Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

this game is very fun, i found it to be of good difficulty. take my review with a grain of salt however, becuase i have not finished the game, but i played the begginning of it and it started off good.

Imagine bigger, better and more complex Fallout set in steampunk world. Arcanum had some bugs, the battle system was flawed (why would they go with hybrid system? why?) but it had everything to become one of the greatest games ever made. The main quest is ENORMOUS. The amount of dialogues is just gigantic. EVERY of thousands of dialogues have separate lines for different intelligence levels, different races, attitudes. Technological trees are huge, you can play completely different games depending if you are a techie or a magic character. And you'd better specialize. Playing character balanced in the middle of technology/magica line, would take a lot of fun away from the game. I wholeheately recommend the game.

This game is incredible. Fans of Planescape, Baldur's Gate, and of course Fallout will love it. The charm, music, story, rpg system in general, etc. are all unique and A+

Now why did I put a one here? Well, it's to warn people. If you want to play this game, on win 10 and modern computer, you have to read and follow a rather long and quite booring and tedious instruction thread in the forum to get the game to work. That is, a stuttering, slow and crappy version that feels like it's drudging itself from frame to frame and you would think you are trying to run the game on a 386 system. After installing fan patches, widescreen support, putting miscellaneous dll's in various folders and get it all working, the mouse cursor is still slow and choppy. The game still slow and sludgy, but hey, it started at least. This feels abandoned and not much lover from GOG into the currant version, which is sad. Really sad. The game itself is a small unpolished gem of very fun world and a solid RPG with many different routes to be taken. Character wise and game progression wise. This used to be one of my all time favourites, and I believe I will try and keep my memories intact by not trying to get his POS running and ruing my memories. If GOG would do something to make the game work better and run fluent, this is a gem worthy of the 5 star reviews. Now, it is an idea lost in a poor optimisation engine...

I bet this game is great. I created a new character and was overwhelmed by the number of choices I had available to create a character. This is kind of a game that really has something for everyone, and I think that unfortunately is why this game is completely unplayable. As soon as I finished my character creation the game kind of just stopped. I mean certain things worked, the hud showed up, but the actual stuff I was supposed to be seeing was just a black screen. Aslo mouse movements and actions had an extremely delayed reaction time during the character creation process. I don't know if the game has always been this unplayable, but I certainly can't play this in windows 10 (and the unofficial patch didn't help at all when I attempted to download it). Based on other reviews this seems pretty consistant, even the positive reviews point out that it's insanely bugged and flawed. I dunno if I just didn't install the unofficial patch correctly, or if that is bugged too, but either way I would love to actually play this game if GOG added the unofficial patch to the regular download, or if the game just actually got patched to work on modern computers. Either way this game is completely unplayable in its current state, at least on my pc.