Lawless Lands

I liked the vast amount of available skills the most. The story and atmosphere were believeable. The dev is friendly :)

Good game, but lag of performances

The game is excellent, plenty of side quests, rich gameplay experience, and I've included almost all the DLC, but the keyboard settings are a bit strange, and it would be nice to be able to disable the mouse.

GEM!

I purchased Lawless Lands because I enjoy turn-based, old-school CRPGs. This is a niche game for lovers of these types of games, and with that out of the way: The style is very much RPGMaker which you're probably familiar with if you are reading this. The worldbuilding and lore in Lawless Lands was quite good in my opinion, so much so that I decided to support this indie developer by grabbing all the DLC for the game as well as their other two turn-based CRPGs in this style, 'Wastewalkers" and "Disgraced" ... Obviously, I enjoy the work put out by this developer and want to support them. I only wish I knew about these games earlier, because I totally missed these gems! On to the nitty-gritty of top-down, RPGMaker style games. What makes this one so special? Well, the character generation is very involved, fun, and offers for many different customization options. The difficulty level is harsh but not unfair, which is important. When and if you die you don't feel like you died to the game being unfairly punishing, you feel like you died to making avoidable mistakes and can do better next time. This is such an important part of game design and Lawless Lands nails it pretty well. The game offers a lot of interesting little quirks and items that can make gameplay quite different depending on the choices you make and what you do. Alignment systems of "good" and "evil" are very much in play here where there are solid advantages for almost any playstyle. Be a jerk, get access to the black market. Be a holy Paladin type dude and the townsfolk start to anticipate your arrival and offer you free room and board at the local inn. That kind of thing. Parts of the game's overall focus on morality, societal breakdown during a plague situation (how timely) - these are really nifty and a bit deeper than most other RPGs in this genre go. Parting notes, I have more time played on this than is showing for Steam syncing reasons. I have not yet finished the game, but have gotten a good way through a lot of content and am looking forward to experiencing more and then trying the other two games I picked up. Great example of an indie developer committed to a vision making a great game.

Fantastic game for RPG fans with an absolutely amazing developer. You can just feel the effort and consideration put into this game.

I've almost quit numerous times in the first few hours because the game poorly explains it's mechanics and caused me a great amount of frustration. Once you get past the early difficulties this is a great a game. The atmosphere and music are amazing and exploring a plague-ridden low-fantasy world is a lot of fun. Some early tips: -For your followers to actually follow you need to use an item named Character Records in the plot section of your inventory and upgrade leadership -You can get torches at every campfire, you don't need to buy them -The commoner-veteran background seems to be the most well rounded for early combat -If you don't have a dedicated caster it's still worth it to learn magic just for the cleanse spell so you don't have to constantly worry about catching the plague -Buy a prayerbook at Vulkold general store so you can save everywhere, but inns are still worth it for the well rested xp bonus

Played this long enough to love it! I played a lot more DISGRACED by the same developer, Corrosive, though steam doesn't show me as having played as many hours as LL for some incomprehensible reason. Lawless lands is as awesome as DISGRACED, and has a similar highly customizable and super fleshed out experience. Whatever you like in a JRPG, you can get it out of this highly custom JRPG experience. Beware the gallows humor. 10/10

I have rarely played a game with more love put into it by the developer. An incredibly dense and interesting world with very fun gameplay. Excellent support by the dev, I reported an issue today and it literally was fixed within less than 24 hours. If you have any interest in RPGs, please throw some money their way.