I was scared to buy this because there were so many bad reviews, but I liked Spell Force 2 so I gave it a chance. And it's the best game I've played in a long time. It's got heart -- an "it" factor a lot of games don't have. The voice acting is immersive. Watch a let's-play video if the other reviews put you off, see if it might be for you. I'm surprisingly happy with my purchase.
How can there be so many good user interfaces on the market, and this is still unintuitive, with no undo, and lots of weird bugs even in version 3.0? I'm uninstalling. I might try again when version 4 comes out. Only buy this if you expect an early-access game -- and I'm saying that after all the upgrades and DLCs.
Fun RPG. Three main classes, lots of multiclasses. Three crafting systems. Quests have content, not just fetch this or kill that. The one-star reviews are not talking about the game, and the low average rating I see right now does not do the game justice.
This is a fantastic casual strategy game, easily five stars. However, the story mode is 3 stars at best, because the design of the quest for the "good ending" is horrible. If you read a guide you will see what I mean. You have to wall off certain buildings so that no faction can touch them, not even you, until something happens, then you touch the buildings in a special way. And it keeps going like that. There's no way a real defender of a city would make any of those choices. I recommend you buy the game for the quick play strategy, and read a guide on how to solve the "Monkey's Blood" quest, before deciding whether to invest the time in Story Mode.
I'm about 8 hours in and it feels like work. It's too bad, because I should love this. I've enjoyed a lot of RPGs and ARPGs. But the story is super linear, and the combat is not interesting. The devs clarly put a ton of work into this, and it checks every box of what I normally like. But it's a slog, sorry. I can't recommend this.
The best offline ARPG ever made. If you like Diablo, Path of Exile, Titan Quest, this will probably become one of your favorite games.
This games reminds me a lot of Eschalon. Simple story, graphics. Took me about 25 hours to finish on Hard, and I think I got all the sidequests. I played the final few fights on Easy because there was nothing going on except hack hack hack. I would have needed maybe 50 potions to win with the exact same strategy on Hard, and at that point I just wanted to see the final movie. Nothing too special here, except the crafting system REALLY MATTERS. If you build all your own gear, you'll be more powerful than with any other item, except a couple artifacts. Good, light fun.
