I'd call this game "Bethesda in a good way". It's kinda buggy, combat is clunky and kinda unsatisfying, AI is bad and the crime system doesn't really work. On the other hand, it has many ambitious systems, you can throw fire on the grass and see it burn,catch fire and extinguish it rolling over. You can blow up many things, burn roots, jump across roofs and steal many things. The story is really good too; tho the concept of using many characters doesn't really work as I expected. Overall, I'd recommend it, if only because there's nothing like it.
I've played the Styx games as a Stealth fan, and I was interested by the lore behind it so I decided to play OOAM to get the entire franchise. I was aware it was rougher, but I had a very fun time with it. The characters are somewhat cliché but are well developed for such a short game, and even though this game is not the only text to put orcs as the oppressed and marginalized, it does with thought and realistically, showing humans that try to liberate them and traitors that work for the humans for table scraps. A lot of reviews compare the gameplay to Dragon Age Origins, but I actually found it more consistent and easier to get used to. The game does a pretty bad job at explaining what is good against what but after a few dozen combats you instinctively know what works and what doesn't. The stealth sections are meh, nothing great but not terrible, fine to break the monotony of many combats. Overall I really enjoyed my time with the game, I wish cyanide did more games for the franchise
