It's not a particularly in depth game. Build a town with limited building options, focusing mainly on military. You can mine about 6ish tiles underground to find monsters and resources. Villagers appear sporadically with random traits/stats. Put them to work gathering resources. Farm food. Farm ores. Spend resources to acquire buildings and military units. After x amount of time the night comes. Monsters spill out of a castle at the opposite end of the map. Increasing in difficulty with each night. Defeat them in a tower defense style fashion. Rinse and repeat with occasional new events occurring. That's it. And for $4.50 that's a lot. Buy it. Lose an afternoon to it like I did. Well worth it.
This isn't a review. It's just here to hopefully help others to my "apparent" success at getting it to run. I say apparent because after trying so many different options I finally did something easy and it worked, but I got too annoyed with the attempts that I haven't even tried the game out yet. Simply saw it load properly and get into the initial dialogue of the game before shutting it off to go to bed. I'm on Windows 10 with a Radeon RX 580 series. I've got "Soulbringer.exe" set to compatibility mode "Windows XP (Service pack 2), Run in 640 x 480 screen resolution, and run as administrator all ticked. Upon running the game you get the little menu with "Play, Video, Advanced, Quit" options. Click Video and in the Driver drop down menu choose either: "Dx7 Direct3D T&L HAL" or "Dx7:Direct3D HAL" Under the Mode drop down menu select any resolution you like as long as it ends in x16. The x32 don't work. Test, Ok, Ok, Ok, then press Play and off ya go. Simple but effective way to at least get the thing going on Windows 10. After doing so much running around and hoop jumping it's a bit annoying that these settings weren't just set by GoG.com in the first place. Specially since most of the issues I found other people had were specifically with the GoG version. Either way give it a go and see how if it works for you. I'll try it tomorrow when I wake up. Happy hunting, Humans.
