UnderRail

Graphics are so-so. Game play the same. I'd say try Wasteland 2 or one of the new Shadowrun games instead.

Let me preface this by saying I'm not a seasoned player of isometric games. I enjoyed Fallout (1,2) and the Baldurs Gate series. One of my first games was Baldurs Gate, so I understand the gameplay style that Underrail is going for. There's a difference between hard combat, and challenging combat. The game's combat is tough because it is clunky. The stealth isn't useful at early levels, and in my playthroughs it is straight up broken. The game favors sinking points into specific builds and specializations, which is fine, but it makes your character weak to other enemy types or challenges. In Fallout, you can get followers to help offset your weaknesses. Not in this game, sadly. The combat itself doesn't feel balanced. By design, it feels like a trap should go off when a target walks on it, but they just don't work for me. I don't know why. The Psi-Beetles annoy the piss out of me because you basically need to kite them to do damage. In an enclosed area, that's near impossible without traps. However, they for some reason ignore my traps entirely. Spamming grenades generally works, but sometimes they miss despite landing right next to the target. It feels cheap. Overall, the combat is janky, and the experience isn't worth the effort. It's an interesting world, and I enjoy the possibilities presented to the player, but I'd rather go back to Baldurs gate or Fallout if I wanted tactical gameplay. I can't really recommend this game unless you're a masochist, or you have time to sink in order to learn how to play the game "right". PS: The stealth broke my game, because now if I go into a zone stealthed, every enemy aggros in the zone. Period. They also have initiative, which makes stealth quite literally useless.

A slow, detailed, classic isometric RPG. It is something between Age of Decadence and Atom RPG. Definitely a worthy buy for the fans of the genre. Gameplay is very enjoyable. I am really fond of the graphics, too. The only downside is perhaps a little uninspiring soundtrack, although it too, grows on you and fits the atmosphere.

As a fan of older Fallout style RPGs as soon as I tried this I was sure this would be the perfect RPG. Fallout inspired RPG with more content and no bugs? What more could I ask for? It's really hard to find anything *objectively* wrong with the game. Lots of locations, characters, items, good crafting system. The game is incredibly stable with no bugs that I can see. So why the 4 stars? After a while it just gets stale and repetitive. Despite the oddity system which discourages grinding the game still manages somehow to feel like a grind. Instead of looking for things to kill for XP you end up looking for oddities. The quests start to all feel the same after a while: get this, kill that although I would say there are some that are downright brilliant. By the time I was 70% through my first playthrough I found myself losing patience and just trying to get to the end. I realized I was playing it to get it over with and just wasn't enjoying the gameplay anymore. It definitely feels like it's about the destination - the next town or location - rather than the journey and I found myself trying to speed through the dialogue. Of course, with the amount of content and the rather high difficulty level it's not easy to get to the end. Honestly after the first day I would give the game a 5 star review because with most objective criteria I would say it's flawless. But having just gotten tired of the game a lot sooner than I thought I would say now it feels more like a 3. But don't listen to me, this is totally subjective and if you are a fan of old school RPGs you definitely want to give this a try.

I recommend it.