I know, this game is in Alpha so why the stellar rating? Because I already had so much fun with it to more than justify the price. I got the game through Kickstarter so it only cost me 25 bucks. I played the first game about 60 hours. I played this game for about 24 hours. I love games with great story and with interesting combat systems. So let's see: Combat system If you played the original title you will feel right at home as it is very similar. If you did not: It is turn based, your characters have lot of skills which interacts with each other to cause great (and deadly) effects. You can conjure up rain and then spread lighting based stuns, you can conjure poison clouds and explode them via fireballs or even bleed your enemies and then heal from blood if you are so inclined. It is quick, fun and looks awesome! Character system You can be stealthy, you can be tanky, you can be a great so(u)rcerer, or you can mix it up a bit. There are not many constrictions, but you can create a inefective character if you spread her abilities too thin, so beware. If you are not familiar game it is best to stay in your class and specialize your atributtes. Races so far in game allow for some fun, game changing effects. Story This is the main strong point of the game. The world is lively, depending on your race and background (even some skills) lot of it changes, people react differently and you can do different things. want to play as elven outcast and eat body parts to feel memories of the dead, you can play as a Lizardman king who wants to make lizards great again. You can deal with people peacefully or you can cut through anyone with a different opinion. You can follow laws, break them or even bend them a little here and there. I played through the content three times and always found something different, new and exciting. I love this game, and even in its current state it allows for hours of fun and has great replayability. I would recommend it to anyone looking for great stories and strong characters with unique backgrounds. This is for me the definition of a well made RPG.
I am a big fan of survival games even though I am not very good at actuualy winning them - often there is just too much stuff to care about, that I simply forget and fail as a result. This game is a nice surprise, the survival part is very intuitive, it can be extremely fast paced and quite tactical at the same time and its hard as hell. Even on easy difficulty its quite nice challenge on insane, well its just insane. Graphic are very well made and since background changes and new creeps, facilities and even player armors are availible every few floors it doesn't get dull. The RPG part of the game is very well done with free skill system and choice from three classes. Each class has huge bonus to some starting skills and set of unique advantages but after that it is your choice what skills to improve. Music is not miraculous but good enough and voicing is fun and well made for each class and the in-game encyclopedia. For me, it is one of the best games I played in a while.
