Victor Vran

I see alot of people mention Van Helsing and while there is a mild similarity with the lettle bit of steampunk imagry, there is absolutely no comparison with gameplay this game actually fun to play, Armed with a choice of weapons (Sword/Hammer/Scythe/Shotgun and Rapier), you can wield two at a time as you wade through enemies and augment them with magical powers and increase your stats with Destiny cards which can be changed at will (which means you are not locked into a skill tree). The combat controls are sublimely responsive, best controls I have used in a game like this ever! As you progress through the story and enter dungeons (which each have their own unique sets of challenges and secrets), you will have a really fun experience, I highly recommend it! Oh yeah...coming soon .... Motorhead DLC....shhh dont tell anyone...

I agree with all those positive feedbacks. This game really is underrated pearl. After hundreds of hours with Sacred, Grim Dawn, Path of Exile and many more, this one is really one the best aRPG I ever played. And it is for Linux :-) Yeah, I had some trouble to make it run, but now it is solved and I really enjoy this treasure of gaming. (Tips at gog forum helped me solve the issues)

Balanced gameplay, adventerous environments, fun to play

There are two similar games Victor and Van Helsing. They both at the beginning were very similar, a hat-wearing hunter slashing through hordes of enemies. I was about to choose Victor but finally i decided to give Helsing a try. It was my mistake. Third part along with Final Cut were just bad. Classes split killed that game. Then i decie to give Victor a shot. And it was lucky shot in '10'. This game has everything starting from Hat and finishing with weapons. Every weapon has it own skills set, and that allows You to switch between them when You need it instead of building Your char with "hope to find the right weapon", also it makes game much more diversified. You are tired of sword-swinging? Switch to mortar or crush enemeis with hammer! Fate cards are also a great thing, You feel dieing too fast? Use few HP-Steal cards and look how Your Health bar go up instead of running low! Or just let your dmg fly high with crit chance+crit damage combos. Demonic power are nice spellcasting version instead of having thousands of spells use two but use them wisely, combine them together to boost survivability and damage. Last thing - game is divided into instanced dungeons and it is great. You can repeat dungeon in hope of farming something or just maw through it as fast as possible and never look back. Additinally every instance has it's own achievements which You can tru to complete to gain exp/items/gold - and it increases the fun. There are few disadvantage though - first (i know it might sound silly) is lack of "zoom" feature. In games where You can change clothing, weapons, colours etc. it is nice to have possibility to look closer - forget it in VV u use mouse scroll to tumble. Second one is lack of colour - preview, when You are about to use dye you don't know which part of cloth will change it's colour. But this two things are purely cosmetic and don't make game worse in overall.

I've been reading alot of reviews and one thing that strikes me the most is a thing that nearly all the reviews mention, Thats how much fun the game is. I've only played up to the first boss, so essentially the first map, the quite large gardens and a couple of the dungeon instances. Once you travel to an area, it is open on the map and you can always teleport to that place from the hub, so you are never more than a minute from any previously explored place. I like the fact that you dont just play through a dungeon and move on, each dungeon appears to also have a set of (I think 5) challenges and a number of hidden areas that you need to find, so that always adds extra replayability and a reason to return to older areas. The combat is very fluid, I really liked the precision of the controller, there are a nice bunch of weapons and skills to choose from which for me are the major fun points of the game, I also like the verticalty of the game. There are ways to craft in the game but I am not high enough level to do that though, so I cannot comment on it, but from what I understand you place a number of items together in a transmoter and it fuses them into a new item of better quality. So, its back to the fun pit for me now, thanks for reading.