Solasta II

Shows a lot of promise, I'd classifiy ut somewhere in between DOS2 and BG3. Let's see what's net!

This developer has come leaps and bounds from the very good, but imperfect, Solasta I. While still imperfect in its EA state, the improvements from the previous installment are obvious from the get-go. Way better graphics, art, detail. Better facial and body animations. More character options. An attention to detail not seen in the predecessor. I have high hopes for the future on this, and hope that like Solasta I we can see player-made campaigns some day. One of the *best* perks of Solasta I.

Very pleased with the game so far. As a player of the first game (~360 hours), was very happy to hear lines like "Undignified, but necessary" saying by my crawling scholary wizard 🧐 In-game graphics look amazing. The city and other outposts look lively. It's good that now there are peaceful resolutions to the encounters as well. Adventuring map and random events are amazing and very immersive. And sometimes really deadly 🙂 Feels like real DnD campaign. I hope that developers could deliver Dungeon Maker and modding in the end so that creators could transfer their campaigns and other mods. ______ Things to improve (Early Access build 0.3.5.84223): - [Spoilers] Very first scene and introduction [spoiler] to the sister that we will be looking for is very clumsy from narrative perspective. Player doesn't know anything about her and can not connect and understand her behavior. Maybe it [/spoiler] needs re-work or some additional scenes [spoiler] (memories of her childhood interactions with the main party and their mother or something) [/spoiler] - Character Creator, as many have said already. I personally was lacking the ability to re-create the characters look from 1st game, (failed to make Armenian looking face for my male dwarven cleric). But that is not critical so far. - Feat selection was not an obvious step and was pre-selected in character creator and in Advanced level-up (one of my characters got 'Magic Initiate' by mistake) - Selecting cantrips/spells to learn or memorize: it is not so obvious that you have to click green checkboxes on top to switch between cantrips and spells tabs - Available spell slots count for spell levels wasn't visible on level up / memorizing screens, so it was a little difficult to optimize what spell to choose and how many of certain level - 'Light' cantrip and lighting system in general: ability to light up weapons or any item or creature was amazing in the 1st game. But putting out the light when the party is sneaking is also a good feature. I hope these could co-exist somehow - for example casting 'Light' manually on a weapon would not be considered as a toggled auto-lighting and player should consider the consequences of being spotted early. Also lit up lantern is switched between selected characters (why not having several light sources?) - Bonus Action Hide for Rouge is missing - Loot table for one-time adventuring events not balanced? I've got 3 magical items from one-time encounters (boots, ring and gloves). Hard to say if this is intentional or maybe I was lucky. - Opportunity attack indicator feels unfinished (highlighting the cell red in the 1st game was more obvious and was giving dangerous feel) - Rolling the dice in the left corner of the screen (on character portrait) as well as in the center of the screen is a little distracting (most of the time user is concentrated at the center where the encounter is happening). In the end I almost every time visually got the dice results from the center dice. ______ Overall, I wish the best of luck to developers to finish and polish the game and looking forward to playing the full campaign 😌

Great game so far, looking forward to the finished product

This game is fun and playable though not what I expected. It does play a lot like BG III, with many of the same spells and mechanics. However, no in depth character development and this game is absolutely not open world in the sense that you can wander around and explore vast open areas. The map is on a honeycomb type of grid and move through areas one cell at a time from a top down view with no exploring. It is at the same time an old school go on quests, kill the bad guys, find loot and level up kind of game. I give it a 7.5 out of 10.

So far it plays similar to the original with a slight bit of nonsense to the UI. As of April Fools Day 2026, you can only get to level 4 which takes about two to three hours. Looking forward to the finished product.

If you like TTRPG based games, you will love this game. Still a work in progress, but i think its going to be an amazing experience once done.

Beautiful graphics, and intuitive game play. Story is decent too. Can't wait for the full game to be released!