Lawless Lands

Although this game isn't bad by any means, it isn't good either After 12 hours in the hardest difficulty( wich is short and long at the same time to judge a game ) : For me, the main problem of this game is that it want to make you think it is very complicated when in reality it is basic at best. The only difficulty in it is to figure things on your own because there is next to no explanation for the onslaught of informations wich are presented to you. It would be fine if it wasn't to discover once it's done that there is no depth to it ! -The combat, although entertaining at the beginning, becomes boring and dull once it becomes clear that only few stats matter. Want to know what is the difference between evasion and critical evasion? Want to know what is the effect of encumbrance on a piece of armor ? Want to know the difference bewteen -x% target chance and +x% hide chance ? 1st, go f*ck yourself, you wont find it anywhere 2nd, it doesnt matter dummy ! Just stack accuracy and crit on all characters, spam the regular attack and you are set ! There is ALOT of ailments. Wich seems interesting at first. But not reallly because most of them have no impact. Burning is broken, the rest is not even worth spending a turn on to applicate. That's because combat is as slow as it is easy. The only (artificial) challenge is created by the fact that you are outnumbered in every fight. Wich might be ok, but once you discover that there is a staff that can literrally one shot in AOE there is no point in giving a thought to combat anymore (the staff has only a limited number of charges and is pricy at the start of the game, but since you become filthy rich filthy quick, and since this staff has unlimited amount of supplies, it doesn't matter) - talking about supplies : supply management wich seems to be a big deal when you start the game is - not needed ! Or it is, until you discover by clicking one to many times on the water well that you can in fact nourrish your whole team only by drinking. % by %, very slow, tedious and unimmersive process, but totally free ! Unimmersive also is the fact that everything is disponible in unlimited supplies at any merchant ! This world ravaged by starvation has merchant with unlimited food, but i guess that's because every inhabitant learned that they only needed water to survive. Same thing for the plague ! Unlimited medical supplies ! Unlimited gear and weaponry, magical weaponry even !!! Unlimited power for someone who has unlimited money !!! -And all of that would still be ok if the story was entertaining but once again it's pretty basic. In 12 hours I havn't learned a thing on my followers other than what is written in their character sheet, the side content is everywhere but most of it is FedEx stuff, the main story line is ok without being ground breaking, exploration is fairly fun but since you are already so rich and combat is so easy, it's being undermined... It's only my opinion being 12 hours into it, i'm sure there is good things to discover but i don't feel like there is enough to keep the interest in digging, also DLCs might add some depth but paying in a hope that they make the game good is meh Great atmosphere tho, I very much like the concept TL;DR : Pretty tedious to learn, nothing to master game with great atmosphere and not much else