Entropy

I loved the demo and now that I have the full game I wasn't disappointed. Looking forward to part 2 of the story.

I thoroughly enjoyed this game. It's world design is very macabre. It's tone is what you'd expect from dark fantasy and just as conceptually grotesque at times as you'd expect from the theme. I loved the old school feel provided by the depth of the mechanics- from different weapon types doing different stat effects, to the perk system allowing your characters specializations, targeting and removing limbs from problem enemies. I enjoyed the demo, and replaying through the first act to see differences between builds. Definitely excited for the devs to continue. I will say that the game can be seen as having some difficulty spikes. Building is open ended and it may not be obvious to everyone how to optimize your characters. With potentially permanent cons to having your companions fall in battle(ranging from some inconvenient nerfs that can be removed for a fee and scaling to permanent death and losing a party member) this will definitely throw some people off on it's own but with autosave being the default it leaves little room for trial and error for builds. On my playthrough I was able to enjoy a sizeable power spike when my magic based characters hit level 3 (The game allows you to pick your perks here.) I opted to make both mages have access to higher level magic which turned previously single targeted spells into AOE's. -I appreciate the mechanic that allows spells to be learned and collected by your character, giving any party member with access to the respective magic types access to any spells of the type; with their perks and stats being the deciding factor of potency. -This was especially useful when I failed and got wiped in a (close!) Boss fight and one of my precious mage "Tozeur" suffered a permanent injury. I returned to one of the towns and recruited another mage character from the mercenary board with the intention to level them to be as close to competent as the injured. I succeeded in this in somewhat vain as I did effectively make the new mage a stylistic clone of Tozeur after grinding. Returning to the boss with my new 5th party member, the boss attacked our 5th man first leaving him critically wounded. I gambled and decided to use the 5th mans turn to use a healing spell on himself: which didn't work out in my favor. In what i assume is an attempt to balance magics power (spells get powerful early on and require very little resources to effectively use.) Spells have a chance not to resolve and instead hurt the caster. This happened to our 5th man who effectively died a martyr and whose only utility in said boss fight was being attacked instead of our allstars. Upon completing the battle, I got notified that he succumbed to his injuries and died, losing him to my party. 10/10 experience for me.