Last Epoch

Seemed cool when it first launched. Now there's a whole entire shop on the Steam page, not to even mention what's in the game. Sorry, I don't prefer to buy my games one overly priced percentage at a time.

Full price game WITH a cash shop, now introducing DLC. Don't buy this, don't support it, don't even think about it. Devs knew this was gonna happen when they sold out to Krafton and they did it anyway. Actual liar devs right here. Edit: For context the devs originally said that the only thing you would have to buy to enjoy the game and be on par with everyone is the game itself. You can buy mtx to support it but buying the game gets you the full game. Now they have gone back on their word and plan on adding a paid DLC for a new class.

For me Last Epoch is better than D4 and PoE but to each his own. I sink 4 or 5 hours a night into this game without even realizing the time went by. If you liked Diablo 3 you will like this. My favorite part is every single skill has it's own skill tree of customization so all 5 skills that you can equip at a time can be customized and theyre not just small customizations, for example on Necromancer (Acolyte) you can customize each minion, bone golem for example can be customized to have more hp/armor, can be a fire golem, ice golem, your golems hits can inflict bleed or poison, your golems hits against enemies that are poisoned turn into armor for you, your golems hits can leech hp to itself and you. Thats just skill tree for 1 minion but like I said every single skill has its own tree with branching paths. So in theory 2 people with the same class and same 5 skills in use can have completely different looking/acting playstyles. The bosses are WAY harder than any Diablo 3/4 offered, later bosses have multiple phases, really cool looking late game bosses too like a Lovecraftian style tentacle monsters that have like 5 different 1 shot mechanics, but the game never feels unfair and you can respec as much as you want. Also I should go into more detail about classes, at around level 15 each of the 5 classes have 3 masteries you can choose from. So again I'll use Acolyte as an example, with Acolyte you can choose between Necromancer which is a pure summoning minion class and you get access to a bunch of different minions each with their own pros/cons, next mastery is Lich which I've never really dove into but it a transformation class with a lot of DoTs and spells that do massive damage at the cost of your own HP, Lastly and my person favorite is the Warlock which is a pure damage based mastery with minion use, you can throw out giant spells that create fissures in the ground that spirits come out of and attack enemies and with the Fissue customization you can make the fissure poison so any enemy that stands on it get an instant poison DoT, than theres DoTs that you can cast out that will jump from enemy to enemy and again you can customize it to where if an enemy dies from the DoT it doubles it's damage when it jumps to the next enemy and that stacks up to like 8 times. Theres so much more I could go into but honestly it's worth just playing for yourself, it's so much fun, it's like if PoE didn't have the annoying complicated gem/socket and passive tree system. It's my personal pick for best ARPG on Steam right now.

Had fun with it, max leveled a mage and did endgame, good experience.

I am a pretty casual ARPG guy but I've played POE2 and Last Epoch more or less concurrently, definitely find Last Epoch to look nicer and play smoother. I haven't done much end game at all but leveling is enjoyable for sure.

To lie or not to lie? That is the question...

They sold out to Krafton. Purchase at your own risk.