Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

If liked from Fallout 1 & 2 this can be recommended. Mouse freezes from time to time with Win 11. Can be resolved by alt+tab but is quite annoying.

Mouse control does not work at all, so cannot even get past the character creation

mouse becomes frozen from time to time

Back when writing and mechanics were valued more than graphics, we got games like this. Hillariously janky at times with fantatically abusuably systems, but oozing charm at every turn. I wish this had gotten more love, with possibility of user created content, mods and campaigns. GOG has this running remarakably well "out of the box" but I would reccomend getting the unofficial patch to smooth out the experience further. RIP Troika games, this is a masterpiece.

I loved this game back in the day, but I cannot get it to work reliably either with or without the famous unoffiical arcanum patch. Without the patch the game seems to run fine, but it crashes after approximately 30 minutes. This can happen while shopping, looting bodies, etc. Basically ruins the game. WITH the pathch it is even worse. The game screen constantly flickers on and off and then eventually just crashes before making any progress at all. I hate to give this game one star but in its current form it is not playable so I cannot recommend it to anybody.