Artificer: Science of Magic

I really like this game. It has so much potential and fun mystery to play with. Really unfortunate the game feels like at some point the effort, focus and story line breaks off, likely because the developer ran out of resources and realized what a massive undertaking making a good and robust video game is. I still recommend it as I very much like the point and click style and artwork and alien plant mystery and sourcery. Very, very cool and unique. I hope the developer pick this up again at some point. Shall we start a crowdfunding project EVERYONE?

Jogo é legal! Atmosfera: TOP! Combate: ruim você fica empurrando os monstros ao invés de atacar dependendo do angulo Progressão: fiquei enroscado em algumas pesquisas e tive que usar guia (tinha que beber o solvente WTF!) também precisei usar um guia para achar o Boss do pântano (acima da vila) muitas coisas ão tem dica em como liberar você tem que construir tudo e testar (não jogue no hardcore)

Thank you for making this game ┌(˘⌣˘•)ʃ i reach all achievements. but the least thing i use it was magic. so this game must be called Artificer: Science of Blacksmith. you need repair some stuff too with boss monsters >_>. Thank to god i play Sam & Max before playing this game or going be 10 times more hard for pass this game (￣∀￣)

I got this game at an 80% discount for $2 USD since someone said it has heavy Thaumcraft vibes, and I was excited to get started delving into a bunch of research on new things I hadn't seen before. Well, let's just say that this game deserves its mixed ratings. It feels like they took some lore (which is good, the science actually makes sense) and tried to turn this idea into a game, but they didn't know the first thing about how to design a good game. When you die randomly to something you can't even see and the game makes it clear that the default experience is hardcore because the game is supposed to be easy enough, but then they go out of their way to make everything easy EXCEPT for this one encounter with NO notification that you're low on health? "Alcor has claimed you." No death sequence, just a fade to black after you get hit by something that does 60+ damage out of nowhere while everything else has been doing 3-5 damage, and no, I'm not exaggerating. Worms do low damage and even lower poison damage. The scary Ossi's you fight? Only take you down by 1/3 of your total health during the entire fight while you just sit there and hold the F key to attack them. Speaking of combat... Combat? What combat? You literally hold a key and your character chases and attacks the enemy automatically. There's no strategy. You can't "hit and run" either. Trust me, I tried. It's stats vs. stats. Resource gathering? Hold this key, and your character automatically collects all nearby resources, finding the closest one that you can harvest and harvesting it. You just... Hold a button. Just like combat. I get adding QoL things, but this? It's too much. Makes the game that much less fun. Oh yeah, you'll also get constant notifications every 30 seconds that "I don't feel so good". Every time you pick something up, you get a "This resource did this thing," or "Your physical training allows you to pick up more!"... Every, single, time. Without fail. You numb yourself to any notifications that might actually be important, which, of course, during my gameplay, there wasn't any. The developers have a great idea. I just really wish it was executed better. If you end up playing this game, do NOT follow their suggestions to play on Adventure mode. You don't want to get halfway through the game and lose everything due to poor design choices.