Paper Sorcerer

Paper Sorcerer is a good way how to kill some time. Dungeon crawlers are very rare today so every new game is held in high regard. This game is not perfect and it is not the best ever made. However it gives you good gameplay and experience and given its worth is good value. There were some bugs, maybe new patches will solve it.

A nice dungeon crawler with carefully-tailored non-random levels and a lot of customization for your team. You are some criminal who has to bust out of a prison. You slowly (re)gain the ability to summon some monsters to fight by your side. You can select from a variety of available monsters, but choose wisely; you will only ever be able to summon a few of these. (This unfortunately encourages the player to select the more obvious tank monsters to summon instead of the more interesting specialized ones.) The game attempts to look like a pen-and-ink drawing and succeeds to a certain extent. There is, however, a lot of graphical glitching, especially around shadows and movable objects like doors. The writing is good, which is important as there is no voice-acting, and the music is indifferent. I would recommend this game over the older dungeon crawlers from GOG's catalogue as this one has MUCH better controls and does not rely on random encounters to lengthen it to the incredible degree as older games did. Who has time for 80 hours of hacking at rats or rerolling characters endlessly to get the rare but necessary high stats these days?

First time playing it, I got stuck in an endless loop talking to a goblin. I'm talking like, 2 minutes into the game. Kinda lame. Engine seems cool and stylish but damn, these windows.

I've played through only the first three levels but this remake of old classics like wizardry is brilliant! True, the interface it awkward, but I think was designed to mimic the old times. The story is quite original and the graphiccal "paper" feel (AD&D 1st anyone) is just the icing top. The combat is strategic enough and all remembers the RPG from the 80.

If you've ever had even a slight appreciation or interest in this kind of game/genre then this is a prime example of how to do things mostly right. Minor gripes aside with the devs budget and the price of the game I can't imagine they could have done much better than they did though. There is a "background" story and some conversation in the game but that isn't it's strong point at all. This isn't an RPG by any stretch of the imagination. What it is is a great exploration, puzzle, battle game that has tons of ways to form a group, outfit them and level them in ways that can see you either manage battles effectively or have a hard slough and barely get by the skin of your teeth or get pounded mercilessly over and over again until you start over having learned from your past mistakes. It also has varying difficulties that are great for adding replay value to the game. It's not the best game of this type out there but based on a pure price-quality scale this is easily a 4 out of five for me.