Forsaken Realms: Vahrin's Call

[h2]The game is fun, but maybe wait for a discount.[/h2] I must also point out that the developer team is rather small, so maybe the game will become more polished and issues will be addressed, but it is pretty fine as it is. Let's list pros and cons to allow the reader to make a decision, first the [b]cons[/b]: [list] [*] Enemies are rather dumb, they will not notice kills, they will not hide or move, they will not even attempt to find you until you stumble upon them. In the late game there will be enemies that pose some more challenge, so it looks like a design choice maybe? I've played on medium difficulty though. [*] In the end game difficulty spikes, locations grow very large and convoluted, enemy count also rises a lot. You may become overwhelmed, especially since enemies will re-spawn on re-load, and in some locations even if you run too far away. [*] In some places my video card sounded really loud, I assume the game may not be very well optimised, but it looked like it should run fine for the most part. [*] Picking up items requires targeting a rather small area, you may pick without doing that by holding the interaction button, but I kept forgetting about it and it requires some waiting, so not ideal. [*]Item economy is a bit weird, you need to dismantle some items [b]once[/b] to discover the parts, but then it makes no sense to break down the rest of items as you would get more parts by selling the item and buying the materials from a merchant that will stock everything you have discovered. [/list] And the [b]pros[/b]: [list] [*]The game is pretty, at least for the most part, I didn't like the saturation overdrive in the beginning, but either I got used to it, or it got balanced somewhere mid game. [*]Progression system feels nice and satisfactory, albeit it feels like you reach max level too fast and then it immediately gets hard to balance skill points. [*]There are some puzzles that felt nice, even if those were not rocket science. [*]A setting to enable quest markers on the map is a great thing, I've played most of the game with those disabled and only enabled those in the epilogue to keep track of some quests where I felt like I already have been everywhere (of course I've missed a door) [*]You don't need to bother with inventory management, only with what you wear. [*]Searching for genomey is fun, if frustrating a bit sometimes. [/list] I've heard people comparing it to Fable, but it reminded me more of Elden Ring just with difficulty toned way down and colours toned way up. The story is not exactly very interesting, but it's fine, and the best part is exploring the place and enjoying the scenery, in my opinion. You can definitely finish the game way faster than me if you're not planning to hunt down every item and finish every quest (this I haven't completed yet), I would estimate main story to be 4–8 hours. Right now less than 5% of players have achievement for completing the main quest, by the way, I hope this will change in the future.