Solium Infernum

Nice game with an even nicer soundtrack

Very good, very interesting world, fixes the most egregious balance problems of the original game (it still feels wildly unfair at times but in more of a mean-spirited and devious way you can learn and adapt to than in the sense of "wow they really didn't think this through" kind of way. The infernal political system feels very well written and almost (for lack of a better word), authentic. (yes I know Paradise Lost is fanfic). That is, it kind of sells you on how it's supposed to work and how boundlessly evil beings who don't trust each other and are constantly at each other's throats still manage to strike a balance between infighting and working together. Because you're (in theory) all supposed to be at war with the almighty, there are strict rules in place to limit infighting to tributary-extortion and the occasional skirmish over just who should be extorting who. But it's kind of a funny reverse-Game-of-Thrones scenario where the status quo is preserved because if you ever STOP fighting amongst yourselves and unite against your common enemy, you'll get smited and everyone's understandably scared crapless of running out of excuses not to fight God. Gameplay wise, it works and you spend half your (painfully) limited time and resources preparing for battles you'll never fight (because you'll win them- you WILL have to fight the battles your neighbors think you'd lose) and the other half worming your way through the head-to-desk esoteric rules of the demonic bureaucracy (as an IRL deep-state bureaucrat, for the record, hell seems to be even worse about it then we are). For instance, even the archfiend whose superpower is that everyone's too scared of him to strictly enforce the rules restricting open war still has to spend a turn threatening the conclave into getting the heck out of his way before he can actually go on his rampage, and even then, you better be ready to make the best of the VERY short rampage because even he can't get away with that for long. Still, if that doesn't sound awesome; the good news is you're still a demon and rules are made to be broken. Any time you want to go rogue and give the finger to the rest of creation (you're trying to fill Satan's shoes, after all), you can! The game constantly dares you to, and wont punish you; it'll only punish you for not being a bad enough dude to get away with it. The lore is fun too. It's more than a few disjointed Dante quotes. Between the legions, the artifacts, the fiends, and everything at else, there's a lot of tantalizing scraps of worldbuilding, mostly as excerpts from some fictional texts apparently written by demonic tabloid reporters. Speaking of which, while the game is excellent at being just what it is, an RPG in this setting would hit like crack.