This game shows some strange flaws, at times irritating ones, yet I recommend: I was entertained enough to finish it, with some degree of enthusiasm and curiosity still.
Rather strange that a studio with a catalogue this size still can't manage a smart interface: 2 redundant buttons for Hot Spots inefficiency; inventory baked in 1957, with no QoL features, yet effort put into new asinine limitations; crippled remapping that defeats its purpose by excluding mouse and basic keys; etc...
But the Save system is good and fit for purpose, notably as a workaround for the issues partly mentioned above and coming below.
It only lacks the ability to save during a turn, mistakenly conflating turn-based movement with combat (not that combat ever justified disabling a Save menu.)
Major flaws are at leas two:
Firstly, mobs are as numerous, combat as frequent as in, say, an Infinity Engine title. Yet combat is turn-based.
Adding oil to that dumpster fire, mobs often know where you are as soon as you enter a map, share the knowledge, and rush to you. On other maps, they just patrol at superspeed and spot you sequentially with similar results.
In both cases, when you reach a new map, combat starts before you can move, you kill things, you quit TB mode, which restarts automatically 1 second later, you kill the new comers, you quit TB mode, and so on and so forth many, many times.
For ages, since it's TB.
You've got to super-quick-save, if you can manage, between the rushing mobs.
Once they stop coming, you can finally start exploring.
In short, that's mob design for the opposite, better system, the RTS with automatable characters and pause.
The second major flaw relates both to the 1st one and to the UI: While you walk slowly, mobs and NPCs are all speedsters, and half of them barely ever stay still for a second.
A common issue for initiating dialogue.
There's no pause, and switching to TB mode means combat: clicking on a finally still NPC now means attacking them, not talking to them.
Meanwhile, combat keeps starting before you even notice an enemy is in sight.
It's pretty hard to get control and initiate events.
Not to mention that individual moves and strategic placement of units is generally impossible.
But one gets used to this nonsense and, once started, combat mechanics are mostly reliable.
It's just long, grindy, and unrewarding when trash mobs are involved.
Specially so since XP gains diminish with your level.
Down to zero XP for the hundreds of lethal mobs you'll still have to patiently eradicate.
(I must also mention the abundant Pylon, a mob so poorly set up it seems borrowed from Owlcat's Pathfinder.)
Still, most of the encounters are decently built and balanced, with room for tactics, experimentation, rethinks, cheese, suspense, fun, and whatnot.
You can often tactically turn a seemingly impossible fight into a challenging one, if not a surprising piece of cake.
Might need a few stubborn retries though, because the RNG is way too wide to be reliable.
What brought me to try this game didn't disappoint: The setting and worldbuilding are unusual, well conceived, well described and fairly consistent.
You play a noob from a race of evil godlings, wandering through a forgotten world taken over by the descendants of your ancestors' former slaves.
You'll have 3 classes to pick from, and full moral latitude.
Exploration is engaging, challenges are rarely limited to a single solution, access to lore and dialogue is abundant and optional.
In short, it's as much an RPG or an Hn'S as you want it to be.
And I can definitely see the replay value, both mechanically and in terms of choices.
