Posted on: December 19, 2015

Diggfinger

Games: 282 Reviews: 2

Return of the golden RPG-era

Until I discovered Underrail on RPGCodex.net, I had two holy rules: a) I did not play indie-games and 2) I DID NOT play early access (alpha) games. So how did this game manage to break the most sacred pillars to my fragile existence? Simple: it's awesome. It features everything I miss from an RPG-era long gone by: - Isometric, old-school, hardcore, 2D goodness - Tons of satisfying (turn-based) combat, were clever use of skills and abilities can turn the tide of battle - Classless, skill-based character development system with ENDLESS customization ability and replay value: use traps, psi-abilities, stealth, melee/ranged/laser weapons and much more to get ahead - Freedom to explore the dark, dangerous world of Underrail at your own leisure. But be aware: humanity is struggling to survive in this post-apocalyptic nightmare, so don't expect too many hugs - Deep crafting system with tons of options to get new gear In short, if you liked Fallout 1&2, Arcanum or System Shock you basically can't go wrong. So if you are on the fence about getting this masterpiece, and is still reading this far, my advice would be: get it! You won't regret it! And considering the low price and abundant content it's practically a steal. Enjoy. You thieving bastard.

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Posted on: October 11, 2020

haotichen

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 3

The "Psi rebalance" killed this game

Was an excellent game before author "rebalanced" it by nerfing the Psi system in a completely disastrous way. Granted, there were elements of it which needed a touch, but along with those he completerly removed all the elements which made Psi builds fun to play, and imposed restrictions which both made pure Psi characters not viable, and restricted which branches to specialize for hybrid classes. Before this change, I loved the game, as difficult as it was. Now I feel cheated out of it.

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Posted on: July 17, 2022

AGlezB

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 20

Not for everyone

This game will never be popular in a world where players have the attention span of a squirrell, every dialog has to voiced and answers have to be crearly labeled GOOD or BAD before you can select them. UnderRail is a true RPG experience with tons of choices to make, locations to explore and enemies to kill or sneak by. You are going to make mistakes and you are going to die... a lot. You'll also wonder a lot if you made the right choice. All part of the fun. This game doesn't do all the handholding common in "modern RPGs" so here's my advice for new players: - Play at the lowest difficulty setting. - Create a new save when entering an area. - Quicksave before starting a conversation. - NPCs have personalities and circumstances. Do not expect a junkyard thug and a lone survivalist badass to react the same way to a threatening remark. - Think before you act... or save and load. The game isn't perfect but nearly 7 years after release it's still getting updates and bugfixes more or less regularly, which is more than you can say for most AAA titles with large companies behind them.

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Posted on: May 8, 2024

EwigWandernd

Verified owner

Games: 738 Reviews: 263

For masochistic CRPG fans

Maybe I'm just bad, but I had a tough time with this game; it really made me savescum, try a hundred different approaches to an encounter and also wonder occassionally if I had fucked up my skilling 25 hours earlier. I love it. Of particular joy to me is the overall world and atmosphere, crawling through old caves, subway tunnels or bunkers/vaults and discovering what mysteries lie there is pure joy to me. (The sierra military bunker in Fallout 2 is one of my most favourite locations) The writing is solid and never caught me as much as some other CRPGs, but was still compelling enough to enjoy going through the dialogs, wonder what the different people have to tell and so on. Oh and the dry and/or absurd humour sometimes is just splendid

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Posted on: August 30, 2021

flea11

Verified owner

Games: 56 Reviews: 3

Great game, but...

This game has a good story, and great aesthetics the difficulty is a bit of a let down. Not for the fact that its difficult, but for the fact that it gets really difficult and doesn't give you much of a toolset to offset it by skill. Parts of the game, not far in are just downright impossible, hidden mines that will one shot you for starters. So you really need to put points in perception, which is kind of lame if you don't want to play that way. It just feels that there's a right build to play this game, and 99 wrong ones. So it just makes you resort to save scumming and brute forcing your way through the game, hoping RNG lands on your side for once. Could just feel the fun of the game being sapped away every time i had to cheese a part of the game by constantly saving and re-loading. As that seems to be the only viable skillset to beat some of these encounters.

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