception and not the norm. Just know that it's there sometimes). That's it yeah, in summary a decent 4/5 game with interesting combat system that has the potential to be even better in the next game.

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