Balrum

if you like open world full of trees and nothing to do but run into a black wall and nothing but trees have fun. 6 hours playing trying to remember peoples names for small task like collecting wood or nails. most of the time running for 30 min through trees with nothing going on.

Balrum is a very difficult game. I have to restart it more than three times because I selected wrong character abilities. Finally, I got all of achievements after 295+ hours playing. Pros: +Very huge maps. The Balrum map also connects to other big areas. +Many exploration points and quests. There are tons of enemies and dungeons. +Build your own house and depot in the safe place. +Farming, crafting and hunting. +Steal items from other people. +With a Mass Poison potion, you can kill everyone in the village. Cons: -All map locations are fixed. The number of enemies is limited. -There is no method to remove grass and fruit trees on the other maps beside safe place. -Adds learning points to unnecessary abilities will result in game failed. -Some quests might be stuck if you do things in the wrong order. -Don't use a Mass Poison potion on "Woman in black". Because you can't attack her, the game will be crashed after she touches you.

I will have to put a thumb down on this for the simple reason that the color of the pointer is always green. It should be red if you are about to steal. I have had several occasion where I was travelling and inadvertently click on someone else stuff. Which turned into a fight. I died and lost time of play.

Fun oldschool feel ,Stardew valley meets diablo 1998

Character is always starving, always thirsty. This is not fun. Game kept printing "Auto Saved" in chat. Went to Load the game, no saves shown. Wasted an hour.

Terrible UI. Terrible Guiding. Don't let the "Wannabe" hardcore gamer reviews fool you. This game is ass.

Balrum is certainly an unforgettable experience. It has everything you'd ever want in a game, RPG, building your own house, farming, taming creatures, magic, etc. But where it really exceeds is at exploration, the world is HUGE, it took me this many hours to finish a run, I've went and gathered almost everything there was to get, I've explored every single cave, corner and more yet I feel like there's still hidden secrets and walls I haven't breached yet, quests that I haven't really fully completed because from what I understand the game sadly has some loose ends. I could praise it all day for it's quests, for the fact that it doesn't hold your hand at all which for the yellow paint players might scare them away but the game rewards you constantly for the amount of exploration you're doing, amazing loot is basically thrown at you constantly if you manage to complete the challenges and dungeons. Now we only need Balrum 2 to improve everything to perfection

Cozy and lovely classic CRPG, it's easy to lose yourself in farming, logging, fighting, anything. It's a clear homage to the Book of Eschelon series, and improves upon them in many ways. Exploring is really easy because you can just right click a tile to auto-path a la RuneScape, or you can use WASD. The game is a pseudo turn based when you're exploring, and becomes turn based once in combat. And no annoying party member micromanaging here! It's just you, and your pet, who you can have automatically join combat with you, or you can control on your own. It's too good!