Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Oct 5, 2022

  Finally: a roleplaying game (mostly) set in a historical time period! It's a unique time period to set a game in general in: The Hussite War. The major players, the faiths, the factions are mostly real. There's some liberties taken (which will become apparent when they arise) but don't expect to run into wandering wizards or fantasy races here. I think I might have learned something about medieval times just from the intro let alone living out the experience of hospitaller knights and mercenaries. All that's very enjoyable and the graphics are charming with a deliberate angular simplicity which is complimented by ultra smooth and expressive actions. The horses especially canter and turn just like the real thing. The voice acting is top shelf! A lot of enthusiasm and deliberately accurate pronunciation of places and people. The music is moody and has a nice guitar riff from time to time to keep the energy going. Problems, there are a few though at least in the version I've played. 1: The difficulty is punishing. I realize this is probably the point but more than a few times I ran into infuriatingly tough encounters that I could not circumvent. Just two guys can whittle you down to nothing super quickly because you lose health AND energy when you block attacks. Basically someone whaling on you will eventually make it impossible for you to block, attack effectively, or even stand up. Once you're surrounded you're usually done, and enemies recover their health faster than you, attack faster than you, and if they attack you from behind you lose half your health instantly. You can't even drink potions quickly, and when you do drink potions the alcoholic content will mess with your vision. Combined with the fact enemies can flawlessly see in the dark and run without getting tired you are outmatched constantly. This is the reason I had to take a break. I was enjoying the story, but the irritating need to wait precious few seconds every reload just to see if I'd get lucky this time started to wear on my nerves. Oh, and there are escort missions with allies who don't heal quickly. Huzzah! 2: The 'gameplay' is a little thin on the ground. I liked exploring but you don't get a lot of opportunities to do so since you're usually being chased or your character will just state he doesn't want to go in a certain direction. I liked talking to people but if you wait too long your character defaults to a blank stare and the conversation ends, never to continue. Fighting was frustrating and constant, if very atmospheric. There's something undeniably awesome about drawing steel in the pouring rain...but something less awesome about then getting ganged up on and pummeled to death by peasants while their buddy fires crossbow bolts you can't block off screen. Most the missions so far boil down to 'go here' and 'collection this' or 'talk to this guy'. This means a majority of the beginning of the game is just riding around on a horse from place to place doing nothing else. It's kind of fun to visit the countryside or the battlefield, but that's all you're doing. I had one side objective to talk to a guy and did so gladly as I wanted to get deeper into the history of the story. The problem was I had a bunch of options I wanted to try, but as mentioned before if you wait too long the reply defaults to just no statement at all and the conversation closes forever. Also there were surprisingly few things to loot. Sometimes I located a couple coins but I never found anything to spend them on. - Anyway, I recommend this game for the sheer amount of effort and passion that went into it and because I want to encourage more historical games, especially roleplaying games! As stands the fighting is hard, but I might eventually get the hang of it and a lot of levels are just walking/riding to a place but I don't mind because of the atmosphere and the unique setting.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 7, 2022

  This game is incredible! So much detail and so many surprises. The story, the puzzles, the stealth, the level design, spot on. The combat can take some getting used too and can be annoying at times.. That aside this game is well worth a purchase imo
• gamedeal user

  Oct 7, 2022

  Overall a nice polished game with great story, art and voice acting. Gameplay is nicely balanced - mix of exploration, combat, puzzles, stealth, problem solving and more. Blend of real historical events with dark fantasy is a spot on. However, there is a lot of frustrating moments in puzzles and combat, such as unclear solutions to problems or fights that end by you getting stunlocked and killed immidiately. Still, the game is a great adventure and definitely worth a try!
• gamedeal user

  Oct 9, 2022

  Okay, just wow. I was thrilled when I saw SILESIA because that is my homeland and I still live in one of these cities. After finishing the game I may say this game is excellent. The fantasy made-up story is perfectly made and cleverly set in actual supported historical events with real places, people, and battles. Plus it cooperates so well! Graphics are no Cyberpunk or Last of Us 2, but oh boy what magic it has. Surroundings, items, people, and nature work together just nicely and make you enjoy exploring. Puzzles were fun to overcome, but other documents and books are just useless weight on your journey (of course, you may read everything and learn about specific events for example). What I loved deeply was that the game does not tell you sh*t. No hints and that's beautiful because it makes the player come up with the solution for a specific situation, even tho you may struggle for 30 minutes. Enemy and NPC variety is great. Easter eggs are excellent. The combat was okay. Hard at the beginning but once you master it, it's still a challenge but much easier. What I did not enjoy so much was the camera. In specific parts of the game - it felt somehow clumsy. Plus the coins you are collecting... Indeed you can use them in some situations, but the currency system is wasted potential, in my opinion. And the map... oh my how I was disappointed that you cannot travel for example to Opava or Ratiboř. It felt that the map is pointless and should be... let's say found you know, like an item more than a tempting feature you would like to explore. One final thing... I did not hear the English voice-over, but the Czech one is... big okay. Some characters had enjoyable tone and energy - some... not really. Overall... Excellent - excellent game! Very strong 8/10 I would say. I am fortunate to witness such great work set in my homeland! Definitely try this one.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 9, 2022

  Good..
• gamedeal user

  Oct 10, 2022

  I haven't played the entire game yet, but so far it's been great. The Puzzles are complicated and interesting. The Story is amazing and the combat not at all lacklustre and Challenging enough to give you a struggle. The Characters being very contrasting are both very fun to play as and sink into. If your not very interested in Fantasy and Crusades (I know I am), I'd still recommend it to you for the fun of it. The Community and Developers are always willing to give a helping hand in case you get stuck. Hope to See You There.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 10, 2022

  Pros: -Fun and refreshing adventure in nice medieval setting -Good storytelling -Encrypted letters! Cons: -Clumsy controls and camera -Sometimes technical implementation is not perfect. People models are awkward. Overall limited budget is too well seen -Some puzzles have weird solutions. For example: I need to add laxative into man's wine. I have a wine and a laxative bottle in inventory and spent hours trying to add it. The "correct" solution was to add laxative into the whole barrel standing in the middle of the camp and send the whole holy warriors squad onto their diarrhea journey. Deus vult! Still, nice fresh game in the world that lacks isometric RPGs so much. A small oasis in our journey through the desert to BG3 or something similar
• gamedeal user

  Oct 12, 2022

  hidden gem!
• gamedeal user

  Oct 13, 2022

  has farkle 10/10
• gamedeal user

  Oct 17, 2022

  It's too early for a review, but so far it's a true gem of a game! I can't believe it was made by one person. Very atmospheric, the story has a good premise, the art style is simple but fits so well. Worth a thumbs up!