The Age of Decadence is an isometric, turn-based, single-player role-playing game set in a low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world, inspired by the fall of the Roman Empire. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple skill-based ways to handle quests, choices & consequence...
The Age of Decadence is an isometric, turn-based, single-player role-playing game set in a low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world, inspired by the fall of the Roman Empire. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple skill-based ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and extensive dialogue trees.
Traditionally, many fantasy RPGs are about killing things, clearing up dungeons, and being a hero. Now, there is nothing wrong with mindless fun and wish fulfillment, but we serve a different meal here. Quoting from one of the reviews:
“Well, if you want a hardcore, heavy metal roleplaying experience that challenges you, this is the ticket. Otherwise, take a pass. The game is vicious, both in its lack of morality and its merciless systems. If you want to be the hero of a story, run and don’t look back. If you want to be Attia of the Julii or be a power player, this is your RPG.”
The focus of the game is not on killing monsters, but rather on dealing with fellow humans and factions, trying to survive – easier said than done – and making a name for yourself. Naturally, to accommodate all that scheming, plotting, and backstabbing, we give the player plenty of choices, from multiple solutions to quests to different paths you can take through the game. You (and your actions) will determine who your friends and enemies are. There are no default good and bad guys.
23 skills, ranging from Dagger and Critical Strike to Disguise and Persuasion to Alchemy and Lore.
Tactical combat system, featuring a flexible set of standard attacks, special attacks such as whirlwind and impale, and aimed attacks at different body parts.
8 weapon types: daggers, swords, axes, hammers, spears, bows, crossbows, throwing weapons, each with individual traits.
Non-combat quest resolutions and a well-developed diplomatic path.
Over 100 quests, taking you to 20 locations: towns, outposts, archeological digs, sealed places of Power, underground facilities, and temples.
Each situation has multiple ways of handling it, based on your skills, reputation, and connections.
An interesting world with rich history and unclear future that your actions can shape into seven very different game endings.
Detailed crafting and alchemy systems: forge your own weapons with different properties, brew different potions, experiment with Greek's fire and black powder.
Hundreds of items, ranging from weapons and armor to scrolls, tools, flasks, and pre-war relics.
This game doesn't pull any punches, but it's satisfying like no other. If you're looking for a challenging RPG with a world inline any other, look no further. Combat is a last resort and has real consequences!
The writing, game mechanics, and overall setting and worldbuilding are wonderful. It's a tragedy that this wasn't better received in its time. You won't regret trying this.
I like the romance of perfection. It doesn't often hit -- in new games like Pillars, Divinity, etc, or even old school cRPGs like Planescape & Fallout, a perfect character is simply there. They aren't much different from a lucky or intuitive player on their first run, and it's almost identical outside of some extra dialogue/quests from a veteran player. I don't modify KotOR in any way, but if I did, nothing would change in my normal runs.
So where am I going with this? Well, I played a few runs and thought this game was good with grand ideas but I never saw much of that energy. The game then ends quickly and suddenly without me having seen much because of how rigid the skillchecks are while also making the game so very hard for players to traverse.
So I gave myself perfect stats and tons of skill points to basically do everything I want to do. Why is this relevant, why is this somehow good? Because you end up doing so much. You get to see *everything* this game has to offer, and it creates some really intriguing worldbuilding. You have these Magi, these gods, these vessels of power and destruction and chaos. They're all interesting but they're relics of the past. Then you arrive, and you have no answer. Nothing stops in your way, nothing stops your pursuits, you craft great devices and armor, you become an aspect of Egyptian myth shielding yourself with impossible light (not embellishing) and crushing anything and everything into dust just for looking at you wrong. But then you have a silver tongue and inexplicably can talk your way out of anything as well. Every group and guild wants your input, your help, but they don't realize you are playing such a focal role because they don't communicate.
This game crafts such a bizarre and unique world, and the protagonist despite having no set personality oozes character.
Is this game for everyone? Maybe not. But it's definitely for me, even if the developers themselves may disagree.
Remember when you were 13 and "playing" Dungeons and Dragons with your older brother as the DM? And the entire "game" was just basically him tormenting you by abusing and humiliating your 2 hit point Thief in every way he could possibly imagine? Well, they made a game of that.
Great game: the atmosphere of the decline of civilization, the setting of late antiquity, which is unusual and rare, is perfectly conveyed. The disadvantage is that for a successful game you need intelligence significantly above average.
P.S.: I myself have not passed the game since fool.
P.P.S.: Sorry for the mistakes, I don't know English.
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