Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

Unique story, setting, and soundtrack. Enjoyable if you like to fail often and love frequent loads/reloads.

I just love this game. There's nothing like it!

graphic bug in WIN10, yes as the title tells.

I can understand why people might enjoy this game, I enjoyed this game for a bit but it really just does not work for me. -The build everyone wants to play in a steampunk fantasy is completely unviable, the gunslinger. -It looks terrible, and I mean terrible, not terrible for it's time, absolutely horrid. Planescape: Torment came out around two years prior, Fallout 1 four years, and both these games look infinitely better, Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 even more so. You might think, "Well, I wouldn't be playing older games if I cared that much about visuals", trust me, they are really bad. -Now, people always talk about how good the writing is in Arcanum, okay, what? Maybe it gets better later, because I didn't play it through and through but I think I played it a significant amount and I can really find nothing redeeming about it as far as I played which was about 10 hours, which might not be a lot to you, but, if there's nothing enjoyable in a game after even 5 hours I usually quit it but I put more mental effort into playing this due to the overwhelming love I see for it and it did not end up being enjoyable I'm sorry to say. -Some people say, "Oh yeah, the first bit of the story starts off slow", ahem. WHAT? My man, I've played through quite a bit of slow story-ness, e.g. Peragus Mining Facility & Telos, Shin Megami Tensei IV, etc. and nothing comes even remotely close to this game. +Character creation is fun. I really wanted to like this game, I enjoyed VTMB, which was kind of why I wanted to go back and check this out but yeah, didn't exactly work out.

I really wanted to like this game. I liked the setting, the ambiance, the music, the character portraits (the best I have ever seen) and what little I could grasp of the story before I realized that I had wasted about 10 hours of my life trying to master an unbalanced, frustrating, counter intuitive, graphically ugly, repetitive and utterly boring turd of a game. I'm sorry. I'm a full blown retro gamer, but nostalgia can not redeem this mess.