Confrontation

A brilliant strategy game buried under an extreme lack of polish. Everything feels like it hasn't undergone a final quality pass, so much so that it's obvious in less than an hour that you've bought and paid for a half-baked effort.

Grindy, slow, unpolished, UI is suboptimal. I couldn't care less for the story or the characters. My rating 3/10 not recommended.

I gave it a genuine try, but it's simply not good. Although I will say that it's very close to being something good. It plays like a mix between the original Baldurs Gate, Dragon Age and KOTOR. You pause the game pre-battle, queue up your abilities/spells, then unpause and let things happen. The issue is the pathing is HORRENDOUS and your characters will almost always get in each others ways as the dungeons are very narrow, which will unqueue your abilities, which will make your entire plan fall apart. There is also virtually zero balancing done in the game. You will get to the point that if you can't stun-lock and kill enemy spellcasters you will 100% lose the fight. As I mentioned, the game has tight corridors, and enemy spellcasters also have AoE stunlocks and knockdowns. These are like 10 seconds where your entire party is just disabled. If the enemy casts those spells, just reload your last save because you've lost. There is also no counter play that I was able to find. You can pre-cast defensive spells, but unless their duration happens to be active when the enemy spells comes out, which is virtually impossible to time, you just have to take the stun lock. Killing enemy mages at the start of fights is pretty common for these types of games, but with the pathing, narrow corridors and insane amounts of healing spells, it's a nearly impossible task. An impossible task that if failed, basically means you lose. I got decently far into the game, and genuinely enjoyed the game when it worked as expected, but it oh so often didn't work as expected, and I eventually just had to give up.