Brigand: Oaxaca

Update/TL;DR - Game is megafun, if any part of what this is appeals to you go for it. Some users/some PC's may experience issues, some won't, Dev also has fixes and suggestions is very active and updates the game a lot, and is willing to help. Give it a shot cuz it's fun! - This game barely ran for me. In fact, I upgraded my gaming PC at some point and went to try this game again and it performed even worse. There seems to be some issue where some computers just won't run it without stuttering even if they are way beyond the requirements. Despite all this I powered through about an hour of the game, long enough to know that despite the technical issues I was going to enjoy and want to play this. I finally give it a shot on my Steam Deck and even THEN I has to turn off the full UI and swap to Minimal UI because the UI itself was halving the framerate from 33 (the native FPS) to about 16 or 17. And then I had to tweak the default deck controls, which were most of the way there but I added in Motion Aiming (real nice) and some other button inputs which were curiously missing, I'll publish my Deck controller layout for other deck users. And after ALL OF THAT, yes, the game is fun. If you made it this far and aren't turned off by the Jank this game is possibly for you. For whatever flaws or issues this dev might be having with some of the technical issues and the engine itself, the game design decisions are fantastic and there's really not another immersive sim that really quite compares to this. I see influences from Deus Ex and Gothic style games but it also somehow is entirely its own thing at the same time, which is refreshing. I also thought I would absolutely hate the strict ten item inventory but between the persistent world that means items you drop remain (so you can stash stuff around), being able to easily get back around the map as long as you aren't in a specific story-beat that locks you on a path, and having your companions mule a few things around, as well as the whole game being designed from the ground up to acknowledge this ten item limit, I actually really like it for influencing how I approach the game and breaking the hoard everything tendency I have in most other imsims and RPGs. I hope the dev goes hard on Oaxaca 2 and maybe builds that up on a more stable engine, the sort of thing that has become more available to indie devs since 2017 when this was originally released (for the love of god, not UE5). Despite the good within, I am afraid a lot of people just won't be able to get past some of the technical issues but at least there is a Demo and Steam has a generous refund policy so if anything about this game looks interesting to you, you should give it a shot and see if it runs fine for you out of the box.

It's great, and I wish there was more like this Brigand 2 when?

Good game.

An amazing experience. A truly enjoyable game

Fortnite collab when?????

Chaos is not restful.

Good game

Ever get bored that games don't do anything [i]interesting[/i] anymore? Get this. Very interesting. Fun too.