Codex Lost

I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the game. Yes, some parts were incredibly janky. Yes, some levels made me annoyed, some enemies i just ran away from (looking at you ghost ships). But for a solo dev to come up with this, going the way of only allowing a playthrough as a mage and cramming so much love and lore into the game i can ignore these minor grievances and i'm really looking forward to the second one.

if you hit escape on the main screen the game hard crashes

Everything about this game sucks. The walk animation sucks the spells suck the aim and auto aim suck. Just don't buy it.

This game is so much better than what i could have expected! I have this genuine first Dark Souls/Elden Ring blind playthrough feeling. I'm checking everything, getting lost, i found by chance some late game material and gear quite early, got wrecked in those areas...i love it! Thanks a lot to the single dev who made this awesome game, what you created here is just amazing! The world, visuals, combats, progression, spells, everything works perfectly and is just so much fun. It's hard but doable, fun and addictive. I just sat 6 hours in a row playing Codex Lost and i enjoyed every second of it. Great game ! Edit: just finished my first playthrough and it's awesome all the way. I'll try NG+ now.

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I had fun

A good game that could've been great. If you want to spend some time with a mix-up of Soulslike formula with focus on magic, this is the game for you. To keep it short, this game remidnds me of Dark Souls 2, for better and for worse. On one hand it's interesting and fun, with the spells being all distinct enough to be interesting but not so different as to be unintuitive, with excellent level design and the sheer scope being nothing short of outstanding for an indie game with one main guy. On the other, the scope is exactly the reson why this game falls short. The artstyle and enviroments are okay, with great ideas being let down by the execution - the mobs and locations aren't really pretty or eye-catching, just functional. The same could be said of the story, the music and some gameplay choices. It's not bad enough to be noticeable, but it's not what it could've been with a bigger team either. Then again, this game feels like it had a lot of love put into it. As I said, the level and location design are excellent and I never once got tired of it. There's just so much here to experience and explore and if nothing else, that alone deserves praise. I hope the dev keeps making games, maybe with a bit of a smaller scope, maybe with a bigger team. There's a lot of potential here, and while Codex Lost is not exactly the stellar soulslike to recomend, I still enjoyed myself all the way.