Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

Waiting for Arcanum 2: Revolution

Arcanum combines fantasy and steampunk aesthetics into an interesting world with many things to explore and accomplish. If you are into Baldur's Gate or Planescape Torment style top-down turn based game play, then give this a shot. However you can tell this game is less polished in general especially towards the end of it, so I would highly recommend installing the community patch that adds things which were left out on release but doesn't change core game play.

Amazing, great, you need to play it!

Among my most favourite CRPGs up to this day, I love the storyline, I love the writing, I love the artstyle, the atmosphere, the gorgeous music, the narrative themes. I also had fun with the gameplay, even if it's kind of broken.

This is like Fallout 2 in a fantasy/steampunk-setting with every flaw that came with fallout2. Which makes it hilariously fascinating and also as bad as good, including your sort of dogmeat companion. ;-) You have to get the fanpatch though, because of some leftover bugs. Magic or Tech i.e. Guns? Or simple Swords? Your Choice. Companions? Why yes, and here take this destroyer of cities with you on your quest, or go nearly alone, but that will be quiet hard to accomplish. The many recipes for the techs are mostly fascinating and let you dive into the world, after some chemicals recipes you'd love to mix some household items together (trust me, don't), because it works in this game. Besides a nice story to follow and a big world with many details and places to explore.